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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
12
The notice lists wholesale market quotes for produce and commodities. Potatoes and Bananas show lower prices while onions stay around 80 cents per bushel. Cattle and hog receipts at Louisville are reported with varied prices. oats, clover, blue grass, and seeds priced from farmers and stores.
The Chancery Court at Columbia Tennessee orders Jno T Adams a non resident to appear within three days of the next term starting September in Columbia to plead, answer, or demur to Maggie Adams complaint. If he fails the bill will be taken as confessed. The order to be published in The Columbia Herald for four weeks. A copy attested by Clerk and Master Akin and solicitor H P Figures.
Galveston July 16. A wild woman captured in Gregg county thickets has been identified as Martha Wilkes wife of a Sabine county farmer who vanished ten years ago. Once presumed dead her husband died or left Texas years ago. She is described as demented with three inch nails, leather skin and a dirtied wool garment carrying nuts and roots. Six men needed to restrain her.
In St Louis on July 16 Circuit Judge Reynolds ruled against restraining a group of Monarch Laundry Co and about two dozen other laundries from forming a combination. He held that steam laundrying is a method of washing and that fixing price schedules for work is not a restraint on trade, disputing Missouri courts authority to intervene and sustaining the defendants motion to quash.
Bishop Potter lies near death in Cooperstown New York as physicians report no improvement after two difficult days. Doctors Janvrin and Baswett keep constant watch at his bedside and a guard surrounds the house. The bishop, aged and long troubled by heart disease, shows little recognition as the end seems near.
In Columbus Ohio the Prohibitionist National Convention met in temporary organization and adjourned after two sessions without a permanent slate. Committees on rules and credentials reported with little action. Charles Scanton of Pittsburg may become permanent chair. no clear presidential favorite exists though several candidates show support. James P. Tracy Daniel R. Sheen Robert H. Patton and Charles Scanlon are active, with Patton gaining momentum and Scanlon awaiting tomorrow’s anticipated address.
Chattanooga Tenn July 15 It was announced that the Southern railroad's 3 000 000 tunnel through Lookout Mountain had been completed Contractor Thrasher will hold a public reception in the tunnel Wednesday morning The work began two years and a half ago The tunnel will connect the Southern line to Memphis and affect traffic between Chattanooga and Nashville.
Polls open at regular voting places in Maury County Tennessee on August sixth for sheriff trustee supreme court justice two judges of the civil court of appeals tax assessor constables for each district one justice of the peace in the fourth district and county board of education with an advisory school board in ten districts election commissioners C A Forgy M F Ballanfant R S Hopkins secretary
Teun July 16 The re absence of HM. Dick Winn was destroyed by fire Tuesday night at 10 oclock. The occupants including Mr Winn and daughter Mine Al ie Lyle Mrs Oscar Winn and two men who were operating a wheat thresher had retired and were asleep. A neighbor at Emmett Rudolphs house about 400 yards away first discovered the blaze which rushed through an attic near the kitchen flue. They alerted others and ran to the burning building only to find the occupants asleep and the blaze spreading rapidly. The occupants were roused and escaped in their night clothes as the fire progressed. Mrs Oscar Winn on the second floor was frightened and dazed and dragged from the room just in time to avoid the collapsing roof.
In Corming Arkansas on July 11 a legless street performer exploited trusting buyers. He sold spoons and pencils for 25 cents then razors for $1, kept returns saying goods were free for advertising. Trusting crowds bought, then he vanished with the money, leaving men puzzled by the ruse.
Seven miners were killed and ten injured in a gas explosion at the Williamstown Colliery of Summit Branch Mining Co in Pottsville Pennsylvania. The dead include John Reilly Arthur Hawk Charles Rickert John Whittle Anthony FreLab James Bowman Michael Stakum. Injured workers listed and treated locally as rescue efforts and hospital care continued. the cause linked to safety lamp gauze removal following a earlier shot explosion.
Ralph Carden an elderly unmarried farmer living southwest of Tren en is knocked senseless Sunday night and left for dead but crawls to G M Brockman’s half a mile away where he is cared for and now walks. Neighbors suspected two black croppers of the assault and seized them before sheriff’s removal to Bowling Green. Local tension runs high as mob rumors spread after the incident.
In memory of car classmate David Wesley Lucas who died July 1 1908 at age eighteen. Funeral services were held July 2 1908 at 3 30 p m by Rev H T Allen and burial followed in the local cemetery. Lucas joined the M E Church South in July 1905 and was a regular Sunday School attendee at Godwin Chapel praised for meekness courage and bright intellect. A Sunday School resolution expresses deep sorrow and sympathy to his parents Mr and Mrs G A Liew with copies to county papers and his classmates Maggie Hendley Laura Page and Earl Notgrass.
Texarkana Ark July reports Reverend F E Maddox pastor of the First Presbyterian church here was convicted of heresy and suspended from the ministry whenever he changes his beliefs by the Quapaw Presbytery. He plans to decide within ten days whether to appeal to the Synod.
Guiseppe Alla, murderer of Father Leo Heinriche of St Elizabeths Church Denver, was executed at 8 20 pm after confessing anti Catholic rage and shouting Long live Italy He confronted the priest at the altar rail during communion and fired a lethal shot in a sensational crime that shocked the Catholic world and Denver.
A formal call by James T. Fowlkes and Fred Hall of Humphrey County and this place to the Republican Congressional Committees for the Seventh District invites a meeting at the Tulane Hotel Nashville on August 12 to nominate a candidate for Congress. Postmaster J. S. Bentley of Centreville is spoken of as a probable candidate. Dickson County will not offer a candidate.
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