The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
NEWS AND COMMENT.

ALFRED r. BUCK, OF Georgia, has
been appointed Minister to Japan.
TOMORROW will be the last day of
the present session of the Tennessee
Legislature, unless they have an
extra.
REPRESENTATIVES, of several hun
dred Bryan and Sewall clubs met in
New York last week and organized
the Progressive Democratic League.
IT is rumoreG about that Col. d.
b. Cooper and Hon. Van Leer Polk
will shortly begin the publication of
a red-hot Democratic weekly news
paper in Nashville.
MRS. MARY ELLEN LEASE, the
former expounder of populism, is
now disciple of Buddha. She is
also socialist, lives in New York
and wears stylish costumes.
THE bankruptcy bill will be con-
sidered in the Senate this week.
Mills and Morgan, it is reported,
nj 20 hp
bill providing for putting Weyler
into the hands of receiver.
NEARLY one thousand Italian i'm
migrants arrived at New York last
Sunday from Mediterranean ports
They came together on one steamer
At this rate the honest American
laborer will soon be crushed out
and will have to emigrate to other
lands himself.
THE Globe Savings Bank, of Chi
cago, assigned Monday. The last
statement, published Feb. 13, show.
ed a capital of 100000 and surplus
of $4,000, with deposits of $l42,0 900
and savings, $4,000. The bank
was organized by Gov. John P
Altgeld and others in 1891.
THE Richardson building in Chat
tanooga was destroyed by fire las
Saturday. The loss was $280,0OC
and the insurance $l30.950. BoyC
Ewing was dashed to death by fall
ing from the fifth story, and S. M
Patton was buried beneath the
ruins. Both were prominent men.
J. H. Burrow, voluntary observer
at Lynnville, in his weather repor
for March, finds that the rainfall
there during that month reached
1927 inches, the greatest known il
his observations of eight years
Next to this comes II inches of rain
fall during the month of July, 1890
IT is estimated that the New Yorl
World spent 1923, ,425 and the Journa
$32 500, in their rivalry over getting
the pugilistic news from Carson
City. The World paid John l.. Sui
livan $1,000 for his services, Will
John j. Ingalls-being an "Hon
orable" and an eX-Senator-cost tn
Journal $500.
THE Dingley tariff bill, the pro
moter of trusts, combines and mo
nopolies, passed the House las
Thursday, and is now in the hand
of the Senate, where it will remain
until the dog days come. If th
attitude of the Senate be cOrrectl,
forecast, Mr.. Dingley will have t
be given an introduction to his of
spring when it emerges from tina
body.
THE direful prediction is mad
that the extra session of the Ken
tucky Legislature will not adjour
before June |. At the cost of 81 ,0O
a day, the taxpayers of Kentuck
will be out nice little sum by tina
time. The body has been in sessio
nearly four weeks and not a singl
bill has been made law. The mos
of their time has been consumed /
trying to elect Senator.
A DALLAS paper of recent dat
has the following notice abou
Lucius ]. Polk, a former Maur
Couutian: Acting General Mana
ger L. J. Polk, of the Gulf, COlorad
& Santa Fe, received news yestel
day of his appointment by Presiden
f. P. Ripley, of the Atchison, a
General Manager. Mr.. Polk cam