The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
a Condensation of Interesting Item

ton, Cal.
Field fires did great damage near Jeffer-
konville, Ind.
Indiana bankers won the bank tax
question case.
The new bridge over the Ohio, at Wheel
ing, has been opened.
Fire destroyed Trinity Reformed church
building at Canton, o.
w. T. Hollingsworth, of KOkomo, Ind,
was arrested for forgery.
Louis SHIRLEY, a jeweler of Wooster, O.,
was killed in a runaway.
A storm on Lake Erie Monday night did
great damage 70 the shipping.
Our bank notes and legal tenders bear a
premium of 30 per cent in Mexico.
Two human skeletons were dug up in
the street at Seymour, Ind. Mystery.
At Philadelphia Rev. Isaac Lee Nichol-
son was cOnsecrated bishop of Milwaukee.
Dodsworth's distillery, in Cincinnati,
burned Loss S75, 900. Origin unknown
Louis Rooster, of Hamburg, y. Y, got
seven years for assaulting a three ear-old
girl.
Near Leavenworth, Ind, James Bird
was thrown from a colt and fatally in
jured.
Freddie Powell fell from hickory
tree near Liberty, Ind, aud was instantly
killed.
Floods continue throughout Spain
Acute distress prevails among the poorer
classes.
The centennial celebration of St. Mary's
Catholic seminary, Baltimore, is being
observed.
Russia refuses to allow relief expedi
tons to visit the famine-Stricken districts
of the empire.
Owing to the scarcity of food in portions
of Mexico the duty on corn will probably
be removed shortly.
Lavelle and Halves, charged with burn
ing the Davies county Qnd.) court house
will be tried in Pike county.
Joseph Farley. who brutally murdered
Mrs. kircher Oh Sunday night at st. Louis
has surrendered to the police.
The mine operators of the Brazil Qnd.
district have decided not to advance
wages and a strike is probable.
Four men were killed and five injuIe
by an explosion in a railroad cutting neal
Great Fails, Mon. Carelessness.
A dozen hoodlums decoyed Ada BoN ers
aged fifteen, into an isolated house mean
GAINESVILLE, o., and shamefully abused her
Several attempts have recently bel
Hamilton and indianapolis railroad neal
FOuntaintowE, Ind.
Rev. b. w Childaw. eighty, of Cleve-
land, married Mrs. Manning, seventy six
of New York The bride is said to be
worth over 81, 100000
An Atlantic and Pacific express was
wrecked near Pine Netas, a. Il. Nearly
every person on board was more or less i'll
| jured, but none fatally.
John Williamson, to be hanged Al
| Sedalia, No, confesses the murder no
only of his wife, but of an entire family
and of an aged German.
SIosson and Schaefer, the great bill
| liardists, buried the Ratchet" as far a!
private affairs are concerned, but will re
main enemies with the cue.
| At Parkersburg, w. Va, a man named
| Rexroad was literally cut to pieces a7C
John Smith fatally stabbed in a div
! known as the Spencer ranch.
| At Valparaiso the German admiral Wis
tied Captain Schley, of the cruiser Balti
more, and personally denounced to b N
! the attack upon the American sailors.
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, has brough
| suit for damages against the Philadel
phia Press company for publishing re
| port that he is unable to pay his debts.
Commandment Erben, of the Brooklyl
| navy ward, has been ordered to have tn
| Atlanta ready for sea in twenty days, ant
| to put the Miantonomoh in commission a
| once.
By his sleeve being caught in a shaft a
| Xenia o., Charles Voorhees, was cOmpelle'
to take off all his clothing, piece by piece
as it went into the machinery. He wen
home in a blanket.
In accordance with the antitrust law
| United States District Attorney Reynold
has decided to commence an active cam
paign against the st. Louis Apothocaries
association, or drug trust"
Joe Mniar has been locked up at Lon
don, Ky, for attempting TO pass two forge
checks aggregating 81, 100. He got ava
| from the sheriff by knocking him down
| but was subsequently recaptured.
Marshal Puck, of Atlanta, has presente'
a bill of 81, 700 to the government 10
services in connection with the land sale
at Chicamauga park, which is said to ,
! eXorbitant. His associates are charged
with being equally high-priced.
Near Ecke-ty, Ind, the body of Samue
| Romandorf, Jr., twelve years old wa
found in a dry pond after eight years TIL
| pond was dragged at the time, but n
body found. 1t was thought the boy ha'
| ran off with show.
Attorney General Hensel, of Pennsyl
vania, atten, pied to create Il sensation b.
connecting Senator Quay with the Bards
| ley defalcation. Bardsley had made
check of $s,S17 TO Quay. The Republican
claimed the money was loaned to Qua
for campaign purposes.
The Spanish minister at Santiago ha
transferred i've of the political refugee
under his protection from the old to tt
new Spanish legation. He conducte'
them in person to insure their safety. H
| upholds the action of Minister Egan in re
gard to political refugees.
At Cleveland, the building occupied b.
the United States Mine Supply company
was completely demolished by series o
explosions Three people were killed ant
several injured. Twelve people were EN-
| ployed i'll making fuses and bombs out o
dynamite, gun cotton, nitro-glycerine ant
gun powder. Loss $4,000.
Japhet Ireland, of Pleasantville, n. J.
! the husband of the woman who elOpeC
with Ezra ireland three weeks ago, ate Il
apple which had been filled with "RoUgl
on Rats" by Mrs Ireland before the elupc
ment. Pin-hOles found in the peelinl
showed how the poison had been inserted
| Mr. Ireland was taken seriously i'll, and i
not yet out of danger.
Treasurer Marden, at Boston, Mass, re
ceived from the attorney general the sun
of $62, 500, which is the amount of take
| collected from the Western Union Tele
graph company for the past five years. Th
| telegraph company bitterly contested tn
payment of these taxes, and carried the cas-
to the supreme court of the United State
before they would succumh.