The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-04-01

balloons over them, beyond rifle reach
It is believed the Germans have per
fec ed balloon steering apparatus, arr
are inspecting Russian Qualifications.
! States Attorney Longenecker, o
! Chicag', thrashed a reporter yesterday
! who afterwards had him arrested.
Forty anarchists have been expelled
from France and are making their wa.
to England.
The effort to have a vote on the Blanc
silver bill was unavailing.
Senator Mill has taken the oath o
office.
The Democratic House will pass tn,
free wool bill Monday.
Mandalay, the capital of British
Burmah, was destroyed by fire Tues
day and 5000 families rendered home
less.
Longshoremen and roustabOuts at St
Louis and New Orleans went on a strike
Wednesday, and several steamboat
lines are tied up.
Walt Whitman, the poet was buried
Wednesday. An autopsy disclosed the
fact that one lung was entirely gone
and the other one almost.
Claus Spreckles, the Philadelphia
sugar refner, has entered the Sug 7
Trust.
jeremiah Colts was electrocuted at
Sing Sing, n. Y, Monday, for the muir
der of Louis Frank in Brooklyn.
The bodies of thirty-two miners who
were emtombed in the Hill Farm Mine
at Dunbar, Pa, on June 10, 1890, have
been recovered.
DIR. Morris Mumford, former editor
and proprietor of the Kansas City
Times, died in Kansas City Sunday.
He was a native of Covington, Tenn.
Imam engagement with rebels, the
Chinese troops slaughtered 5000 with
the sword, and burned 500 at the stake.
The rebel leaders were beheaded. The
Imperial army lost only five men, and
had fOrty-tive wounded.
ThelPittsburg Times has moved into a
new eight-stO building, erected by it,.
Tuesdays issue was from Hoe perfect
ing press with a capacity of $4,000 papers
per hour.
The grand jury at Chicago continues
to return indictments against the Doodle
aldermen.
Mrs. G. X. Smith, white woman liv-
ing near Holly Springs, Miss, gave
birth Monday to six boys, weighing all
together 40 pounds.
Two Polish brothers were arrested at
Warsaw, for murder. Investigation dis
closed that they had murdered forty
emigrants for their money.
Chicago negroes held mass meeting
Monday night to take action about the
lynching of the Memphis negroes. They
refused to sing "America," but Joined in
the chorus of "John Browns Body"
They say they will employ detectives to
discover the leader of mobs who hang
negroes in the South.
Pope Leo has deposited 10000 lire to
be paid to his successor.
NJ. DeGiers, the Russian Foreign Min
lister, is ill with erysipelas.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
passed the bill inflicting the death pen
atty on dynamiCers.
Mrs. Baldwin, who was so terribly
injured in the New York Cen
trail collision at hastings, on Christmas
Eve, has sued the company for SD .OOC
damages. She lost both hands, both
eyes, both ears and all her hair.
a mail train running between War
saw and Kowal, a town of Poland,
eighty miles west of Warsaw, was rob-
bed of 100000 roubles.
The English are alarmed over the in
fuX Of Russian Jews. During Febru-
AIRY 2,SS4 entered England to stay and
2,6i5 entered on their way to America.
Children in the famine districts of
Russia are too weak to walk to schools
where food is given out. They have
been eating rags and even dirt until
they are in miserable plight.
VIM. Zell, an Omaha man who was
taking the Kelley cure for tobacco, fell
dead Tuesday, and the doctors pro-
nOunced his death due to the medicine
he had been taking. An investigation
will be held.
Recent bloOdthirsty demonstrations
of French Anarchists have frightened
many visitors away from Paris.
The tariff measures will be pushed
through the House at an early day, and
Congress expects to adjourn about
June.
The United States Senate last Tues
day ratified the treaty with Great Brit
ain, which submits to arbitration the
Behring Sea sealing question. Two
hours were spent in executive session
in it's consideration and it was ratified
by unanimous vote. The Cabinet in
session agreed to accept Lord Sails
bury's proposition for renewal of the
modus Vivendi with cert ain Limitations.