The Columbus journal., 1880-12-08

DANIEL BOSNIAN, charged with
robbing the Chicago Il Alton train
at Glenwood, Kansas, plead guilty.
He and Jesse James, the notorious
outlaws, are now known TO have
been the leaders of the gang.
BRITISH Columbia was shook up
by the recent earthquake at won
derful rate. Glaciers were split
from base to summit, and great
masses cast into the valley and
creeks, completely filling them.
ONE hundred and seventeen
deaths were reported i'm New York
on the Both ult. The increase i'm
mortality is in most cases of pneu-
monia and consumption, consequent
upon the severity of the weather.
THE case against b. f. Allen was
on trial last week at Chicago, grow
ing out of the defunct Cooke county
National bank, for fraud against the
government and the banks credi-
tors.
MRS. ANNIE CASEY was arrested
the other day at Toronto on the
charge of numbering her two chill
dren. She was in the habit of get
ting drunk, but il is alleged that she
was sober when she committed the
murder.
GEN. ROBERTS, who has just re-
turned to England from the battle
fields of Afghsnistan, is the lion Of
the hour in London. He has al
ready accepted invitations to eleven
banquets in his honor, one of which
will be given in Dublin.
GRANT seems to be thorn in the
side to some republicans, as well as
democrats. The latest piece Of news
is that the ex-president is to be put
forward by Senator Conkling, and
elected as Conkling's companion in
the U. S. Senate from New York.
AGNES Brown, a colored woman
of Bronson, Ohio, died the other day
at the age of l20 years, and the
funeral sermon was preached by an
old time acquaintance from Xenia,
Ohio, who is in his one hundredth
year and has been in the ministry
since 1902.
THE remains of Byron e. Pierce
were taken to his home i'm Illinois
on the 29th ult. from the naval acad-
emy at Annapolis, Md, where great
alarm is felt on account of the in
crease in the death rate at the acad-
emy, Three cadets have died in
three weeks.
WIN. A. BURREss, of Farmland,
Indiana, shot and killed his wife on
the 30th ult. He had been drinking
all day and quarrelled with and
abused every one he met, and had
several disputes with his wife before
shooting her. lie was arrested and
taken TO Jail.
John RYAN, living i'm Washing
ton county, this State, missed $l75
from his house. Upon inquiry he
found his hired man, John McCarty,
had also disappeared, and the con-
clusiOn was that he had taken the
money. He was pursued TO Omaha
but could not be found
THE propeller Simcoe, with 10000
bushels of corn, was lost i'm a recent
storm. Besides corn she had on
board 375 barrels OF flour. All hands
on board and the vessel are believed |
TO be lost Oh Lake Huron. Four
vessels reported lost in the same
storm on Anticosta Island.
HART, the publisher of the Truth,
the paper that published the forged
Morey Chinese Garfield letter,
threatens 10 bring criminal libel
suits against the editor of the Times
and four or five similar suits against
the New York Tribune, claiming
damages in each case of $4,000.
WM. PHILLIPS, Of Montague, NJ,
aged 35, father of two children, run
away the other day with Mrs. John
Middough, a pretty and well edu-
Gated young woman, the wife OF a
prosperous farmer. The woman had
one child, about five years ld,which
she took with her. Ii is believed
they came west.
PROF. AUGHEY of the State Uni
versity has been examining the
Wyoming Oil Springs, in the Wind
river county, and it appears from
his statements that Petroleum exists
in greater quantities there than any
place yet discovered in the world.
however, is fast acquiring
a reputation of talking outside of
1opoonst.a,ad trntb
A FIRE occurred last week at
West Point, the terminus of the
York River and Chesapeake rail-
road. The fire originated in a
steam shirley, which was loading
cotton. The shirley was consumed,
and also all the wharfs, warehouses
and other buildings, together with
bales Of cotton and 2l railroad
cars The loss will reach $5O0 OO0 |