The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-10-04

two-mile bicycle record at Springfield
Mass. He made the distance in 4:28s4.
Simmons record is 4:37 %.
Major Handy has received notices from
nearly every great newspaper in the world
that special representatives will be in Chi
capJ To attend the ceremonies Oct 81.
The old Washington home of ex-senator |
Thurman. a1terward occupied by Hon.
John f. Tollett, has been sold to Andrew
b. McCreary, of San Francisco, for S2O,OOO.
Henry Il Edwards, of Newark, O., at |
TEMPTED to seal a ride on the trucks of
Baltimore az Ohio passenger train He
lost his hold and was dragged for several
miles
Joseph Koon and Charles Mosley, ranch
men. living 44ear st. Ueidery, Tex, were
murdered and robbed by two Mexican cow
bows who we. overtakeu and jailed. They
may be lynchrd.
President J. G. Shortall, of the Illinois
Humane society, announced at Chicago
that there would be no bull lighting dur
ing the worlds fair if he can help 1t, and
he thinks he can.
j. 2. Childs struck match to light the
gas in the Church OF Christ at Tifhn, o. a
leak had filled the room and an explosion
occurred which demolished the church and
probably fatally injured Mr.. Childs.
/ FRANK HdulSeu, a AIAIlS NShViH'A;
was brutality murdered at New York,
! Thursday night, by Frank w. Rohl, a
marble polishcr. Robbery was the motive.
! Paulsen was hacked TO pieces with an az.
There is story that Paddy Ryan
! knocked Duncan Harrison down at San
Francisco in a quarrel over the ''Ha Ha
Ha! Rodents" telegram, which Harrison
is said to have sent Sullivan after his de-
feat.
The remains of Jonathan Bass, the ossi-
fled man, have been placed in vault at
the cemetery at Lockport, n. Y, which is
simply a great burgler-proof safe 1t was
feared the doctors or the museums might
be after him.
Dun's review says there is not a cloud
visible in the commercial sky. Prospects
are brighter Than ever. Money is plenty
everywhere and collections satisfactory.
Business is larger than ever before at this
season of the year.
The Matthew Thorne monument erected
by the state of New Hampshire and the
town of Merrimac to the memory of Mat
thew Thorn, one Of the signers of the dec
laration of independence, has been dedi-
Gated at Merrimac.
DIR. Frederick w. Moore, instructor in
sociology in the Wharton school of finance
and economy in the University of Penn
sylvania, has accepted call to the chair
> of political economy at the Vanderbilt
, university at Nashville.
According TO the official statement of'the
f Olympic club there were 1850 spectators at
5 the McAuIiffe fight, 1862 at the Dixon
fight, and 4. 973 ut the Corbett fight. The
receipts for the three fights were, respect
s ive:y, SIS, 80, S16,053, and SG0,3lS.
4 Robert \. Bowman, the present assignee
of the International Benefit order, was
, l Of no toJ "
/ This action was taken in order that S1S,
600 now in the hands of the state treasurer
might be made available to the order.
: Boilers in the Carbon Iron works. Pitts
4 burg. exploded, wrecking the buildings
: The accident occurred during the change o.
crews and the mill was deserted. Other
: wise the less of life would undoubtedl!
$ have been heavy, as 300 men We're employee
) near by.
\ New York company has been incorpo
: rated, with 100000 capital stock. for tb
= purpose of erecting near the world fair a
Chicago, SIS 600 club house, which is L
$ be maintained during the fair as head
: quarters for wheelmen from all parts O
n the world.
, u Peter Kennedy, who recently met with
a serious accident. has brought suit agains
= The Rocky Mountain News, whic
Ii published an accident policy coupe
I. each day, his claim having bee
IS rejected by the publishers. Tn
- courts have heretofore held that no az
4 tual consideration renders the claim IL
= valid.
a General Lloyd Bryce, the editor of I'll
North american Review, has sued Til
b Evening Telegram for IN alleged violatio
~ OF the copyright laws in repu5.ishinG
~ without permission. in The Telegram
70 article from the October number OF i
,n Review, from the pen of William E. Ola
4 stone, entitled "A Vindication OF Hon
of Rule"
it The South Carolinl Republican sta
o. convention adopted a resolution TO the
ne feet that with free ballot and IL
count" the stGte of South Carolina Won
- be placed in the column of Republics
states by a majority CT $1,000 votes, b
-. named no ticket.
Mike Mcdonald has re-: .saed his mel
bership on the Illinois safe Democrat
central committee He i under indie
tx ment for the bribery ii justice of I
by peace in the Garfield Par, case, and und
the circumstances did not euro 70 rema
"a longer on the committee. "-
In the superior court OF HEREFORD, n.
oh. two negro women. Martha HALEY al
Leach Nixon, have been convicted of p
nd soning Mollie Nixon by placing arsenic
N, hanged Dec. s. and Martha HALEY to
Imprisonment in the penitentiary. >>-'--
O At Pottsville. Pa, at a meeting of
committee OF the Schuylkill exchange, t
J. rate of wages of the miners and mine
Nc borers of the Schuylkill region was fixed
per cent above a q. SO basis, 6 an increase
no per cent. over the preceding month.
th Reading and Lehigh colliieries are inclr
ed in the rate
O, At Costello, Cal, J. W. Smith, a drunk
,ck carpenter, cut his wifes throat, shot a
killed his five-year-old daughter and tn
,or attempted suicide Smith was arrest'
bos Later mob overpowered the officers a
lynched him En- route to the tire he Il
-, the crowd they were doing right a
@ thanked them.
~ Judge Ross, of the United States distr
court of San Francisco, has decided th
-. the Mckinley bill did not repeal the act
~ ~ 1885 granting the right of a drawback