The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-05
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items OF Interest GatheESd from Al
Parts of the World.

Amalgamated scale
VIII Simmonson died at Fort Recovery.
O., from rattlesnake bite.
The Richmond Qnd) Independent haI
suspended. Lack of patronage.
A marble shaft fell on little Carl Fritz al
Millersburg, O., fatally crushing him.
1t is said syndicate has been formed il
Paris to push work on the Panama canal
Near Wabash, Ind, a f6ur-year-old sol
of Joseph Hiner was fatally kicked by
horse.
The Belgian window glass works nj
Tifin, O., will soon start up, employing
$50 hands.
The Third Minnesota Republicans by &C
clamation have nominated Joel Heatwolt
for congress
The Democrats of the Eighth Illinois
congressional district have renominated
Lew Steward
Roy Slayback, of Lebanon, Ind, deserted
his wife, SO she took a dose of arsenic and
died shortly after.
At Saginaw, Mich, Judd Fosdick shot
and killed his wife and then fatally wound,
ed himself Jealousy.
The Peoples party of Michigan has
placed an entire ticket in the field with J.
w. Ewing for governor.
A bag black bear is running loose neaT
hunting party is after him.
In his will, recently probated, Cyrus w.
Field left $4,000 for the cue and m9inte
nance Of his insane daughter.
George Gould, the Wizards son, will
assume the active management OF the
Grand opera house in New York.
Admiral MontaSue's yacht COrsair WOD
the race for the queens cup, although
Emperor Williams Meteor came in first.
The New York Herald Is exposing
James Lee & Company, Chicago and New
York" the great weekly newspaper
swindlers.
Our consul at Copenhagen, Henry B.
Ryder and his wife, are under arrest 10
that city, charged with having obtained
2OO, 900 kroner by fraud.
The knitting mill and Cqtholic church
at Strathoy, Ont, burDed. Loss, 5000 J.
Seven girls jumped from the sixth story
of the mill. Two were fatally hurt
Dr.. G. McDonegal apd associates have
been declared innocent of murder in the
case of Mrs. Louise Webb, who died ~
New York from the effects Of an alleged
abortion.
The bonds amounting to $4,000 which
the people of Harper county, Kan, refuse
to pay, were issued IN 1873 to three men
who organic the county with 600 imag
Thousands OF farmers and wine-growers
in France have been ruined by the dis
astrous effects of last Sundays storms.
In the department Of Isere alone the loss
amounts to $5O0 900.
County Commissioner Amos Farmer, on
Wichita, Kan, whose abduction caused
such commotion, has reappeRred. He
says he was abducted and held a prisoner
for twenty-four hours.
The county commissioner of Harper
county, Kan, has returned, having be"n
taken 70 a cave by band of masked men,
who released him because they could not
also get Commissioner Terrin
The London Chronicles St. Petersburg
correspondent learns that over $1,000 per
sons died of cholera in Russian Caucasus
in July. These figures do not include tue
deaths from cholera in Asiatic Russia
In consequence of the cholera panic, the
Nishni-Novgorod (Russia) fair is failure.
Hardly a foreign buyer has arrived. TIE
dealers can not get workmen to unload
their goods, although they are offering
good wages of five roubles day.
Officers Shepard and Sandford, of CBr-
rollton, KY, have arrived at Huron, S. H.,
and identified Robert Bartlett as the man
wanted in Carrollton, KY. for the murder
of the wife Of DIR. Curtis, on Easter Sun
day, 1891. bartlett was arrested in Hitch
cock last week.
On Tuesday the Marquis DeMores was
committed for trial for manslaughter, and
the four seconds concerned in his duel with
Captain Mayor were held as accessories.
The duel was fought six weeks ago and re-
suited in Ma-er's death. 1t was caused by
a remark of DeMores against Hebrews.
Annie Carroll, an eighteen year-old girl,
lust returned from a boarding school at
Nashville committed suicide by taking
strychnine, her only reason for the act be-
ing that her father would not pay his
grocery bills, and she, being a soul of
honor, did not care to live with such
parent.
DR.. 6. ii. Preston, a dentist at ElmiFa,
N Y, at whose Office Mrs Amelia Sebast
died on Moeday last while having two
teeth extracted with gas, is wanted in that
city for man laughter in the first degree
A coroner's Jury has decided that he ad-
ministeFed nitrous oxide mixed with chic
reform, wliic3 is dangerous
Fire in the Pacific House, at st. Joseph,
Mo, caused a sudden exodus Of the guests.
During the excitement many guests we've
more OT less injured, but none seriously.
4 Mir. Emerson, Of Topeka, Kan, was
dangerously affected by the suffocati"g
smoke and il now in serious condition.
The Pacific is the largest hotel IN St
Joseph.
1t is again reported that cholera has 40
peart1l III Moscow The disease has ma q
it's appearance IN Riasan, a town apd capt.
toll of the government Of Riasap. 10 mikes
southeast of Moscow. The epidemic b d.
creasing in Volga districts, but Is incTeas-
ing in the Ton territory, including the
government of Rostod, where ,O5S new
cases and Az deaths occurred 10 one day.
While Post master j. A. Raniy, of Edge
field Junction. near Nashville, was sitting
in the postoffice, Jesse Bloodworth, q youth
of the vicinity, entered and asked for his
mail He was told be had none This
seemed to anger him, and he left nutter-
ing to himself In a short time he re-
turned, and with large knife walked mp
to Ramly, who was quietly reading and
did not notice his approach, and violently
attacked him, cutting him very severely In
numerous places. Randy is not yet dead,
but is not expected to live
The story Of a woman brutality murdered
in sight of her four children by fourteen
year-old boy, comes from Miffiin, Chester
county. Tenn. Near that place resides
Reed Robinson, wealthy farmer, who
employed Mrs. Hendrix, poor widow,
upon his farm. A few days since the
woman was found dead ip a field Robin
sons Young son, who was working with
her. said she had fallen across pillow and
killed herself Tuesday the eldest child of
Mrs. Hendrix. girl nine years old, told
the sheriff that Robinson struck her
mother on the head with . hoe. He thsn
made the girl bring him hatohes, and
while the children looked o., hgonaea She
womAn's head until she Wa deAa.~