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LUMBIA VOL. XLVI. COLLM1UA, TENNESSEE, FJllDAV, JUNE 28. IUUI NO. 2 IJL.K tp fri a f w NEWS AND COMMENT. Dr. Thonms J Harding, a prominent physician of Nashville, died Sunday while on a visit to Vieksburg, Miss. The first bale of this year's cotton crop whh from Nueces county, Texan, and it is claimed this breaks the world'B recorder early cotton, by four days. Three persons were killed, several othem were seriously injured and prop erty valued at nearly $100, (MM) was de stroyed by lightning in Indiana Thurs day night. Dr. VV. L. Nichol, w ho yag regarded as one of the most brilliant physicians of the State, died Sunday in Nashville. He served as surgeon in the United States Navy and in the Confederate army. Mui freesboro is considerably excited over the reported discovery of oil on the farm of A. M. Overal near that place. The oil was found leaking out of the Beatns in a rock quarry. Discoveries are also reported at Humboldt, Tenn. William J. Bryan, in a talk with a Chicago newspaper man, said: "lam for Maik Hanna for tho Republican candidate for President Next time, and hope the Republican convention will nominate him, but am not sure I can control their convention." Albert S. Hay, son of Secretary Hay and former Consul to Pretoria, was found dead on the' sidewalk outside th iew naven House at New Haven Conn., early Sunday morning. It is be 1! neveu tnat Mr. Uay became ill and went to a window for air, was overcome by a lit of dizziness and fell to the ground. In the case of J. M. Mathews vs. G J. Murphy, the Kentucky Court, of Ap peals Held that the State Buard of Health had no right to revoke the license of Murphy, a graduate of two medical colleges and a practitioner of osteopathy, who had been charged by the Board with "unprofessional con duct." John Wanamaker has put the Phila delphia franchise-grabbers in an awkward position. They were given for nothing rapid transit privileges for which Mr. Wanamaker offered the city $2,500,000. Now Mr. Wana maker offers them $500, 000 for their franchises, and in addition offers to donate $1,000,000 to the public schools and $1,500,000 for the deepening of the channel in Delaware river, and also pledges three-cent fares. IT IS A PITY SO FEW WOMEN Are Entirely Free From Pelvic Catarrh. Miss Anna Csrsten, Clayton, 111 Miss Anna Carsten, Clay ton, IllMsays "Your Pent na did me so much good. I believe I should have beeu Jead by this time had I not used It. I am feel ing so well now. I ha ve not taken any medicine tor four or five months. can cheerfully recommend Peruna to my friends." Everywhere the people, especially the Women, are praising IVrunaaa a remedy for all forms of catarrhal difiicultics. lloxa Tyler, Vice Presidentof the Illi nois Woman's Alliance, writes from 11C East Sixtieth street, Chicago, 111., the following: "During the past year I gradually lost flesh and strength until I was unable to perform my work properly. I tried dif ferent remedies, and finally Peruna waf suggested to me. It gave me new life and strength. I cannot peak too highly of it. The extreme sensitiveness of the mu cous lining of every organ of a woman'i lxly ia well known to physicians. Thii explains why, in part at least, so few women ars entirely fre from catarrh. Peruna cures catarrh wherever it 1 lor ated. N nd for free catarrh !-W. lr. liar iniaa, Col uui bus, OLiow .Adair M II IB FLOODS. Train Reaches Roanoke, Va., iiom the Flooded District of West Virginia. PASSENGERS DIRECT FROM VIVIAN. Tlicy llelirte the Kurlier lleporla of I.iiiim lit I, lie VWre i:iiiSKrralfd, Itnt the Truth Will Not he Known lor St'tpriil Ih)m Tlit It u ili-on da Iluve Suflereil Severe!'. Koanoke, Va., June 25. Later roiorts from the flooded district show that tne first reports in regaid to the Ipsa of life were greatly exaggerated, although it is mpossiblo yet to ascertain the facts. One report says 20 were killed, another "0 or 7o, and another 200. Bluefield, W. Va..- June 2:1. This entire section has pint been visited by a Hood the extent of which in all prob ability will equal or exceed that of Jonnstown in lHy, so tar as the loss of property is concerned. Larly yesterday morning, shortly after midnight, a heavy downpour of rain began, accompanied by a severe electric storm, which violently in creased in volume and raged for several Honrs. Ihis increased during the day and night. lhirty miles of Norfork & Western track, bridges and telegraph lines are destroyed, and communication is en' tirely cut oft west of Wilkhorn so that it is impossible to learn the full extent of the loss of life and property. But officials of the coal corporations located in the stricken district have sent out messengers to Elkhorn, the terminus oi both telegraphic and railroad com munications, and have received a re port that a conservative estimate to the loss of life will reach 500. Some of the drowned are among the most prominent citizens or the coal nekls. FLOODS RISE RAPIDLY. The Pocahontas coal field is located in a basin with high mountain ranges on either side, Elkhorn Creek flowing through the center of the basin, which ranges from one-fonrth to one mile in width. From ninms, W. Va. , to Vivian Yard, W. V. , a distance of ten miles, miners' cabins, coal company commissaries and coke plants line this basin. Llkhorn Creek being ted by numerous small streams coming from their mountain side, rises very rapidly, and this water spout came so suddenly that the entire basin between the two mountain ranges was flooded, and be fore the terror-stricken people realized what was upon them they were carried down by the flood, which swept every thing in its path. The little town or Keystone, witn a population of about 2, 000, seems the greatest sufferer, practically the entire town being washed away. mis is the principal one in the Pocahontas fields and is located near its center. It was to a great extent headquarters from which the mining population purchased supplies, and was also the only place in the field where whiskey could be purchased. Saturday niirht is pay nignt in tne coal fields, and it is supposed that the coal miners had flocked into the town in the district to do their trading, and there is no tolling how many of them were caught in the flood and drowned. " Between Elkhorn and Vivian Yard, a distance of ten miles. 100 cars are said to be washed from the tracks and many of them carried down the streams. A great number of the coal and coke plants through the Pocahontas coal region are reported practically de stroyed and are in some instances en tirely washed away. Owing to the very high water which has flooded the region and prevented communication, anything like a correct estimate of the loss of property is impossible, but from the best intorniation obtainable so far to-day. the loss to property will easily reach $2,000,000. The flood seems to have extended over a vast area of mountain country, and the hundreds of mountain streams becoming swoolen only served to swell tne Elkhorn until it overflowed and curried destruction in its wake. Rail road ties and track, small buildings of all descriptions, trees, telegraph poles. Inure bonlders and every imaginable movable thinir that came within the sweep of this mighty torrent of mad dened waters went down the moun tainous district in a seething, roaring 1I1MKH of debris. Dead bodies could be seen floating along the valley bv those who had trained a place ot saieiy in tlu hi.'h lli lis. All day Saturday the rain fell in sheets and it was evident that if it did not cease there would lie a flood and gerat destruction must result from it. hnr it was not nntil after darkness had enveloped the coal regions that the great catastrophe was upon uiecouiurj and was making a clean sweep of the valley for miles around. Roanoke, Va.. June 23. Passengers on a train from the Weft report that 800 iieople were drowned yesterday along the Elkhorn division of the Nor fork & Western Kairoad. and that miles of track and bridges were washed out The twtsseugers on the train were transferred by rojiea from the train to the monutain side near Vivian, W. Va. . Rural Delivery. Franklin. Tenn.. June 20. Rout Inspector Peuiberton and Congressman L. P. Padgett are here this week goin over the proposed rural delivery routes of this county. Five rontea have been laid ont and it i possible that all of the rouU-a can I ned. The citizens are anxious for free delivery through- vat liie county. RECEIVERS APPOINTED To Take Charge of the Nashville Street Railway. Defaulted in the Payment of In terest on Bonds. Special to the Herald. Nashville, June 22. The Nashville Hallway Company, the Baltimore cor poration conducting the street railways in this city, has gone into receivers' hands. The company defaulted in the payment of interest on its bonds, and the mortgage foreclosure was en forced before Judge Clark in Cham bers at Chattanooga yesterday. E. C. Lewis and Percy Warner of this city, were appointed receivers. MUKFREESBOROS OIL The Residents ot That Section are Confident They Have It. Murfreesboro, Tenn., June 24 The oil excitement here received a new stim ulant this afteinoon when th6 news reached town of another blast made on the farm of A. M. Overall, which re suited in opening a pocket of oil con taining a gallon of the greasy fluid. The rock in which the oil was found was of a spongy composition, which is con sidered a most favoable indication by oil experts. The most reassuring information, how ever, given the residents of this county concerning the prospects of oil in this locality, is a Government report upon which an extensive article pub ished in the Britannica Encyclope dia is based. The encyclopedia article, which is found under the head of petrol eum in that work, states that the section of country southeast of Nashville con tains the Silurian formation of rock in which oil is invariably found in large and paying quantities; -indeed, it is the sine qua non of an oil field; and the ar tide goes further in asserting that the field, which includes, of course, Ruth erford county, presents perhaps from a geological standpoint the most encour aging indications of any field in this country. With this knowledge, coming from such high and undisputed author ity, the belief in the discovery of oil in paying quantities here is now a settled conviction that nothing except consider able experience in boring attended by failure will ever be able to shake FAST YOUNG MAN Comes to a Sad End in Oakland, Cal., by Suicide. San Francisco, Cal., June 24. W. F. Taylor, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn , ended his troubles last night at the uremn House in Oakland by turning on the gas and making his room air tight. His body was not found until this afternoon, when his door was forced. He had been dead several hours. One end of a rub ber tube, such as is used for drop lights, remained in his mouth and the other end was attached to the gas fixture. He left a sealed letter addressed to Col W. F. Taylor, Memphis, Tenn., and another as follows: Advise Col. W. F. Taylor, Memphis Object of suicide domeetic trouble of lone standing." Taylor has cut quite a swath here and in Oakland, as be was a handsome lei low. Memphis, Tenn , June 24.-Coi. W. F. Taylor, father of the San Francisco suicide, is totally at sea as to the causes which moved the young man to self- destruction. If he is married or has any sort of entangling alliances, the family has never been given a hint to that ef feet. He is, so far as known here, free of all bad habits, save that of reckless spending of money, and the father has during the past few months sent him about 800. Beicg a man of wealth and thoroughly indulgent, Col. Taylor has never done more lhan mildly caution him against the danger of extravagance, and has long urged him to return home, which the wanderer had agreed to do. DROWNED WHILE BATHING. Dave Vestal, a Young Man, Meets Death in Duck River. Dave Vestal, son of Mr. Jerome Ves tal.who lives about eight miles from Co lumbia on the Santa Fe pike, was drown ed Sunday in Duck river. The young man, accompanied by his two brothers, went to the river Sunday to bathe. While out In the middle of the stream it is presumed that he was seized with the cramps, and before help could reach him his body went under for the third and last time. His remains were re covered soon afterwards. Deceased was about twenty-one year3 of age, and was a well-thought of young man, and hnd many friends. The burial took place Monday at noon. DEPLORABLE ACt'lDtNT. Little Son of Mr. Ous Satterfield Killed by a Binder. News was received here last Friday of the accidental death of Hardin Satterfield. the thirteen-year-old son of Mr. Ous Satterfield. on his father's farm near Gallatin. The little fellow was riding on a binder, when the team attached to it became frightened and ran away. He was thrown down in front of the blade, which cut one of his leg in a frightful manner; he died shortly afterwards from the loss of blood. The remains were interred Saturday at Ualiatin. Mr. Satterfield formerly lived in the Carter's tree neighborhood, but moved to Gallatin some months ago, when? he had purchased a fine fami The Filipino Command Entered Santa Cruz to the Music of Native Bands. RIFLE KOHEY FOR THE WIDOWS' FUND. Gen. Siniiiii-r Gnllnnll Iteturneil ;en. Cullies' Stvwitl Alter the Lat ter Ilnil Purrenalereil It Frank Merkin, an A mcrlcua Deserter 1'lneeil In Irons. Santa Cruz, Province ef Laguna, P. . .June 35. When Gen. Cailles sur rendered here with ?50 men and 5i 0 rifles, he entered i'.-inta Cruz to the music of native bands which wen drawn up in six lints? in the church yard. Cailles and his naff entered the church, where mass was celebrated b Chaplain Hart of the Eighth United States infantry. The column passed in review be fore the United States army head quarters with arms to port, returned to an inclosure, and there surren dered their rifles and took receipts entitling them to 30 pesos each. All the receipts were deposited in th-3 hflts of Cailles and his officers, Cailles insisting that the aims were not be ing sold, but belonged to the revolu tionary government, and that the proceeds must go t." the widows and orphans. During the surrender ot arms Cailles and his staff, who wer-3 outside the inclosure, wept. The officers afterward walked to headquarters, where Cailles tendered his sword to Gen. Sumner, who gal lantly handed it back. Gen. Sumner alto hatuVd back the revolutionists' flag, w hich Cailles will personally pre sent to Gen. MacArthur. Gen. Sum ner congratulated Cailles on his sur render, and the latter responded that it was a happy day for Laguna prov ince. The president of the federalists in Laguna made a putrotic address to the former Filipino officers, and then the latter and the rank and file of the Filipinos took the oath of a1 lcgiance publicly on the plaza. Frank Mekin, th'-. deserter of the Thirty-seventh infantry, who hd been acting as a lieutenant with the insurgents under Cailles and who surrendered, was placed in irons. EURUPiiAH GRAIN CROPS. The Murk tone KxnreniT Weekly Crop ltevlew Say Kaln ia Needed in Ilritain. London, June 25. The Mark La no Express, in its weekly crop review, noting the necessity for rain in the United Kingdom, sa,s: "The wheat has come into ear on remarkably short stems, and the ears will not fill without more moisture. "In France the spring corn is less promising. "Wheat cutting has begun in sourh ern Spain. The provinces of And t lur.ia and Murcia txpeet fine yield, and the promise in central and north ers Spain is excellent. The when; crop in central Europe is very prem ising on the confini s of the Adriatic, and very bad indeed on the couliiie.- of the Baltic, indicating lhat Crotii and Hungary will have a good crop, while Prussia and Prussian I'olland will have a serious deficiency. Medi ocre results may be expected iu Ba varia and Austria." A PLAGUE-INFECTED VESSEL. A II r 1 1 1 nil Stennier, with I'lngiie on llouril, Qiiurniitlnrd lit Sun Dlrun, t ill. Washington..! une 2.". Surgeon-(len-eral Wyman, of the marine hospital Service, was informed by Dr. McKay, quarantine officer at S;;:i Diego, Cal., of the arrival at that port of a plague-infected ship. The vessel is the British steamer Carlisle City, which sailed f I lira Hong Kong on May 10, and coming via Vokoliatna and Honolulu, reached San Diego late last Saturday. Ir. McKay reports that there were ix deaths rn route, live of which w-r certainly caused by plague and the tixth is supposed to have liceii. All the deaths but one were among ini-in-liers of the crew, the exception being a Chinese steerage passenger. WERE FORC LDt 0 F IG HV. Colonial Vlunated Infantry Sar. prised hr Urn. Krltmlncrr In (n at Waterkloof. Cradock, Cap Colony, June 23. The detachment of the Colonial mounted rifle, which was attacked by the Boers at Waterkloof. June in, wss pursuing Coi.uiiMndant Malan, ben ;!. Kritrinper Mirjirivii the Ui.les caisp at Watrrkloof, while th colonial trKvers weir saddling up. The tight latd two and a half hoiiia. THE ARSENAL. Will Be Transformed Into a Artillery Post. Ordets Said to Have Ueen Issued by Secretary of War Root. St. Louis. June 22 A special to the Kepublic from Washington says: "Secretary Hoot is considering the advisability of appointing a board (f army officers to recommend the posts in the United States which shall be abandoned and those which shall be garrisoned by United States troops. Un. ler the orders of the Secretary, Columbia Arsenal, Tennessee, will (e transformed into a light-artillery post, and Indianapolis, lint., will become au infantry post. ' ' Upon Inquiry at the Arsenal Satur day, it was learned that nothing had been heard there in regard to in formation contained in the foregoing dispatch. OIL. Much Interest Mill Being Taken in The Discoveries. A Beaumont, Texas, Magnate Writes That He Will Be Here Soon to Investigate. While the fever has subsided to some extent there is still a great deal of in terest being manifested in the oil dis coveries in this locality. Prospectors have bi en busv in various sections, and it is reported that oil has been found in the L8ea neighborhood. The oil, it is said, has been running into an aban doned well for several years. Mr. S. H Stephens brought a bottieful of tlu water to town; it has a noticeable smell of oil, and Mr. Stephens says it burns briskly when fare is touched to it. An Expert Coming. Special to the Herald. Mt. Pleasant, June 25. A well known Mt. Pleasant gentleman, who is inter ested in the oil discoveries in this county, has received a letter from an oil mag nate at Beaumont, Texas, who says he will be here within two weeks to look over the situation here and investi gate the discoveries. THE THOMAS CASE Continued Until the Next Term Court. of The case against John W. Thomas, charged with murder in the llrst degree for killing Prof J, G. Godfrey, was called in theCircuit Court Monday morn ing. By consent of both sides, how ever, the case was carried over until the next term of court and set for trial Thursday, November 21. The case aganist C. C. Hale, charged with larceny, was continued until the next term of court, on account of the sickness of one of the State's wit nesses. George Freeman, colored, charged with assault with attempt to commit murder, was round not guilty. A GRAND TIME. Everybody Will Be There Don't MiBS Going to South Side Park July 4. The IIor9e Show will he the society feature of the Retail Clerks' Associa tion grand entertainment at South Side Park July 4, and if you have a fine sad dle, harness or combination horse enter one of the numerous classes for a prize. Buers from a distance will be in at tendance, and if you want to sell, this will be an opportunity. A buyer in Atlanta, Ga., has written that he will be here, aud wants to purchase a car load of horses. Show your horses; this means much for Maury county, ana will give an impetus to horse raising in our county. Fine music will be discoursed, aud the concerts rembred by the Gray Dudley band will be a treat to lovers of good music. In the evening a fireworks display will be etven, which will eclijise any thing of this character erer seen here; it will be under the iersonal supervision f the A. L. Due Co., of Cincinnati. Meteoric fire balloons will be sent sky ward, making a grand spectacle, em bracing colors and effects never before seen in the South. Among the beauti ful pieces will be exhibition pieces, such as "Tree of Liberty," George Washing ton's jtortrait," "Cupid Fountain," "Pearl Fountain," "Kruption of Vesu vius,' immense aerial report shells, colored ascension rockets, prismatic illumination cascades, boquet bomb shells, aerial night shells, and Dewey batteries. The'"Fairy Wooded Island" will pn due the wonderful American flag with colored lamps red, white and blue this feature having about 400 lights alone. The exhibitions given by this company at the Fair last fall are a sufficient guarantee tha the fireworks will be woith soing many miles to see. The beautiful prizes offered for the hors show are now on exhibition in the Kt office window. The admi.Hn price to the entertain ment wiSI If '2-'i rents. ( Jo, carry the chiidxeo, and eojoy yourselves. Light. H nilf 4a mm CP USING CUTiOURA SOAP. Pimples, Blackheads, Red Rough, Oily Skin PREVENTED BV Millions of Pkopi.b , vsk CiiTicunA Soap, assisted by Catieura Ointment, for preserving, purifying, and beautifying tlie kin, for cleansing the scalp of cruRts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and ) soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes, Itcliings, and dialings, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Millions of Women use Cuti CURA Soap in the form of baths for annoy ing irritations, inflammations, and excori ations, or too free or offensive perspiration, iu the form of washes for ulcerative weak nesses, and for many sanative purposes. Ccticura Soap combines in Onr SoAr at Onb Prick, the best skin and com plexion soap, and the besi toilet, bath, and baby soap in the "wld. Complete Treatment lor Every Humour. Cittioura Soap, to oleanse the skin of crust and scales and sof inn the thickened cuticle, CimoiiRA Ointment, to instantly allay itch ing, intlaimnatinn, and irritation, and sootha and heal, and Cdtiouka Uksolvknt, to cool anil cleanse the blood. A Single Set Is oftea sutllcient to cure the severest case. Sold throughout the world. Brltt'S Dtpoti F. Nw wv.hy k Sons charterhouse Sq., London, . O. luitil imua AMD Cum. Com', 8ol Propi. BAXTER'S PROPOSITION. Asks for a Subscription From Nash ville for $1 ,000.000 Of the Company's Bonds q100,000 From Clarksyille. and $50,000 From Cheatham County. Special to the Herald. Nashville, June 21. Jere Baxter, in behalf of the Tennessee Central Bail road Company, to-day filed a proposi tion with Mayor Head, asking a sub scription from the city of Nashville for l, 000, 000 of the company's bonds, to he used in building the railroad from Nashville to Clarksville. At the same time he mailed a proposition to Mayor J. B. Young of Clarksville ask ing a subscription of $100,000 from that city, and to the county court clerk of Cneatham county, asking for $50, 000 from the county. hOT? WELL, YES! The Weather Man Makes it Un pleasant for Humanity. "O, I'm so hot!" "Do you sleep these nights?" "Gee whillikens! What's the mat ter with the weather man If " "Let's go to the North pole." "Wouldn't it singe your whiskerst" "Golly!" "Whew!" These were some of the nuinerons ex presHions that caught the ear of a Herald reporter on his rounds re cently. A call at police headquar ters brought forth the information that it was "fco hot for people to fight." At the court house there were no marriage licences, deeds nor wills for the same reason "too hot!" One perspiring citizen before the rejiorter could get out his usual morn ing salutation. "What's the news?" exclaimed. "Don't talk to me! I'm as hot as the devil !" And he looked it, ttio. Another man. while waiting impatiently for the soda water dis jieiiser to concoct him a drink. "declared he would explode immediately if he wasn't "cooled down quick." Well, it was hot; no doubt about it Ohl Sol tried himaelf. and humanity sweltered beneath his rays. The ice man and the fellow at the soda foun ts in were the only jieople who really (fined to lie enjoying life. The for mer sawed ice, raked in the shekeK aud looked as cool as a cucumber, while the latter disjiensed framing, cooling drinks lift ween ami lea. Lat nixht was a xcorcher and to-day the merenry has been playing about the hundred mark in a manner that is really irritating. At 2 o'rliit'k one aftemnun the Gov ernment thernmtnetr in front ! Kaina' drug stire registered !) de K .