The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-02-06
NEWS IN BRIEF
4 Condensation of Interesting Items Of
Various Subjects

Various Subjects.
Blizzard in the northwest.
Diphtheria is pronounced epidemic at
Adair, Iowa.
Rev. Edward Hays Plumtce, dean of
Wells, is dead.
A tornado in Cay county. Miss, did
much damage to property.
Canada has decided to establish dairy
schools throughout the Dominion.
The Commercial Exchange of Fhladel-
phia protests against free silver coinage.
The new Koch institute Ia New York
was opened to patients Monday at No So
Broadway,
Two Boston reporters have been finel
for contempt in writing up court case
In genial vein.
A train crushed into a street CIR at
Whitman, Mass, seriously injuIing Mrs.
Dawson and Miss Williams.
George NJ. Bradley, a consumptive, of
| New Haven, Conn. died Monday. He
had been using Koch's lymph.
The mills of the gods are guarding the
Anderson, Ind, White Caps, but as usual,
they grind in leisurelY manner.
At Ottawa it is believed the Dominion
parliament will be dissolved this week,
and that elections will be had March ID.
Col H. w Hovey, of Zanes lille, is re-
ported missing together with Sl,2 be-
longing to q widow to whom he was be-
trothed,
A combine of 25) POUNDS of gunpowder,
ten barrels of coal oil and a spark made
loud and disastrous conhagration at Ne
hraska, Ind.
Lena Marks, while alone in her fathers
bakery at Marcy, n. Y, was criminally
assaulted by stranger and Stabbed. She
may Recover,
Jim Cowley, the Texas giant, ard John
MoMahon will wrestle, collar-and-elbow,
for $500 AID the championship, in Mon
treal, March l.
| The common police court at Columbus,
O., has decided that the Cerneaus cannot
use the symbols and signs of the all
round-sQuare Masons.
Minnie Markle, who went into a trance
at Springfield, o., over week ago, died
UNCONSCIOUS Monday night. She had been
accused of incendiarism,
In Montreal conviction is growing that
the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific
will consolidate, Joint passenger and
freight rate circulars are now iss led
The entire business portion of Win
chester, O., was d, stroyed by fire Tuesday
morning. Loss about $40, coo; insurance
half. Supposed to have been incendiary.
The Socialists of Chic lgo have adopted a
resolution demanding Eat the managers
of the worlds fair must employ union
labor upon all the work in connection
with it,
Toledo replies to the claim of the al
legged Jones heirs to leo acres in her very
heart, that nobody by that queer and I'M
usual name ever owned land in that
locality.
The dead bcdy of an unknown. with a
bullet in his head, found near McCalla,
Ala, is thought to be that of j. F. Fal
conette, who recently disappeared from
Birmingham, Ala.
Sheibyville, Ind, court hes 70 sym
pathy for Il poor widow. Mrs. Mollie
Cusic, married eight times, is ordered tc
leave the town, as she Is too gay even foI
an octagonal relict.
William Mitchell, Of Indianapolis, fatally
shot himself undeV h's sweetheart's win
dow at 4 a. m. Monday. Dependency,
caused by want of employment, is sup
posed to be tie cause.
At Bethlehem, Pa, 1000 employees al
the steei m;ll of The Bethlehem Iron com
; plny suffered reduction in wages aver
aging 10 per c,nt. Depression in the trade
, attributed as the cause,
, At Mount Vernon, o., George Bowel
finds that bis wife of Is years Is lawfully
married to previous husband, and cheer
: fully makes room for the patient Enocf
Arden by a suit fer divorce,
The Bank of Commerce of West Supe
rior, Wis, which made an assignment
several months ago, III pened its doors foI
business under the same name and will
the capital increased to $3.50 COD.
A colony of Hebrews from, Rus. il, 10 n
prising 100 families, will arrive in st. Pau
: and Minneapolis this week. They wer'
sent to the United States by Ban on Hirsh
: wLo donated large sum of money for TIN
purpose.
8 Morton Adcock, who beat j. W. Tap
. | scott at Padu, al, KY, resulting in tn
: | lstter's death, w9s given prellmlnar.
: hearing, grade of the crime being
5 fixed at ma Laughter. Adcock was re
y leased on 500 bail.
A reduction of about 10 per cent. ha
: been made l. the wages of the workmel
, at the Emmo blast furnace, the propert
4 the Union Rolling Mil conf any, o
Clevelal d The cause is NIe competition
of southern furnaces.
q At Lafayette, Ind, the grand jury ha
returned two separate indictments agains
:, George Bennett charging him with muI
. der in the first degree for the killing O
i William Scott and John Werkhoff. tn
q shooting occurr, d in November last
= Lieut.. Schwatka is still improving, ant
y his physicians state that his recOI cry
u only a matter of time. His injury is sue
. that he will be confiped to his bed at Ma
son City, Iowa, at Leaf two weeks. He
eating heartily, resting easily and hi
pains in the back are not SO frequent,
An Akron, o., special says that the EN-
9 ployes of the Buckeye mower and reape
works have been notified Of readjust
4 ment of their hours and wages, which vii
9 amount to a cut of from 30 to 70 per cent
n The manager Of the works says the me
9 will get just "a much as before, but wi
d have to work longer hours.
p At Alpine, Tex, H. H. Howe and Fin
IS Gilliland list Wednesday quarreled over
s6 calf and Gilliland shot and kille
+ Howe. Sunday when Deputy Sheri1
e Cook and James Putnam attempted t
/ / arrest the murderer regular fusillad
y occurred in which Gilliland and hi
horse were killed, Cook shot in the lie
and his horae killed, Putnam was nc
" hurt.
l. The Judgment of the full court of Mar
- itoba has just been given on the appeal {
q the Roman Catholics from Judge Killam'
decision, which upheld the validity c
= provincial legislation abolishing separat
= schools. Tie judgment of the full couI
sustains Judge Killam in every point
10 Tnde,o Dnhuc who IL a Erenchman. dis