The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-05-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects
Epidemic of diphtheria at Metamora, o.
Dun's review of trade reports money
plenty everywhere
At Norwood, Pa, Julius Tuprewn was
killed by lightning.
The Illinois valley is now experiencing
the worst flood ever known.
A mastodon's tusk four feet long was
dug up at Jacksonville, Ind.
William Hammontree, of South Bend,
Ind, was killed in runaway.
Ralph K. Paige. the wrecker of the
Painesville (O.) bank, got ten year
sentence.
The great international musical and
theatrical exhibition at Vienna opened
Saturday.
Near Hoosiervi!le ind, the house of
John Bolin was shattered by lightning.
No one was injured
Near Waynesburg, Pa. at a wake,
Jacob Miller cut Jacob Bosworth whom
he caught in a room With Mrs. Miller.
At Little Rock, L d. Slaughter and
Tom Bailey, negroes, were hanged.
Slaughter killed his mistress, and Bailey,
a peddler.
The trial of Hattie A iams, in New York,
for keeping disorderiy house, resulted in
verdict of guilty. DIR. Parkhurst was
the principal witness.
The Mississippi river at Keokuk is now
at the extreme high-watcr mark. All the
low lands are submerged and much dam
age has been done a disastrous flood is
looded for.
At Bryan, O., George and Michael
Burchel. brothers, have been arrested for
the murder of Arthur Brown, whose dead
body was found Thursday morning with
the pockets rified.
Leave town, or take a coat of tar and
feathers" 4" was the mandate issued by cit
izens of Big Prairie, o., to John Hatshall
and Mrs. Jessie Winn, whose conduct
shocked the morals of the villagers They
went.
The new bridge at Memphis has already
had its jumper. Edwin S. Peart, of
Peoria, Ills, travelling with the Paul Boy
ton combination, jumped from the middle
span, head first, of the structure Friday
morning. p.
San Antonio. Tex, had suicide club of
four-Amelia Roberts, Annie Wilson,
John Budd and Julius Winkleman. The
two young women and Winkleman killed
themselves the same day. Budd killed
himself Friday.
David Dingle and James Lucas. en-
ployed on the Sheridan mine at Tellu-
ride, Colo. were blown to atoms by at
tempting to pick out an exploded shell of
giant powder. Both men We're from
Cornwall, England.
At Utica, y. Y, Deputy United States
Marshal McElwain has been arrested on
a bench warrant charged with aiding
Bunko O'BIien to escape. This is sup
posed to Be the first fruit of the work of
the grand jury on the escape.
Owing to a strike resolved upon Thurs
day night So men of various labor organ
iZations at Decatur, Ills, are idle The
strike is due TO the refusal of certain firms
to grant to the carpenters their demand
of twenty-seven and half cents per hour
1t is reported that Archbishop COrrigan
received on Friday a cablegram from
Rome, to the effect that Archbishop Ire
lands position on the school question in
Minnesota was condemned. The arch
bishop attempted to secularize the schools
in his diocese.
From Oshkosh, Wis, comes the report
that the sash, door and blind men of the
entire northwest, including Oshkosh,
Chicago, St. Louis and Mississippi river
points, have organized a sash, door and
blind association with the object of main
tanning "A schedule of prices and stopping
the cutting of rates
While switching cars in the upper
switching yards on the East Tennessee
road. at Chattanooga, two cars became
detached from the engine and started
down the st+op grade alone. They ran
for quarter OF a mile, gaining trench
dUus speed, and crashed into a switch en-
gine Engineer n. c. Flagg was caught
and pressed to the b5iler, where he was
literally roasted to death.