The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-07-07
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He2petta, Tenn, Dec. 20, 1892.
GENERAL NEWS.

ULNEhAL NE VS.
TSre COurier-Journal has discovered
Ia" oldest man in the country. He
is Ismes McMillin, OF Carlisle
CGGuty, KY, aud was born in Fin
c~4t ., va Get. II, 1916, being now
III years anu 8 months old. He is in
go@t health, is in the full possession
* t&s faculties and bios fair TO 1--we
q0i6s a while. He lived III Tenues
see "Ece AMI says he has often slept
wttb President Pc k, who he calls
J;m Polk. He also says that he
ilUEEed FOR five seasons with Davy
Gro sieSt McMillin is always cheer
Iut, Sat he says he is tired of living
Snd IS willing to go whenever called.
EU 1896 George Watkins, with
Vnuieay young wife from Kansas,
moved to Benton County, Ark, and
settled on tue homestead OF Andy
He6gepeth, wealthy planter.
Watkins soon became aware OF un-
hoty relations between Hedgepeth
aud Igs. Watkins. Tie two men
%eGs 10 market in Watkins wagon.
HeEgepeth returned alone. The
sBScien absence of Watkins excited
sgSfieiOn, and Hedgepeth and the
w0su3a were arrested. The woman
F%Ire n{ed and at the trial stated that
she and Hedgepeth had agreed to kill
hcc husband, out denied any knowl-
edge Of the murder. The evidence
W&s eircumstantial,b but in a strong
ami C2csroken chain, Hedgepeth hav-
IEg the supposed dead mans money,
ccat, pipe and gloves. The case was
carrie 6 80 the Supreme Court, re-
veSed and at the second trial Hedge
petb Wss again convicted aud later
w1s banged. To day it ~ learned by
Ii eStg epeth's counsel that Watkins is
Ayinr at has old home in Kansas,
Yhst9 he has bean all the time since
his disappearance.
Ese ether day as undertakers LeId-
nee 4 DrOster, of st. Louis, were
ahG'or to screw down the Ind Of the
cutG Il that contained the apparently
dr~t body of Chas, Walter, the sup
p0Sed c&rpse suddenly sat up in the
ccES5 u His sudden revival nearly
rcS2ed the undertakers to death. The
sies. Saan sent for a different doctor
t~in ehe one who pronounced him
ueS5, and is now on the way to re-
C'VGCy.
A few months ago the wife OF
ChlSEes BOgard, of Morrison, Pa,
0tea. Since then the man has been
mentally unbalanced. He believed
tGa1 his wife had been foully treated.
To satisfy him his friends disInterred
dte body and to their horror, found
task the woman had been buried
alive. The clothes had been torn to
pFrsts, the flesh furrOwed and in the
EAHtsa were clutched lunches Of hair.
"n last Saturday, July !, the new
law controlling the sale OF whisky in
thsctste Of South Carolina, went into
eitecL From this time, all intoxi-
TziHts will be sold by di-pensaries
pWGed and controlled by the State.
As Uie saloons were all open up to II
nrsocs- Saturday night, everybody
VITO drinks got a supply OF liquor
and there was universal spree. On
Saturday there were only ten places
orea ga the State where liquor could
ne aOught. Gov. Tillman thinks the
psoat TO the State will be 100000.
At ST Louis last week, man
naue3 Louis TrOmbridge walked
'GtU the Office Of Chief of Police Har-
r,EAI and asked to be arrested. He
ssa seif-confessed forger, and has
neea free for eight years, while
aisolheg man has been suffering for
HIs riDle. Eight years ago from
Or13gS, then San Francisco lumber
W8N:Gsnt, forged a note for $500,
letEE the name of Warren Jones,
eau&ev, at Eureka, Cal. He got the
AM Yey on the note from James Har-
m3a Harmon was arrested, con-
vloted and sentenced to five years in
Tie penitentiary. Stricken with re-
mTse, he to-day gave himself up.
Hts rumored that Jim Corbett, the
AWeCccsn champion pugilist, and
HlH,hell, she English bruiser, have
arranged to fight at Chicago under
we auspices OF the Columbian Ath-
te'ic Club for 3 purse Of $4,000.
Etee other day Gov. W. J. Stone, of
Nj ssG%ri, had fight. A man speak
ius sbOut the Governors testimony
las lawsuit said that he had lied.
NNy. Stone promptly seized the crutch
Ut 9me man who was sitting near
Hyst Knocked the witness down. They
SHei ciinched and had a rough and
oEl0efe Eight but were separated with
YAK 1nuch danger 10 either.
Ak ~1nspeaksblen Turk has been
showing himself over Europe, with
DeASN OF 1 feet inches long. The
IartS rs not "in it, compared to a
Tt WSerOf men living in this country.
t6Utp Hensen Of CoTinth, Miss, was
s'oztSlz feet high, but his beard
oaat he'd 70 The ground. 1t was 20
S@.1es long a man named Adscs
hivueu lived In Chicago last year,
Scose beard was - feet long.