The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-19


for the trial Of Capt. Harrington for running
the Constellation aground near Norfolk,
June 1s
The National Confectionery association
has elected Jacob Buss of Cincinnati, presi-
dent John =. Hawley, Of New Y ork, vice
PRESIDENT Martin Dawson, of Chicago sec
retary; c. s. Miller, Of Philadelphia, treas
urer.
The supreme council Of the American Order
of Steam Engineers has chosen J. Young,
Jr, of New York, supreme chief engineer;
Jeremiah Leahy, Jr., Of New Jersey, first
assistant chief; Charles e. Jacks, OF Massa-
chusetts, supreme recording engineer; W. V.
Warfied, of Massachusetts,, supreme corre-
spending engineer; William Z. Jones, j. II.
Blanchard and j. w. Diehl, executive Off
GERS The next council wal be at Philadel-
phia next July.
The works of the Consolidated Tank Line
company, of st Joseph, Mo-, were struck by
lightning and destroyed. Loss, $4,000.
The officers of the City of Chicago, from
Liverpool, report having passed in lat Al. 20
and long. 90. 40 the derelict schooner Ellen M.
Davis
Benjamin Johnson aged 81, who resides in
Pelhamville, N Y, was struck by a train on
the New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad while walking on the track between
New Rochelle and Pelhamville and instantly
killed.
Patrick Herman, aged "a, was drowned
while bathing in the Bronx river, near Mt
Vernon, N. Y.
Edward Meyer longshoreman aged 80,
was shot and killed at New Orleans, on
Seventh street, by George Kleyl, a gambler,
who is now in custody. Two companions of
Kleyl made their escape II is thought that
&ha th,-aa IIal l..
him.
Fire at Baltimore caused loss of $4,000
to George Chapman & Sons, chair manufac-
turers; $1,000 to Chatterton e. Webb, and
$1,000 to the Johns Hopkins estate, which
owned the buildings
Levi Ehrhardt, aged %, living at Glad
feter, near York, Pa, sat down ON the Nor
thern Central railroad, fell asleep and was
killed by south bound passenger train.
Mackee, the Hamburg bank swindler has
been sentenced to eight years penal servitude.
Wilkie Collins condition has materially i'm
proved since the last unfavorable reports.
The farmers and stock rasers of Middesex
Mercer and Somerset counties NJ Jersey,
are greatly exercised over the appearance
among sheir cattle of the Buffalo hy,n and
the fatal results Of the insects poisonous
sting Three cows in Kingston, Somerset
county, have already died.
C. r. Hallowell, well known horse dealer
of Plymouth, Pa, has failed for $500.
The will of Anna May Hutton, Countess
Harold de Moltke Huitfeldt, leaves 81 900 to
the Society for the Protection of Animals at
Orange, N. j.; 10000 francs to Mile Hocart
for her hospital 5000 francs to Mime. Atha-
nase Coquerel for her orphanage. She also
directs that she be buried in France.
Francis E. Trowb, .dge, the New York
broker, who was arrested some months ago
for alleged fraudulent conversion, in a suit
brought by Francis E. HURT to recover S11,-
$50, pettioned for discharge under the insol-
vent act As there was no opposition Judge
Van Brunt ordered him produced in court
for discharge.
The Hartford club has released Nick Han
diboe and signed Henry Porter, formerly of
Brooklyn and Kansas City
The comptroller Of the currency has au-
thorized the Winnismmet National bank, OF
Chelsea, Mass, to begin business with cap
ital of 100000
1t is stated that the leading publishing
houses of the United States have formed a
| combination for the control of the sale of
educational works. The main object of the
combination, it is claimed Is to reduce the
expenses of selling publications by changing
the methods of competition among the differ
ent houses Travelling statesmen are to be
dispensed with and competition with rival
houses will be carried on by means of letters
and circulars directly from the headquarters
of the combine.
| Breadstuffs exports during June past ag.
gregated in value IS, 925, ,95s, against 81, $50.
825 during June, 1888.
f. G. Taft's dry goods house and a number
of small dwellings adjoining at Pueblo, Colo,
were burned. Loss, $35, 900; insurance, $780,
| OO0
| Abner Powell, late manager of the New
Orleans Baseball club has been put In charge
of the Hamiltons, and Swartwood will bt
made field captain. Powell will play second
base and Kearns third. McShannie will moi
be played for the present, as his work of late
has been very unsatisfactory.
Manuel Lopez, governor of the Bay Islands
| is dead.
Five and one-half inches of rain fell in
Davenport Ia, Sunday. The storm was tn,
| heaviest in years
Deputy Sheriff Keller, of Columbus, Ind
was fatally dubbed by Hotel Proprietor
Henry on Sunday for walking with Mis-
Henry against her fathers orders.
| A boat containing five men who were sky
larking capszed at Stone Bridge, Mass. One
of the men, jeremiah Sullivan, aged 3S, o
Boston, was drowned.
The Philadelphia cricketers played with
the Gloucester team, who opened with 81
The Americans then made So, with fiv,
wickets down, when the game was called.
Two freight trains on the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas road were almost entirely de
stroyed by a collision at Boonville, Mo. Tn,
trainmen escapsd by jumping, but $50 heac
| OF cattle were killed.
Owing TO recent disastrous storms in north
ern Bohemia al the vines In that region, a
well as the eptire fruit crop, will prove
total failure.