The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-12-05
LaTt NEWS ITEMS.

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Three negroes were sold for vagrancy
last week at Lancaster. Ky. Two
women sold for Is each and q mar
brought ~.
The town hall at Martins Ferry,
o., Is In the hands of the Sheriff, who
will try to collect judgment in the
sum OF 300 in favor OF a woman who's
property was damaged
Secretary of the Navy Moody. in
his first annual report says that the
Navy must have more officers
The first general observance q
Thanksgiving BY the Roman Catholic
Church in the Philippines took place
last week.
Americans in London, Paris. Berlin,
City of Mexico and other foreign capi'
tails observed Thanksgiving with
the usual ceremonies.
Steps were taken in London Friday
with a view to satisfying all the
financial and diplomatic claims by
foreign powers and bondhoiders
against Venezuela.
Fleets carving 3, $50, 900 bushels or
coal left Pittsburg last week for the
South.
The amount of money in Mississippi
Treasury is only $40. 900, and de-
mands of 5000. 900 are outstanding.
State officers are urging county tax
collectors to hurry November collec-
tions.
Charles F. Kelley, the former
Speaker of the st. Louis House OF
Delegates, who is wanted in ST.
Louis in connection with the bribery
cases unearthed there some time ago.
was arrested in Philadelphia Friday
afternoon.
President Roosevelt mas written a
letter to prominent citizen or
Charleston, s. G., setting forth his
attitude regarding the appointment Oh
negroes to Federal Offices. He declares
that "the door of opportunity cannon
be shut upon any man purely upon
the grounds of race or color.
A passenger train on the Pennsyl-
vania from Indianapolis to Louisville
Thursday ran into an open switch at
Stafford Station. Engineer George
II. Frazier was killed. Fireman Lou
Grant was fatally injured, and Bag
gagemaster John F. Clayton seriously
injured.
The jury at Kingston, Tenn,
which heard the evidence in the case
of Jack Bailey. charged with the muir
der of his wife at Hartman nearly q
year ago, brought in verdlc,
of murder in the second degree and
fixed the punishment at ninety nine
years in the penitentiary.
Thirteen lives were lost and scores
of employees, visitors and others were
injured in the boiler explosion In Swift
q Cos. plant at Chicago Saturday.
A disastrous fire occurred at Hender-
son. XIV, Sunday morning, in which
James T.. Lambert q Sons grocery
and Persons Dry Goods Company
were totally destroyed and Thos
Mason's saloon and I. K. Harper &
book store partly destroyed. The total
loss is $50, 600; insurance $3S. 600.
The origin OF the fire is not known.
Had not so many Of our burghers
proved false to their own colors, Eng
land, as the great Bismarck foretold,
would have found her grave in South
Africa. = That is the keynote of the
Boer General We Vets book entitled
Three Years War. published by
Archibald, Constable & Co., in Lon
don and dedicated by the Boer General
ITO My Fellow Subjects of the Brit
ish Empire.
Harvey Logan, the alleged Montana
.ol,I>,, ,,,o, Snfurdou uiuap tQn
sentences, aggregating 1870 years
Eight sentences are for fifteen years
each, to be served concurreDtly, and
two sentences are for five years, to be
serve ls.concurrently. This reduces his
sentence to twenty years. Judge
Clark selected CoIumb bus, o., as the
prison in which Logan is to be confn
eu. Ten fines of $500 each were a. s.
imposed, aggregating 30, 600.
Robbers made an unsuccessful effort
to loot the bank at Westville, Ind. st
2 80 O clock Sunday morning. Wesley
Reyn olds, aged sixteen, clerk in
the bank, was aroused by the burglars
and was shot to death while defending
the banks property. The robbers
ESCAPED by means of a stolen horse ana
surrey. which they abandoned six miles
from town.
J. Ogden Armour, of Chicago. whose
daughter was cured of congential hip
disease by Prof. Adolph Lorenz. has
set on foot plans tor an Institute OF
BloodIess Surgery, which. it is said,
he will endow with 80. 900, 600. for the
treatment of similar cases. The pro
posed institution will be open free of
charge to the puolic DR.. Frederick
Mueller. the assistant of Prof. l oreaz,
will be placed in charge.
Secretary Of War Root, in his annual
report placed the strength of the army
at so, S66. The force in the Philippines
is 10, 49, The health OF the army,
he says, shows continued improve
ment Among his recommendations
are the creation OF a general staff the
of the Porto Rican
regiment ana the gradual abandon
ment OF the transport system. He
says that reports Indicate that the