The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-03-31
GENERAL NEWS.

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the officer. Hs is charged with
numbering his fce.year-Old child.
In fitlof passion Strickland threw
his child against the side of the house
with such force that it died shortly
after. Strickland then became
alarmed and left the peighbOrhoo
Officers are in clio e persuit and he
will probably be captured.
Women are holding important
clerkships in both ranches OF the
Arkansas Legislature Miss w. P.
Honey is enrolling clerk and Nils
Zonie Harvey engr0ssing clerk OF the
Senate, while two women hold com
mittee clerkships in the same body.
The house has two women assistant
clerks.
Catchem, Killum & Robbem. is said
to be the rather curious name Of n
Alabama firm. Notwithstanding / >
ggestivenesF, the firm Is said 10 be
doing a thriving business.
Six old men, the youngest being
sixty and the Oldest eighty, reached
San Antonio last Thursdsy, having
walked all the way from near Wins
toll, N. G. They announced that
their mission in Texas was to grow
up with the country.
An Italian who formerly lived In
America, threw stone at King Hum
bert OF Italy, the other day, but
missed him.
A Chicago man killed himself last
week, kneellng at the grave Of his
four children in Cave Hill Cemetery,
Louisville. He was once q business
man Uf that city.
A Mrs. Hickman, in Cincinnati,
has had a remarkable experience
About year ago she lost her voice
during hysterlcal tit, from which
she suffered as the result OF the grip.
For more than year she remained
entirely dumb, though her health
was fairly good between the fits
last week, during one of these, her
voice suddenly returned, as natural
as before, but after two days she
again tecame dumb.
Col. Elliot F. Shepard, known as
the eIItOr of the great religious
daily U1e New York Mail and Elk
press, { MS home last week
He W. .Ntug ether for surgica
.operaA IJa could not be revived
The Co ne, published fresh text o.
scriptdre al Tue head of his col
umns every day. He was in many
ways a crank but had been level
headed enough to marry the oldes
daughter Of Wan. ii. Vanderbilt ant
secure fortune of ten millions.
Prof. Gray, one of the inventors o.
the telephone, has completed an in
strumeny he calls the Uelautogrsph
This liz An improved telegraphic me
chine, 81 constructed that any Oh
can write message at one end of tn
wire ana at the other end, it does.no
matter be " far away, the message
in the exact handwriting of the sen
der, will be reproduced. One Cal
even make drawings Of any kind an,
have them reproduced Oh the insIu
ment at the other end OF the wire.
A big sole-leather trust has beel
formed in New York, with q capita
of fifty millions 1t is said to take il
all the large eastern manufacturers
and some of the western, ipcludin
tion Of sole leather. As the price q
sole-leather will Of course b ad
.vanced, many people will no dOut
have to walk on their uppers."
A Hungarian inventor claims to b
able to spin ordinary wood pulp, q
cellulose, into yarn, from which a
sorts OF textile tissues can be MAJ
in the ordinary way, equaling j
durability, appearance and fastnes
of color, the best cotton goods. II hi
scheme is practicable it will revolU
tionize the textile industry. 1t
claimed the method is applicable, ne
only to cellulose, but to every sort {
short fibrous material, rags, scraps {
cotton and linen goods, aud the lik
and the fiber can be dyed befol
being spun into yarn.
Bonnie F. Stevens, a prominel
citizen of Kentucky, died at n
home near Darlington, aged 81 year
He hurt one Of his feet two weel
ago, but did not suffer from it unit
blood poison set in, when he died
its effects in only few hours. u
was to have been married on IL
same day he died.
Sheriff ]. S. Cline, of Pike count
Ky, took batch of prisoners, 8
murderers, to the Frankfort pen
Tertiary. Among them were Joe al
Aevi Wright, two boys, sent up +
three years each. They were DO
torfy II and y years Of age when tn,
unar{ cred their brother, who hi
chargeaof them. He whipped the
for not learning lesson, aud viii
he was sleeping the two boys got
shotgun, one holding it to his he
while the olher pulled the triggt
blowing his head to atoms.
Bullet-proof cloth is the startli
invention OF a Mannheim German
tailor, just tested severely and q