The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-08
NEWS IN A NursHELL.
items OF Interest Gathered from All Parts
of the World.


Blue mountain. near Port Clinton, Pa.
Marquis Desiajut Denis the celebrated
Chinese scholar and acs.demician, is dead.
Rev Stacy Fowler, the prominent abo-
Htionist and religious writer, died "a Git
tondale, Mass.
Judge John Collier. of Atlanta, j. dead.
He was one of the pioneer citizrns, an5
very prominent.
The Irish-American Republicans met in
Cooper Union Friday night. Minister Pat
rick Egan spoke
a dispatch from 81. Petersburg says
American wheat is driving Russian wheat
out of the market.
The Missouri supreme court has decided
that official notices published in Sunday
papers are not legal.
The Hudson county q. j. grand jury
has indicted fifty-four colored and a hun
bred white men for false registration.
Professor Totten's total eclipse of Nov.
4, which was to mark the beginning Of the
end of the world failed to materialize.
A w. Bennett, whose negligence is said
to have caused a fatal wreck at Little
Rock, has become insane from remOrse.
Christopher Henderson, of Minneapolis,
arrested for being drunk, was shot dead by
| Officer Kolonterski while attempting tO
escape.
Judge MARITIME, of New York, sentenced
George c. Holland and William Green to
two years in the penitentiary for false reg.
istration.
Old Providence and San Andrea, in the
Caribbean sea, was swept by cyclone Oct.
6, doing great damage. No lives are re-
ported lost.
| The British bark, NorcrOss, burned in
the Seine at Paris. Three, a probably
ten, lives were lost. The origin oil the fire
! is unknown.
At Blossburg, Ala, in row over a game
of cards Joe Murphy shot Lawrence Early,
Dick Thomas and c. B. johnson. All will
die Murphy escaped.
! Charles Gill, wealthy African mine
owner, has mysteriOusly disappeared in
New York. When last seen he had nearly
$3.50, 900 in his possession.
At Laporte, Ind, Conrad Gaa shot and
cut his wife to death and then suicided
with rat poison. They had been married
and divorced several times.
Colonel Van II. Manning, a prominent
politician and lawyer of Maryland, form
erly a congressman from Mississippi, died
from the results of the grip.
At Sufkin, Tex, Bryan Butler was shot
and instantly killed by Louis Mantooth,
both students at East Texan college. The
killing grew out of a schoolboy frolic.
Harry Smith, forty-five, of South Bend,
Ind, turned on the gas in his room and
then shot himself. The bullet iattened
against the skull, and the gas killed him.
He had been drinking hard.
F. b. Sigh was knocked down on the
street in Chester, :. c., and robbed of 81 ,GC0
by two negroes. Sigh says he shot one OF
| them. Sigh is the Republican candidate
for congress from that state
Gold men will be in the majority IN the
international monetary conference which
will meet in Berlin, Nov -. The attitude
of the British delegates is expected to
guide the decisions to a great degree.
According to Dun's review politics has
not interfered with the business of the
country, more goods being sold than usual
at this season of the year. There is q
slight stringency in the money market.
At Philadelphia John R Rupp, the yard
master of the Reading Railroad company
to whose carelessness the coroner decided
was due the fatal collision at Manayunk
Pa Oct. "A, has been arrested. He gave
bail.
William Kitrick, a wealthy lumber
dealer Of Oroville Cal, committed suicide
bv cutting his throat on the street A caro-
was found on the body on which was pen
ciled the brief statement that he had beer
hypnotized.
Fourteen miles west of Fordyce, Ark,
Ephraim Pierce, an aged farmer, was en-
ticed from his house on preteXt and hi
) brains blown out The murderer theT
! went to the house and secured about e., on
from the iron safe.
A. G.. Green, we'll known rea, estate
dealer of San Francisco, was found deaC
in the hotel at Oakland having taken {
dose of laudanum. He left a note for thu
, coroner stating he had committed suicide
T but gave 10 reason for the act.
On train near Missouri Valley, Ia.
an unknown desperate shot and seriOusl.
wounded w. c. Pollock, travelling sales
man for a New York diamond firm
grabbed his sample case containing Sl5
F 600 worth of stones, and escaped.
. Ned Christie the famous Indian Terri
tory outlaw. was shot by officers Thurs
. dav. who had surrounded his fortifie
: cabin in the Caney mountains. The build
l ing was partially destroyed with dyns
: mite. Christie made dash for liberty Bn
was shot to death.
! Friday afternoon there was filed in tn
Norfolk registry, in Dedham, Mass. "A
attachment on the property of Congress
man Elijah A Morse, of Canton, in tn
sum of So, 900 by Mrs Helen NJ. Cougar
of Lafayette, Ind, the Prohibition speaker
pending an action Of tort
V While Mrs. Frank Cleveland, Of Sun
O merfield. o., was spanking one Of her chi
v dren a few days ago, the culprit threw u
;. his hand with a lead pencil in it. Tn
, mothers hand struck the pencil Bloc
= poison set in and the hand was amputatet
. The chances are against recovery.
a Near Ardmore, |. T., four negroes on
a Santa Fe train yesterday picked
= quarrel with three United States depu