The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-08-04


vile, and w. j. Dickerson at Union
City.
The President has decided to give
a reception to Admiral Dewey upon
the latters arrival at the White
House.
SECRETARY ALGER relinquished
control of the War Department
Tuesday and Elihu Root assumed
his duties.
IN an interview with Admiral
Dewey, the Admiral is quoted as
saying that "our next war will be
with Germany"
THE annual repor5 of the Missis-
sippi commission shows that $1,O75,-
600 was spent on that stream in the
year ending June 30.
Ten thousand men were thrown
out of employment and work was
stopped on two hundred buildings
in the course of construction in
Chicago by the brickmakers' strike
last week.
a NEGRO killed recently near
Lindsay, Miss, proved to be an
escaped lunatic. He was mistaken
for Val Bates, rapist. 1t is horri-
BILE to think how many innocent
men are murdered by mobs.
A CONSOLIDATION of the Sloss
Iron and Steel Company and other
large industrial properties in Ala
bama and Tennessee has been con
summated. The corporation will
have capital stock of $2O,OO0,OOO.
THE international yacht race to
take place soon will be reported by
means of wireless telegraphy. This
will be the first time for this newly
invented means of telegraphic com
munication to be tried in newspaper
WORK in America.
THE Kentucky Populists last
week nominated John G. Blair for
Governor, reaffirmed TIE Omaha
platform, denounced the Demo-
cratic and Republican tickets and
trusts, and indorsed Wharton Bar
ker for President.
COUNT ESTERHAZY refuses to
testify at the Dreyfus cOurt-martial.
He says that it is not for him to
speak, but for the generals, whom
he has openly accused, to justify
their acts. He is curious to see
whether they will do this at Rennes
ADoLPH l.. LUETGERT, the no.
torious Chicago sausage maker,
whose trial for murder of his wife
attracted so much attention, was
found dead in his cell at the State
prison at Joliet, Ills, last Thursday
Luetgert was serving life-sentence
The assassination of President
Heureaux, of the Dominica repub
lie, last week, was a most cowardly
act. He was in the act of giving
aims to an old beggar, when two
shots were fired, killing both the
President and the beggar. Enc
mics of the Government are said tC
be preparing for general insurrec
tion.
THE United States transport Han
cock arrived at San Francisco las
Sunday with the first Nebrasks
regiment and two batteries of Utal
artillery. Only one of the Nebras-
kans re-enlisted aud twenty-five re
mained in the Philippines to go into
business. Including the killed, tn,
wounded and the sick, the regimen
lost POI in the war.
A STORY from Munick, Austria
states that the Princess AdelgOnde
whose marriage to the Emperor o
Austria had been arranged, sough
oblivian in preference to marriag
with the aged emperor by drinking
a deadly poison, and she was barel
saved from death. The Princess
"a years old, while the Emperor vii
be 30 his next birthday.
JoF WHEELER's arrival in tn,
Philippines will be the signal for
decided change i'm the conduct {
the campaign there. Four thousan
Texas bronchos are being shippe
from San Francisco for the use of
many troopers who, under the lead
ership Of Fighting joe will cam
paigh through Luzon and give Agui
Daldo a new experience in warfare.