The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-08

SPAIN now has new cabinet, and
among the first acts it will do will
be to recall butcher Weyler from
Cuba.
SAMUEL j. r. MCMILLAN, United
States Senator from Minnesota from
1876 to 1888, died in st. Paul Sunday
night.
DRINKING water is selling at 3
cents a quart out in Arkansas, and
the demand greatly exceeds the
supply.
SIXTY villages near Picking, China,
have been swept away by floods and
between $1,000 to 10000 inhabitants
drowned.
THE First National Bank of Nash
vile has decided to reorganize with
a reduction of capital stock from
100000 to 100000.
GEN. NELSON MILES has returned
from the Eastern continent with
head full Of new ideas for improve
ments in Uncle Sans army.
A SENSITIVE policeman in Gin
cinDati killed himself because he
came second in newspaper vote for
the most popular policeman on the
force.
J. w. CUMMINs, a young man liv-
ing near Centreville, was assaulted
and robbed near Williamsport one
night this week while on his way to
Columbia.
DIR. HUNTER, the defeated Repub-
lican candidate for Senator from
Kentucky, will be commissioned as
Minister to Guatemala. This Office
is worth $4,000 per year.
MEMPHIS has instituted man
damus proceedings against the
Cumberland Telephone Company,
asking for the fifty cents rate, the
same as given Columbia.
JOHN j. VERTREEs has been re-
tanned to represent the Louisville &
Nashville and Nashville, Chatta-
ga & st. Louis Railways in the mat
ter of exceptions to assessments.
FOUR young women were drowned
near Hamilton, Ala, by the over
turning of a skiff. Two male es-
corts, who had been drinking, and
who had rocked the skiff, have fled.
The ninth annual meeting of the
Tri.State Medical Society of Ala
bama, Georgia and Tennessee will
be held in Nashville, Oct. l2,13. DR..
Hazel Padgett, of this city, will
read u paper.
LAST Friday was suicide day in
and about New York City, more
than a score of unfortuuates "shufIi,
ing off this mortal .'il.' Nine Of
them We're asphyXiated by gass, anC
the others accomplished their pur.
pose by means of poisons, pistols
raZors, etc.
On account of the smoke from
forest and prairie fires, Lake Michi,
gan has been almost unnavigabl,
for several days. The continued
drouth has made everything as dry
as finder, and many thousand dol
lars worth of property has been de
stroycd and much suffering has beer
entailed.
THE city council of Nashville ha
passed a bill granting franchise t,
the Southern Telephone Company
of that city. The bill prohibits tn
new company from consolidating
with any other company, and tiXe
the price of private house telephone
at - per month and business hOus
telephones at SO per month.
w. c. BRANN, the editor and pub
Usher of "Brann's IcOnoclast," a
Waco, Texas, was the victim of
mob of 200 students of Taylo
University, a Baptist institution
last Saturday. The students ha
taken offense at an article in Nj
Branns publication rejecting upo
the school, and at the points of pis
tolls, he was compelled to sign
statement declaring the article uu
true.
DIR. SANARELLI, the noted yellov
fever expert, innoculated five me
with the fatal germs, killing ther
all, in order to make an impOrtau
discovery. He did it for humanity
sake, however, and his victims wer
inhabitants of the Island of Flores
near Montevideo, where, in tina
part of the world, lives are extreme