The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-01-04

conference
e9 Rev J. c. Joyce made bishop by the general
Methodist conference
Randall L. Gibson elected senator from Louisi.
ana.
~ DR.. John T. Newman and Rev. Or. Goodseu
made bishops by the general Methodist con.
ference -rIIH .f
Corner stone Of the new Roman Catholic uni.
versity laid at Washington
so Rev. j. NJ Thoburn elected bishop Of India
by the general Methodist conference.
Exciting discussion OF the negro question at
the general assembly Of the Presbyterian
church in Philadelphia.
%. The southern assembly OF the Presbyterian
church decided against Or. Woodrow and his
evolution theory
% Destructive storms throughout tho United
States. Enormous losses.
20. General assembly of the southern Presby.
terian church decided against organic union.
90. L. D. White elected senator from Louisiana.
8 White Cap outrages in Indiana.
Gen william D. Francklyn named commits
sioner Of the United States to the Paris expo
sition somerville B Tuck. assistant commits
soner.
Eighteen killed in q railroad accident near Tam
pico, Mexico
Eleven burned to death at Rookdale Ter.
g e. L. Lchtenstein, Wilmington, Del, de-
faulted in s3a,po0
6 Steam yacht Clean run down in the Patapsco
river by steamer Joppa; M. T. Harrison Gar
rett, of Baltimore, drowned
Rev. DR.. Layton Coleman made Protestant
bishop Of Delaware
10 Train robbery at Muscogee, l. T.
II. Train robbery near Junction City, MT.
i8 Mime, and Gen Diss Debar sentenced to the pen.
itentiary for six months.
% Disastrous foods In Mexico Many hundreds
drowned
"a Holbrook, A. T.. nearly destroyed by fre
f5 Paying Teller Pitcher, of the Union bank Of
Providence, r. l., is defaulter and fugitive
July.
John r. Van Loan Of the Second National bank
of Jersey city, defaulter In $4,000
Mrs James X Polk, widow Of President Polk,
at Nashville started the machinery Of the
Cincinnati Exhibition by electricity
VIM. r Flack lost his life trying TO navigate
the whirlpool rapids, Niagara.
Col Thos, L. Casey made chief Of engineers
Of the army
ia More than 500 killed by volcanic eruptions in
Japan.
II. Hronek. Chebouth, and Chapek, three Bo-
hemian Anarchists, arrested in Chicago,
charged with conspiracy to burn the city.
AUGUST
I. Blnky Morgan banged In Columbus, o.
Twenty-one lives lost in fire on the Bowery,
New York
L Terrible tornado In Cuba Heavy loss Of life.
Q. Yellow fever well under way at Jacksonville,
Fla
10. Ten persons burned to death at Chattanooga,
Tenn
Hugh II Brooks, alias Maxwell, hanged at ST.
Louis.
IL Woman suffrage declared unconstitutional in
Wyoming
10 Collision Of steamers Geyser and Thingvalla
More than 100 lives lost
2i. Bill Miles, anti Bald Knobber shoots and kills
Capt. n Kinney, Bald Knobber chief, at
Ozark, Mo-
Severe storms on the gulf and Atlantic coasts
% Gigantic opium smuggling scheme unearthed
Frank Gardner and other guilty parties after
ward convicted aud imprisoned
Thirty-fo lives lost In steamer collision In San
Francisco bay.
%. Fourteen killed by boiler explosion ct Neemah
Neb.
20. Quarantine ordered against Jacksonville Fla
Robert Garrett reported demented.
81. Charles H. Litchman resigns general secrv
taryship Of the Knights Of Labor.
SEPTEMBER
q Battle between outlaws and vigilantes near
Palladora, No Mans Land Seventeen out
laws killed.
8 Sarah Althea Hill jailed for three days for
contempt Of court. Judge Terry her hus-
band sent up for six months for brandishing
a knife In the court room.
H. Floods In Mexico. Many lives lost
10 Disastrous foods In Georgia
&C. John q. Parkhurst Of Michigan appointed U.
S. Minister 10 Belgium.
~ The lont highwayman Of Texas killed by Mrs
Lizzie Hay
20 j. Il OberIy appointed Indian commissioner
a. W. X Foster, Of New YS-S defauiter In S1eS,-
OOO
Old Hutchs wheat corner begun in Chicago.
| e. Sioux Indians decline to accept the terms Of
the proposed treaty.
OCTOBER.
| l. Traders bank at Chicago suspended Liabili.
ties, Sl,0OOOOo
q Severe storms on the great lakes Many
| lives lost. ...
10 Seventy eight killed in q railroad collision, Mud
| Run, Pa.
| i8 H. s. Briggs Of Rochester, defaulter In S14-
| OO0
10 J. n Mcclure and Hugh Flanagan robbed of
$1,000 and murdered near wilkesbarre.
Train ROBBERY at Peru Ind
| q Thos. Axworthy, treasurer, Of Cleveland, o.,
| defaulter in 100000
%. Daniel Hand, of Connecticut gave 81 ooo, ,ooo
| for the education of the colored people In the
3D. Lord Sackville given his passports.
" Steamer Hsytiaa Republic seized by the Hay
uans. .....r
| NOVEMBER
l. Serious trouble with oyster dredgers on ches
| apeake bay. ."+'-
4 Sixteen killed by mine explosion at Cooks
| Run, Pa s... 10 2.
O. One hundred killed by mine explosion at Pitts
burg, Kan.
Thirty seven killed by Ere In Rochester, N. Y
/
| dicott
Failure Of the bank Of Durham, N. @. Liabill
ties $4,000. involving other failures aggre
eating $1OOO,OO0 II.
Il, Perry Belmont appointed minister to Spain.
20. A H. Coiquitt reelected United States senate
from Georgia.
es, General Master Workman Powderly Of tn,
Knights Of Labor reelected.
j. e. Bedell, mortgage forger in New York, sen
fenced to twenty Ave years and four month
imprisonment
"a, %, % Terrible storm on the Atlantic coast.
". Fisk will case decided against Cornell univer
| sity.
Jacksonville reports clean bill Of health.
3D. Calumet and Hecla copper mines flred by In
cendaries
Treasurer Chas. @. winchen, of Sphinx county
| Dakota, defaulted in $4,000
| DECEMBER
!, Frank II. Bates employed by Old Hutch. d,
faulted In $4,000
. Wholesale arrests Of whito Cappers in Crsv
ford county. Ind
O. Mob attacked the Jail at Birmingham, Ala
and attempt to lynch q murderer name
Hawes The sheriff fired on the mob. killin
nine ami wounding thirty
10, White Cap outrages becoming prevalent
many parts OF the country
Rear Admiral Luce ordered to proceed with tw
war ships 10 Hayti and demand the release
the steamer Haytian Republic. Sailed Il
| 12th
IL Fifteen burned to death at fire at Neumun
| ter, Prussia. s-H--H ON"
II. Beginning of trouble between whites and n
groes In Mississippi