The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-05-05
WEST END NOTES.
Deaths From WhOOping Coughs. Big
Negro Funeral.
White Caps a. work.-News Notes and
Personals.

in Newburg last week.
Mrs. Frank n. Smith has returned
home after u two weeks's visit to reIa,
tives in Fay ettevlle.
Miss Maggie Campbell went t.
Nashville lat week to visit re aIives
A little daughter o. MIR. aud Mrs.
Horace RaiueS, has been quite sick
for several days, butts reported i'm
proving.
Mr. 4. F. SoweIl, OF Franklin, was
the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. +. r,
Everett this week.
MISS Mai Harrison came up from
Decatur last Saturday evening ard
spent two days with West End rela-
lives.
RIiney, Craik & Arnold have quite
q number OF hands Engaged in quHr-
ryiug rock in West E,d this week
for tie Arsenal fence
Mr. and Mrs. y. j.. Noorhies were
the guests of Mr.. j. Z. McGaw aud
family last Week.
Mrs. Nj. b. Parham snd son John
OF Chattanooga, are hero on Wis L"
Col. g. w. Blackburn and family.
Alison Webster il keeping ,oks
for Raihey, Craik & Arnold.
West Seventh street in front OF tie
Institute every pretty Sunday afte,-
noon is very popular resort tor TN
average small boy and the dude
J w. Shelton shipped h's stall'"a
Adfield, Jr to his stock farm near
Covlngtou last Tuesday.
Mrs. BeasIey, who lives near Ash
wood, has been quite sic;: ut the
nome OF her sister Mrs. Joe Hag Y.
for several days. She is improving
now.
Player Littlefield has recovered
FROM an attack Of whoOping cough,
but his little brother is still quite sex.
Mrs. H. l.. Collier has been quite
sick for several dsys, but is how con
vslescenC.
J. w. Shelton left Wednesday for a
short business trip to Memphis.
Mr.. George Neviels, OF Mexico,
Mo-, is visiting relatives here this
week.
Lee Farrell, who is attending school
at Belle Buckle, is At home for h
short visit.
Little Bieby Greek was higher lat
Tuesday morning, for shVrt time,
than it las been known TO De for
several wears
Wu,Oplog cough continues to IRE
vuii anU.g tn,. children OF w est Fad.
Col. +. &. Cole let Sunday for q
business trip ln East Tenness e.
Uncle Tom Williamson, ali old col
Oreu Baptist minister, died ut his
home near Mr.. r. H. Oglevie's las
Friday night, after an illue-s of sew
eral weeks, and was buried in thu
cOlored grave yard near Rose Hi
Cemetery last Sunday evening. H,s
remains were followed to their last
resting place by perhaps the largest
cOlored funeral procession ever wit
messed here. He Was reported TO
have been nearly one hundred years
old and had been preaching for
nearly seventy-tive years.
Old Uncle Tom, a. he was famil
iarly called, has labored long and
earnestly for the cause of chrirtiani.
ty, aud no doubt he has gone to rear
the reward he has so faithfully la
bore Tor for more than thrt e score
years and ten.
Mr.. aud Mrs. II. l.. Collier have
the sympathy of the entire commu
nifty IN the death of their two little
children Alma and Sammie, aged
respectively two and three years
which occurred at their home in
West End last Sunday. Tney hat
been suffering for several week
with very severe attack of whoOp
ing.cOugh, and few days befOr
} obey died it was developed into T.,
case of bronchO-pneumOuia, which
caused their deaths: they died tn
same day, one OF them at p. III. AM
the other at s p. III. Funeral servi
, ces were conducted at the residerc
At 3 p. M. Monday, by Rev. j.
, TtnuOD, OF the south Columbia NJ
f. Church, assisted by Rev. w. A
Haynes of the First G.. p. Churcr
Their remains were inferred in tn
same grave in Rose Hill Cemeter,
Jim Harris, negro living on Nj
J. X. Far ellis farm, two miles GU
on the Mt Pleasant pike, was take
= from his hOuse last Friday night an
whipped by band of White Cap
aud then notified to leave the count
{ by the following Monday. Whe
! the White Caps arrived at the negro
, house he refused to open the doc
and they burst it open with q fenC
, rail rs Que of them started to el
ter the house the negro struck at hiI
with char, and was shot at by on
of the White Caps, but the ba
missed him and lodged in the dou
l. facing. Harris was then taken frol
the house and whipped. He says b
WAS whipped because he had bee
; accused OF stealing chickens. II
claims that he recognized some
r them, as they were not all disguised
Mr.. Farrell heard the racket an
~ went out TO see what was the matte
= ana arrived at the negTO's hous
Just in time to see two OF the Whit
Caps mount their horses and rio
VI off.
e 1t was rumored here in West En-
y few weeks since that a bani
l. White Caps had been here on tv
different occasions. Nothing mo-
,e was thought OF the rumor, hOweve
| until the whipping of the negro Ia
It Friday night. The White Caps mu
have come some distance, "a n
h even any of their horses could
- recognized.
"a No such an organization exis
- here in West End. FINOCCIDENT.
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