The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-09-06
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items of Interest Gathered from All Parts
of the World.

Anderson, Ind, has an epidemic of by
drophobia.
At Cincinnati, Henry Backs suicided on
his wife's grave.
Judge William z. Deck, of Denver, was
found dead in bed.
Advices by steamer from Australia re-
port smallpox in Sydney
Ten persons We're seriously injured In
panic in a theater at Brunn.
Near Brookville, Ind, Perry Higgs lost
his right hand in a clover huller.
Miss Matilda Dierdorg, of Brazil. Ind,
was bitten by a dog supposed to be mad.
According 10 Dun's, the cholera scare is
very damaging to business, especially In
New York.
General Adlai Stevenson visited Hender-
SON. KY, his birthplace, Friday, and spok~
to 5000 people.
Memphis scandle involving Michael
Yonge, has fed to Chicago.
Will H. Tandoran was arrested at Elk
hart, Ind, fer robbin2 the mails He con-
fessed. About 5000 has been missed
Walter Clay3augh, ten. OF ElwOod, Ind,
has rabies from the bite of a horse. 4
dog had bitten the horse The boy will
die.
James F. Ligate, the noted Republic~7
leader of Kansas, has joined the Farmer
Alliance, and will take the stump for the
Peoples party,
49, At Alliance O., John Smith assaulted
and seriously wounded Peter Hartman
with club while the latter was in -be4
asleep, and then fed.
The city authorities of Nashville have
set to work to place the city in good san
tary condition in anticipation of the possl=
BILE outbreak of cholera
A fac simile of the Columbus chart has
been almost completed by NJ. Vallejo,
nephew of the Spanish premier. He will
send It the Chicago fair.
Several bodies of the victims of the
steamer Western Reserve, which broke in
two off Au Sable banks, in Lake Huron,
| have been washed ashore.
A Russian spy has been imprisoned in
| Arad. Documents compromising the
Russian embassy in Vienna are said to
| have been taken from him.
Typhoid fever and dysentery are pre-
valent among the soldiers in Luneville,
| France More than one hundred have been
taken i'll, and twoSlied Friday.
At Charlottesville, Ind, Mrs Sarah
/ Britton was idtally burned The serva:t
was washing the floor with warm water
and gasoline. The gas formed exploded
At kansa5 City, Maggie Jones, aged
eighteen years a domestic, fired revolver
at her lover. William Swartz, and th,n
shot herself in the heart. She died almost
instantly. SHartz was not hit.
AT Pera a ncw building collapsed. Fiji
teen persons ,-ere killed and 4swenty were
injured Twelve of the killed we're work-
ingmen. and the other three pedestrians
who were passing at the time OF the CO.
lapse
The worlds professional bicycle record
was broken thursday at the Decatur Oils. }
race meeting. jack Prince OF Omaha.
rode one-fourth OF i mile. with flying
start in G:S014, which beats the best profes-
sional record ever made
DR.. James T. Cook. one of the founders
of the Bennett medical college, and for the
last twenty-five years practicing physi-
clan insHChicaGo, has been missing since
Sunday, and his friends fear he has met
with some serious harm
The report of the chief Of the bureau OF
! statistics on the internal commerce of the
| United States during the past fiscal year
| shows that the value Of the commerce
through the St. Mary's canal increased
from SIS, 100000 in ISL to over SI2S, 0GO, 900
in 1891.
The first Whitehead automobile torpedo
ever fired from the gun CT an American
war vessel III Ills IOtttAN2e ~ etS SLlOb ltOLD
one of the three eiz;hJeen-ineh guns of the
torpedo boat Cushing, at Peconic bay Fri
day The first shot was a successful one
i and was followed by two Inope equally sue
| cesSful.
William F Keck, who was sentenced &c
be hanged at Allentown, Pa, next Thurs
day for the murder OF the aged Nipech
couple last November, has been informed
that the governor has granted. him a re-
prieve of sixty days. The reprieve is
granted in order to get his ease before the
board of pardons. ....
Prince Michael, the head OF the New
and Latter Day House of Israel who is in
the Michigan state prison Tor running q
young girl Of his flock l.;:s asked permits
sion to marry his lemons assistant
Princess" Eliza CouTl,>- His own wife
obtained divorce a felv weeks ago. The
request will undoubtedly lie denied.
A riot took place Friday at the New
Bridge salt works, near Liverpool, betwo n
$50 non-unio1. men and several hundred
men led by strikers, Knives, clubs and
stones were freely used. about sixty tnen
were injured in the scr-n'-uace. some scv-
| erely Two -ompauies Of militia Lad C
be called out before the r4ub could bs dis
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