The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-03-19
BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.

| Unlontown lawyers spent an enJire
day in the trial Of two cases, and dis
covered they had been trying the
wrong man In each case, at the ex-
pense of the county.
The hanging of murderer in Della
ware County occurred Sky five years
ago. The execution being public,
there was aiarge crowd of men, women
and children.
Readings silk mill is now assured,
the citizens furnishing the grounds
and buildings, at a cost of $4,000.
1t is said the industry will eventually
employ fou. hundred men.
Wm. Putnam has been a Justice of
the Peace in Crawford County for
thirty.nine years, and claims to be the
oldest Justice, in point of continuous
service, in the State.
Out of twenty jurors called in n
Somerset case last week, eighteen of
them admitted that they did not read
the newspapers.
Electric light is now doing its best
TO dispel the darkness that has envel-
oped Plymouth at night for the past
twenty years.
Duncanncn has workmaO' Burial
Association. Twelve members died
during the past year, the widows re-
ceiving death benefits amounting to
nearly 5000.
The courts have decided that it is
impossible to adopt child 40 thorough
ly 10 this State that it can receive
legacy from its foster-falher without
paying the five per cent. collateral in
hertance tax.
"Who put poison IN the coffee ?" is
the conundrum that Lebanons Aims
house officials are trying to solve.
Suspicion now points TO an evicted
and revengefu tramp as the perpetrator
of the fiendish act.
A Reading clergeman declines to
serve on the committee of arrangements
for the County Fair, because, as he
says, 'there is too much horse-racing,
lager beer and gambling at the societys
exhibitions" "
Mrs. May S. Bayard. grand
daughter of Charles Carroll, a signer
of the Declaration of Independence,
and lady of rare intellectual attain
ments, died in Philadelphia few days
ago, at the age of 50 years.
Judge lnghram, of Fayette, hods
that eating houses are not places of re-
Ireshment within the meaning Of the
law, and therefore not entitled to a
license to sell intoxicants. All appli-
cations were refused.
The widow of Assistant Conductor
A G. McCahren, who was killed in the
railroad disaster at Duncanuon, has
received $1,000 from a company in
which her husband had one year pre-
viousiy taken out policy.
The Nanticoke relief fund has reach.
ed the sum of $4,000. Each widow
is to receive 1925 per annum, in month
ly payments, so long as she remains
a widow and the fund holds out.
Others are to receive lesser sums under
similar restrictions
The new oil field in Grand Valley,
Warren County, is looming up.
There are now sixty.fve producing
wells, with daily production of two
hundred barrels, and thirty more are
now in process of drilling.
One year ago the Marietta hollow
ware works had on hand $4,000 pieces
of ware. Now they have about 5000
pieces and have been running on full
time during the entire year. The
buildings are to be enlarged.
The temperance women OF Pittsburg
propose the founding of a Temperance
Home, where inebriates may be help
ed and reformed, and unfortunate men
of all classes find place of refuge un-
til they can obtain employment and he.
come moral, industrious and honorable
members of society.
The General Executive Committee
of the Knights of Labor have settled
some thirty or forty disputes in Phila-
delphia during the past two weeks
The committee is composed of FIVE men
the trades of whom were machinist
a gold beater, saw mill man. a miner
and a railroader, who are exertine
great influence in quiet manner.
The Clearfield Democrat, in critic
ising Judge Krebs' order that glazed
windows and bar screens III hotels and
saloons must GO, remarks: ."This will
enable the small boys to see how the
men drink, and as most boys are very
initiative, they will soon learn how tc
do the thing themselves"
The movement to form a new coun
ty ont of parts of Blair, Huntingdon
Cambria and Clearfeld, with Tyrone
as the county seat. agitated some year
ago, has been revived. One interesirt
8 gentleman offers to contribute $4,000
! conditionally, towards the erection o