The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-01-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.


Various Subjects.
Montreal had a Sl25,O 90 fire Monday
night.
fire at Mant hester, o., and was burnt d to
death.
Murderer Oelslager is bound over at
Greenvlie, o., for murder in the first de
gree.
Columbus, O., Law and Order league
is trying to shut up Sunday saloons and
theatres.
1t is said a compromise has been agreed
upon aud Il q John Dillon is now to lead
the Irish.
Tom Dennis, sport, shot and killed J.
Fl. Wright, Il saloon st, at Hot Spfinks,
Arkansas
The Alabama coal miners strike is
breaking up. Many Of them have gone
back to work
The New York chamber of commerce
has passed r., buttons "a ainst thc flee
coinage of silver.
Tie New York chamber of cor IN rec
adopted a resolution opposing the frl e
coinage of silver.
Miss Jeanette Burns gels SO 0 ron.
Robert Poultnoy, Of Youngstown, o., foI
breach Of promise.
Frank Z. Mitchell killed Dolly Mayo in
a St. Louis house of prostitution, anu
then committed suici!e.
Rev. 10 ward MacQueary, of Canton,
o., says hs Wi r, gn his present charge
INN ediatcly after the verdict in his trial
FOR hercsy.
Sheriff William c. Smith, of Columbus
Ind, has offered young in y $500
marry him and help him reform his drink
ing habits,
Charles and Augusta Thiele, an OLE
cOuI l., were found dead from poison in
their rooms in jersey City, having com
mitted s4icide.
Mrs. William Smith, once Lizzie Praul
of Clinton \. J., is rCq .csteI to com
muuicatc her whereabouts To Nj s. j. r.
Baylor, Bucyrus, y.
Rev, Clark, colOrcd preacher of Dayton,
o., Las sued DR.. Steinbeygcr for accusing
himself and wi Q of the murder o. tn,
preyiC u Mrs. CLARK
A. b. Kirk and f; mily, OF North Liberty
o.. are dangerously i'll from eating fried
oysters which had some way been sprinkled
with Rough on Rats.
Contractor Thomas Wood has run away
from Munc.e, Ind, because the woman he
successfully court d with bad intentions
is now pursuing him.
AT Upper Sandusky, o., Mrs. Mary ALI
son failed to o tain a divo.c. rom Joha
than, and miIiga;od her ref by skipping
with handsome man.
The trial of j. A Wood, charged with
Kicking Lawyer Blaunt to death in the
Eastern II diana insane asylum, Is com
menced at kichmo ii, Ind.
Adjt. Gen. Motion l.. Haw kins, Cf Ohio
has resigned 80 accept the e.litOr mar
agement of The St. Louis Oh onicle. T.
II. Dill has 9 III appointed his Iccessor.
Sheriff William Smith, of Columbus
Ind, walked into Il store and of ed 81
00J 10 a young lazy clerk if SIC wouid
marry and cure I'm Of his love for whisky.
State Veterinary Surgeon II wells is in
DarrtOwn, O., inves tigating n =. horse
disease that ca ,ses swelling of the IN Iuth,
paraly sis of the tongue and death i'll few
days.
A suit. has Letn begun in the United
States supreme court to test the right of
the United States 20 seize British Nessels
in the Behring sea when caught stealing
seals.
George NJ. Storrs, son of the late Emory
Storrs, of Chi ago, has been discharged
from CT stoIy at Washington, ID. G. The
papers were decided to be totally def
cient.
Toledo t,lCgraphcrs received circular
from the Oh c ago, Milw aukee and St, Paul
q lway operators, stating that the latter
have decided O resign rather than accept
reduced wages,
Employee ia ChIrchiil's seed warehouse,
Toledo, just aped finding them ei--es in
clover, mucn to their disadvantage. Left
h building just be fore 500 0 bushels of
civ e. seed ushel the 70 rs down.
A ragged bur.lr came into a Peru,
Ind, revival meeting, confessed that he
had trOkcn ever commandment on the
ii t. in adj, it on to breaking locks, and re-
quested the poo. l. to pray for him.
Mrs. jane Mullins who lives near Crab
Orchard KY. ST., md killed her l9-year-
old .ol Henry, or tossing II 3-year-' III
child III the air, alter she had OLD him to
desist. she EON t..reatcns to commit sui
eide
The 3-ycar-old ddu her of Mrs. Henry
70 Yer, of Hyir gton, "a suburb of Indian
apolis, died from what Ihysioins PRO
uounced to be hytr1p a. Three months
ago the little srl wa; bitten by IA dog, re-
ceil lag 50. | wound.
Artl NJ inear, tie rival OF ST c Il, the
faster. con m ucaI "a thirty days fast at
Detroit, NJ ID y. He will a IstiiI from all
foods and liquids except rotor water.
He VIII rCceiye pur c of. 81, o. if he is
succc nj a. ii 5 o. aIditio. al if be pro
longs the fast To iorty-iiye days.
There has b, ell Il decline of fifty cents
pr one huItr d Ionr DIS in the price If
white lead, the IL, u I Of the recent reduc-
ton of one-han cei-t per pound in the
price o. pig lead. 1hepe has zen reduc-
ton of ; per cent. in u III .ow glass due to
the f. / ne of the manura.t Irers to COM
pete n .st,
st. Mury's cathedral, the largest and fin
est church eli C o tie Pacific coast, was
d ,t,ic,tCd mt san Francisco Sunday. The
cathedral has been in course of con-
st ueti n for several Was, and is now fin
isi.ed at n cost of 800 coo. Bishop j. L.
S oaulding, of Peoria, ILL.,, lr~ached the
sermon at mass.
George Willhow and 7, r. Hooper. of
Company X, Nebraska National guards,
stationed at GORDON, were playing with