The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-06-26
OYER THE STATE.

firm of Geo. w. Stockell 81 Co., at
Nashville, died early Saturday morn
ing at the City Hospital. He was
the brother of Albert w. StockelI,
formerly of this place.
John Gilgan & Co., of Nashville,
made an assignment last Friday for
| the benefit of creditors.
During the storm Sunday at Knox
vile, John Humphreys was killed by
| lightning and his family badly
| shocked.
The heavy wind Sunday blew down
a tent at Paris in which Rev. Geo. ;.
Inge has been holding revival. No
| one was hurt.
The Nashville Savings Bank,
financial institution which has been
in existence something over quar-
ter of a century, ma ie- an assign
ment Tuesday, naming James M.
Head Trustee. Liabilities about $780,
00o, and assets about tire same.
Their Efforts To obtain re discounts
in New York and their efforts to col
lecJ from their patrons proved un-
ava;ling, and they gave way under
the pressure.
Miss Nellie Georgian, who lives at
50j Jefferson Street, Nashville, while
temporarily denented wandered from
nome IdEL EDUC lieAu
partially recovered from M attack OF
SCARLET fever, hut the fever settled in
ler brain, and she had not been in
her right mind for several days. She
was found on Union Street and taken
| home.
Great interest is being taken in
Gallatin in the trial of the barn burn
ers. The large number of incendlary
! fires during the past two years caused
the organization of protective ASSOC
citation, which employed detective,
and i'll the spring nine negroes and a
| white man, Tom Williams, were ar
| rested, when the startling fact was dis
closed by a confession that they were
an organized gang of incendiaries,
| with Williams sas 1.-THE chief. They
had the trial postponed to this term OF
court, because of hetnOn-appearance
of their witnesses, but one of them,
| Fate Haynie, was hanged by an en-
| ragged mon at HendersonVille, another
| died and the other eight are now in
| Jail at Nashville, as it was feared II
kept at GalIatin they would be
lynched.
| A tragedy occurred at Shandy, on
the Illinois Central Railroad, thirty
miles south of Jackson, last Monday
| morning, in which Engineer w. u.
Tarpley was stabbed by Brakeman
w. G. Conley. The engineer guyed
Couley about his Dutch. a quarrel
ensued and COnley drew b knife and
stabbed Tarpley in the abdomen four
times, Both men live at Jackson,
Penn.I Couley is in Jail at Bolivar,
where he gave himself up. Tarpley
was carried to Jackson in critical
condition, his recovery being very
doubtful.
| Another strata of stone has been
struck at Tullahoma strongly impreg-
mated with coal oil. The well has
reached depth of ,475 feet, and the
driIIers are very hopeful that before
they reach 1900 feet they will strike
oil in paying quantities.
At Cleveland Saturday morning e
L. Hardwick the President OF the
Cleveland Mutual Life Association,
was badly stabbed by DIR. II. G.. JOr-
dan, the correspondent of the ThdttG-
noo0n Times at Cleveland. Hard
wick denounced as lie some state
ment Jordan had written about the
Association and this brought on the
fight. Jordan was taken to Chatta'
uOoga and lodged in Jail to save him
from the wrath of Hardwick's sons
At "a late hour Saturday night jim
Jackson q negro entered the room o
Miss Nicely, q sister of w. l.. Nicely
a young farmer near Neely's Station
west of Jackson, and assaulted her
Her screams awakened her brother
and frightened the negro fend, who
Jumped out of the window anC
escaped in the darkness.
Bolivar has no notion of being lef
out in the cold when it comes t.
It locating the Tennessee aQd Missis
sippi River canal. The Bulletin in
n sists that the commission appointed
n by the Governor is instructed TO sur
N vey 1.-The shortest, best and mos
feasible route" and not "by way o
Jackson as has been stated" In thi
y event Bolivar is likely to be lin it,
Monday the Chattanooga Southern
Railway put on regular trains be
i tween Chattanooga and Gadsden
Ala. .f. .N..
In Memphis last Monday nigh
| 1 Joseph WhOOn, a well-known citizen
II grain inspector for the Merchant
Il Exchange, committed suicide at hi
NJ residence by shooting himself with
i 3S-eaIiber pistol. The cause is IN
W known. His family waited for hlE
to come home, but he slipped in
rear door and going to his room, stoo
before a mirror end placing the revo
yer to his temple fired. The ba
went through his head and struck tn
ceiling. The family heard the sh"
but surprising it was in neighbour
house, paid no attention and the bod
was not found till half hour late
when life was almost extinct.