The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-06-22
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.

The country will remember the
case of Mrs. Ricardo Ruiz. whose
American husband was brutally
murdered in a Cuban prison by his
Spanish guard. Afterwards, Mrs.
Ruiz was brought to the United
States by one of the New York yell
low journals for advertising purposes
and exploited until the public lost
interest in her. Under the treaty
of peace with Spain, our govern
ment assumed all claims of Ameri-
can citizens against Spain and that of
Mrs. Ruiz for $4,000 was among
them Her condition is now most
pitiable one, as she has no money at
all, and che yellow journal which
brought Ter away from her friends,
has deserted her. Bv teaching
Spanish in the daytime and sewing
far into the night she has barely
been able to keep the wolf from the
door. She has been forced 10 divide
her little family, sending her eldest
son to New York, two daughters to
a Catholic institution in Baltimore,
and keeping two young children
with her. Now one of these has
fallen and fractured her skull and
Mrs. Ruiz cup is full to overlooking.
The Secretary of Agriculture has
learned that the thousands of cay
ouse ponies annually killed in the
northwest and shipped abroad, are
sold in Sweden as reindeer. AS is
we'll known in the west, the cayeuse
pony is an animal weighing about
700 pounds and lives almost exclu-
sively on grass. Many Of them never
did days work, and it is said their
meat is of delicate flavor. Con-
siderable damage is done to the
grazing lands of the west by these
horses, and frequently it becomes
necessary to shoot them for the sole
purpose Of getting rid of them. Late.
ly, however, new industry has
sprung up, and at Portland these
horses command about So each when
sold in lots of 100 or more.
Members of Congress are express
ing their regret at the news thai
John Allen, of Tupelo, Miss, is to
retire from Congrt So. 1t Is his un-
alterable purpose to abandon politi-
cal life and he will not be a candi.
date for the House next November
Mr.. Allen has served his, district fol
fourteen consecutive years and is
weary of the legislative grind. Il
was a great disappointment to him
moreover, to be beaten for the Sen.
ate by former Gov. McLaurin, par
tlcularly as it was his second defeat
for that office. His inimitable sto.
ries in darky dialect will be missed
by his brother statesmen, bnt if hi
chose to relate them on the lecture
platform, he could easily double hi,
income.
1t is often charged that West Poin
is a school for aristocrats, but the
records of the paIentage of thu
graduating class there, which hav'
Just been sent to this city, do no
bear out that statement. No publ,
school has a wider social range thar
that at West Point. The cadet
come from all classes and ranks o.
people, aud the largest number frou
the farm. During the last ten years
for example, the sons of l49 farmer
have been admitted to the academy
The merchant class has contributed
ll5; an even 100 were the sons of law
yers, 60 were the sons of officers, thu
fathers of 81 were manufacturers, 3.
mechanics, 20 insurance, anu l!
real estate agents, ii clergymen, Il
editors, IL bankers, ID bookkeepers
10 druggists, 8 commercial travellers
8 school teachers, 8 dentists, 8 sales
men, hotelkeepeTs, 4 printers,
policemen, 3 photographers, civi
engineers, 4 mechanical engineers
Congressman, 2 livery stable keep
ers, tailors and lottery manager.