The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-03-17
News Items.

A terrible earthquake is reported in
Costa Rica. -Four towns were DESTROYED
aud thousands of lives lost.
Two burglars, aged respectively and
8 years, have been arrested in New
York. They were not at all alarmed
and chatted merrily in the police station.
They had robbed the tills and stands of
Washington market butchers.
The Elixir of Life
That purely vegetable compound,
Burdock Blood Bitters, may be Justly
termed the Elixir of Life A pleasant
and effective medicine; it imparts
strength and vitality to the entire sys
TEN. Price SlOO.
Attorney General Palmer has brought
suit against the Pullman palace car com
pany, for tax upon the capital stock of
the company in the State, amounting to
41,S60,76.
Last week Iaac Row shot an eagle in
Washington township, Dauphin county,
which measured seven feet two inches
from UP 10 UP OF its wings.
HOPE ON HOPE EVER,
No matter what the ailment may be,
rheumatism, neuralgia, lameness, asthma,
bronchitis-if other treatments have
failed--hope on! go at once for Thomas
Eclectric Oil. 1t will secure you i'm
mediate relief.
United States Commissioner Shields,
in New York, refused last week to give
naturalization papers to a Chinaman,
basing his refusal on the decision of
Judge Sawyer in like case, that the ap.
plicant was not free white person with
in the meaning of the statute.
The President has authorized the use
of United States troops in Nebraska to
aid the governor of that State to sup
press the riotous strikers in the iron
works at Omaha.
Daily Fort Wayne Sentinel.
Mr. S. II. Joseph, Agent Emersons
Minstrels, remarks: | can with truth
speak from experience; and in saying st.
Jacobs Oil acts in marvellous manner l
but partly express my good opinion of it.
Rev. Henry Highland Garnett, col
ored United States Minister to Liberia,
died at Monrovia, February l3, aged &C
years.
The shifting house at Waddell's mine,
near Wilkes Barre was burned last Sat
urday night. The flames communicated
to the magazine, where half a hundred
pounds of explosives were stored, and
an explosion took place. The air was
filed with flying and burning fragments,
but no one was in jured.
An effective medicine for kidney dis
eases, low fevers and nervous prostration,
and we'll worthy of a trial, is Browns
Iron Bitters.
BY an explosion on the steamer Sid
ney, near Ravenswood Ohio, river, last
Friday, eight persons were killed and
several badly wounded.
r.. II. Cornwall, a clerk in the Fourth
National Bank, New York, has turned
out to be defaulter, having appropriated
$4,000 of the banks securities Corn
wall is 65 years of age and has eight
children, He is reported as dangerously
sick
1t is useless to deny that the brightest
and fairest fall easy victims to con-
sumption, and equally fruitless to ignore
the fact that decline has its origin in
many cases in neglected catarrh. San
ford's Radical Cure is pure, sweet,
balsamic specific,
Smallpox is epidemic in South Bethle-
hem, there being more than 100 cases.
The schools have been closed.
Saylor & Co., stock brokers of VIII! es
Barre, have suspended.
In Mount Pleasant, Iowa, on Satur-
day, the most severe snow storm known
for years ragged all day, completely stop
ping business.
The rolling mills of the Duncarnon
Iron Company at Duncannon, took fire
Sunday evening and were entirely CON
sumed, involving loss of from $4,000
to $4,000, and throwing 800 men ont
of employment. No lives were lost
John 5. Miller an employee, sustained
serious injuries by falling slate.
A special from GreensburG Indiana,
says the residence of William Stewart,
fifteen miles northeast of that place, was
burned on Friday night, and Mrs. Mary
McEroy, aged l06 years, Mrs. Stewart 5
grandmother, perished in the flames.
The remainder of the family narrowly
escaped.
A SMOOTH COMPLEXION.
Can be had by every lady who will
use Parker's Ginger Tonic. Regulating
the internal organs and purifying the
blood it quickly removes pimples and
gives healthy bloom TO the cheek.
Read about it in another column.
Fully one hundred whites and negroes
engaged in a riot on Saturday at Third
Creek, North Carolina. A negro at
tackled white man, and when the latter
defended himself more negroes took part,
when the whites came TO the aid of the
man attacked. Troops went to the scene
and arrested number of the rioters and
placed them in Jail,
William Krambe, German, was in
stantly killed by an electric shock from
Brush electric dynamic battery, at tn,
Cleveland rolling mill, on Saturday eve
ming. The deceased was employed as
assistant engineer, and had been repeat
edly warned not to touch the machinery
Early in the evening, while the machine
was in full operation, the engineer left
the room, Hearing fall, he immediate
ly returned, and found Krambe ston,
dead. He was lying directly in front Of
the brushes which catch the electric
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