The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-17

postmaster at Culleoka vice w. X.
Stephens. Wilkes was Mckinley |
Democrat.
NASHVILLE DAY at the Centen-
NAL last Saturday was the grandest
and one of the largest attended days
of the show.
LAST weeks attendance at the
Tennessee Centennial was nearly
100000, of which $4,000 attended on
Nashville day.
A CONVENTION of deaf mutes was
held in Nashville Tuesday. They
visited the Exposition in body and
were loud in their praises for the
big show.
A DISASTROUS tornado visited
portion of Texas last Sunday even
ing, laying waste Port Royal and
Sabine, killing a number of people
and wounding many, and scattering
buildings and fences like chaff.
A FRIGHTFUL wreck occurred on
the Iron Mountain railroad at a
station twenty miles west of Van
Buren, last Sunday morning, in
which seven boys who were stealing
rides were killed outright and others
fatally injured.
The Trades and Labor Council of
Nashville last Saturday denounced
the editorial policy of the Nashville
American as antagonistic to the true
interests of labor; an editorial in
that paper concerning the Hazelton
massacre prompting them to that
action.
The firm of Woodward & Sed-
berry, of Nashville, composed of w.
H. Woodward and George 7. Sed
berry, the latter formerly a resident
of Columbia, made an assignment
Friday. Dull business and inability
to make collections are the causes
given for the assignment.
JUDGE DUBoSE and Hon. Brooks
Norheet mixed in the courtroom
at Memphis Monday, just as the
court was about to pass the death
sentence on murderer Parora, but,
further than the passing of few
opprobious epithets and obiurga
tions, no other damage was done.
The good effects of Tennessee's
Railroad Commission are beginning
to be seen. Last week citizens of
Hartman filed a complaint against
the Southern Railway, asking for a
Scent passenger rate to Knoxville,
which is the regular rate on other
parts of the road. The citizens won.
DREARY winter is beginning to
besiege the Yukon country, and
suffering has begun. At Dawson,
the chief city of the gold district,
stores have closed up because they
have nothing to sell, and those
who have been seeking gold must
now seek food. "All that glitters, -
etc.
J. r. WILLARD & Co., bankers and
brokers of New York, with branch
offices in several other cities, made
an assignment last week. The
liabilities of the firm will reach
$l,00O,000. Messrs. Willard & Co.,
are among those unfortunates who
failed to make a mash upon Miss
Prosperity that day she sold her
dollar wheat.
JUDGE COOPER, in Memphis Mon
day, ruled that the order of Gov.
Taylor committing the death SEN
tence of Frank Parora to imprison-
ment for life was nullity and of no
effect, and sentence of death was
again passed upon him, to take eff
feet on October 10. Gov. Taylor says
he has done his duty before God and
man, and he will use all his power
in saving the neck of Parora.
REV. G. f. B. HOWARD, who
figured so extensively in several SEN
sational trials at Jackson, in this
state, a few years ago, and was SEN
fenced for nine years and fined
$1,000, has escaped from the Ohio
penitentiary at Columbus. The
reverend gentleman was "trusty''
in the front office of the peniten-