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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1900
Page
1
In this issue a broad political column notes the Dewey boom has collapsed, discusses potential Democratic vice presidential pairings, and probes shifts in support for Bryan. It reports deaths of Dr Jonx Braves and A M Quararer, pension politics, Oregon returns, and local papers shaping the Marion county slate. It also covers Cocaine and morphine sale controls, transit strikes in St Louis, and Helen Gould’s Mammoth Cave visit.
Reports show gunboat Nashville and Monocacy ordered to Taku, while dispatches from Tien Tsin and Pekin detail intensified Boxer unrest. Edict condemns Gen Nieh Si-Chong, promises foreign life protection, and hints at rail control by powers.
A Sunday ceremony at Rose Hill Cemetery honored deceased Odd Fellows with a large crowd in attendance. Members and Rebekahs escorted to the graves, with speeches by John L. Noien and Rev. A P McFerrin, followed by flower laurels and the hymn God be With You Till We Meet Again. A full list of decorated graves at Greenwood Cemetery includes Rost Hinl and many others.
A local sheriff, facing a beating case involving several individuals, has raised about 80 to secure his release. Upon arrival, efforts to raise the remaining funds were completed, and his release is expected.
Report notes harvest workers planning to finish by week’s end as sunny, favorable conditions persist. Officials expect continued activity across fields with Soyanor project updates and early summer crop yields forming.
A Friday memorial at Rose Hill cemetery honored Confederate soldiers. Daughters of the Confederacy directed a ceremony at 4 30 pm with veterans and families present. Songs included The Bonnie Blue Flag Auld Lang Syne Just as the Sun Went Down and Maryland My Maryland. Flowers were laid on graves and a Confederate flag planted beside each marker.
In Green Bay Wisconsin on the Oneida reservation a mother decapitates a chicken with a hatchet for a game that children imitate. A child is killed when its head is severed. Panic follows as workers on a derrick raise heavy timbers to build a barn and eight men die when the structure collapses.
The Kentucky Telephone Association met in Wircuesten with fifteen independent companies from Central Kentucky and beyond. They planned to connect Louisville Cincinnati and Knoxville cities near the border under uniform toll rates and allow mutual interchange of business while preserving each line's independence.
Professors Barker Clark Tucker and Johnson condemn alum in baking powders saying it remains in bread and harms digestion. They urge housewives to avoid cheap alum powders and endorse cream of tartar based powders as a safer alternative from Oval Baking Powder Co.
Ex Governor W C Oates shot and killed a man on his premises in Montoomeny Amn after the man killed his colored cook in an outhouse room. Oates heard a quarrel in Lula's room and, returning with a pistol, shot the man in the forehead as he appeared set to draw. The cook died from a head wound.
A violent rainstorm struck the Cuilooka vicinity Sunday night, behaving like a water spout with the heaviest rain around 2 to 4 a m. The four mile wide area suffered damaged crops as corn and wheat were beaten down. Columbia reported no rainfall despite distant thunder.
Messrs. Street and Frierson will construct eight new cottages near the depot at Mesara. J. P. Stront and Meade Friee are named in the project scope.
Nashville dispatch notes long unsolved March 1807 murders of Ade family and Rosa Morier at Paradise Ridge. The house fire aimed to destroy evidence. Earlier suspects were acquitted. now Thomas O Bryant and George Newland face grand jury indictments for the killings as their parole nears. Authorities withhold details citing ongoing inquiry.
Belle Boyd famous Confederate spy dies of heart disease in Kiveovase Wisconsin at age fifty seven after visiting the town briefly. The veteran figure of Civil War intrigue passed away tonight leaving a lasting imprint on wartime espionage lore.
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