The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-02-13
NEWS I'M eRIEF.
A Condensation OF Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
The thermometer Las been at zero in
Texas.
Hollenburg, O., celebrates its dry
victory.
Tie Internationally match is finally
deciarId Off
A number of lives were lost in the South
Dakota blizzard.
A saloon at Fredericksburg, o., was
blown up with dynamite.
Miss Maggie Hornbach, of Yorkville,
Ind, dropped dead while sewing.
Ten thousand coke miners in the Com
nellsville region have gone on strike.
TiffiR, O., sRloonists are sending White
Cap notices to members of the Prohibition
party.
1t is announced that Stanley will give all
of his gifts to Gen. Booth, of the Salvation
Army.
The Russian government is encouraging
the emigration of Jews to the United
States
A Panhandle branch from Spring
field to South Charleston, o., is a BUILDING
project.
Fitzsimmons refuses to fight Jim Hall,
| the Australian. Fitz claims Hall is a
''duffer."
A tornado passed. over Helena, Ala,
COAAS COASldcEdO4c OdLldR6 anu
several people.
Thieves secured 5000 worth of silks
and velvets from Brigei & Companys
store, Cincinnati.
John f. Swift, of California, is mem
TONED as possible successor of the late
secretary of the treasury.
Myron Manning, 20. at Youngstown, O..
found the doctors of no use and cured his
own i'll health with a leaden bullet. Alt
Mike Conlay, the Ieasacat giant, was
knocked out in the second round by RCly
Woods, of Denver, in the Aght at New Or
leans. $50
Tie heirs of the Fowler estate, valued
at g, 900 900, have agreed on q settlement,
The widow has brought suit at Lafayette,
Farmer James McCord, of Mauson,
Ind, traded his farm for patent right to
Q washing machine, found 1t HOuldn't
wash, and hung himself. iaft4 .rs
Three war vessels Of the Swhite squad
FOn"-tbe Chicago, Dolphin and Yorktown
arrived at New Orleans Monday, and are
anchored in front of the city. rls
The Iowa Driving park was oil g lnized at
Knoxville, Iowa, Saturday. The first
meeting will be held Aug. il-14, and S4G,s
0Oo will be hung up in purses. es4d -
A baehelor named Hyman, 60 years old,
living near Buena Vista, Iowa, was found
dead in bed Sunday night. The flesh of
his face had been eaten by a cat. iiE
Max. Gibbs, ;eweler of Indianapolis,
was arrested upon landing IN New York
from Europe, and s. 500 worth of jewelry
taken from his pocket and seized" s
. At North Vernon, Ind, Orlando John
son pounded Silas Myers for calling on
his mother, and Silas CONES out away
ahead by becoming Orlando's stepfather.
Hannah HEM, 10, of st. Bernard, Gin
cinnati, died of hydrophobia- She was
bitten in December. At the time mad
stone was applied and adhered for ten
hours.
Three Terra Haute, Ind, business men
! kindly answered a written request from
! the postmaster to cash SEQ check, and
find, too late, that the postmaster knew
nothing about it.
} Mrs F. NJ. Lowe, who lived near Win
chester, KY. died at her home at the ad
vanced age of 80 years. Her husband is
still hale and hearty and at present is q
; magistrate of his county.
f Miss Lente, the school teacher, who was
4 recently cruelty beaten by the Cruzen fam
lily near Winnebago City, Mimi. is not
dead as currently reported, but is alive
and viii probably recover. 5-
After Anna Oakley, of Cambridge, o.
= had gone to the trouble to take poison and
{ be pumped out to bring her recreaIlt love-
to time, her cruel father stepped in and
D waltzed her back to his paternal protec
ton.
+ Ben K Pullen, JE., who pleade guilty
D to the enlbezzlement of about s., 600 of the
city fluids at Memphis, has been sent
f enced by Judge Duboise to serve ten years
g in the penitentiary and to pay fine o
s, 900.
[ Mardi Gras day was celebrated with tn
r usual display at New Orleans Monday
g His Majesty Rex and his retinue receiYet
the usual ovation from the crowd, which
was largely composed of visitors from tn
Z north.
n Woodward Romans, an Alliance, Ind.
druggist, is having life made so hot FOL
:, him by Mrs. Anna Cain, who says he ha
broken his promise to marry her, that b
! has to. hire policeman to keep her at
J.. And still the question Is agitated as +
s whether that strip OF Indiana six mile
Q wide by s0) miles long is a Hoosier strf
y or B1cksye strip. It Is 70 be hoped tina
the naked facts Of this ease viii soon b
I, revealed