The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-07-02

and tomorrow.
The Glorious Fourth will be cele-
brated in grand style at the Centen-
NAL City tomorrow. They promise
magnificent fire works at night.
Mrs. ALEXANDER CAMPAELL,
widow of the founder of the Chris
tian church, died at Bethany, West
", Monday morning, aged 95 years.
THE Queens Jubilee in England
was brought TO close last Monday,
and matters in that quarter are now
running along in the same old rut.
GERMANY looks with an evil eye
on America. 1t is reported that the
Emperor has concluded that the
United States shall not interfere in
the Cuban war.
The farmers of Williamson COun-
ty in mass-meeting assembled, have
agreed not to sell any more of their
wheat at the prevailing prices, than
their actual necessities demand.
ALL the large iron mills of the
country closed down Wednesday
and will remain closed until the
wage question is settled. A strike
is said to be likely at several points.
Hon. JAMES H. BIBLE, United
States District Attorney for East
Tennessee, was found dead in bed
at his home in Chattanooga last
Friday. ApopleXy is the supposed
cause.
The Massachusetts, cotton mills
at Lowell, have closed down or
account of the low price at which
goods are selling, and the poor de-
mand, and 1900 employees are
thrown out of work.
Gov. TAYLOR has appointed Miss
Nellie Ely, daughter of Jesse Ely
of Nashville, as sponsor for his stat
with the rank of colonel. Georgia
is the only other state in the UniOr
which has a lady on the governor
staff.
CoLORADO's Legislature has de
clared that Christmas, the Fourth o
July, Thanksgiving, Washington
birthday and New Years are no
legal holidays and should not bt
celebrated in that state as such
Poor old Colorado!
COMPTROLLER HARRIS claims tina
the cities of the state owe the statt
$l3S,90O, collected, or that SHOULD
have been collected, as the state taI
on criminal cases in Recorder courts
In the list he furnishes he puts Co
lumbia down for $4,000
HORACE BOIEs, former governor
of Iowa and erstwhile Democratic
presidential aspirant, has publicl!
expressed his hostility to the fire.,
coinage of silver. He says silver i
dead issue, and he does not be
lieve it possible to succeed on tina
platform next time.
The finding of the decomposeC
body of an eX-Confederate soldie
Sunday in a lot near the north en-
trance to the Centennial grounds
which was afterwards identified a
that of James Travis, of Winches
ter, Tenn.-has developed into
sensational murder mystery.
JAMES G. BURROWS, prOminen
society man of Nashville, committee
suicide at the Maxwell House las
Monday. There was woman il
the case; an actress; he had spen
too much money on her, and wa
short in his accounts. He was book
keeper for H. G. Lipscomb & Co
A DISPATCH to the New GOr
Herald from Madrid, Spain, says
son account of Senior Selvela's re
cent bellicose speech and the con
slant news of Spanish defeats from
Havana province, feeling is reviv
ing here in favor of war with tn
United States. Several newspaper
publish exciting editorials agains
the United States
A NEWSPAPER dispatch fror
Chattanooga says: 1T has been of
ficially announced here that durin
the next few months the East Ten
nessee Telephone Company Wi
build line from Nashville to Chat
tanoOga and fill in gaps so as to forr
a complete line from Nashville t
Chattanooga. When these lines ar
completed the company will have
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