The Columbus journal., 1881-11-23

summoned as a witness in the Gui-
teau trial.
FRIENDS of the workmen killed in
a snow drift last winter in Burt
county have commenced suit for
$1,000 against the st. Paul & Oma-
ha r. r. Co.
A HERDsMAN in the employ of
Enris'ht, a magistrate near Ennis,
county Clara, Ireland, was shot in
his own dwelling the other evening
and was reported dying.
JOHN L. WAITE has been appoint
ed postmaster at Burlington, in
place of Frank Haiton, whom the
President has appointed First. As
sistaut Postmaster General.
RECENTLY the sanitary commits.
sion has been informed that 300
persons died of cholera in Mecca, on
the 9th inst. The epidemic has
broken out in other localities.
AN express package containing
5000 was stolen the other day at
Grayling, Mich, from the express
messenger on the Michigan Central,
who carelessly left it on the plat
form.
The town of Dayton, Washington
Territory, has fifty cases of small
pox. Benz. Simpson, special agent
of the post-office department, has
stopped all mail service with the
town.
TWENTY-FIVE farms in county
Tippersry were sold the other day
by the sheriff. Tenants able to buy
in permitted the emergency COM
mittee to purchase the farms at low
figures.
SENATOR SHERMAN, on his way to
the Atlanta exposition, made brief
address on Change in Cincinnati,
claiming the necessity of law to
assist honest creditors in pursuing
debtors.
Tom SENTER, of Burt county, had
cut and put up so stacks of hay, and
the other day he lost by prairie fire
y of them. Will Senter his brother
lost about half that amount in the
same way.
FROM the ruinous rule of a free
trade policy, or the oppression of
more or less absolute,
67 ,929 immigrants sought our land
of freedom and protection during
the month of October.
MRS. TILBY, of East Des Moines,
gave birth, the other night, to baby
and has since been acting wildly.
On the 10th inst. she murdered her
babe by holding it close to her breast
until it was suffocated.
JOHN BRIGHT, the English states
man, was 20 years old on the 10Th
inst. The anniversary of his birth
day was celebrated by triumphal
arches and a holiday in Rochdale,
Lancashire, his birthplace.
COLOGNE and Berne were visited
on the 10Th by earthquakes. The
former place by violent shock of
short duration, but slight tremers
for hours afterwards. At the latter
place two severe shocks were felt.
A BOX of fifty revolvers was seized
the other day in the cellar of an
Irish resident by the police of Brad
ford, England. The box also con-
tanned some documents alleged to
belong to the Fenian organization.
THE St. Louis Biddle Market Saw
ings bank was robbed the other day
Of $1,000 by party of four thieves,
three of whom so attracted the at
tention of the officers and employees
that the other got away with the
prize.
The other evening the Diamond
Match Company's factory on West
street, Chicago, was
burned. The loss will reach $22,-
BOO. Eighty hands, mostly women
and girls, are thrown out of en-
ployment.
JUDGE LAWRENCE of the Treasury,
has recently rendered a decision to |
the effect that money paid by manu-
facturers for internal revenue stamps |
on goods that were supposed to be |
iutisble, but were not, must be re-
funded to them.
1T was reported from London on
The 10th that violent gales and heavy |
rains prevailed throughout the unit |
I'd kingdom. Shipping disasters at |
,Whitehaven and Berwick. |
They were especially severe on the
west coast of Scotland.
WATSON B. SMITH. who was re-
Gently murdered at Omaha, it ap-
pears, had another insurance upon |
his life of 81 900 in favor of the Bap.
tist church of Omaha. His most |
intimate friends did not know of the |
of the policy.
Four hundred tons of hay were |
recently burned by prairie fire in