The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-02-24
NEWS AND COMMENT.


JUDGE BARR, of the Federal Dis
trict of Kentucky, has resigned.
CONGRESS will adjourn next week.
There is some talk of an extra ses-
sion being called.
A BILL to prohibit tight lacing by
women was introduced into the
Wisconsin Legislature last week.
ALL of the surviving Captains of
the fleet of Spanish warships de-
stroyed off Santiago, Cuba, are to be
court-martialed.
IN fight at Talien Wan last week
between Chinese and Russians, three
hundred Chinese are said to have
been killed. The conflict originated
in a question of taxes.
THE War Department last Mon
day issued sweeping instructions,
ordering that all the volunteer regi-
ments remaining in the United
States be mustered out of service.
THE mines of the st. Bernard Coal
Company IN Hopkins county KY,
were worked part of the day Sun
day in order to relieve the coal
famine at Nashville. Nashville
now has a plenty of the "black dia-
mond' on hand.
DURING the parade of President
McKtnley's party in Boston Thurs
day, the Secretary of War was
greeted with derisive yells and
Kisses. "Beef, beef,' cried the
crowd, and az he passed group of
militiamen three cheers were given
for Maj. Gen. Miles.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY was the
guest of the Boston Home Market
Club last Thursday night. There
were l,9l4 guests besides fully $500
spectators in the balconies. The
President in his speech had much to
say of the nations duty in the Phil
irpines.
THE Senate last Friday passed
seventyfour private pension meas
ures, including one granting a pen
sion of $50 per month for Gen. John
M. Palmer, candidate for President
on the National Democratic ticket
in 1896, who is now in destitute cir
cumstances.
AGoNCILLO, the Filipino represent
tative who fed from Washington tC
Montreal when the news of the con,
flict between the Americans anC
Filipino insurgents reached there
set sail for London this week, going
via New York. He will attempt
to interest the European Powers ir
the Philippines.
IT seems that M. Loubet, the new
ly elected President of the French
Republic, has a very rocky path be
fore him. From the hour of hi
election he has been confronted will
hostile demonstrat tions on all side
and prosecuted by most abusive
press. Loubet is not wealthy, anC
the fashionables indulge in sneer
at his humble origin and rusti
habits.
The troops at Manila are suffering
great deal from the intense an
increasing heat, especially in part
of the line where it is impossible t.
provide shelter. The Buffalo BON
barded the Filipinos' trenches las
Saturday night, driving the native
further inland. The rebels still hol
the country in the vicinity of Quad
alupe, Pasig and Patero, in spite
the efforts of the gunboats to di:
lodge them.
Gov. MCMILLIN last Monday al
nounced that he would appoir
Lieut.. CoE Gracy Chil1ers of Clark'
Vile, to be Colonel of the First Tel
nessee regiment, vice Col. Smitl
deceased. There is quite a merr
war going on as to who will succee
Col. Childers. The friends of tt
three Majors claim that they shoul
be considered according to rank, bl
the friends of Capt. Whitthorne a
asking that he shall be jumped ov
the heads of the Majors.
In the House last Thursday Il
paragraph in the Sundry Civil B
appropriating $2O,OOO,OOO to pi
Spain for the Philippines was stric
en- out on point of order made
Mr.. Wheeler, of Kentucky. N
Wheeler's point was that until t
treaty was ratified by the Spani