The Columbus journal., 1882-07-26

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Methodist Episcopal church of the
United States, died of paralysis the
morning of the 18th, July 80, near
Odessa, Delaware. aged 81 years.
He entered the ministry in 1925.
THREE boys in Lowell, Mass. lost
their lives the other day from lockja
induced by wounds made by toy pis-
tolls in the LETT hand. They all died
! in the most intense agony. The names
of the boys were John Hayes, John
Berrcn aud Fred Jarvis.
EX-SENATOR PADDOCK member of
the Utah commission, has received
his commission and been sworn in,
and last week went to Chicago to at
tend meeting of the commission it
is understood that the chairman ship
lies between Ramsey and Paddock.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN and "Tug" VIII
son fought four rounds with gloves i'm
New York on the night Of the 18th.
Wilson was TO receive $1,000 should
Sullivan fail to knock him out OF
time. He won the money, but was
dread:ulIy ''pnnished' in the contest.
The Italian American bank i'm the
Zeitun@ building, New York, was
robbed the other morning by bur-
glars who entered by means of false
KEYS, opened the safe and distracted
$1,000, of which 5000 were green
backs and the rest foreign coin. No
clue to the burglars.
ABDUCTING young children is be-
coming matter of frequent occur
renee these days. AT St. Julia, a viii
lage not far from Montreal, two young
children Of Cyrille Belanger, myster-
;ously disappeared the other day.
Five hundred men were securing the
country. Foul play is suspected.
A MAN 45 years of age, evidently q
foreigner, has been at Sioux City for
several days recently, claiming to hail
from Chicago. He saws he is the ad-
vance agent of the Redeemer. and
failing to get hal. in wIiich the Re-
deemer could lecture to the people on
the sintulness of their WAYS. he left
for Omaha.
We have men within the borders
of Nebraska who are intellectual
giants and by the side OF whom our
present representatives are pigmies.
Why not call them to the front? WHY
not send men there who will rank
with E1munds, HOar. Logan, Harri-
son and others of like ability p
X kearney Press.
The Wahoo Independent advises
Shedd, White and Reese, the respec-
tive Saunders county candidates for
governor, treasurer and attorney gem
eral to come to some agreement
among themselves as to which of the
three shall have the solid home sup
port, seeing that but one from the
, county can secure a place on the state
ticket.
A TERRIFIC storm of wind, rain and
hail was reported last week as sweep
ing over the fertile and populous sec
| ton of the Black Hills known as the
| Speartisb and Redwater. 1t is stated
that two thousand acres of magnifi-
cent grain, nearly ready for the har-
| vest, were destroyed, and a section of
country four miles wide and thirty
miles long devastated.
S. p. CLARK, who was recently ar
rested by custom officers at Detroit,
gave information which led TO the
seizure at Chicago OF cashmere and
cloths valued at S2,700, which had
been smuggled from Canada and sold
to various merchants at Chicago.
Portions o: the goods were also found
at Buffalo, Erie, Detroit, Cleveland,
Cincinnati and Milwaukee.
THE true name of the man arrested
from Ohio at Omaha the other dav
under the direction of detective j. L.
Norris, is Milo Robbins. Mr.. Norris
Iuliy identified him on his arrival as
the man wanted. His victim was
little girl only s years old, and he will
be taken back by Norris TO Spring
field, Ohio. to face his crime, the pen
atty for which is lite Imprisonment.
IT is stated that a new horror has
been added to the cigarette in Cali
fornia. 'Leprosy" says a San FRAN
cisco physician, sis revealing itself
about the lips and tongues of boys
who smoke cigarettes made by the
Chinese. The disease, though fatal,
is slow in giving tokens of its first
approaches" No less than 10 cases
of infection by cigarette smoking
had come under the physicians notice.
THREE masked men entered the
house of Chas. w. Key, wealthy
farmer living near Papillion, Neb.,
the other nj ght and by threats forced
from him his pocket-book which COLI
tanned only about thirty dollars.
Another pocket book containing sew
eral hundred dollars was in the room,
and escaped the notice of the robbers.
1t will be sometime before Mr.. Key
RECEIVERS from the severe choking he
received.
DEs MONIES, Iowa, had two scnsa-
tions last week in the way of clope-
ments. DR.. n. B. Heartwell, after a
weeks absence, returned to find his
wife had eloped with VIM. Osborne,
friend of the family. She took
little daughter and household goods
with them. Miss Dana Napier,
daughter of Judge Napier, and Ed
ward Norman also eloped. Both wO-
men have heretofore borne good repu-
tatiOns and were noted for being
quite demure. Both men were hard
ware clerks.
ST. PAUL, Neb., was visited the
other day by a serious fire, which
broke out AT a. N. in the rear of the
store building occupied by H. {.
Metcalf, containing about 5000
worth of goods, and being building
known as the Freeman block. No
one knows how the fire originated.
but it is supposed TO be the work of
an inceudiary. The names of the
loosers are w. NJ. Freeman, NJ. d.
Freeman, NJ. ID. Abbey, H. c. Met
calf, o. M. Knipple, James Barge,
B. F. Bish and DIR. Cooper. The loss
will reach $40. 900 or $4,000.
A LONG debate took place the other
day in the house over paying the ex-