The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-10-21

slou dIe NlslVlnB Cne various camps |
on an inspection tour.
Snow fell at Chicago last Thurs
day night for over an hour. 1t was
the earliest in twenty-siX years.
THE knights Templar, in session
at Pittsburg last week, decided to
hold their next triennial conclave
at Louisville in 1901.
The Togo National Bank, of
Owego, n. Y, of which Senator II.
G. Plat is President, was ordered
closed last week blythe Comptroller
of the Currency.
GEN. BACON informs the War De-
partment that the hostile Indians in
Minnesota want no more fighting,
and have agreed to come in and sur
render to- morrow.
MRS. JOHN SHERMAN, wife of the
former Secretary of State, suffered a
stroke of paralysis at her home in
Washington last Thursday, and has
since been in a critical condition.
AGoNCILLo, who is representing
Aguinaldo, the Philippine insurgent
leader, at Paris, says his people
want independence and that a di-
vision of the Philippines would
cause trouble.
WARRANTS were last Friday
sworn out by a member of the Mi
ners' Union at Virden, ILL.,, for the
arrest of the principal mine opera
tors there, charging them with con-
spiracy to murder.
DIR. DUNCAN EvE,of Nashville, was
elected President of the Mississippi
Valley Medical Association, which
met in Nashville last week. The
next meeting of the Association will
be held in Chicago.
CHICAGO had big "peace jubilee
this week. President Mckinley
was in attendance, and one of the
events of the occasion was the con-
ferring upon him Of the title of L L.
d. by the University of Chicago.
VIRDEN mine operators declare
they will test Governor Tanners
right to prevent them from landing
negroes. Pending settlement oil
this question, no further effort will
be made to operate the mine with
blacks.
IT has developed that King Hum
bert, as we'll as the Emperor of Ger
many, was to have been killed by
the Italian anarchists whose plot
was discovered and fOrestalled by
the arrest of the principals in Egypt
last week.
THE British ship Bringtell, from
New York, bound for London, WA
burned to the waters edge off Mar
gate, England, Monday, and nine o
her crew, including the captain
persisted. The fire originated from
an explosion of Neptha.
CHAPLAIN MCINTYRE, late OF tn
battleship Oregon, has been court
martialed and will be dismisse
from the navy. The Chaplain wa
charged with misconduct in critl
cising his superior officers IN lee
ture delivered at Denver.
SUMNER has turned to hoary viii
ter in western Missouri and easter
Kansas. A genuine blizzard visite
that section Monday, and niue
suffering has ensued. AT Kansa
City and st. Joseph a binding sno"
storm ragged for several hours.
THE Board of Ordinance Othcel
has mace a report on the merits
the arms used in the war. The 81
inch field guns gave excellent sati
faction. Favorable report is mac
on the use of the g-Jorgense
rifle by the infantry and caviar
No fault was found with the Sprlni
field rifles, but smokeless poWd'
was urged. There was no opportu
ity to test the siege guns, as the
were not used.
MRS. THOMAS NOUN, wife OF
live stock trader of Rutherfo'
county, poisoned her 2-year-o
child with laudanum and then cor
mitted suicide, at her home in Mu
freesboro last Tuesday. She left
note, pinned to her dress, requestlI
to be buried in the clothes she III
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