The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-01-27
News Items.

General Silas Casey, of the United
States army, died Saturday at his res
idence in Brooklyn.
Joseph II. Chase, pioneer and a
well-known citizen of Scranton, died
Saturday after lingering illness.
New schedules went into effect Sat
urday morning on the Pennsylvania,
Northern Central and Cumberland rail-
roads.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has just
awarded more than $4,000 as annual pre-
miums to those foremen and supervisors
who have kept their sections of the road
in the best repair. These are premiums
for the public safety and are wisely
spent.
Robberies on the Lehigh Valley rail
road are now more frequent than ever.
Several nights ago five men were cap
tured near Bethlehem, who with two
wagons, had over sixty firkins of butter
which they had stolen from freight
car.
Sixteen of the twenty-one cities in
Massachusetts report less amount of
debt at the close of 1881 than at the
close of 1880, and in most of them there
has been marked increase in the val
uation of taxable property.
There are now 2,2OS school districts
in Pennsylvania, with 1885 schools.
Last wear S7,994,7O5,O was spent on
these schools, which were under the
charge of 1852 teachers.
DIR. DeWolf, Health Commissioner of
Chicago, says that unless people protect
themselves by vaccination, smallpox
will be rampant there, and not man,
woman or child in Northern Illinois will
be safe.
A pure, wholesome distillation of
witch hazel, American pine, Canada fir,
marigold, clover blossoms, ETC., fragrant
with the healing essences of balsam and
of pine. Such is Sanford's Radical Cure
for Catarrh. Complete treatment for 81.
There are 7O,OOO,OOO standard silver
dollars in the treasury and $62,000,0OO
silver certificates outstanding.
Robert G. Bailey, teacher III public
school near the town of Rose Bud, Ran
dolph county, ILL.,, was killed on Satur-
day by one of his pupils named Emmet
Mcbride. The teacher undertook to
chastise Mcbride for disobedience of
rules, struggle ensued and Bailey was
stabbed to the heart.
A food in the Cumberland river has
partially submerged the city Of Nashville,
Tenn. and ten thousand people We're
driven from their homes. The gas and
sewer pipes were broken land destroyed
and the loss will be immense. The rail
roads were under water and all traffic
| suspended.
Two passenger trains running at full
speed on the Charleston & Savannah r..
r. collided at point twenty seven miles
from Charleston, on Saturday morning.
The engines and mail cars were totally
wrecked Two men were killed, one ia
tally injured and several others iously.
| Disobedience of orders caused the acci-
dent.
Mrs Woodmansee, of Steelton, Dau-
phin Co. last weei; ate cracker on
which poison had been placed to kill
rats. She died the following day iu
great agony.
| William Tyson of Steelton, Dauphin
Co, when drunk on Saturday, held lit
tie child on red hot stove until some
of the flesh was burned off its body. The
wretch is now in Jail,
James Sullivan and William Howard
murdered young man named George
II. Reynolds, at Semitic, Washington
territory, last week. After a hearing
before magistrate in which their gull
was we'll established, a crowd number
ing 400, burst into the court room seizeC
the murderers and hanged them. Th'
lynchers then proceeded to the Jail, forced
an entrance and hanged Ben njamiI
Payne, confined fer the murder of polio,
officer Sears
: Enoch Pratt, a wealthy Baltimorean
has offered to erect and endow fre,
circulating library for that city at {
cost of over one million dollars, if tn
city will create an annuity of fifty thou
sand dollars per annum.
| Thomas Morris, VIM. M. Hopkins
, and VIM. M. Davis, miners in No
slope of the Susquehanna coal compan,
at Nanticoke were found dead in one o
the gangways Monday afternoon. The!
; had been suffocated while at work.
A despatch from Dallas, Tex, say
that ii. A. Little, who had been gues
at the st. George Hotel, in that city
for several days past, went into tn
office about IL o'clock Sunday night
when only Ford Parker, the night clerk
and a colored waiter We're present Step
ping up to the counter, Little hande'
Parker a parcel, asking him to put it in
to the safe. Parker turned towards tn
safe, when Little sprang at him with
drawn revolver, ordering him to throw
up his hands and keep still. Little thel
attempted to rob the safe, but Parke
rushed at him, wrenched the pistol from
his hand aud shot him, inhioting a MOI
fal wound Parker WAS arrested