The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-12
GENERAL NEWS.

MIS- Mary Ellen Lease is not strad-
She is for free silver, straight.
The cotton acreage for this year
shows an increase instead of a decrease.
A laundry driver has been elected to
Congress in Oregon by the Republicans.
The free silver Democrats of Indiana
are making vigorous fight for India
napolis.
Fredericksburg, Va, gets the home
school of the Southern Presbyterian
Church.
Chairman Carter thinks it likely that
the Republican Convention will be
postponed.
The Illinois Steel Works, at Chicago,
have shut down, and 1900 are thrown
out of employment
Col. Josiah Patterson now comedies
the control OF the Chicago convention
to the free silver men.
The rye whisky makers, representing
$25,0OOOOO capital, decide to suspend
work indefinitely on Septemer l.
Because of heavy losses on the Board
of Trade, Andrew l.. Henderson, a Chi
cago commission merchant, committed
suicide.
Col. John S. Mosby, the noted Con-
federate cavalry officer under Gen. Lee,
is critically ill at his home in San
Francisco.
The free silver men are working to
capture Maryland, and have secured a
number of delegates to the Democratic
State Convention.
Gems. Campos and Borroro, Spanish
officers, have been arrested for duelling
The quarrelled over the Cuba campaign.
Neither were hurt.
The international Arbitration Con-
ference opened three days session at
Mohonk Lake, n. j., June 3rd. "Peace
on earth" was urged.
The sound-money men of the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties in Ark,
are going to put ticket of their own in
the field at Little Rock.
A postmaster who was appointed in
1858 still has charge of the office at
Rushville, Kan, having been serving
continuously since then.
Miss Julia Stevenson, daughter of the
VicePresident, has been married to
Rev. Martin Hardin, a son of Gen. p
Watt Hardin, of Kentucky.
George Murray, a colored man, has
been seated in the House in place of 81
lott White, Democrat, from the Black,
or shoestring district of South Carolina
Matters in Cuba are becoming as bad
as the Armenian horrors. Fiendish tor
ture is inflicted on men and women by
Spanish officers to extract information
The National Federation of Afro
American Women, which was organ
lied in Boston last July, will hold its
first annual convention at Washington
July 20.
Lord Chief Justice Russell, of Eng
land, is to make the principal address
at the meeting of the American Ban
Association in Saratoga, n. Y, il
August.
At Meridian, Miss, last week, sever
negroes invaded Pullman car, and the
white passengers retired to the day
coaches rather than ride with the sable
tourists.
1t is understood that the triumph OF
silver at the Chicago Convention vii
be followed by the establishment of tht
National Democratic headquarters a
Chicago.
The Northern Methodist Conference
has decided to protect their OWL
churches from fire by establishing al
insurance company under the auspices
of the church.
While the acreage in cotton this yea
is increased, the corn acreage is de
creased. Labor supply is meagre in the
South. Cotton and corn crops are firit
and the season is 10 to 15 days advanced
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, at the grea
Confederate reunion, Richmond, Va.
June 80, will again preside over tn,
White House of the Confederacy. Thi
noble woman will be specially honoret
by the veterans.
The Supreme Court of Californi
has just declared unconstitutional Law
closing the barber shops at noon ol
Sundays and holidays. The Suprem
Court of New York has just declared
similar law constitutional.
1t is estimated that total of 5000 per
sons were killed, and 1000 persons in
jured by the disastrous crash on tn
Khodijuskoge plain, near Moscow
Russia, recently. Already two thou
sand victims have been buried.
There is great excitement in Kondol
over the success of England's futur
king as a turfman. The Prince U
Wales colt won the derby, June 8, a
Epson, England the first time in owe
} 100 years royalty is thus honored
The Arkansas Gazette, the oldes
newspaper published west of tn
Mississippi river, having been pull
! lished continuously since 1919, ha
changed hands. From an advocate o
a gold standard and a defender of tn
national administration, it will here
after be au earnest advocate of free siI