The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-26
STATE NEWS.

Cookville is going to have $4,000
union college.
East Tennessee Republicans will bolt
gold platform.
The oat crop in DeKalb county is
ruined by too much rain.
Carloads of sheep and cattle are being
shipped from Bedford county.
y Religious Educational Congress
will be held in Nashville in October
The wheat crop of Sumner county was
damaged fifty per cent by the chinch
bug.
The butter and cheese factory at Gal
latin will soon be ready to be put in full
blast
A Southern Congress of Religious
Education will be held in Nashville
next year.
The Tennessee State Bankers Assoc
! citation declared unequivocally for the
gold standard.
The National Conference of State
| DOdIuS Vi hedlIH Will InotI III -NdSil-
vile next year.
Col. Killebrew is in Michigan, and
will have 100 families from that state
hither to locate in White county.
Tennessee will have 10 Old Confede-
rates in line at the Grand Confederate
Reunion in Richmond, Va, June 30.
The 18th annual convention of the
Tennessee Druggists Association will
be held at the Park hotel, Chicka-
manga, July Is to H.
Gen. Jacob Coxey, the leader of
CoXey's army, is to make a speech to
the Peoples party in Marshall county
some time next month.
The depot of the Knoxville Cumber-
land Gap and Louisville railroad at Lut-
trell was struck by lightning Monday
and completely destroyed.
John T. Bursell, an oil expert, says
the oil wells of Tennessee Will be worth
$lO0,OO0,0OO to the state in increasing
property values. The oil excitement
still continues in Putnam county.
The fire fiend continues to feast on
Giles county barns. n. c. Eslick lost
two barns and large amount of pro-
vender few nights since. The origin
of all the fires remain mystery.
John Hugh Mcdowell, of Union City,
the leader of the Peoples party in Ten
nessee, has been appointed Sergeant-at-
arms of the Populist National Conven-
ton, which meets at st. Louis, in July.
Some fine work has been done by a
5 bloodhound at Tracy City. A burglar
entered Morton IL Burnett's store there,
carrying off load of goods The dog
trailed him over a rough county and
put his paws on him in his bed.
Bob Taylor will take the stump after
July 18th, and make fifteen speeches,
five in each of the grand divisions of
, the State. This speaking will be in the
interest of the judicial election in
August. His regular campaign will
open after that.
S NJ. NJ. Hope, member of the county
court, has brought suit against Hamil-
! ton county to collect 81 900 which he as
serts is justly due him for services to
. the county as chairman OF the commit,
tee which had in charge the remodel
ing of the court house in 1890.
a little colored boy named Flowers,
living near Centreville, went walking
r last week with an idiotic elder brother
1.-THE latter returned alone and in answer
to inquiries said he had drowned his
little brother in the river; and even
pointed out the place. Search was
j made but no signs of the little body
It were found. After six days and nights
/, a man blowing in the bottoms founC
q the child asleep in corn row. He was
n so emaciated from starvation and ex
posure that he couldn't stand alone
! when questioned he said he had got los
e from his brother and couldn't find hi.
way back home and just wandered
/ around, living on weeds and bark, etc
: The affair has created much excitemen
|. around entreville.-Dickson Press.
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