The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-12-02
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL
Items of Interest Gathered from All Part
Of the World.


The official vote of Iowa gives Harrison
a plurality of p, 965 over Cleveland.
Tennessee miners are organizing again
to resist the employment of convicts.
Little Gus Smith was killed at Ironton,
o., while stealing ride on coal train
Pugilist Corbett will build vaudeville
theater near the worlds fair grounds, Chi
cago.
Cotton planters are protesting against
the passage of the Hatch anticipation bill.
President-elect Cleveland spent Satur
day at Broadwater Island, shooting ducks.
There was no session of the interna'
tional monetary conference at Brussels
Saturday.
There is a possibility of marriage be-
tween the czarowitz and Princess Maria
of Austria.
Congressman in hiding from office seek
ers are among the rare sights Of the ma
tional capital.
There was a terrible gale Saturday and
Sunday in San Francisco bay. Many ships
were damaged,
The city of La Union, Salvador, has been
destroyed by an earthquake and several
people were killed.
Three Philadelphians became insane
over the belief that Beila's comet was go
ing to strike the earth.
The death of Charles Marcy, French
novelist and playwright, is announced. he
was sixty-seven years of age.
Richard Schneckner, the son OF the
wealthiest man in Vienna, has committed
suicide. The case is being investigated
Maggie Dowty, of Cokesdale, Mont, shot
Patrick Tierney, who circulated scandal.
Gus stories about her after her marriage.
II. ]. Martin, cashier of the Webster Ma
tional bank at Eauporia, Miss, who alb
seconded Friday with $1,000, is believed tc
be on his way to Mexico.
A color line has been sharply defined in
the south over proposition that white
and black Epworth leaguers house to-
gether at the worlds fair.
There will be a meeting of tobacco grow
ers of northern Florida at Mariana, Dec
Is. The object is to organize state to
bacco growers association.
At the shooting party Sunday I'm the
forest of St German, France, Baron
Hirsch accidentally shot himself in th'
forearm. The wound Is not serious.
J. r. Moore, confidential clerk for A. F
Carnton, of Denver has been arrested fol-
embezzling $4,000 from his employer. q
Z. Clark is wanted as an accomplish.
Mrs, John Stach, her son Joseph, and
Henry Norwich, laborer, are under arres
at Holton, Kan, charged with the murder
of Paul Sweitlick, a brother of Mrs. Stach
DIR. Jenkins, health officer of New York
states that there are reasonable doubts
now whether any of the deaths at the New
York quarantine in the fall were cause(
by cholera.
The senate inquiry into the employment
of Pinkertons at Homestead finished ii
work at New York with an examination o
Robert Pinkerton and Captain Hind anC
adjourned TO Washington.
The official returns from all the countie
in Tennessee have been received by the sec
retaEy of state. For president the vote Is
Cleveland, l36,477; Harrison, 99,G7d
Weaver, 23,622; Bidwell, 1856.
Sunday Trafalgar square, London, wa
the scene of another animated gathering o
socialists, anarchists and an otherwis
motley crowd, which required police super
vision, though no serious conflict occurred
Near lie Seuer, Mimi, a farmer died sud
! denly and mysteriOusly, and on the da
| following his slstsT-in-iaw, formerly li
| sweetheapt, also died, leaving letter II
dicating that it was a murder and suicide
The Miami Indians in Wabash county
| Ind, being told they were exempt froT
/
have been seized by the tax collector !
test case will he made of 1t. All the II
lians vote.
At Gainesville, Ga, Thornton 5. String
fellow shot and killed Charles II. Pratt
editor of The Daily Leader, whom
found in Mrs. Stringfelow's room at la
hour Mrs Stringfellow says Pratt ha
overpoweFed her
/ p 1fI Univ ~ ~
emphatically any knowledge of the adve
tisements signed by Professor Van Ange
bach which are alleged to have been prin
ed in London, Offering for sale degrees
Illinois state university.
Several bo,-s of Hopkinsville, KY wei
coon hunting Sunday night The do
bayed p certain tree, and on being G.
, down fifteen coons sprang from its tFuI
and attacked the hunters. One boy w
bitten 20 badly that there Is little hope
his recovery.
Emma Feussne, seventeen, died In Ne
York of hemorrhage of the brain, occ
stoned by fright. The children in Il
house where she was employed were pla
ing games and one of them, dressed as
I Indian squaw, rushed at her, causing IA
to fall down in commissions.
: It is said in Paris Diplomatic circles tn
, Uatted States Minister Coolidge has open
negotiations COR commercial conventl'
and an extradition treaty with Franc
Minister Coolidge viii epdeaVoF to col
plete these diplomatic compacts before {
2 appointment of his successor by the
coming administration.
] The most prominent and influential m
in the ship building and shipping intere'
of the United States have completed I
preliminary organization of q profession
society, to be called the Society OF Nav
! Architects aud Marine Engineers, who
I object shall be to promote the art OF 81
building In all its branches, both comm'
: cial and naval
At Artega, town about forty nil
southeast of SaltiIlo, Mex, during bl
fight Saturday the maddened anim'
hurst through the barricade into I
e crowd. One person was killed and ten
: iured by the ANIMALS, In the stampe
q which followed the seats gave way fu
fifty people sustained broken limbs a
: severe internal injuries.
o Egbert Wheeler, a coal merchant
e | Armourdale, near Kansas City, died We
t suddenly. Since the death of his lit
e daughter Mr. Wheeler has been melf
!, eholy, and has prayed every day since
e might join her. Before retiring he reaC
:, chapter from the Bible, and kneeitng
: the bedside prayed again, expressing a
sire to he with the child. Saturday MOI
ing he Was found dead.
John c. Langdon, the sixteen-year-C
> son of S. p Langdon, of Philadelph
registered at the Great Northern hot
s Chicago, as wv. X. Vanderbuilt, Jr., n
|. York" He was given the best room
d the house He went out and bought t
2. or three vehicles, hired a valet, bought
horse, and conducted himself like NJ
70 ionaire. His father tried to get him u
the house of correction, but failed.
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st Cardinal LayigeFie Dead.