The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-08-21

Last Friday night gang of strikers
from the Brown works at Cleveland,
Ohio, laid in ambush for party of
workingmen who had supplied their
places. AS the workingmen passed
corner the strikers fired upon them.
Some of the workingmen returned the
fire. Four men were wounded, two
fatally.
The Buda. Pesth International con-
gress for the prevention of cruelty to
animals resolved to take all possible
steps for the legal prohibition of vlyi-
section, and to establish in all countries
represented at the congress children's
societies for the protection of birds, now
slaughtered in vast numbers for wo-
mems hats and gowns.
The United States Minister, Mr.. Alex
ander w. Terrill at Constantinople, has
demanded the immediate release of six
Armenians, naturalized Americans,
who are imprisoned at Aleppo. In do
ing so, Mr.. Terrell intimated that any
further imprisonment of American citi'
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A gang of moonshiners and despera'
does surrounded the house of John w.
Jones in the mountain Businesses Of
Sewer County in Ark, last Fri
day, and fired volley after volley of
shots into it, killing Reed Jones and
two sons Jones had caused the indict-
ment of the moonshiners by the grand
| jury.
The National Retail Butchers Protec-
tive Association, at its annual conven-
ton in Denver, Colorado, last week, in
structed its police committee to enforce
the boycott previously ordered against
all meats handled by the Armour Pack
! ing Company. This action is taken be-
cause it is alleged the Armour Company
undersells the retailers in restaurants
and hotels.
Bart Thrasher, with his younger
| brother Newton, and palwho is known
to the public only as "Red Bud" are ter
rorizing Bibb county, Ala. Bart, the
other day, walked deliberately into the
town of Blocton, sought out and killed
a deputy sheriff, then as deliberately
walked out again. Bart's other brother,
an outlaw, had been killed by a posse
while resisting arrest, and Bart swears
to avenge his death.
On Saturday morning lightning struck
a $1,000 barrel oil tank on the Kemper
farm, three miles south OF Lima, o.,
owned by the Standard Oil Company
1t is situated in group Of big tanks,
and the fire was communicated to three
others. The Standard people hired 300
men TO throw up embankments, and
had their cannon on the ground shoot
ing the tanks to let the oil out The
smoke from the burning oil obscured
the sun and it was as dark as an eclipse,
The loss will reach $4,000.
Passengers who arrived at Panama
last week by the steamer Newport from
Central American ports, report that the
town of Rama, on the Atlantic coast of
Nicaragua, was completely submerged
during forty hours by the oyertlowng
of the banks of the Rivers Siqua and
Rama. The water rose to the height Of
43 feet above the level of the river
banks, and the flood did damage to
property estimated at 100000. Rama
exports a great quantity of bananas to
the United States, principally by way
of New Orleans,
A call has been issued by DR.. r, A,
Mosely, of Birmingham, State Chairman
of the Reed faction Of the Alabama Re
publicans, for state convention of his
faction of the Republican party, TO be
held in Montgomery September 5, for
the purpose ofnominating of Republican
electoral ticket in opposition to the
ticket nominated by the Mckinley fac
tion of the party. This movement is the
result of the strained relations between
: Chairman Vaughn and Mosely. Nose
ly has a large following among the
negro Republicans Of the State.
Five assignments at Chicago were
made Saturday. They are: Chicago
Consolidated Iron and Steel Company,
assets 100000; liabilities not given.
Henry NJ. Hosick, wool merchant. AS
sets, $4,000; liabilities, $l25,OOO Chi
cago IL Western Soap Works. Assets,
r $4,000; liabilities, $4,000. Louis Sebers
IL Sons, consisting of Bouts, August and
Alexander c. Sebers, individually and
| as firm, wholesale liquor dealers. AS
| sets, $4,000. George O'Berne, dealer
in hides and leather. The assets are
: given as 100000 and the liabilities are
placed at $l25,OO0.
Gen. Wheaton, commanding the Uni
} ted States troops in the Department of
Colorado, has telegraphed from Denver
; that troops from Fort Huachuaca are
now out in pursuit of the Yaqui Inians
who made the attack upon the Mexican
J portion of the town of Nogales. Anoth-
er detachment of troops from Fort
Grant are also in the field looking after
some Indians who have been crossing
the American line from Mexico, raiding
American ranches and then going back
across the border. Under the provision
of the special treaty recently negotia-
| ted IL now will ha aaeier 70 rnn thesq