The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-06-09
NEWS AND COMMENT.

DREYFUs was expected to embark
yesterday for France.
ADMIRAL DEWEY sailed from
Hong Kong last Tuesday.
GOV. w. II. ELLERBEE, of South
Carolina, died last Friday night.
PARTIES returning from the Klon-
dixie gold fields tell awful stories of
suffering among prospectors there.
THE Due d'Arcos, the new Span
ish Minister to this country, and his
wife arrived in Washington last
week.
UP to last Monday only All Cuban
soldiers had given up their arms and
accepted $75 each from the United
States.
EX-GOV. TAYLOR says he will
stick to the lecture platform, and
not be a candidate for United States
Senator.
EMIL ZoLA, who has lived quietly
in London since his trial for assault
ing the enemies of Dreyfus, has re-
turned to Paris.
CoNGREssMAN A. j. HOPKINS,
Illinois, has withdrawn from the
speakership contest in favor of Hen
derson, of Iowa.
LAST Sunday was record breaker
in many of the large cities, the ther-
mometer registrations eclipsing all
records for that time of the year.
THE State Republican Conven.
tion at Columbus, o., last Friday
nominated Hon. George K. Nash fol-
Governor. Nash was Hanna's
choice.
BRIG. gems. Hale, Smith and
Funston have been ordered home
from the Philippines for muster out
with the regiments they formerly
commanded.
THE Southern Methodists begun
an educational rally in Louisville
Tuesday to promote the effort to
raise 81 100000 for the educational
institutions of that denomination.
AT meeting of agricultural i'm.
plement manufacturers, at Chicago
this week, committee was appoint.
ed to prepare a schedule advancing
the prices of all farming imple-
ments.
AN express train on the Unior
Pacific Railway was held up at Will
cox, Wyo., last Friday, and the ex
press car blown up with dynamite
and the contents taken. There were
six men in the gang, who escaped tC
the mountains.
A BOOM has been started to elec
Gen. Joseph Wheeler Governor o
Alabama. AS an inducement TO
him to enter the race, politician
say they believe the Governor
chair would be a stepping stone to
seat in the United States Senate.
The Queen Regent of Spain an
nounced in the Cortes last week tina
practically all of Spain's remaining
insular possession had been cedec
to Germany. The cession embraces
the remainder of the Ladrones, the
Carolines and the Palaos islands
Gov. SAVERS, of Texas, has sent
telegram to all the Governors an'
Attorneys General of the Southern
States, announcing that he ha
called an antitrust convention t.
meet in st. Louis, Sept. 20, for tn
purpose of securing concerted &C
tion against trusts.
MARION CLARK, the twenty-one
months-old child of Mr.. and Mrs
Arthur Clark, of New York, wh'
was kidnapped some weeks ago. ha
been discovered near Sloatsburg, n
Y. Mrs. Jennie Wilson, in who's
custody the child was found, wa
placed under arrest.
NASHVILLE capitalists interested
in the Cumberland Telephone anc
Telegraph Company have purchased
a controlling interest in the Obi
Valley Telephone Company. Thl
is said to be part of movemen
to place all the telephone lines II
the South under one management
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has ISSUED
an order, removing several tho usan'
more offices from the CLASSIFIED clVl
service list. The list includes al
chief clerks and private secretaries