The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-22
GENERAL NEWS.
Quay's boom grows.

Inc leIIlOH CIOp exports from Italy |
have perceptibly fallen off,
There were 10000 American horses
shipped to Germany, last year.
Corean Methodists are building the
first Christian church in Seoul.
1t is now thought that Congress will
adjourn the End or 10th of June.
A great storm destroyed 100000 worth
of property in Wisconsin, last week.
The faith healing messiah business
appears to have died natural death.
The spaniards say that only Spain is
bound in the treaty with the United
States.
Baby Mckee, ex-President Harrison's
grand son, is seriously ill with pneu-
monia.
The Bermuda is making regular eX-
cursion trips between the United States
and Cuba.
The river and harbor bill, appropriate
ing $lO,594,7lS, passed the Senate by a
vote of 81 to g.
Mr.. j. e. Collins, of ST. Louis, has
made $4,000 bequest to the Methodist
church South.
England has warned China that she
must not cede the property of English
men to Russia.
There are 1876, ,420 acres of timber
lands in the Southern States; the aver
age yield is 5000 feet per acre.
The Georgia anti-saloon men propose
to take hand this fall in the election
of State Legislative candidates.
Business men of the East are trying
to get a definite declaration of McKin-
ley's views on the money question.
Fires, immense in extent, are raging
in Clearfeld County, Pa, threatening
total destruction to the entire timber
interests.
Forest fires swept through Michigan
last week, leaving hundreds of people
homeless, and destroying $75O,OOO worth
of property.
The boycott is the weapon the street
railway strikers of Milwaukee, Wis,
are now welding against the street rail-
way company,
Bishops Foster and Bowman, two aged
divines of the Northern NJ. E. Church,
have been summarily kicked out to
make room for a negro
Reed is the favorite of his party for
Vice-P President; not that they care to
eXalt him particularly, but because
they desire to humiliate the Senate.
The first session of the third annual
convention of the national association
of the chiefs of the police of the United
States and Canada met, in Atlanta, Ga,
May 10.
Strong efforts are being made before
the A. p. A. council in McKinley's be-
half. The attempt to bring the finan-
cial question to the front is expected to
be checked.
"a kiss for a dime" offered by a pious
but piquant young churchwoman,
brought a good many dollars to the
church fund at fair in Bar Harbor.
a few days ago,
NJ. F. Dwyer last week bought Ben
Elder from the Hot Springs stable for
$4,000. Three hours later, the colt won
the Clark Stakes for his new owner
SpmDar Foo Inv a haad
The South Boston Iron Work, Mid.
dlesboro, KY, which makes cotton gins
and sugar mills, will start up at once
1t employs 200 skilled men and has
been idle for three years.
? Withdrawals of gold from the treasury
begin to cause uneasiness in Washing
ton. The President may send in another
message, or he may wait developments
and then call an extra session.
In the North Carolina Convention
the contest for nomination for governor
is very bitter between eX-Judge Rus
sell and eX-Congressman Dockery, both
claiming enough votes to nominate.
1 HC CupltulC NOlhOil VI ClC a. n
began its routine business behind
closed doors at Washington, last week
An Atlanta lawyer is new candidate
for the Supreme Presidency of the A
PA.
The national debt of the United States
reached its lowest point under the
Democratic administration of Andrew
Jackson in 1885, when the total debt OF
the country was $4,000 1t is now 81,
100000.
James Oney, of Knott County, KY, il
probably the only man in America whC
enjoyed SO years of conjugal blessed
ness. He was married when % and
lived with one wife and another unit
he was lis.
Mrs. H. LASTLY and her daughte
Clara, started from Spokane, Wash, re
) Gently, to walk to New York. They
live on farm near Spokane, and hope
to make enough money in the venture
to lift the mortgage.
The flying machine of Prof Samue
P. Langley, the secretary of the Smith
sonian Institution, Washington, d. G.
proved "A success. 1t scared like birC
at the public experimental trial las