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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1902
Page
1
A bulletin lists talks on merging the Philadelphia Times with Public Ledger. The Houston Post notes Texas cotton crop prospects. Reports cover a farmer Bower who killed his wife and himself, a Nashville Democratic Committee meeting on August 26, and a deadly San Angelo hotel fire. Also included are European trade views, Cuban loan concerns, and annexation debates.
Memphis reports that Thomas N McLemore shot and killed L Faller of Lobdell Bolivar County Mississippi on Saturday evening. A witness found McLemore in a nightrobe with a shotgun and pistol. he claimed self defense though Faller was shot with buckshot and pistol fire. McLemore is jailed in Rosedale after notifying authorities.
A Chicago woman Florence Allan extols Peruna as a rejuvenating tonic for a worn-out system. Rose Cullen of Butte Montana and Blanche Myers of Kansas City report relief from nervous exhaustion and recurrent colds after using Peruna. The ad promotes Peruna as a cure for systemic catarrh with free health booklet offer.
McLemore and Fuller, both known figures in Memphis, are implicated in a fatal afternoon shooting after threats over a feud. Locals say McLemore, fond of diamonds, allegedly pressed toward confrontation with Fuller who retaliated, killing McLemore as Fuller fell. Police investigate.
Surveyors will begin laying out routes for the Nashville & Columbia and Nashville & Gallatin Electric Railway after last week’s approval by Nashville voters. The company plans to spend 22 million on the lines, with Frank P. Bond signaling immediate crew deployment to map routes.
Rumors of three state prison inmates in disguise near Primm Springs frighten residents. Deputies appointed to oversee local offices include Worley as clerk and Kannon as trustee. An elderly farmer in Nobles Hills settled debts, thanking God in public after paying off notes.
Centreville Tennessee August 11 The largest transfer of real estate in the county was the sale of phosphate lands on Swan Creek by M H Meeks and others to the New York and St Louis Mining and Manufacturing Company for 87010 dollars.
In Lewisburg Tennessee on August 11 Tom Lawrence, an 11 year old farmer’s son, was shot in the leg along the Caney Spring road and not seriously hurt. Bloodhounds from Nashville could not be secured. Joe Crawford, son of Rev. M B Crawford of Chapel Hill, is under arrest on suspicion of firing the shot. motives and facts behind the arrest are unclear. Both families are prominent in the area.
A freight wreck north of Franklin at about eight Monday caused the death of Section Foreman Wilson as he fell between cars while leaping from a north bound train No 12 and a south bound work train. Both engines were demolished, but other crew escaped serious injury. The collision occurred on a heavy fill and only a small track section was torn up before repairs were made.
Willie Lawrence a negro boy living on H L Hendley's place near death from lockjaw after stepping with a nat in his foot has, by sudden improvement, begun to recover. Doctors feared death and most visited him but Dr Harrison notes only his second recovery in fifty years of practice. The boy has subsisted on rich sweet milk since his illness.
Two white boys from Giles County brought two stolen mules to Watson's table Friday. Officiers had been notified of the theft and a $20 reward offered for the mules' recovery. The mules were sent back that evening. It is said Constable Goad will receive the reward.
D H L Fanning of New York, a Fr ied rich de Grosse passenger, arrived in London and was placed under the wandering lunatic act at St Giles Infirmary after driving into the Hotel Cecil courtyard in an automobile. He announced he was the Savior and had just come from heaven, then greeted guests before hotel staff escorted him to a room.
Washington, Aug. 10. A dispatch reports the death of Senator James McMillan of Michigan at his Manchester by the Sea summer home in Massachusetts. Cause listed as heart failure following congestion after a brief illness lasting only a few hours.
Copenhagen August 11 The official organ of the Parat exhibition prints a letter from Thomas A Edison answering questions on motor traction and river navigation He predicts that within thirty years railways will abandon steam locomotives and electric motors will dominate rail and electric cars will largely supplant horses He adds that current science offers no reliable forecast for aerial navigation.
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