The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-11-27
GENERAL NEWS.

in New York, yesterday, aged seventy
two years.
Don Louis Huller, the Jay Gould of
Mexico, and the originator of many
financial schemes, is dead.
A genuine wild wolf was killed on the
streets of Chicago this week. No one
knows where it came from.
| Owing to the failure of crops, the poor
people of the. State of Durango, Mexico,
are In a starving condition.
Over nine million bushels of coal left
Pittsburg yesterday, half of which is
for Louisville and points South.
At noon yesterday Lieut.. Gov. Chase
took the oath of office as Governor of
Indiana, succeeding Gov. Hovey.
Two school children have died and
| fifteen others are in critical condition
at Forest, Ind, from drinking water
from new we'll.
During the last five months the net
reduction of farm mortgage indebted
ness in Eastern and Central Kansas
amounted to $2,300,0O0.
The official vote of Ohio shows that
IOCClNOo OOOytOVt
365, 22S; Ashenhurst, (Pro.) 2O,19O; Sets,
(People's) %, 4s2; McKinley's plurality,
q, 51I.
A cyclone swept over Lawrence, Miss,
Sunday afternoon. Every house in it's
track was destroyed or badly damaged.
Only one life was lost, though many
people were seriously injured.
Forty thousand coal miners through
out France are now on strike, leaving
but 100 pegging away in the mines.
The municipal Council of Paris has
voted 12O, 900 francsIto assist the strikers.
A stranger, supposed to be s. d.
Debow, of SummertOwn, Tenn, ger
man peddler about 45 years old, while
drunk shot himself in Nashville last
Tuesday. The doctors say he will die.
A sea-gull was killed on the Ohio River
eight miles below Nashville, last Mon
day. The bird measured five feet from
tip to tip. 1t is thought the bird was
blown in by the heavy gales the night
before.
NJ. d. Brown, Judge of the City Court
of Hopkinsville, KY, is charged with
misfeasance and malfeassnce in office.
u0T0 Is AOOAAhS ONOI AhO
matter and excitement is running high
on both sides.
A few members of the Farmers Alli-
ance of Simpson County, KY, met in
the courthouse at Franklin Saturday
and organized themselves into the
Peoples party. That is about the only
consistent political action left the ALI
ance since the action taken at Indian
spolis.
Father Mcbride, a Catholic priest of
Harrisburg, Pa, hit upon new plan
for laying upon this worlds goods. The
thrifty Father would not administer the
last sacrament to a dying man, one
Robert Brennan, until he had signed a
will giving all his property to the
priest. The courts have just broken the
will and decreed the property to the
nearest relatives of the dead man.
At Yokahoma, japan, a severe pro-
longed shock of earthquake occurred
Oct. %, few minutes before Z O'Clock In
the morning. 1t was the most severe
experienced since the terrible catastro-
phe of 1855, and must be ranked as
national calamity. The greatest dam
age to buildings and loss of life occurred
in the procedures of Achy and Gifou,
in which nearly 1000 people were killed
outright and 1000 seriously wounded.
In these two perfectures 1900 houses
were totally destroyed.
A wind and rain storm of great vio-
lence passed over the country from
Northern Ohio to the Potomac between
10 and IL o'clock last Monday. 1t seems
to have been more severe at Washing
ton than elsewhere. MetzerOtt's new
music hall was blown down, killing two
people and injuring many others. A
section of the stone balustrade around
the roof of the White House WAS torn
away, falling through the portico at the
eastern entrance. The storm was of
unusual intensity at Baltimore, and
many people were injured by the partial
destruction of Maltby's paeking-house.
The storm was very destructive at
Pittsburgh and vicinity, shortly after
10 o'clock. Only one person, so far as
known, was fatally injured. The dark
ness over Cleveland was so great at
noon that artificial light was necessary.
There was a heavy fall of snow south of
that CITY, The wires throughout all the
storm-swept territory were badly dis
abled, and it was with the greatest
difficulty that the dispatches were
handled.
Rev. Author Bell Nichols, the husA
hand of Charlotte Bronte, has generally |
been supposed to be dead, but he is still |
living Ia an obscure parish Ia Trelandl
y here he eecaliOnally prsaehes.