The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-01

congress.
THE Marian Park Bank at st.
Paul, Mimi, with capital of $50, 600,
las failed. .
Hon. u. w. EWING, of Giles, has
lecided that he will not be a candi-
late for Circuit Judge.
JAMES ]. CoRBETT is to be can
1idate for Congress from one of the
New York city districts.
CHICAGO has put an end to more
sky-scrapers. Buildings hereafter
must be no higher than 1870 feet.
Tom WATSON has declined the
Populst nomination for governor of
Georgia. Watson says he is out of
politics.
JOHN s. HOPKINS, cashier of the |
Peoples Bank at Philadelphia, be-
ing short in his accounts, COM
mitted suicide.
VIM. e. GLADSTONE is said to be
slowly dying of cancerous growth
involving the bone tissues back of
the nasal passages. 'H
A NEBRASKA highway robber,
who held up three men and got ten
cents, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for fifteen years.
EX-SENATOR J. G. S. BLACKBURN,
of Kentucky, suffered a stroke of
paralysis last Friday, at his home
in Washington. He is now inn
proving.
DIR. JOHN WATSON, "Ian Mac
Laren," writer of "Beside the Bon
ME Brier Bush," will be called to
answer the charge of heresy at the
Liverpool Synod, April %.
On last Thursday, eulogies on the
life and character of the late Sena-
tor Isham G. Harris were delivered
in the Senate. Senators Bate, Tur-
ley, Walthall, Hoar, Morrill, and
others delivered addresses.
THE drug trust case-in which
several Wholesale druggists of Nash
vile are indicted for engaging in a
trust to advance and control the
prices of drugs-came up in, the
Criminal Court last Saturday, and
was continued until tomorrow.
EMILE ZoLA, the French novelist,
has agreed1 to come to the United
States and deliver a series of lee
lures. Zola has been permitted to
take an appeal from his conviction,
and the time of his visit to America
will depend upon the result.
Hon. BENTON MCMILLIN says he
is in favor of a railroad commission N
and the proper assessment, taxation
and regulation of railroads in Tenn
essee, and that he is for several re-
forms, upon all of which he will
shortly declare himself from the
stump.
THE Sycamore Powder mills, in
Cheatham county, exploded Tues
day morning. Four of the CON-
pany's buildings were blown tC
atoms, and four workmen were in
iured, one probably fatal. The
shock of the explosion was felt fol
twenty-five miles around.
In the Democratic primary cleo
tion held in Williamson County
Saturday, for the nomination O
County officers, the following were
successful: County Court Clerk, t
]. Wallace, present incumbent; Cir
cult Court Clerk, Lee Ridley; Trus
tee, Capt. w. T. Ridley; Sheriff, E
w. Church; Register, Lee S. Nc
Even.
The Secretary of the Interior ha
sent to the House an estimate call
ing for appropriations of more thar
$8,0OO,000, to meet deficiency in tn,
pension funds. OF this amour
$2,O0O,O0O is credited to the lack o
last years appropriations and tn
other $6,OO0,OOO to large increases
restorations and new pensions
What will it be with another war t
add to the pension roll?
THE following dispatch was sen
out from Memphis last Friday
1.-THE Republicans are going to max
a vigorous effort to capture the stat
offices, says Chairman Dutro, of tn
Republican County Executive Com
mittee, and he mentions Newe
Sanders, John f. Mccall and Georg
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