The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-07-28
GENERAL NEWS.

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old man made up his mind to marry
n Young wife aud his sous objected
But the old man seemed determined
and the sons determined to prevent
it by Stealing all hi| money aud
stocks. The scheme WAS successful
and the sons got otfwith about $l2, 900
The old man has not married yet, but
he is determined 10 recover his prop
erty aud has one son, Ohio +. Lane,
County attorney Of Gregg County, be-
hind the bars. A large reward is
offered FOR the others.
A very skilful piece Of thiavery
WAS prscticed on the United states
Exprefs Company the o.her day. A
package contaiu1c$' 900 WAS shippe I
from Chicago to n. A. Robinson, of
Promise City, Ia., and when received
and opened 10y the con -ign+d was
found to contain only brown wrap
ping paper. The seal had hen raised
apparently ana the money extract Ell
in transit. No cJew TO the thief has
been found.
Toe II tod Murd Valley Bank
TuUoeIs ',re nurtOuni'd nj Lenapah,
]. Il. The gang consists OF seven
men, all Of whom are.w ell armed and
well supplied with ammunition.
They st EN- to have II sort of a strong
hold in ine thick timber on Cedar
Creek and TIE proximity of their pur-
suers does not AT all prevent t cir
holding up travellers. There will be
louble wnen All attempt is made to
dslodge them.
Mira. Lena Tremble, Of Newark, N.
J has reversed the usual conditions
of domestic inftljcity. Last Friday
night the police was ummOued to
her house AMI Mrs. Tremble was
found to be d unk and pugnscious.
She was standing by her husbands
bedside holdings kuige in one hand
aud IN the other cluL, with which
she WAS vigorously beating her in
feriOr hall. 1t took three men to take
her 10 the station house.
The most elaborate "a well as the
most expensive lswn tennis court in
structon at Geo. Vanderbilt's villa at
AshvIlle, y. G.. The court is laid out
near the Vanderbilt mansion, which
Is almost completed. The material
used is white TuckahOe marble. The
mansion is built OF the same material,
aud it comes from the quarries which
furnished the marble for the sub
treasury in New York City. IL wa
stated at the Tuckahoe works that
the tennis grounds will COST $4,000.
Governor Markham, OF California,
has appointed George q. Perkins 10
succeed Leland Stanford as Uuuited
States Senator. OF course Mr.. Per-
kins is republican, and Of course he
is rich, rs wealth IS reg 1rded as The
most necessary qualification for a
senator from the West,
Samuel Edison, the father of ThOs
A. Edison, the great inventor, is sfill
living and is 81 years old, He has
been married in the last few years
and has little dangater 9 years old,
of whom he is very proud.
There are eight negro boys in Har-
rodsburg, KY, who won't like to be
caught breaking into house last
week and were arraigned before
Judge Caldwell. The boys were not
over fourteen or fifteen years Of age
aud The Judge called their mother
into court au1 said that II the boys
Were sOundly thrashed in court, they
would not be- imprisoned. The
women agreed to DO the whipping
aud did i. in u way 70 be remembered
Last Friday night man named
Alien f. Jones, II farmer near TeXar-
kama, Tex, killed his wife and
three children End then himself. He
killed his family with an axe aDC
hang himself. He was fellow OF u
very low order Of Intelligence and
though iudustriuuS made Il very pOOl
living. Temporary insanity was sup
posed TO be the cause OF the tragedy.
A party of prOspectors, from Yuma
Cal while looking for an old mine
in the Colorado Desc TT, discovered
some ruins of an ancient city. INT
ruins uncovered fill space 420 feel
long by 2G0 feet in width. They cOu
sst of solid stone walls, large Pillar
carved in relief with dragons heads
aud snakes, and bearing heaV.
granite slabs on their tops The
lrieze carving is somewhat like tn
Egyptiau in sIyle aud better thar
ordinary Indian work. Fragment
of the carving aud some broken pot
terry were brought back to Yuma au'
further explorations will be begun q
soon as conditiont are favorable.
The extreme fOndness for the negr
shown by the people North OF tn
Mason and DiXon's line is seen OF
tener in print than in fact. In on
town North Of that line the feelinl
toward the colored brother is sucl
that NJ negroes can live therein. i
SandOval, Illinois, a few days since
acOutraCtuT was snort OF men an
employed two negro men who wer
passing through the town seekin
work. The dArkeys had scarcel.
begun work before y crowd began t
gather around the building on whic
they were working. The crowd gre'
until iC developed into II mob an
there was talk of lynching the niue
beloved freedmen simply becaus
they had set foot in the sacred pre-
Ciucts of Sandoval. The contractO
was called upon To give his reason
for outraGing the sanctity of tn
town by employing negro wOr&meI
Aft1 IL Nuith frraat a hnnlfu thS