The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-25

! general master workman ne was reelected
! by a vote of 102 to 6.
The ship Ericsson, from San Francisco,
| is total wreck in Barclay sound, having
! gone on the rocks in gale. The captain
and crew were saved.
Fire in the Chicago sheds Of the Michi-
gan Salt company did $4,000 damage.
| Thirty sheds were burned and 225, 900 bar
rels of salt destroyed by water.
Near Sharpsburg, Pa, furnace set fire
to the residence of Hiram .Danahaur Mr..
Danahaur. his wife and a ten-yearold
daughter persisted before they could es-
cape.
AT Marseilles cases of cholera are being
reported right along, and in the harbor
districts of the city frOLNDJur TO five
deaths per day must be attributed to that
cause.
Four cases Of cholera are reported in
Brussels. Some anxiety is beginning TO
be felt, but the health authorities are con-
fident that there will be no spread Of the
disease.
At Williamson, Alsace, woman named
Kern, insane from her husbands miscon-
duct, wheeled her four little children TO a
cemetery and cut their threats. She then
cut her own.
A stranger entered Bradshaw's tin store,
Columbus, o., and shot Thomas Engle, a
clerk, because he refused to open the safe.
The wound was not serious. The would
be murder escaped.
Official returns from Ohio show that all
the Republican electors but one were elect
ed by plurality of about 900. The entire
Republican state ticket was elected by
about the same plurality.
In New York Simon Poey, the passenger
agent and confidential clerk in the office
of the Cuban Steamship company, is under
arrest charged with the defalcatiOn of s40,-
600, which he has taken from the concern
during the past fifteen years.
The board of local marine inspectors
have given their decision, holding Captain
John O'Brien guilty of negligence in
stranding the whaleback steamer Charles
w. Wetmore on the night of Sept. S of
Coos bay and have revoked his license.
At Cherbourg cases Of cholera are re-
ported to have occurred in some fifty diff
ferent houses in the heart of the city dur
ing the present week. Since Saturday five
deaths from cholera have occurred, and
notices of precautionary measures have
been issued.
General" Chris Neff, Illinois greatest
horse thief, an escaped Chester county
convict, is in Jail at st. Louis, having been
arrested Monday by Detective Cooking
who only succeeded after hard fight in a
wagon drawn by a runaway horse in cow
ing the criminal.
Lemuel'P Wall was found murdered In
his house ten miles south of Bellairp o.
on the Ohio river. The murderers shot
him through the window while he was in
bed, killing him instantly and robbing
MIN of S20,OOO. There is no clew to the
perpetrators OF the deed He was eighty
two years old and a bachelor.
George J. Bagley. who ran awas 18th
over 100000 OF United States express euh-
signments and returned il all when ar
rested, now claims that his mind was n
perfect blank, for much of the time he WIS
carrying the gunny sack with the cash
around with him. Bagley will probably
be taken from Chicago back to Davenport,
Ia, for trial.
The death sentence of John Ammon, a
Denver murderer, has been committed TO
life Imprisonment. The crime was n pc
culiar one. While Rivera was prisoner
in the county Jail, his wife and Ammon be-
came infatuated with each ether ana 20
prevent the discovery of their relations.
Ammon killed Rivera as he was exercising
in the prison yard
Miss Mary Abell sister of George w.
Abel, of the Baltimore Sun, who re-
nounced the world some time ago, took
the veil at the Academy of the Visitation,
in Wilmington, Del, Monday. Her re-
ligious name Is Mary Joseph, Next 20
Miss DreXell, she is probably the wealth
lest woman that has entered "A convent in
this country, she having inherited more
than Sl,00O,OO0.
Intelligence from Dantzig proves that
the cholera along the Russia frontier is not
so much a thing of the past a. Is generally
anticipated. Sporadic cases of illness from
that cause are reported daily To the au-
ihorities of the smaller cities and villages,
and it seems impossible to entirely Danish
the disease so long as the unhealthy habits
Of the people, and especially the poor, cam
not be reformed.
In the French chamber of deputies NJ
De la Haye created a sensation by making
charges of bribery against members Of the
cabinet, the press, prominent flnanciers
and contractors on the Panama canal,
The chamber was thrown into "A tumut
during the discussion. After an exciting
debate by unanimous vote an investiga-
ton was ordered. Several challenges for
duels have been made.
1t is said that William G. Whitney has
told the president-elect that lie does not
desire, that he cannot accept any position
under the new administration, because he
feels that he has already neglected his past
interests as much a. his duty to the party
called for. He has been mentioned for
three places secreiary Of state, minister
TO the court of St. James and United
States senator from New York.
The South Carolina general assembly
met for a thirty days session Tuesday. At
the Democratic primaries last summer
majority of the people voted for prohibit
ton and in accordance with this express
sion of the popular will, prohibition bill
will be introduced and passed. Most OF
the members feel pledged by the primary
vote to the support Of prohibition, but
some say the vot was not general enough
and will fight the bill to the last.
Death interrupted wedding feast in
Baltimore Monday, and caused "A panic
among the guests Mary the pretty
daughter OF Joseph Kuiwa, had been mar
ried at a Polish church near her home,
and the ceremony being over, the bride
and groom and guests repaired 70 the
home of Mary's parents TO celebrate the
nuptials In the midst of the hilarity
Joseph, the father of the happy bride sud
denly fell to the floor and expired.
1t is crime to wager money in Pennsyl-
Vania, especially on the result of elections.
Judge McMullen in the Lancaster county
court, instructed the grand jury to find in
dictments against all persons who winged
money on the result of the late election.
Nearly every man in the court room was
guilty, and some OF the grand jurors had
been violators Of the law. The penalty Is
forfeiture of three times the amount OF
the wager by the winning party There
has been bitter political fight In Lancas-
Ger, and every man who has put up a cent
Oh the election feels uneasy.