The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-03-04
NEWS IN BRIEF,
A Condensation of Interesting Items On
Various Subjects

A Condensation of interesting Items on
Various Subjects
Columbus, o., will have fire risk rates
increased so rer cent.
Gales alonS the New Jersey coast did
considerable damage.
Evangelist Mills has converted over
5000 sinners in Cincinnati
At Seattle, Wash, three children per
ished IN burning dwelling.
Thirteen new cases of typhus fever have
broken out in New York city.
Senator HiI' will visit Mississippi and
address the legislature March Is.
jay Gould - off on his western trip, 40
companied by lis daughter, Helen
Mardi Gras has begun in New Orleans.
There was an immense parade Monday
At Memphis, Gus Price shot and fatally
wounded his son RUDE during a quarrel
Senator Sherman says he will not re-
sign, and never contemplated such a
thing.
Mrs. A. S. WinsIow's only child. a boy
of twelve, was kicked to death by horse
at Odin, his.
The Ryan-Needham prize fight in New
Orleans was postponed on account %
Ryan being i'll.
At Savannah a stationary boiler eX-
ploded, killing two men and probably
fatally injuring another.
At Washington Professor s. A Whit
| comb. a Universalist minister, created a
surprise by joining the Episcopal church.
Willie Armister was taken for wild
turkey in the bushes and shot by his com
panion, Eddie Hunter, near Prospect, 0.
A commercial treaty between France
| and the Unit I'd States has been arranged
by Minister Reid and the French minister
of commerce
! Workmen at MuDcie claim to have
| found natural gas frozen solid In a pipe
They slipped out n section Of ii, touched
a match and claim 1t burned beautifully
| A new industry.
A vest button found in the Union rail
way Office at Chester. Pa, after the
burglary on Feb. Is, has been identified n
| belonging to Alexander Dick. who haI
confessed, duplicating two friends in the
robbery.
| The indianapolis street car strike b
practically over. The company has beeI
placed in the hands of a receiver, who says
he will soon have all the cars running +
the entire satisfaction Of all the parties
| concerned
lieutenant George Edward Krapf. who
cut A great swell on the Auranta as
| Garman army officer, was arrested al
New York when the steamer landed, on 4
charge of embezzling. In his stateroon
were found 800 marks and f12,OoO In
English money.
NJ. b. Harrison, commissioner to the
worlds fair from Minnesota, died al
Dulutb from Bright's disease, supeFin
duced by the grip. He leaves fortune
estimated at 81 ,0OO, 900. He was born al
Petersburg, Va, and the body WILL Dt
taken there for interment.
| Tt IL said the Wheeling puddlers and
rollers. now members of the AmRlgsmated
| Association of Iron and Steel Workers
viii withdraw from the order and reor
oanize the Order of Vulcans, to which
thev belonged in 1876. The men in Pitts
burg and Cincinnati are dissatisfied, anc
may ioin the movement About lO,VO'
men will be affected
| The illness of Chairman Springer, o.
the ways and means committee, Is th@
| subiect of considerable anxiety on tht
mart of his friends. He is suffering from
acute erysipeias, complicated with nerv
ous Drostration and a severe cold, anG
is unable to see anyone but the Immediate
members of his family. His features ar
swollen almost beyond recognition. aDe
have assumed a purple hue, yet he ha'
! never lost consciousness, and his mind h
apparently perfectly cleaE.
Death Roll.
Joseph T. Heensn, a welNknoVn Jour
| palist in New York