The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-09-29

iA'hi opN ~ N iNiNi1"l 'iO 'iN'0N
dry goods firm in Nashville, will
soon retire from business.
SWIFT & Co. have purchased 200,-
600 acres of land and 100000 head Of
cattle in Oklahoma and Texas.
ROBERT TREAL PAINE, JR., has
been nominated for Governor by the
Democratic convection of Massachu-
sets.
THE Dewey Reception Committee
refused to give the Grand Army
members the place of honor in the
Dewey parade.
A PARIS paper asserts that Col.
Jouaust, president of the court
martial at Rennes, voted for the ac-
quittal of Dreyfus.
A COMPANY with $l0,OOO,OO0 capi-
tai has been incorporated at New
York to control all patent rights and
processes for the manufacture and
use of liquid air.
Texas, says that Capt. Alfred Drey
fus and his wife may spend the win
ter in San Antonia for the benefit of
the Captains health.
THE Spanish Rear Admiral, Mon
toto, has been condemned by the
Spanish Supreme Court to retire
ment without the right of promotion
for letting Dewey lick him at Ma
nila.
THE new Z. S. battleship Kear-
sarge on her official speed trial Tues
day averaged 16 "a knots per hour.
The contract requirements was l6
knots. The trial was successful in
every particular.
recent election in a Kansas
town the entire woman's ticket led
the field, from Mayor down. The
periodical meetings of the board of
mayor and aldermen will now proba-
bly, be enlivened by a chat on lin.
gerie.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, sustained 8
heavy loss by fire Sunday morning
The round house, sheds and shop;
of the electric railway, valued a
$4,000, were destroyed completely
but the loss was fully covered by
insurance.
DIR. LUKE j. BRoUGHTON, th'
astrologer, died suddenly at hi
home in New York on the 23d. H
had been very successful in fore
casting future events and had pre-
dicued that his death would occu
on the 22nd.
MARCoNI, the inventor of wireless
telegraphy, arrived in New 1orl
last week with his telegraph instru
ments, for tho purpose of demon
strating the practicability of wire
less telegraphy by reporting tn
yact races for the New York Her
aid.
THE sad fate of the passengers ~
board the steamer Jessie, which
was lost in storm in KuskOguin
Bay, Alaska, in June of last year
has at last been determined. 1t
now positively known that the,
went down with the vessel and wer
not murdered by the Indians as ha
been generally reported.
a ADvANI. an East Indian prime
and the prospective husband of
pretty Louisville girl, was arreste,
in that city few days ago, at tn
instance of Canadian parties on tn
charge of swindling. He had no
been long IN Louisville before he lie
it leak out that he was fabulousl
wealthy-and his engagement 500
followed.
IT is said that the recent protes
from Baltimore will cause materia
change in the Administration
treatment of Admiral Schley, an
that he will be sent with hi
squadron to Spain to salute tn
Spanish flag in token of renewed
friendship. Later he may be sen
to South Africa to look after Amer
ican interests.
THE antitrust conference at =
Louis adopted a series of resolution
urging legislation against the mo
nopolizatiOn or restraint of trade; 10
the control aud regulation or corpo
rations and the shutting out Of fol
eign corporations by each State 70
any purpose save interstate com