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

The Old State bank, of Nashville,
Messrs. Sax proprietor, has suspended
1t is estimated that the nominal assets
are about 5000, 0O0, with liabilities about
the same, and it is stated that tbs de-
positors' account Is above 500, 0O0 Poor
collections and inability to negotiate loans
on account of the light money market is
the cause of the failure.
In a row at disreputable house in Win
ston, N. c., IL colored woman and a man
named John Smith were killed. Wilmer
Walker is held for the crime.
Convicts at Cole City, Ga, revolted,
overpowered the guards, killing two and
wounding another. One convict was
killed and three fatally wounded,
Troop d, Second cavalry. has left Fort
Wingate for the Indian country, the red
men having fallen out among themselves
over stealing cattle from each other.
The indianapolis lind coroner is in
Vestigating the case of Mrs. John Dorsey,
who, 1t is alleged, poisoned four husbands,
two stepchildren and her father and
mother.
A camp of Italian cheap laborers at the
new water works for St. Louis was at
tackled by American laborers and the Ital-
ians driven away. One was fatally
stabbed.
Two brothers, John and Ben Denning,
of near Sidney, O., settled a quarrel by
Ben shooting John in the forehead with a
revolver. Ben is under arrest, and John
may die.
The Rev. Mr.. Cleveland resigned from
the Boston Baptist Minister'S conference
On account of a denunOiation of Masonry,
which the conference approved by q vote
of so tot.
rxyilf II N
Chicago tobacconist, is under arrest on a
charge of poisoning her husband, who died
in May last with symptoms Of arsenicai
poisoning.
Sells Brothers showmen engaged in Q
row at Omaha negro attache fatally
injured s. II. Goodman, an acrobIt. r.
clubbing his head to a jelly with an enor
IN, u iron pin.
L. T. Welsh. telegraph operator at
Mount Vernon Furnace, o., lost q leg be
low the knee while attempting TO board a
freight train ON the Dayton and Fort
Wayne railroad.
The food in the Missouri river Is wasl.
ing away the Kansas point, opposite st.
Joseph, Mo-, so rapidly as to threaten Il e
| cutting of new channel two miles away
from ST. Joseph.
At Wheeling LATE Woodson, a bar
tender, is under is under arrest for throw
ing Thomas Fleming outdoors on his heal
killing him by cracking the skull at the
| base of the brain.
The Kickapoo Indians refuse to dispose
of their land giving as a reason that they
| fear the wrath of the Great Spirit. The
| Cherokee commission has pleaded with
them three times.
Bishop Chatard, of Indianapolis, eS
communicated thirty-eight members, al
of the New Albany Qnd.) Roman knights
of ST. Edward for allowing beer to be sold
on Sunday excursion.
The available cash balance in the United
States treasury, Monday, June 90, was
nearly -, OO0, COO, including deposits in
National banks and subsidiary silver. The
net surplus is a, 664, s79
John McKeown, Walter Jones and JohT
| Chanlis, boys, ranging in age from 8 to Il
years, were drowned while bathing in !
pond at Washington, Pa. The McKeowI
boy was heir to q, 0O0,O
By the collision of a passenger and
| gravel train at White Plains, N. Y, sew
eral trainmen were seriously injured and
a number of passengers severely shaken
Both engineers blame the fagman.
The findingof the court martial, as ap'
proved by Governor Campbell, gives ali
| the officers of the First regiment, o. n. g..
except Lieutenant Colonel Whitney, Eve
days In which to resign or be discharged.
Noah Stainbrook and Sylvia Miller, OF
Muncie, Ind, were about to be made one
when Nora Fudge stepped In with a prior
claim-a 5-week's sold baby, which Nora
claims is the child of Noah. He married
the mother.
Tsudolqtsudo Sango, the police officer,
who attempted the life of the czarewich,
Al
| Japan, on the 18th ult., found guilty of an
| attempt to commit wilful murder and
sentenced to imprisonment for life at hard
labor.
At the conclusion of the testimony in
the trial of ex-City Treasurer Bardsley,
of Philadelphia, Mr.. BaFdsley read a state
ment to show that the city had not lost a
dollar. His lawyer moved for an un-
limited suspension of sentence, which was
granted.
Thomas Mcdonald, of Bellefontaine, o..
and Mrs. George Mess, of Lima, o., regis
tered at a Sidney hotel as T. Hodge and
wife, of Cincinnati. The woman paid a
fine of $50 for going astray. and the man
$50 and is in Jail. The woman's husband
paid her fine
warrant has been issued for the ar
rest of Rev. n. A. Barr, of Adamstown.
Pa, who is charged with sending an
abusive postal card to Rev. Mr.. Spreng of
Cleveland, o. The prosecution is the out
growth of the Bowman fight in the Evan
gelical church
Hog cholera has broken out with un-
usual severity in several localities In Black
Hawk county, La. In Eagle township one
farmer has lost his entire herd of $50. The
disease seems to affect the young animals
mostly, and is made worse by the long
continued cold rains.
At Keywest, Fla, Joseph Demeritt
aged 10, plunged a knife into his fathers
heart, death resulting instantly. The
father, George w. Demeritt, accused his
son of stealing so, which the latter denied,
and while being chastiSed by his father,
committed the crime.
Joseph Arthur Stafford was arrested At
New York on telegram from the police
authorities of Columbus, O. Stafford Is an
actor under the stage name of Jack Ash
ton. He was employed as book keeper by
Perry r. Smythe, picture-frame dealer
at Columbus, and ON the 18th inst, he
robbed his employer of $500. No money
was found on him and he claimed to have
spent it all on wine and women.
On Sunday $1,000 people witnessed the
ceremonies in Cote des Niegos cemetery.
Montreal, in honor of the rebels of 1875.
Three professions of French Canadian So
cieties marched to the cemetery, The mon
ument to the rebels and the monument to
Quvernay, founder of the ST, Jean Bap-
tiste society were decorated. The orators
ealogized the rebels as heroes, The cure
of Notre Dame cathedral blessed the deco
rations and intoned liberia for the souls
of the victims.
Attorney General Hunt has begun quo
Uarranto DrOceedings against the Chicago
Live Stock exchange. He sets forth that
the act under which the company was or
ganized restricts it from doing business fCr
pecuniary profit, and that it's Legitimate.
objects are to adjust business disputes.
guard against the sale OF unwhoiesome
meat, etc. The attorney general alleges
that the company Is trying to fx the mini
mum rate of sale on the yard market and
90 prohibits Il fnembefs from purchasing
stock from hhg person MT q memeer Of she
exchanges, a.