The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-01

Ai'DiiAIiSo TCOlONp'
MINERS in the Jellico district,
who have been out on a strike, are
leaving for other fields of labor.
GEN. BEN f. TRACY, eX-Secretary
of the Navy, is a candidate for
Mayor of Greater New York on the
Republican ticket.
EX- CONGRESSMAN and United
States District Judge, Constantine
Buckley Kilgore, Of Dallas, Texas,
died last Thursday.
Gov. TAYLOR has again taken to
the lecture platform and will en-
deavor to attend to State affairs and
the box office at the same time.
IT is given out that the Social De-
mocracy of America-Mr. Debbs'
Offspring-will establish colony
upon Tennessee soil before another
year is out.
DIR. WILLIAM p. JONES, one of
Nashville's oldest and most distin-
guished citizens, died last Saturday.
He was postmaster at Nashville for
over eight years.
GOLD has been discovered near
Mount Baker, Washington, which,
it is said, is richer than any discov-
cries ever made on the Pacific coast,
or even in Alaska.
AS an outcome of quarrel over
the Hazelton affair, nine miners re-
ceived fatal injuries and thirty-siX
others were wounded in a fight at
Girardville, Pa, last Monday.
LIEUT.. r. E. PEARY, the noted
Arctic explorer, has returned from
an expedition in the northern seas,
having accomplished very little on
account of boisterous weather.
RUTLAND MCENERY, nephew of
Senator McEnery, of Louisiana, was
shot and fatally wounded while
leading a party in pursuit of negro
who had assaulted white girl.
SATURDAY night Mrs. Richard
Weaver, of Oaklandon, gave birth
to boy triplets, and the proud father
to show his allegiance to the Demo
cratic leader, named them William
Jennings and Bryan.
AT Atlanta this week, where he
delived one of his lectures, Gov
Taylor made the statement that he
was not in the field for the United
States Senatorship, as he had Other
plans ahead which forbade the idea
political.
THE Dingley act as a revenue pro.
ducer continues to prove itselfa sac
failure. The receipt of the Govern
ment fall many thousands of dollars
daily below its expenditures. Since
the first day of last June the short
age amounts to SOS, ,932 0Sl.64.
AT New Orleans the city authOri
ties converted a school building
into a hospital for yellow fevel
patients, and citizens living in th'
vicinity of the building became 81
enraged that they set it on fire anC
destroyed part oft. The authoritie
were not bafIled, however, ant
placed the school under guard o
police and continued to use it as I
hospital.
THE coroner's jury which investi
gated the death of the striking min
ers near Hazelton, Pa, returned it
verdict last Monday. Four mem
bers of the jury, out of six, pro
nounced the killing of the miners by
Sheriff Martin and his deputies a,
wanton and unjustifiable. The othe
two jurymen did not concur in thi
opinion and did not express an!
censure of the deputy sheritfs.
THE Massachusetts DemOcrati
State Convention, assembled a
Worcester last Tuesday, reatiirmet
their allegiance to the platform
adopted at the last national conven
tion at Chicago, and expressed ap
probation of the campaign waget
by Mr.. Bryan. A motion was passe,
welcoming to its ranks all supporter
of the Chicago platform and deny
ing political fellowship with all VIII,
oppose it.