The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-01-17

VOL. XLVIl
NEWS AND COMMENT.
The birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee
falls this year on Sunday, Jan. 10.
A cadet in the United States navy ID
paid as highly as a lieutenant in the
BIRTHS army.
Nashville Is making great prepare
tions for the visit of Admiral Schley.
He will be in the city on Feb. /, 2
and 3.
Mrs. Frances Rogers died at Bristol,
wednesday, aged 49,. Had she lived
until June, she would have reached
the century mark
w. l.. Reeder broke the cotton buy
ing record for Florence, Ala, Friday,
when he bought 700 bales from Capt.
Tom Reeder, of Smithsonia.
The Mooney school basket ball team
won an easy victory over the Cumber-
land University of Lebanon, at Frank
lin, Saturday. by score of SO to ID.
The city of Leadville, COL, is per-
haps the only municipality in this or
any other country that is actively en-
gagged in the industry of gold and sill
yer mining.
G. 2. Hartman, an employee of the
Nashville. Chattanooga, and st. Louis
railway, was killed Saturday night, on
Broad street, while heavy car was
going down steep grade.
A family. consisting of man, his
wife and five children, were burned to
death in Buffalo yesterday and
the owner of the house and his brother
in-law are being held pending an in
vestigation.
Denver, COL, is having a reign of
terror. Crimes of the most heinous
character are daily occurring. The |
citizens have organized committee
of safety to assist the police in main
tanning order.
1t is said that SO. 900, 900 will be
needed for the repair of our warships
during the next fiscal year. Was it
our ships or those of the Spanish that
were 80 badly battered during the late
npleasantnessY
Senator Chauncey M. Depew and his
bride arrived from Europe Saturday
night on the steamship st. Louis. The
senator was in excellent health and
spirits, but Mrs. Depew suffered much
from seasickness.
Harry L. Bevan filed libel suit for {
S50, 900 damages at Dickson, Tenn, [
against Mrs. Cora G. Hicks, h
publisher Of the Home Enterprise, and |
R. II. Hicks, writer of certain articles |
detrimental to Mr.. Bevan's character.
The general conference of the colored
Episcopal church in America
will meet in Nashville in May. 1t
to be the largest session ever :
leld by this body, which was organized l
1t Memphis in 1870 and has now grown a
% 204, 972 members. l
Fire at Pulaski, Sunday, destroyed :
he residence occupied by Mr.. Bugg
Evans A defective chimney was the :,
ause Mr.. Evans household goods !
we're total loss. without insurance. T
esidence, had 81, 600 insurance. =
At the Cottonbelt railroad shops in tt
line Bluff, Ark, yesterday, 152 men fl
we're relieved from the force in the al
department The road is 2
utting down expenses and the general
desires reduction in the I'll
ally roll of $500 or a monthly reduc u
ion of $13, 900. fc
A Parsee merchant and leather man ca
facturer Kakhassu Edalji Talati, of U
bombay, is now in Boston mastering A
ne chrome method of tanning, study to
lg the industries of this country, and ca
/ particular the leather industry. He &C
DESTROYS of securing a market here
II the manufactured leather goods of o.
ldia. III
A negro living near Jackson who has III
IS in stock in the Beaumont Oil Co., 10
gently received letter from another
ockholder offering $500 for his share az
he colored man has refused the offer, ~ ~.
,lieving that better one will be W.
ade lie is proud OF his possession, j.,
i'd the idea of receiving Sl2 for every - -
invested is most amazing expert ~ =,
ice for him. o on
fol
One of the last landmarks of the Ten
ssee Centennial is disappearing, as
a lannon's chute of ~ is being randi