The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-02
N AND DEMOCRAT BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA COUNTY PA


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Three hundred and twenty marriages
took place in Camden, N. j. during
January.
In Wilmington, Del, out Of q total
Of thirty. eight applicants for license
only twelve wers granted.
George II. Corliss, the builder Of the
great engine exhibited at the Centen.
nial, died at noon Tuesday, Feb. 81,
at Providence II. i.
Mrs. McNulty, Of Winchester, O.,
on the night of February rs, gave birth
to three children, making five In four
teen months. All are alive.
The Union Square Theatre, New
York. was completely destroyed by
fire Tuesday afternoon. The Morton
House was also badly damaged.
There are indications of the wage
question again causing trouble in the
Connellsville coke district. A new
scale Of prices is announced to take
effect March 1st.
The work of rebuilding the town Of
Mt. Vernon, ILL.,, which was recently
destroyed by cyclone, is under full
headway. Every man that can ham
die an axe or shovel is employed and
there is a call for more more men.
The boiler OF the ferry steamer Julia,
plying between South Vallejo and
Vallejo station, California, blew up
Monday morning at South Vallejo, and
between thirty and forty people were
killed outright and many injured.
An express train on the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad ran into wild
ergine at Philadelphia, Thursday even
ing of last week. Both engines were
wrecked aud one passenger car was
telescoped. Three passengers were in
jured.
William II. Krantz, postmaster of
Honesdale, was Monday found guilty
of violating the law prohibiting use Of
postage stamps to pay debts, he hav-
ing applied them to that purpose and
slso for the purchase of merchandise.
Sentence was deferred.
If reading the Bible shows religious
tendency, Portland Me-, has the most
religious woman in the world. She
has read the Bible through eighty-five
times che is rs years old and bega,
when she was 7. She reads from the
same book which she first began, and
has read it at least once every year.
w. w. Corcoran, of Washington,
D. G., the wealthy banker aud philan-
thropist was buried Monday afternoon
at 2 O'Clock. In accordance with bis
wish, the ceremonies were simple and
devoid of all ostentations. It is said
that during bis life he gave away over
three millions of dollars.
A collision occurred last Friday
afternoon on the Pottsville and Msba
noy railroad at New Boston, between
a Pennsylvania passenger train going
north and Lehigh Valley passenger
train coming south. One of the en-
gineers and two of the passengers were
injured, but none fatally.
The court in Luzerne on Monday
handed down the list of licenses grant
ed to sell liquor for the ensuing year.
The ladies of the Women's Christian
Union had waged a fierce contest
against the granting of any licenses,
they were in Court every day. The
number OF saloons is very much reduc-
ed. In the ninth and fourteenth wards
the number is reduced to two each.
A naked eye comet was discovered
by Professor Sowerthal, at Cape
Town, South Africa, Saturday Feb. is.
1t was then in r. A.. nineteen hours
eleven minutes, and south declination
fifty-six minutes. II has a tail about
two degrees long, and is moving rapid.
ly towards the sun and coming north
with great speed. 1t is possible that
it will be visible here in short time
Thursday of last week at q leap year
party near Cincinnati, two young ladies
thought they would play ghost, cover.
ing their faces with dough mask and
their forms with sheets they suddenly
burst in on the group of laughing girla
With scream most of them fed, bu,
four fell in faint on the floor; two
of them were restored to consc,ousness
the other two awakened helpless
maniscs. One of the ladies who play.
ed the ghost is down with brain fever
and her reco, cry is doubtful.
AT four o'clock Monday morning the
engineers and 6remen employed by tbs
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail
road stopped work. The order ,t
strike was obeyed and out of the 1900
but one engineer had the courage tc
continue on his engine. The strike
was commenced because the engineers
had made demand upon the railroad
company of uniform tariff Of thr
and a half cents a mile, and this de
mand was refused by the company
The company operates about 6,OO(
miles of road.
Public interest is revived in the his
toric old building in Richmond knowI
as Libby Prison, where thousands o
our gallant defenders of the Uuion suf
fered as prisoners, by the purchase q
tho building by Chicago compan,
with the purpose to remove it U
Chicago as a permanent monument o
the civil war. The first payment wa
made on the purchase on Saturda,
last, and the work of removing tn,
building TO Chicago will begin coon
Every brick, stone, timber, iron, etc.
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