The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-09-23


will leave for Paris on Sept. %.
GEN. LAwToN reports that all the
Spanish prisoners but eight have
been sent from Santiago to Spain.
DEMOCRATS carried Arkansas by
safe majOrities. The vote to sell
liquor in the State carried by over
$4,000 majority.
SECRETARY DAY rendered his
resignation as Secretary of State last
Friday to accept his appointment on
the Peace Commission.
THE Spanish Supreme Council of
War has decided to suspend Admiral
Montojo, the luckless commander
who got in Dewey's way at Manila.
THE total number of Confederates
in the war before last is estimated
at 100000. The number of pension
ers on the Union side thirty-three
years after the war is 989,343.
A TERRIFIC cyclone passed over
the Windward Islands on Sunday of
last week. Hundreds of persons
were killed, thousands of others in
jured and rendered homeless, and
there was great destruction of prop
erty.
IT is reported that Aguinaldo has
found financial backing. A Euro
pean nation, it is said, will put up
cash for his cause. In view Of this
the statement that he now will in
sist upon absolute independence is
significant.
MCMILLIN and Fowler concluded
their Joint canvass of the Western
end of the State last Friday, and
crossed over to East Tenn essee. The
first of the sixteen appointments in
Middle Tennessee will be filled al
Murfreesboro, October 6.
IT issaid that Luccheni, the as
sassin of the Austrian Empress, be
longed to a gang of Anarchists who
came to the United States from
Europe two years ago and who haC
for their object the assassination o
crowned heads. 1t is also said tina
the leaders of the band are still il
New York.
AT last the French Government
has taken courage and decided tt
move in the Dreyfus matter. Afte
seemingly endless course of delib
Grafton, hesitation and vacillatlon
it has decided upon a revision of tn
trial of 1894. This decision wa
reached at the meeting of the Min
isterial Council last Saturday morn
ing.
THE Baltimore q Ohio railroad
has been purchased for $lO,OOO,OO
by P. d. Armour, Marshall Ftel'
and Norman B. Ream, of Chicago
President J. ]. Hill, of the Grea
Northern road, has been made tn
dominant factor, thus forming
trunk line from ocean to ocean. In
Baltimore & Ohio is now in tn
hands of receiver.
THE insurgent leader Aguinald
has sent message to the Associate'
Press denying rumors of strained re
lations between the Fillipinos an
the American forces. He declare
the stories to be the work of com
mon enemy. AS a result of the Con
gress at Malolas the insurgent lead
ers now profess entire confidence i
the American Government.
THE Rev. DR.. John Hall, tn
eminent New York theOlogian, die
last Saturday while on a visit to hi
native home in Ireland. DIR. HaI
was born, raised ard educated i
Ireland, and was licensed to preac
in 1852. He was pastor of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church j
New York and Chancellor OF tn
University of the City of New York
AT the last meeting of the Ten
nessee division, United Confederat
Veterans, Memphis was selected a
the next place of meeting Wit
Pulaski as second choice if anythin
happened so that the Memphian
could not entertain the old vets
Nro,,Dbis having closed her gates {