The Columbus journal., 1881-07-27

THREE deaths resulted from g
railroad accident at North Adams.
MISS MARY Z. BROOKS of Omaha
10 going to Turkey as a mission
teacher.
GEN. b. WEAVER spoke at Wahoo
on the 18th and at Lincoln the same
evening.
The srmy-worm is doing much
damage to the crops in various parts
of Illinois.
ALICE WEIGH, a young lady, was
instantly killed in Chicago last week
by lightning.
CHARLES GRELLER died at Salem
Ind, on the night of the I'D, OF
Asistic cholera.
The claimant for the Spanish
throne expelled from France, has
gone to England.
FULLERTON, in Nance county, has
succeeded in securing the Wesleyan
State University.
IRELAND will have a crop of po-
tstoes that will more than supply
the home demand.
From July 10th to 10th, inclusive,
ala persons died in Cincinnati from
heat and sunstroke.
Miss MONTAGUE, Forepsugh's
$4,000 beauty, was dangerously i'll
last week at Gslena, Ill.
In 1912 the United States pro-
duced only 100000 tons of coal
last year about 100000.
BISHOP TALBOT, of the Episcopal
Diocese of Indiana, is lying danger
ously i'll from a paralyitic stroke.
The Chicago Clearing House
shows for last weeks returns the
following amount: Sal, 1881, 1876.
JUSTICE CLIFFORD of the United
States supreme court, was reported
dangerously iii at Cornish last
week.
1T is calculated that Germany will
will lose the present year a quarter
of q million of her subjects by emf
grafton.
S. j. WHITE, a brakeman, was shot
and MORALLY wounded by a tramp
he put off the train at Hastings, Mo-,
last week.
AT Havana last week twenty
three deaths were reported from
yellow fever, and twelve from
smallpox.
THE Lake Bluff, Ill.,, camp meet
ing was visited by 1000 people last
week. Some roughs were among
the crowd.
The vote in the Albany legisla-
ture on the 10Th for senator resulted
ss follows: Laphsm 6S, Potter 45,
and Conkling %.
The Roman Catholic Presbytery
at Roxton Falls burned at Quebec
on the 10Th and Father Lsrue per-
ished in the flames.
The dead body of an infant was
discovered floating in the river at
Dies MOines last week in a tin buck
ct. Probably murdered.
IT is claimed now that the winter
was unusually severe in the Arctic
circle. Last week at Spitzbergen
the ice was not broken up.
The Nebraska militia colonel is
L. w. Colby of Gage county; lieut..
colonel, w. J. Keller of Clay ;major,
Geo. ID. Adamson of York.
A STEAMSHIP can be steered by
electricity il works well for steer
Ing purposes, but affects the compass
es so as to make them useless.
By the explosion of the boiler of
q portable ssw-mill at Watertown,
near Marietta, Ohio, three men were
killed and two more fatally injured .
THERE is q rumor that JAY Gould
has traded the St. Joe and Denver
railroad for the A. & N. in Nebras-
ka. The rumor needs confirmation.
GORDON, a land -lesguer, has been
sentenced to n years. imprison-
ment for melting to murder after he
was arrested under the coercion act.
NEAR Jersey City Lad neek BY a
falling scaffold, twelve b~ricklayers
were thrown to the ground, and
seven of them dangerously injured.
Mr.. M. r. NoYEs and F. E. Con-
ner, brothers-in-lsw, while walking
along the street in Paw Paw, Mich
igsn, last week were both killed by
lightning.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD's mother il
reported improving in health, at her
home in Scion, Ohio. 1t is said thai
the accounts of her sickness were
exaggerated.
THERE will be great disappoint.
ment about the German harvest az
IL 10 now reported that there will be
from one-hslf to two-thirds of the
average yield.
The grand jury at Washington
has been discharged and will not