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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
6
After Christmas, the Academy prepares to organize a basketball squad under Coach Hamilton. Several football players will join the team though non football pupils may also play. Early games are set with Branham & Hughes and Battle Ground Academy, with more to follow after the holidays.
Nashville Tenn Dec 19 The states fiscal year closed with a treasury balance of 619463.84 after 1905 mightily reduced by 469000 directed to redemp tion bonds The year’s receipts total 8617169.49 with a net profit of 258009.32 Disbursements reached 4161450.85 and 1906 distributions 2517987.98 show an excess of about 750000
Pupils collected gifts for a school tree in the Athenaeum on Friday. Each pupil brought a present and all gifts were pooled and placed on the tree for distribution. Bonds Harris acted as Santa Claus, with Miss Mary Carpenter and Prof. W P Morton overseeing arrangements. An Alpha Tau Omega play, A Red Hot Message, followed featuring Leslie Martin and Joe Voorhies.
Washington December 20 The Navy Department faces possible Congressional action over the holidays as naval affairs committee members press for reform to end waste and centralise control. Rival boards and bureaus are to be scrutinised while the President resists major overhauls, though agitation is anticipated in Congress and within Navy circles.
The Racket offers a selection of winter goods including gloves, overgaiters, storm rubbers, and Union suits with prices ranging from 4c to $1.50. Various styles for men, women, and children are advertised, highlighting value and service. Frank Swansburg, proprietor, signs the ad.
Robert Weston, a Black man from West Feliciana Parish, was sent to the State penitentiary in Baton Rouge on public safety charges for a violent disturbance aboard a passenger train on the Yasco and Mississippi Valley Railroad. The rampage resulted in the death of Adonis K. Wridert, a LSU cadet, at his Bayou Sara home, with train coaches as witnesses.
Chicago dispatch reports Richard Novick, cashier and manager of August Saehm and Company banks in Evanston and Bryn Mawr avenues, disappeared with 66 000 dollars in shortage. Banks closed. adoptive father Nowlik and locals describe the affair as a tragedy of vice and misplaced affection. Nowlik pays deposits in full with personal checks.
Shelbyville Republicans aligned with Evans and Sanders deride the Brownlow conference held in Nashville as a futile effort to sow discord and restore Walter Brownlow to influence. They decline to discuss a presidential candidate, signaling a preference for Hughes over Taft.
Prof J C Hardy returns from Nashville to report Cadet Craig seriously injured by a car Friday. The driver, a negro, drove about forty mph and struck him as he stepped from the car. Craig hospitalized, expected to recover in a month with no fatal outcome. Prosecution for criminal negligence planned. owner sued for damages.
John Mitchell fell ill today during a miners and coal operators meeting in Indianapolis. A physician and priest were summoned. Dr Hodges said at 1 PM that Mitchell is very sick but not yet critical. Mitchell had abdominal abscess history from a LaSalle hospital operation. His condition later improved but anxiety remained.
Vanderbilt University authorities announce the end of hazing and class rushing. Chancellor Kirkland confirms that hazing in all forms is a thing of the past, citing fatalities at other colleges and urging modern, enlightened culture.
Sheriff Johns halted three whiskey firms on Sunday charge of Sunday business. Proprieties J. P. Doores Company Edelman Distilling Company and Tennessee Distilling Company arrested after bond set at 250 dollars. Sheriff defies mayoral orders citing state law and orders.
When it comes to insurance the Best or the Cheapest matters less than cost burden. Continental charges no more for policies than agents of many less responsible companies claim theirs. Farm business solicited. Farrell & Lipscomb, Agents.
Searrity of money and business depreciation affect the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Officials retrench to cut expenses. Two local office employees are laid off and several train crews reduced. Freight traffic drops. only a few phosphate cars hauled weekly. Nashville line nearly at a standstill.
Sheriff John B. Pinch foiled a plot to free condemned Lee Holder, jailed for murdering Rev. B. L. Holder. Stockman allegedly offered $65 and a carriage to escape, with plans to flee north to a Catholic settlement. Stockman, jailed for selling wine at Reelfoot Lake, faces possible action by the sheriff who vows to guard the jail.
In St. Petersburg diplomats foresee potential collapse of Persia's regime as the constitutionalists clash with reactionaries. Long despatches from Russian Minister Hartwig to Persia suggest the struggle may end in a complete overthrow of the current government.
Washington reports Bob Taylor still in bed with grip and irritants. friends forbidden to visit. He had managed to sit up briefly yesterday but remained bedridden today as grip advances, complicating a prior bout of acute indigestion.
In Birmingham Alabama William Jennings Bryan and Judson Harmon of Ohio will be guests at the Birmingham Board of Trade annual dinner on January 23. Bryan arrives from Nashville Monday morning and departs Birmingham for Washington on the 24th. A public reception is planned and Bryan may speak during the event.
The city government will pass from the present board to successors chosen at the upcoming election. Mayor Biddle will take the reins with few changes in other offices as terms expire for the Recorder and Marshal next year. Many applicants seek police positions, and Charles P. Hatcher is expected to be appointed city attorney to succeed J. C. Voorhies.
Dr Chasles A Geiger of Beaumont Texas shot James H Oliphant senior partner at Oliphant Co in the Cable Building New York and then killed himself. Police found Geiger had wracked up enormous stock losses totaling 78000 with a bullish stance on United States Steel.
A thief stole several valuable fowls from James Buchanan Bimore’s poultry yard in Evansville Indiana and left a Christmas verse taped to the door stating Christmas time is drawing near thought I got my chickens here. Elmore caye be never was fond of poetry.
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