The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation of Interesting Items on
various Subjects.

A Condemnation of Interesting Items on
Various subjects.
Two men were frozen to death IN Ala
bama last week.
Bierstadt will have a series Of historical
paintings at the worlds fair.
The Quay libel suit at Pittsbure re
suited in the defendants acquittal
Dr. NJ d. McCandless, of Youngstown,
o., was found dead in his sleigh. Heart
disease.
An attempt was made to wreck a Pan
handle passenger train near Waynesboro,
Indiana.
Leo Landauer, Helen Gould's cranky
admirer, was adjudged insane by a New
York court.
The Indiana Farmers Insurance COM
pany, of Elwood, Ind, has been de-
clared fraud.
A New York lad died of peritonitis
caused by the rope of his sled being tied
around his body.
Chris Seigler, of Cleveland, ate some
homemade sausage and died soon after
ward. Trichina.
VIII Conley, of Glendale, Ind, gets five
years in the penitentiary for outraglng
Miss Clara Wittemeyer.
Vandals entered Short &c Barnes saloon
at Madison, Ind, and cut to pieces two
oil paintings worth 81, 300 each.
At indianapolis w. S. Elliott, a post
Office employe, got one year for stealing
from the package department.
Twenty persons whose ages ranged from
| eighty-fve to ninety-five took dinner to-
gether at West Richfeld o., Saturday.
1t is now said the fight for the Demo
cratic national convention lies between
indianapolis, Cincinnati and Milwaukee.
At Peoria, Ills, Harry Johnson, of Chi
cago, shot his wife and then himself, be-
cause she refused TO live with him. Both
will die
The first consignment Of camels' skins
ever brought to this country for CONNER
cial purposes reached New York a few
days ago.
Electoral excitement is running high in
Costa RIGA, but revolution is tmproba-
bic, as the financial condition Of that re-
public is too good.
James Lanney, Toledo boy employed
at Father Bakers reformatory at West
Seneca, was poisoned and robbed of his
money. Who did itt
Harry Hinton, negro, implicated in the
massacre of the McMillen family by the
Sims gang, was taken from the Butler,
Ala, Jail and lynched.
II is believed the Cara revolutionists
have disbanded and are returning TO their
homes The odds against them were too
great, for the present at least.
Found dead in bed near Lock Haven,
pa with her head almost cut of and
razor lying on the floor. Mrs. McKeague,
q farmers wife, had evidently been muir
dered.
Phe dead Duke Of Clarence and Avon
dale will not be given a military funeral
/ The consideration of the Prince OF Wales,
for soldiery and the unfavorable weather
Is the cause.
Texas had blizzard Sunday and Mon
day, with the mercury but 10 degrees
above zero Minnesota recorded 40 de-
Rrees below zero and Nebraska 20 below.
In Winnepig it was "A below.
Word was received at the treasury de-
partment Monday that Secretary Foster
continues to improve slowly, but that the
prevailing stormy weather will detain
him at Fortress Monroe much longer than
was originally contemplated.
Philip Shufeldt is about to bring suit
against the whisky trust for large sum
Of money, which he claims was to have
been. but which has not been, paid him as
an agent in the sale Of a distillery. IT Is
believed that the secrets of the trust Will
) soon be revealed.
John II. Brown, Thomas Highdh,
Francis Hobbs, John l. King. William ) /.
King, Daniel King, Thomas Smith and
Wiley Smith, well known residents OF
Dubois county, Ind, have been indicted
for White Gaping Mr.. and Mrs. William
: G. Coffey reputable citizens OF Mentor
last October.
A large two-hOrse country sled, with
dozen occupants, went over bluff near
? Harmony. Batter county, Pa, Monday
night. and the entire party was injured.
Elizabeth Morton, Miss Long and VIII
, lam Berry will probably die. The others
; will recover. The sled was demolished
! and the horses killed.
. At Kenoma, Mo, Robert Hepler, while
drink. murdered Mrs. Goodly and her
. little son, and left for dead her ninesyear-
t aid daughter. The latter when resusci-
: lated told an awful story. Hepier at
tempted suicide in his cell For feanof a
. tynching he was removed 20 nevada.
7 Robbery was the cause Of Hepler' s-crime.
}. Mrs. Wood, widow Of Colonel sam N.
t Wood. of Kansas, and w. K. Rightman,
3 secretary of the National Citizens All
ance. have renewed the charges that
Judge Botkins is directly responsible for
Colonel Woods death Mrs. Woods
!, statement is made in the form of letter
TO Governor Humphrey, while Rightman' 3
is embodied in an article two columns IN
( length Both win appear in Wednesday a
!. issue of The Advocate, the Alliance on
I, gan.