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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
3
The fire committee plans a district wide inspection beginning Wednesday. Inspector Ariel will lead the checks after final board approval with occupants urged to provide full information, assist with cleanup, and aid rapid, accurate assessments of cellars storage areas and wiring insulation where needed.
Memphis report says Frank Holloway gang robbed Bell Buckle Tennessee bank early Saturday. Chief Roper says informants name el ef Jack Mundy as the brain behind the job. Suspects were seen near Leewood along the Louisville and Nashville line with three companions. a passenger train robbery plan was abandoned.
Percy Brooks a prominent farmer and ferry owner in Whitesburgh was arrested in Huntsville on charges of attempting to assault a young schoolteacher. The alleged incident occurred while she visited at Brooks home. neighbors intervened and relatives arranged her safe return home. Brooks, in jail awaiting further legal action.
Monday night’s quarterly conference at First Methodist lauded full payment of all assessments for the period including a $219 foreign mission tax for the coming year. The Board of Stewards revealed 20 of 23 members do not use tobacco, and 19 are regular Sunday school attendees, noted by Rev. R. J. Craig as remarkable.
J 8 Beasley and George T. Renfro, officers of the Republican state campaign committee, were indicted by the federal grand jury in Knoxville Tenn for violating the civil service act. The charge stems from a letter circulated among federal building employees seeking funds for political campaigning. Violation carries fines or imprisonment or both.
Nashville, Dec. 17. The supreme court refused to grant the writ of certiorari in the case of Leo Temple, the condemned Negro rapist slated to hang Thursday. Temple has received three stay requests from the governor, each granting time to review the record, and further clemency seems unlikely.
A Sewanee Fuel Co. robbery in Chattanooga on December 17 led to four young white mountaineers fleeing after breaking doors, but dogs tracked them for four miles. They admitted guilt and said they secured about $40 from the cash register. They carried 20 explosives and failed to open the safe.
Bank of Saulsbury cashier C A Richards in Hardeman County requested $1000 from Fourth and First National Bank Nashville. A mail bundle arrived containing magazine pages and torn seals. prints and magazine fragments hint at a theft. Express superintendent Lucian Minor and bank officials say the loss is suspected and being investigated. no arrest yet.
David L. Burnett, identified as one of the five founders of the Knights of Pythian, died suddenly in Washington at age 75. He was born in Ghio and had worked with the United States treasury since 1866.
John Trotwood Moore of Nashville begins a new series of stories about Tennessee property law in marriage. A Tenant by the Curtesy centers on widower rights and and a daughter’s forced engagement, ending with a clever downfall via a visiting law student who exposes the willful mischief and restores the heroine. The tale ends with a bank intrigue twist and a knightly justice tone.
Knoxville Tenn Dec 13 The state field secretary J D Strain of Nashville has sent 700000 tuberculosis elimination seals to 72 agents across Tennessee The goal is over a million seals this year to fund education and eradication efforts A moving picture tour is being shown in major cities to raise awareness and counter local apathy in small towns where people underestimate the disease until it affects a family or community.
Knoxville Tenn Dec 18 The directors held an enthusiastic meeting with reports read and approved. Interest in tech exposition is strong and exhibit space in the southern states building is nearly all sold. Indications point to the greatest exposition the South has seen when gates open September 1 1913.
Dr William J Vaughan LL D senior Vanderbilt faculty member and former southern college president dies at 78 after heart trouble. He led mathematics and astronomy at Vanderbilt for thirty years and was famed as a multilingual scholar with mastery of seventeen dialects. His loss is described as irreparable for Vanderbilt and the South.
Constable Good and Officer Whit Hight arrested three vagrants this morning at the underpass near the Brown building burned earlier. The group includes two black men and a white man, all claiming different origins. The white man alleged to have a skeleton key and the others carrying suspicious items. They confessed to vagrancy and await transfer to the county road.
Nashville Tenn Dec 18 In a bankruptcy petition fled here today by Sidney Lasanby a carpenter he lists as assets three beds six chairs one bureau one kitchen safe two carpets three tables one wardrobe twenty nine chickens one wife and four children He claims the assets as exempt under the bankrupt statutes.
A Christmas tree event is announced by McCon and Bigbyville. The union affair will be held at the Methodist Church in Bigbyville on December 25.
H C McLaurine a prominent Pulaski citizen aged 78 was found dead in a bath tub at the St Giles Hotel yesterday morning. He had been in frail health but improved briefly. A Black boy in his service alerted others when no one answered, and friends found the body partly undressed with water in the tub. McLaurine was a Confederate veteran Mason Methodist church member former Gill County trustee and former Pulaski postmaster under Cleveland. He was survived by no immediate family.
Tennessee cattle sold at St Louis Stock Yards for record prices. Forty steers from Jackson Tennessee raised by J D and H H Mason sold at $8 per hundredweight or $91 a head, averaging 1140 pounds. They had gained 640 pounds since last August and cost about $21 per head to buy. The Masons report a 25 to 30 year feeding career with profits and note limited local supply as prices surge.
President Taft directed Secretary Wilson to appoint Dr Cert Alsberg as chief of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture to succeed Harvey W. Wiler. Alsberg, a noted chemist with international recognition, chairs a biochemical section of the American Society and has served in the International Congress of Arts and Sciences.
Municipal authorities vow best efforts to enforce laws during fireworks observances. Officials warn of citywide patrols and heightened fire protection measures to prevent fires and protect residents.
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