The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-08-04
GENERAL NEWS.

lue low price oil silver has caused
The shutting down 81 the big smel-
terS in Colorado and nearly all OF the
I silver mines aud thrown thousands
or men ont 0t work Large numbers
III these have cOngr-gsted in Denver
snd are being fed by the people.
1nere is some fear that the uuem-
ployed may organize for robbery aud
loot the town. Thousands have been
brought East free VI charge by the
rail- roads, but their places are filled
"a fast M they leave Denver by
Others coming from the mines.
Great numbers OF gra4shoppers
have taken possession of the Choc-
coiocca valley in Alabama They
fist appeared in Georgia but have
now spread into Alabama and are
dong much damage. An the crops
are destroyed by them without dis
| tinction. The efforts to get rid of
them are entirely unsuccessful.
The white-cappers tried at Birm
ingham last Saturday were given
heavy sentences in every case. Six
IN an from CIeburn County who beat
the Cation family and shot off Mrs
! Cation foot received sentence OF
SIX years IN the peuitentiary and n
fine Of 5000. Thirteen man from
Cherokee County, who beat the
! Pruitts, were fined $500 and rent to
the pen for four years each.
Thieves ent-red the home OF Mrs
X. AmmOu in Cnicag) last Saturday
and IN broad daylight bound and
gagged Mrs. Ammon and oDOed her
OF jewelry worth $4,000. The Jhieve-
were well dressed aud obtained adj
mittance by claiming to be detec-
tiVes in search Of thief supposed TO
be hidden In the house.
Under injunction proceedings re-
quriug the Worlds FAIR to open its
gales GA Sunday, the Fair was kept
open list Sunday. The attend. n G
was much the sms Hest Of any day
since it was opened, being outy 1900.
Secretary Hoke Smith was hung in
etfigy at a little place called Rome, in
the hanging was the fact that he had
dropped off the pension rolls, a lot of
men who had no right to draw Yen
siOns.
In Chicago last Saturday an acct
dent Of singular shocking ana pain
full nature resulted in the death of the
! woman injured. AS an open street
car was approaching the Harrison
street bridge heavy harwdOod ievrI
fell from its fasttnngs above the
bridge and trAnstiXed Miss Nellie
Reardon who sat near the edge of the
Car. The lever passed entirely
through her body near the grOm, and
twenty inches beyond, penetrating
the back OF the seat on which she
sat and fastening her to it. The
| shock rendered her unconscious anC
sue remained ia thai condition unit
she was revived in the hospital she
then received aO4Oluuon from h
! priest and died from loss OF blood in
a few minutes after the lever haC
been removed
Great excitement prevails around
Canton, Miss, over the snO0tiug OF
DR.. Roudebush by his friend young
Malcolm Gamer n. No clear anC
authentic account OF the shooting
has been given but it is said aud g-n
orally believed that Cd the night u
the shooting Miss Cameron sud DR.
kOudebu,h Went into the pariOr o
the Cameron mansion about clever
O'clock. They were there only few
minutes but in tue interval 1t il sale
| ,l, a ,,
caress her in some manner and yOunt
Cameron came in at the door, drew
his revolver and fired. ROudeOusl
ran and Cameron chased him arOunC
the house and back into it again
shooting him three times. koude
bush's team was then hitcned up ant
he was driven nine m les to Canton
ROudebush was pierCrd three times
by A caiibre ball but survived tn'
trip though he has since died. Cam
eron will be- tried soon.
Tired ofliie, w. H. Irving Of Charles
street, Winthrop Beach, Mass com
mitted suicidels week In Chicago
on the lake shore. A partly filed CAT
OF powder by his side and the tori
and mangled face indicated that tht
suicide had filled his mouth Will
powder and then, probably with /
lighted match, had caused 1t 10 eX
plOde. In the pocket OF the coat wa
found notebook, in which WAS thi
Information:
"My name is w. H. Irving o
Charles street, Winthrop Beach
Mass. In case Of accident or seriOu
illness notify Mrs. w. H Irving, n
the above address. Do not send IN.
body home, "a my wife has no none.
to bury 1t. Don't bury me in \ paup
er's grave. l have been tired OF lii
for the last two years, but have live'
for my baby's sake. can no lOnge
live. | have 10 work and am out a
; money. This world is but n stage
, and the curtain has rung down upol
one OF its main scenes.
w. II. IRVING"
A case Of remarkable deprSvity L
> childhood is reported in Mexico, nea
) Vera Crus. A boy Of eight year
while playing with his sister OF tel
became 30 enrsged with her, that h
shot her with buckshOt, killing he
!, at once. The young villain wilt u
placed in house OF correction.
Lexington County, s. c., has latel
been the scene Of one Of the mO,
. savage and brutal lynchings eve
I perpetrated. On July oath, the viii
4 | Of 4 rch SiOhtler a farmer I'm this