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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1907
Page
8
The city faced a first and likely last fully blue Sunday in New York as residents and visitors found novelty in entertainment while police enforced the Sunday closing law. Aldermen plan to modify the arch hoes within authority, and attempts to evade the law were rare following Justice O Gorman's interpretation.
John Webster, colored, paid $16.00 in City Court on drunkenness and profane language charges from bad whiskey bought in Nashville. Tobe Green, colored, was fined $6.75 for using profane and offensive language.
The Democratic National Committee to meet in Washington on Thursday to set the date and location for the next convention. Chicago Louisville Kansas City and Denver are listed as potential bidders.
Jury in Harris case failed to reach verdict on involuntary manslaughter. Six jurors favored conviction and six favored acquittal, with one juror undecided. Judge Holding discharged the jury and released the defendant on bond as proceedings paused for Centreville court return.
A night clerk failed to unload a loaded shotgun, and a day clerk accidentally touched the trigger. The weapon discharged into a waste basket, tearing it apart and causing alarm among twenty carriers and clerks present. No one was hurt.
The 1907 conference in Washington urged an annual appropriation of at least $50,000,000 to develop inland waterways, stating profitable commerce depends on economical transportation. Delegates from 37 states argued railroads cannot meet growing demand and urged federal policy to improve inland routes.
The grand jury returns a single indictment for public drunkenness amid reports of the overall positive impact of prohibition. The item highlights law on public intoxication and reflects broader enforcement trends.
The article notes a drop in public drunkenness after abolition of syluums and cites grand jury indictments. At the last term about fifteen indictments for public drunkenness were returned, while this term only one. Indictments for selling liquor without license ran six, near the average.
The Ministers' Association of the city convened at 9 am Monday in the First Methodist church study. Rev. W. A. Stroud was elected permanent chairman with Rev. G. J. Mack as vice-chairman and Rev. T. H. Porter as secretary. The group will meet weekly at 9 for one hour. Next Monday features a sermon outline by Dr. T. A. Wharton and a book review by Rev. Ay Clement.
Special to The Herald reports Gov. Patterson grants a reprieve until January for Pete W. Turner of Knoxville who faced hanging tomorrow. The delay allows time to study a commutation request and possible imprisonment terms.
Real estate transfers noted include W. H. Witt and Mrs Mattie Witt Allen selling 257 acres in the 22nd district to Percy Bond and Mrs Sara B. McKissack for 9600 dollars. Dr Wallace Wilkes sells the storehouse on the square used by J. P. Street Co to Dr J A Howards for 6000 dollars. A L Lanier transfers a house in Mt Pleasent to J W Griffin for 1150 dollars.
A fire yesterday destroyed Rice Hall at Washboro College in Topek a Kan. The blaze involved a loom valued at 100,000. All students escaped safely.
Monongah, W Va reports 53 bodies recovered from mines Nos 6 and 8 of the Phelps Mont Coal Co as darkness fell. Sixty hours after the explosion most bodies are badly battered and burial is imminent. Officials now believe deaths may total about 400 as the company probes causes and missing workers who had not reported for work.
Stockholm reports King Oscar I dies at 78 after a long illness. Oscar Gustave Adolphe becomes the new king, sworn in with the motto With the People for the Fatherland. Norway’s separation cited as a contributing sorrow to the monarch’s end.
The corner stone of M'Kendree Church will be laid Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Bishop EB Haas will deliver the address. Rev H B Reames and Rev J H McNeilly will take part. Stone placement by S J Keith B B Stahlman and J D Hamilton. Music and ceremonies to follow.
Ruth Bilbo Click was shot to death by her husband Frank Click in a Nashville tenement. After killing his wife he turned the revolver on himself, dying with a pool of blood at the scene. Police suspect jealousy or a domestic dispute led to the tragedy.
Gov John A Johnson of Minnesota, returning from the Rivers and Harbors Congress, declares he is not a candidate for President and will retire after his term to private life. He plans to engage in commercial enterprise and shows easy democratic energy.
Chicago December 6. Six hundred alcohol loans were closed this morning as the local option law voted in fourteen counties becomes effective at midnight. Eight counties are now entirely dry while six allow saloons only in a few precincts. The affected counties lie mainly in the southern region, mirroring prohibition waves from the South.
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