The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-01-26
NEWS.

On Wednesday last week, the anniver-
sary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, the
bronze statue of the pioneer printer
presented to the press and printers of
New York by Captain DeGroot was
formally unvei led by Professor Morse,
before large crowd assembled in Print.
ing house Square New York. The cere.
monies included speeches by DR.. Prime,
Professor Morse, Mr.. Greeley, and Mr..
G. G. Savage. In the evening large
company of litterateurs assembled at
| Delmonico's TO honor the day.
IN a street-car in Utica Mrs. McCarty
exchanged some angry words with Mil
ton III. Thompson, who was.accompan.
led by I'll. II. Hall, coal dealer of
| Ogdensburg. She suddenly drew a
revolver and shot at Thompson. The
ball passed through his face and pierced
Halls heart. The latter fell dead in
the car, but Thompson's wound is not
considered dangerous. The woman was
arrested.
A dispatch from Frankfort, Ky,
says that short time since party of
disguised men visited the house of a
citizen in that county while wedding
was in progress and took possession of
the premises. They fired off pistols and
danced over the floor, and the fright
occasioned to the daughter of this
citizen caused her to go into spasms,
succeeded by insanity.
LABOR REFoRM.-A National Con
vention of the Labor Reform Party will
be held in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednes
day, Feb. 2lst, 1872, to nominate can
didates for President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, and for the
transaction of such other business as
may come before it.
Reading II. r., has agreed to advance
fifty per cent. of the cost toward the
erection of blast furnaces in the valley
of the Schuylkill, on the line of the p.
& r. Railroad.
In response to a letter signed by near.
ly one thousand Republicans Col. A.
X. Mcclure has signified his willingness
to run for the State Senate from the
fourth district as Reform Candidate.
He will probably defeat Gray the ring
nominee.
THE miners of the Wilkesbarre Coal
and Iron Company have resumed work
having yielded to the reduction in their
wages made by the company, There is
now no suspension in the Wyoming
region.
ELK county boasts of more snow,
bigger tanneries, more hemlock iimber.
and greater number of deer, bears and
wildcats than any county of the size in
the Commonwealth.
AT two o'clock p. NJ. on Wednesday
last, man was thrown down at Third
and Chestnut streets Phila. one of the
most busy sp OTIS in the city, and robbed
of fourteen hundred dollars. The robbers
escaped.
HERR WACHTEL, who recently sang
five nights at the Philadelphia Academy
of Music, received 81, 400 for his services.
The entire receipts amounted to ST., 800.
PRESIDENT GRANT recently gave his
check for $4,000 in payment of his un-
settled accounts as an officer of the
regular army several years ago.
Jno. w. Heath. gentleman who
resides at Beaver Meadow, Schuylk;ll
county, was robbed by three men, on the
public highway, of 81 800, on Thursday
last.
Hon. George. II. Dennis succeeds Mr..
Vickers as United States Senator from
Maryland, the Legislature in joint con-
vention having elected him on Friday
last.
AT Lakeville, Mass, on Friday, a
dentist named Charles A. Leach, while
suffering from delirium tremens, made
a "raid" upon the population at large,
and shot four men before he was secur-
ed.
A man in Montclair, N. j., hid SILL
500 in Elizabeth City bonds under his
barn floor, and when he took them up
they were so mildewed that they were
worth nothing.
THE Trenton Bank, N. j. was enter
ed on Sunday night last by five burglars
who bound and gagged the watchman
and carried Off securities valued at $780,
600. No arrests.
The messenger of the Metropolitan
Bank was robbed on Broadway, near
Murray street New York of pocket
book containing gold checks and GER
tifcates amounting to $4,000.
Mrs. Wharton has been acquitted of
the murder of General Ketcham. The
trial has created great excitement but
the result was not unexpected.
General Mosby, of guerilla fame, has
been made brigadier-general of the
State militia of Maryland.