The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-12-27

[
VOL. XLVI
NEWS AND COMMENT.
A Hot Springs hotel keeper shot two
brothers because they would not drink
with him. One is dead and the other
will die.
Ben Wooten suddenly fell dead at
Cookville, Dec. 10Th, while digging a
grave for the two year. child of Jas
Eldrich.
Clarksville had hundred thousand
do lar fire, night before last, destroying
valuable property in the business part
of the town. Very little insurance.
"
Bedford county is gong to have three
new steel bridges across Duck River at
a cost of $l0,250. IL. T. Snnott & Com
pany, OF Nashville, are the contractors.
Native priests in the Philippines
have been found with counterfeiting
outfits, discovered hidden behind the
altar OF the church at which they
officiated.
Colorado and Iowa have both restored
the death penalty for murder. There
are only four States in the Union now
that haven't this death penalty-viZ.
Michigan, Rhode Island, Maine and
Wisconsin.
Miss Lillian A. Norton, of Texas,
recently appointed chief of the finance
division of the postoffice department,
draws the largest salary of any wo.
man in the service Of the government
50, $50 per annum.
A large aerolite has fallen on the
village of Wysienki, near Kieff Four
teen houses were burned, and a boy,
three years old, was killed The noise
caused by the fall of the aelolite. wai
heard fifteen miles away
Hopkins & Yoe's -four mill, OF
Duck river near Shelbyville. burned
Monday nighu About eighty bushel
of wheat and several thousand bushel
of corn were destroyed The mill wa
valued at $40, 900. There is insurance
of $11, 800.
The point where Colorado, New
Mexico, Utah, and Arizona join i
unique from the fact that it is the onl'
place where four states, territories, o
provinces join. This is true, not onl
as to the United States, but it is tru
as to the world
The dependence of Southern Europ
on American wheat has resulted in tn
building of elevators and warehouse
at Genoa, where steamships can dis
charge their cargos at the rate of 30
tons per hour, and where B, 900 tons ca
be stored.
In a recent address, Rev. Cr. Park
hurst of New York, said: One reaso
why the better elements do not oftene
win IN city elections, is that goo
people get tired f being good SO m NC
sooner than bad men tire OF thei
iniquity."
The cable steamer Faraday has fin
ished laying a cable between th
AZore Islands and Ireland for th
Commercial Cable Company, compleI
ing the fourth line of cable of tina
company between the United State
and England.
1t is proposed by the Boston branc
of the Christian Endeavor Union
utilize the street cars for the dissem
nation of Biblical quotations and otht
edifying sentiments in the same wa
that ordinary tradespeople advertis
their wares in the vehicle.
Mrs G. N. Whitman, Of Denve
owns the largest ranch of any woma
in the world. 1t is located in Texa
near Tascosa, and is called the l..
ranch, from Lucien Scott, the fir
owner. The ranch is thirty mil'
square and hundreds of cowboys al
employed upon it.
The President has ordered that hi
torian" Maclay tender his resignation
but Maclay claims that he is potectt
by the civil service, and intimates th
he will not be kicked out without
fight Pesident Roosevelt is said
have severely rebuked Lieut.. Gel
Miles at the White House Saturday #
his interview in the Schley cas-