The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-02-05
NEWS IN RRIEE.
A CONDENSATION of Interesting Items on
Various Subjeets-


Various Subjeets-
The January coinage was s., S45, 600
A stallion kicked Norman Lacy to death
near Osgood, Ind.
Conductor Thomas Williams was killed
by cars at Springfield, o.
Solomon Shaffer was found frozen near
Kecksburg, Pa He was drunk.
Daniel Schranz, switchman, was crushed
between cars at Fort Wayne, Ind.
An attempt was made to burn the
royal palace at Konigsburg, near Berlin.
No clew.
The Waverly House and several other
building were burned at Woodstock, Ills.
Loss, $50, 900.
Dastards attempted to wreck a train
with dynamite near Kearney, Neb. Dis
covered in time.
Waterman Love at the Commercial
guano works, Savannah, was shot and
killed by burglar.
Eight people were injured by jumping
from windows during a fire in tenement
house in New York.
Charles w. Folsom, a travelling man
from Portsmouth, suicided by shooting
at IrOnton, o. Grip.
The reciprocity arrangements with ia
maica. tine Barbados and Trinidad will
soon be III operation.
Mrs Mary Malott's death at GAINESVILLE,
o., was caused by her husband giving her
an overdose f morphine.
James Calder was seriously injured
while trying to save his burning dwelling
near Parkersburg, w. Va.
Two little children of S. K. Dixon, of
Winchester, o., were badly burned while
starting a fire with coal oil.
Charles l.. Dawson, of Winchester, o.,
lost three fingers by the accidental dis
charge of his gun while hunting.
Mrs. Fannie Kusnick, wife of a Sidney
(O) druggist, died from the effects of
morphine taken to relieve headache.
DR.. A. B. Bradbury, of Num-, was
killed near Ridgeville, ind, by having his
buggy struck by train at a crossing.
The Ellsworth & Morris Coal company
is negotiating for the purchase of the
Hooking Valley Coal company's mine at
Jacksonville, o.
Daniel Gassett, brakeman on the Pan
handle railroad, fell from the top of a car,
at Wheeling Junction, early Monday
morning, and was killed.
Three of the four men who lynched
John Shields near Timpson, Tex, have
been arrested. They were identified by
an aunt of the dead man, who witnessed
the lynehing.
Eldridge and Curtis, the Rio Grande
train robbers, held a razor to the Throat
of the prison guard at Denver, still he
| wouldn't give up the keys but yelled lust
| ily, and the desperadoes were taken back
| to their cells.
Rev David Probert, pastor of the Welsh
Baptist church, at Youngstown, O., com
| pleted the fourteenth year of his pastor
age Sunday. The occasion was made
| pleasant by the attendance of large
number of ministers, and the aged divine
was presented with well-flled purse.
! Dick Wilson, brother of the notorious
| "Dink' Wilson, of Glendale (Mo.) robbery
| fame, was arrested Monday near Hans
com Park, Omaha, by Policeman Good
rich, but by presence of mind anc &a>!ac-
! ious lying he managed to get away and is
still at liberty. The policeman had known
| him from boyheod. Wilson convinced
the policeman that he was 0ut on bail.
d. R. Johnson registered at . hotel in
| Kansas City and perceived the name OF
| another D. R. johnson on the register.
| Sending up his card, he met the owner Of
the name and discovered in him his son.
| The old man had left his home in Vicks-
| burg for California in 1889, and had lost
track of the child and its mother. He
had grown rich The mother is still liv-
ing.
Henry Ives, the young Napoleon of
finance" filed a statement in the suit
brought against J. d. Gallery and Will
lam V Gallery, of Pittsburg, to recover
damages in the sum of $4,000. The
plaintiff alleges that he bought 1,05O
shares of the City Savings bank, of Allie
eheny at S52 per share, and paid the late
J. D. Gallery $4,000 on account; that he
demanded the stock, offering to pay the
balance due, but Mr.. Gallery failed to de-
liver the goods. The plaintiff further
AYERS that the late ]. D. Gallery owed
him $4,000 for moneys advanced, aIIL
to be expended for the use of the plain
tiff