The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-18
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items of Interest Gathered from All Parts
of the World.

of the World.
Prairie fires in eastern Colorado.
A plate glass trust is now being formed.
Diphtheria is raging at New London, o.
A violent case of smallpox has been dis
covered in Chicago.
At Brazil, Ind, Fred Egner fell fifty feet
down mine shaft and may die.
DR.. Enoch Fithian died at BridgetOn, y.
J., Wednesday, aged one hundred years.
'.Jim'' Wall, the Australian bookmaker,
is missing from Chicago. Foul play is
feared.
\ blind peddler fatally stabbed Elmer
Buskirk at Bryan, o., because the latter
said the former was not blind.
Anderson p. Askew, of Belleville, Ills,
was kicked to death Tuesday by an $1,000
stallion he purchased last week.
Charles Wertman, living near Ashland,
o.. borrowed $500, sold his horse and
buggy and skipped, leaving il family.
DIR. Helmbold's son, the London swim
dler, was sentenced to one years imprison-
ment. One of his aliases was the Duke OF
Teck.
Adam Lamar, a messenger boy, has col
fessed having stolen $50 and some other
articles of value from the pcstOffice at Fort
Wayne, Ind.
President-elect Cleveland was the hon
ored guest at the 124th annual dinner of
the New York chamber of commerce
Tuesday night.
The sixth annual convention of the Asso-
citation of the American Agricultural Col
leges and Experiment Stations is in session
at New Orleans.
Attorney General Richardson, of Ohio,
has decided that canal lands cannot be
leased by the board of public works f'r
railroad purposes.
At Greencastle, Ind, the coroner is at
tempting to unravel the mystery of the
death of Mrs. Bridget Murphy, who was
recently found murdered.
New York's Columbian celebration ex-
ecutive committee met Tuesday and
received the report of the auditing COM
mittee 1t showed deficit of S2S,3o4
Mrs. Stout, aged seventy years, and
Mrs. Cole, aged forty five, were killed by
a fast express on the Central railroad
of New Jersey at Bethlehem Junction, Pa
Ex-senator Malone, Senators Matthew
Ouay and Don Cameron have gone to Sea
| Island, s. c., to spend several days hunt
| ing and fishing. While at the island they
will be the guests of Senator Butler, 81
| South Carolina.
Eleven of principal fire and burglar
| Droof safe and vault manufacturing con
Germs of the country have formed com
bine with a capital stock of S5,O0O,OOO. II
will be known as the Diebolt-Mosler-Dn
mon Safe company.
Mrs. Margaret Smith gained her damage
suit against Saloonist Louis Gauss al
| Huntington, Ind, for the death of hel
minor son caused, as she alleged, by hl'
getting drunk on Gauss liquors and fall
| ing into the river.
ho 4 hnfyVRpn
onerators of the New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio railroad and the company hav,
| been settled. The men agree to the ad
vance in wages offered by the compan!
some time ago, and which was at that tim
| refused.
John Still. a colored inmate of the re
| form school a. New Brunswick, y. H., ha
completed the siXty-eighth day OF loni
fast. Although he has become very veal
he does not show signs of immediate dlssc
luton. The authorities are puzzled owe
the case, and the physicians who nav
seen Still say that his vitality is remarks
bic.
The supreme court of the United State
has affirmed the decision of the territorl'
supreme court of New Mexico in the Sa
Pedro and Canon Del Agus grant cas-
The decision is against the grant, an
throws the important mining district ope
to miners.
Near Nevada, O., an express train on tn
PENNSYLVANIA ran into freight which we
backing onto siding. Both engines wei
wrecked. An unknown tramp was kllle
| and Brakeman Kutschuts seriously Il
jured. The other trainmen jumped an
were not seriously hurt
The Lonsdale company and the firm
BIB. & r. knight, of Providence, ha'
| IF nm
wages to go into effect Dec. 5. The amour
of the proposed increase is not given on
This action will doubtless be follow'
by the other cotton manufacturers In Il
= state.
Colonel John Chinn, starter for the Ea!
st. Louis Jockey club, was shot and prob
: bly, fatally wounded by Captain ID. y
= thony. Chinn had been suspended for u
] satisfactory work, and when prescnt'
with his discharge attempted to stab Sc
p, rotary Alexander
A circular will be issued at the treasu
2 department making an important chan.
o in the present immigration policy of &
y | department. 1t is in effect that the pre-:
dents order of Sept. 1, imposing TWEEN
= days quarantine on immigrants, Is heI
3 after to be applied only to immigrants WI
come over in the steerage
The man johnson, who was arrested
thescharge OF bigamy at Colorado Spring
Goa. by wife No l, of Cincinnati, made
II statement that he had paid his form
, wife s., 900 if she would sign papers erin
y mating herself of the charge of adultery,
Z order to- give him grounds for divor'
g which he had understood was granted
II the courts of Cincinnati.
{ At New Orleans. q number OF who
IS sale dkukeists doing business Ii the pa