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

FRANK ". Jones, Il y. horr. ana TANK
Smith. will be given their 1rst airing in
the Criminal Court Of Shelby County.
The cases are exciting q great deal OF
interest owing TO the prominence OF
the defendants. Jones IL vice-Presi-
dent and General Manager OF the
Memphis Street Railway; Smith II
Superintendent and Kerr is the Special
Agent.
The Tri-State Medical Association Is
in session at Memphis
Hon. L. II. DUNCAN. Of Humboldt
will be an applicant for next Prison
Commissioner before Gov. Frazier.
Patsy Seaton and Frank Bannis en-
gagged in a stabbing ARRAY at a we'd
ding near Tullahoma Tuesday night.
Both men were seriously hurt.
J. G.. Adams. of Humboldt, exSer-
geant at Arms Of the Lower House. has
announced himself as a candidate
for Assistant CLERK of the Senate.
Mr.. T. ]. Tinsley, for years one of
the most popular and prominent retail
merchants of Nashville, died Tuesday
night after an illness of three years
duration.
The 5-year-old child of Aft Taylor,
of Weakley county, met a frightful
death Tuesday by being smothered to
death in large cotton bin, in which
it was playing.
James Mcdonald, Knoxville con-
tractor, has been awarded the contract
to construct two million dollar
water works and sewer system at
Tampico, Mexico.
Burglars entered the residence OF
Dallas Austin, prominent citizen or
Montgomery county. and secured S40O
in gold coin. The family was absent
at the time of the theft.
In Wednesdays election. j. 8.
Hugent, J. M. Naylor, J. M. Avent,
A. q. Thompkins. }. s. Blumanthal
and Hickman Weakley were elected
Aldermen for the six wards of Muir
freesboro in the order named.
Elder Fl. w. Smith, hitherto an able
and popular preacher of the Christian
Church, was Wednesday declared by
jury of inquest to be insane and
dangerous and was at once confined to
the Shelbyville Jail to remain until he
can be received at the asylum.
A bold robbery was committed ct
the little town Of Wetsmoreland,
twenty miles north of Gallatln We'd
nesday, by three men and a woman,
who were later arrested and placed In
Jail at Lafayette. A small amount OF
cash and clothing was obtained from
the store of Weatherford q Ripley.
The capacity of the ice plant OF
Beare Brothers, located at Humboldt,
is being almost doubled. And in ad-
dition to the enlargement Of its plant,
this concern has now in course or
erection a cold storage which Will
cover almost block. The improve
ments will aggregate something like
$50, 600.
George Paul, young man living
near Covlngton, this county, was
thrown by young and wild horse
Tuesday afternoon and killed, his
neck being broken. He was riding
the animal home from neighbor-
hood store, and the fatal fall was
the second throw which the animal
had given him on the same trip.
So great is the traffic of the railways
of the country that they are now face
to face with an enigne and car famine,
and it IS feared that freight blockades
may soon result.
PATRICK Mathis a Sewer county
farmer, sent to the penltentiary for
murder under death senence, but
whose sentence was afterwards COM
muted to life, died Sunday within
the prison walls.
Peter Arlund. Louisville promoter.
and Moses Wetmore. the ST. Louis
millionaire, engaged in fight in the
Planters Hotel in st. Louis Sunday
night, over an alleged insult to Mrs.
Arlund. Wetmore was badly worsted.
Two gunboats. the Tamplco and the
Vera Cruz, built for the Mexican Gov
ernment, were launched at Elizabeth
port, N. j., recently. Nine Mexican
naval officers and fifteen cadets are
supervising the construction OF the
vessels
The Hamilton County Democratic
Club is discussing the question OF
big demonstration On the occasion OF
the Inauguration of Gov. Frazier. 1t
is proposed to charter a special train,
carry large number to Nashville,
headed by bands, and create turore
of enthusiasm.
The contest for the speakership OF
the next House grows more interest
ing 1t Is said the promoters of the
Ship Subsidy Bill are endeavoring to
choose the man. The fight for tariff
revision is growing, and to gain this
end the Western Republicans may
combine on Representative Babcock
for Speaker.
Senator Marvin Brooks Norfeet, OF
Shelby County, is a candidate for the
position OF Speaker OF the next State
Senate. His recent mission to Nash
VILE is thus explained. 1t was be-
lieved that there was certain sig
nificance attached to it, but just what
it was did not materialize until Sun
day.
A famine in labor prevails through
out Mississir pi, says a special from
New Orleans to the New York Sun.
1t has grown acute and Is seriously
interfering with harvesting the cotton
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