The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-11-14
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

was. 0OlQ. 700 o.. tOOs ~1ifcE, COm-
mercial value. sl04. 99s. 100. Inc
United States net gain in its gold
stocks was s63S, 900. 900.
The western contingent. headed
by John w. Gates, is reported TO have
lost S15, 0O0, 900 mp to last night as the
result of an onset made on them by the
Fasteners, headeo by John ID.
Rockefeller. E. II. Hartman. the
Goulds and their allies. The stock
market was greatly excited. but closed
stronger.
The 6.year-old SON of Lyvester Pack
of the Sixth District Of Dickson Coun-
ty. was killed Thursday by heavy log
rolling over mis- body.
Ats O'Clock Friday morning the
safe ar the postoffice at Springfield was
blown open and robbed of its contents,
which consisted of $25 in cash, soma
stamps and money orders.
The State of Iowa will erect a $780,
900 monument at Chattanooga, in
memory OF Iowa soldiers.
j. c. Fox. of Pulaski, had his right
leg fearfully mangled by large stone
slab falling ON it. The limb may have
to be amputated.
Alexander Wright, while walking
over a railro ad culvert at Hartman.
fell and broke his leg. He was also
one of Lees veterans, having stacked
arms at Appoma ttox.
Charles March, of near Decherd.
committed suicide Friday night by
shooting himself. He had only been
married two days.
A gang of seven white boys the
oldest but co. some In short pants,
were arrested Friday in Chatt anooga
for the systematic robbery of freight
cars in the railroad yards. Their
parents should be punished for criminal
neglect of duty in not caring for them
better.
Gen. Weyler will porbably not be
retained in the War Office in the new
Spanish Cabinet which Prime Min
lister Sagasta is now constructing.
The new building of the New York
Chamber Of Commerce was Tuesday
dedicated, with representatives Of
many foreign countries among the
guests of honor. President Roosevelt
was the chief speaker at the banquet
last night.
J. Pierpont Morgan, to guard against
panic in the event of his serious ill
ness or death, has organized the North
American Company, with a capital OF
| $12, 600, 600. The company Will look
after all interests controlled by Mr..
Morgan, which are estimated at So
084, $50, 527.
AT Benton, Polk County, James Cody
escaped from Jail by saving in two
one Of the bars.
Whit Burgess was killed almost
instantly near Sparta Tuesday, by a
log rolling over him.
The Nashville Spoke and Handle
Company has been absorbed by the
Internal Axe and Tool Company, a
S42, 900, 600 trust organized last week
in New YORK City.
Tom Davis, the famous former anti
Whitecap Sheriff of Sewer County, is
an applicant for the position of War
den Of the Brushy Mountain branch OF
the State penitentiary.
A number of Clarksvllle citizens
have been relieved OF various sums OF
money during the last few days by
pick pockets, who followed in the
wake of the street carnival.
Arch Jones, who was indicted by
the Houston County grand jury last
week. on the charge of bigamy. is said
to have nine wives scattered through
out Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and
Tennessee.
A bloody encounter occurred Mon
day in Carroll county, between Curtis
Kirby and Will Ross who were in
love with the same girl, in which
Ross was seriously cut about the
breast, arms and side.
At Kansas City Tuseday, John Scan
lon, q former policeman, shot and
killed DR.. w. Fl. Kimberlin, an ocu-
list and then committed suicide
Scanlon left a note saying the oculist
had destroyed his eyes.
While J. B. Birchett, farmer who
| lives about two miles southwest OF
Kenton, Tenn, was riding out home
| Tuesday on horseback in gallop,
his horse stumbled and fell, breaking
Mr.. Birchett's jawbone in two places.
The American Bankers Association
met Tuesday in New Orleans and Will
liam Barrett Ridgely, Comptroller of
the Currency, IN an address advocated
as credit or emergency the issuing by
national banks of 80 per cent. OF their
bonded isue.
The question of introducing the
reading of the Bible in the public
schools at Memphis, created such a
storm of disapproval among the Jews
and Roman Catholics that the subject
has been withdrawn from further
consideration.
Agents for pillow handle factory
of Indiana, are negotiating for the
purchase Of a site In Huntsville. The
plant will ba moved to the South
because Of the scarcity Of white oak
In Indiana. The abundance of this
timber in North Alabama influenced
the company to send their agents
here to seek location
DR.. r. H. Thomas. the former
medical stldent of Nashville, and
inferno at the City Hospital who was
recently arrested in Georgia on the