The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-01-14

the purpose being to form COM
pact front for the congressional cam
paign next fall.
MARCUS AURELIUs HANNA dived
down into his barrel and filched
forth the filthy lucre, and was cleo
ted by one vote. There's nothing
the matter with Hanna.
IT has now been six months since
Herr Audree left in a balloon in
search for the north pole, and his
name has been placed among those
who have sacrificed their lives in
like attempts.
THEODORE DURRANT, the MUIR
derer of Blanch Lamont, was hanged
in San Quentin, Cal, last Friday
morning. The murderer exhibited
remarkable GOODNESS and nerve to
the very last.
A SYSTEMATIC strike is scheduled
for next Monday among the cotton
mills in the New England states,
whose employees have been cut ten
per cent in wages. The strike will
affect thousands of hands.
EX-Gov. j. S. HoGG, of Texas,
denies that he is a candidate for the
vice presidential nomination in 1900
and says he is out of politics. He
adds that he will favor Gov. Robert
Taylor, of Tennessee, for Vice
President.
REPRESENTATIVE KING, of Utah,
who has been personally investigat-
ing affairs in Cuba, paints very
dark picture of the condition of the
reconcentrados, who, he says, are
dying like sheep in the streets of
Cuban towas.
DIR. SHEP ROGERS, a prominent
physician of Memphis, was fatally
shot by Mrs. Sandbrink last Friday.
The woman then sent bullet
through her own heart, dying in
stantly. The whole affair is wrap
ped in mystery.
THE X-ray saved the life of a lit
tie girl at Harrisburg, n. c., last
week. The daughter of w. &. Har-
ris swallowed a thimble, and it
could not be located until the
Roentgen ray was employed and a
photograph taken of the inside OF
her body. The thimble had lodged
in the lower part of the lung, and a
successful operation was performed.
"BUTCHn BRADLEY, the notorious
convict, who, sentenced to life inn
prisonment for murder, has during
the past year escaped twice from the
old penitentiary at Nashville, anc
has caused more trouble and expense
to the State and State officials thar
any other one prisoner, has been cap
tured at last and will in few days
occupy cell in the penitentiary
again.
GOVERNOR TAYLOR was an hon
ored guest at the Jackson Day cele'
bration at Chicago last Saturday
In an interview with a newspaper
representative he stated emphatlcal
ly that he was not candidate tol
the Senate, and in regard to the
Turley- McMillin contest said: "
appointed Mr.. Turley, who is az
true man and as fine Democra
as Tennessee ever grew, and L ap
pointed him in good faith, and IL
his fight for election to the office
am for him first, last and all thu
time, and for no other. "
MISS SADIE WILLIAMS, Of Chi
caro-. deserves a medal of honol
from congress. The successful as
SAINT with a hat-pin on two robbers
in n Chicago street car was display
Of the progressiveness of the true
western woman. AS the conductor
was being robbed, two men ano
another woman sat in helpless ST.
lence, but not so with Miss Sadle
Selling her long hat-pin, she rushed
into the thickest of the fray serl.
ously stabbing the robbers AN, ano
putting them both to hight Inen
her womanly sympathy came TO tne
front and she inquired if the con-
dIctor was injured. Finding tha'
he was not, and being true wo'
man, she promptly tainted