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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
11
A severe storm swept Texas from Panhandle to Gulf with tornado activity. Austin suffered impassable streets, outages, and widespread damage as seven inches of rain fell in four hours. Rail lines, gas supply, and utilities were disrupted across Oklahoma and central Texas, with flooding reported in Guthrie and Tulsa regions.
The Chancery Court in Columbia, Tennessee orders non residents Cornelia Winder Ellen McConnachie John McConnachie John Pugh Preston Pugh Edward Pugh Allin Pugh Catherine Pugh Lon Willie Landers W G Landers Bettle Sanford and Mary R Looney to appear within three days of the next term in July 1908 and plead answer or demur to the complainants bill. The notice will be published four consecutive weeks in the Columbia Herald.
A new Baychester bridge on the Harlem branch of the New York, New Haven and Hartford line was wrecked by a 50 pound dynamite charge. The attack follows an earlier failed attempt on a Barlem river bridge. Built by the Bellmacker Company of Philadelphia, the steel structure near Baychester station hosted ongoing labor strife with three watchmen on nightly duty.
Albany reports Gov Hughes signs Senator Cassidy's bill making bucket shops illegal after September 1. The penal code amendment sets a 5000 dollar maximum fine for corporations and up to 1000 dollars, five years imprisonment, or both for individuals, with charter forfeiture on a second conviction.
A northbound Indiana avenue trolley struck a westbound auto at Twenty fourth street and Indiana. Orson Bartholomew 48 of Denver was killed and Lena Bartholomew 52 and Miss Margaret Hawkins were seriously hurt. The car occupants were reportedly engaged to be married to Bartholomew. The injured were taken to 2524 Indiana avenue for treatment.
Washington May 22 Western manufacturers testifying before the House special committee on the wood pulp and paper question assert no price fixing or territorial division exists since the General Paper Company dissolution. Clarence I McNair says an omnibus contract with Scripps McRae papers set price at $2.10 per hundred pounds, up from $1.90 before dissolution, with General Paper Company as party to both contracts. Mills under the General Paper Company reportedly joined the new contract. The committee adjourns to tomorrow hoping for a night session to conclude hearings.
Mae Wood, foe of Senator Thomas Platt, may be released from the Tombs tomorrow on a $5,000 bond to await her perjury trial in a divorce case. The bonding party’s representative denied knowing who provides the security beyond lawyer Jos Day Let, Mae Wood’s attorney.
Residents of Maury County and Columbia followed the Nashville Sheriff contest with great interest. Reporters fielded many calls from Maury County residents seeking results, and most who spoke regretted Sheriff Johns' defeat, while others welcomed the outcome. The prevailing view is that Nashville may become a “wide open town” after September 1.
The Ninth civil district advisory board on Saturday proposed L. L. Duke as Principal H. S. Barnes as Assistant Principal Mrs. Jewsen Tomainson Miss Jané Porter and Miss Fannie Louise Smith as teachers for McDowell public school. County Board of Education will vote on June 13.
An 1890s style notice offers a one hundred dollar reward for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites F J Cheney & Co of Toledo and endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin and others. The ad promotes internal use and blood-borne action with testimonials offered free. Price listed as 75 cents per bottle.
The Pacific coast city of Seattle welcomed Admiral Sperry's Atlantic Fleet as it entered Puget Sound. 500,000 spectators on hills and shores watched as boats escorted the ships to harbor amid salutes and fireworks. The fleet will stay in port until May 27.
Cullleoka Tennessee reports from a single produce firm show 1 504 cases and 45 120 cases of eggs since January 1. Growers receive about 15 cents a dozen, while chickens total 17 780 pounds at 10 cents a pound and cash receipts reach 8 546 dollars. Home tables service adds nearly as much.
For sale a 278 acre stock farm in Giles County two miles southwest of Lynnville Tennessee on a rural mail route. It includes a six room house large barn and outbuildings with 200 acres in grass and well watered. See or address Mrs Ida M Scott Lynnville Tennessee.
In Brookhaven Mississippi on May 24 a four handed gun clash near the Nation home left William Hilton and his son Thomas Hilton dead and Benson Nation fatally wounded. The elder Nation had earlier beaten by a horse of a negro worker, and a shotgun confrontation ensued when the Hiltons returned from town.
In Clarksville Tennessee a large crowd faced heavy rain to hear the Carmack vs. True debate. Despite downpours 300 to 400 gathered outside the opera house and 3,000 in town as supporters wore red ribbons and filled streets. An agreement postponing talks to a later day was reached with campaign managers to fix a new discussion date.
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