The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-06-12
OVER THE STATE.

Saturday evening at the Chatta-
nOoga Blast Furnace while fOur negro
men were tamping dynamite blast
the charge exploded, killing and
horribly mangling three men and
wounding the fourth.
The river that runs by TiptOnville
is cutting its way into ReelfoOt Lake,
aud the destruction of the town seems
almost inevitable. Twenty-Five feet
of ground caved into the river there
at one time.
Saturday night Miss Lucy Meguiar,
a bOarder and pupil Of Franklin
Female College, ended her school
days by clipping with Mr.. We non
Booker, of Franklin. They were
driven rapidly to an adjoining village
and were married by u magistrate.
They returned that night to Frank
lin and went to the home of the
grOom's father.
A clay suitable for making paving
brick and terra Gotta pipe, says the
Bristol Courier, has been discovered
at Piney Flats.
A new mining syndicate has taken
hold Of the "Old Tennessee" copper
mine, near DucktOwn, and will re-
open and work it with improved
machinery.
A lake covering thirty acres of
ground is to be constructed at Ken
sington, a suburb of Chattanooga.
Tests are being made at Tracy City
for new VEINS OF coal. A number OF
holes will be drilled in the mountain
for that purpose.
Saturday at the Hermitage, the
Cornerstone for the Confederate
soldiers Home was laid with impress
sive ceremonies. The building Will
have forty three rooms. II will be
l75 by 80 feet and two stories high.
The Legislature has appropriated
So, 600 to build it and $4,000 to keep
it up two years.
At Jackson Saturday the Supreme
Court affirmed sentence OF death
against Andrew Jackson, eolOred, OF
Memphis, for murder, and July 80
was fixed as the day of the execution.
The court also affirmed a decision
of the lower court i'll another case
famous throughout the country. II
is he closing drama in the celebrated
damage suit for libel of Rev. Fred
eri TX Howard against sixteen leading
members of the First Baptist Church
of Memphis, and three newspapers
for sensational charges affecting hue
character and questioning his real
name. The verdict was for one cent
damages, which taxed plaintiff with
costs and the appeal was taken Oh
this ground. Howard is now practic-
ing law in New York.
At Fincastle DIR. H. l.. Hill, hus-
band and father, elOPed with Miss
Lizzie Mars, a pretty girl, the victim
OF a flattering tongue and fair
promises. A reward was offered and
the william and his victim were over
taken. Hill was arrested Oh a charge
of abduction for the purpose of prosti
tuition, but giving bond for his APP
pearance left for parts unknown.
Judge Robert Ewing has resigned
his position rs chairman of the Board
of Public Works, and has accepted a
position of the Southern Iron Com
'pany. Judge Ewing has been con-
nected with the city government OF
Ma .hville for eight years.
sunday night at Jefferson near
MurfreesbOrO Mack Clark WAS shot
from ambush and killed just as ht
vas leaving the house of a young
lady on whom he had ust called
The assassin has not yet been caught
The Tri-StSte convention OF Ten
nessee, Georgia and Alabama met in
Chattanooga Wednesday for the Pur-
pose of perfecting plans by which
these three States may be represented
at the Worlds Fair.
Three Nashville young men left
Wednesday for a four months bicycle
tour through Europe.
Gov. John p. Buchanan and a large
party are in New York.
Tuesday afternoon at Nashville
while q party Of observers were watch
ing the hight Of large turkey-buz-
gard high up In the air, fash oil
lightning blinded the group, and
when they recovered they saw only
| q few black tall feathers as they were
waited downward from the buzzard in
has flight.
John Pursur, a Tiptqn pounty farm
er took his ten year old son out hpnt'
| Ing with him Tuesday. The little
: fellow separated fFom his father And