The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-03-14

Mrs. b. II. Stotts, aged 60, of Clarksville.
N. T., committed suicide by cutting her
throat. Cause unknown.
A fight has been arranged between Billy
Murray, of New York, and Jack Lynch, of
Philadelphia, to take place before the Erie
County Athletic club at Buffalo on April 9,
for purse Of $500
Professor William p. Atkinson, professor
of English literature and history at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology for
many years, died March II Of congestion of
the brain. He was the author of many
works OF high merit, including numberless
pamphlets and had long been prominent as
a lecturer. widow, two sons and two
daughters survive him.
Attorney General Miller has decided that
under the law Chinese merchants cannot
land in the United States in the absence of
certificates prescribed in the Chinese ex-
clusion act.
The Central Presby terian conference of
the Evangelical church has finished its work
at York, Pa, and adjourned to meet in
March, 1891, at Berwick, Pa.
The New York chamber of commerce has
rescinded its former condemnation of the
Mckinley customs bill and adopted a re-
port favoring the measure, providing that
cause be inserted permitting questions of
fact be tried before juries.
There is now a strong possibility that the
divorce suit of Capt. OShea against his wife
and Mr. Parnell will not be tried before fall.
Mr.. Parnell has asked and obtained fuller
details of the times and places of the al
legged acts of adultery
Roland Mather has resigned the presi-
dency of the Society for Savings at Hart
ford, Conn, which he has held for eleven
| years. John G. Parsons, who has been
| counsel and trustee of the society, was elect
| ed president.
City Clerk John Shanley, of Brooklyn,
| died March II, after long illness. He was
| 4j years old and served one term in the New
York assembly.
William Hyde Appleton, Phi. D., has been
elected president of the Swarthmore (PaO
college to succeed Edward H. Magill re-
| signed. DR.. Appleton is graduate of Har-
| ward university, and has been professor of
| Greek at Swarthmoro since 1871
The Missouri antitrust law has been pro-
nounced unconstitutional by Judge Dillon
| in the United States circuit court
Henry S. Hebard, the newly appointed
| postmaster Of Rochester, N. Y, died March
| IL. Mr.. Hebard was to assume the duties
of the postmastership March 10, but he con-
| tracted severe cold which developed into
| pneumonia, the immediate cause of his
death. Mr. Hebard was SO years of age.
The common council of Rochester, N Y.
has directed the city attorney to begin pro-
ceedings against the bondsmen of Davis, the
| defaulting city treasurer, to recover the
| amount of the bond.
The Philadelphia Times has offered a re-
ward of 81 900 to the person or persons who
may discover and bring to conviction in the
New Jersey courts the murderer or mur-
ders of Annie Leconey.
1t has been plainly shown that j. Birchell.
the alleged murderer of Benwell, is Reginald
Brchell, son of the late vicar of Church
Kirk, and yourg man of good connections
and of excellent education.
Henry NJ. Stanley has finished the last
| pages of his Forthcoming book
Rev. John p Cowles, for many wears n
professor in the Oberlin (O.) college, died
| at Ipswich, Mass, March II. He was S5
| years of age.
Ten jurors have been secured in the trial
| of the case against Sheriff Flack, of New
| York.
| Sheriff Davis, of Hudson county, N j.
| testified before the ballot frauds committee
| March IL: He said he had no knowledge of
| the Joker" ballots. and repeated a former
| statement that he thought the smaller pack
ages lying on the tables in the rooms of the
county committee the night before election
| were inoffensive 'pasters" for legitimate
use on Republican and split Democrat tick
cts. He admitted that he talked to an in
dividual over the telephone from the court
house on election day, but denied that he
had used the words, 'Stuff in all the jokers
| you can"
| Clara Barton, of Red Cross fame, has
issued an appeal to the country for assist
ance on behalf of the starving settlers of
| North and South Dakota.
In spite of the use made of it by the New
| York bank wreckers, the Asbury Park IN.
| J.) bank has been pronounced perfectly solv-
ent by Bank Inspector James,
| The gunboat Concord was successfully
| launched from Roach's shipyard at Chester,
Pa, March s.
John Pew, the founder of the house of
John Pew a Sons, the largest firm in the
American fisheries, died at Gloucester,
Mass, March Z, aged So years.
The Hon. James Russell Lowell, although
| still confined to his bed, is SO far improved
as to be able to see and talk with the mem
bers of his family
Henry Lecato, the alleged defaulting
agent of Sanford q Cook, diamond mer.
chants of New York, has been held in S6 600
bail for trial
The village of Liberty, Casey county, KY,
was consumed by fire Loss, $40, 900; no
insurance. The village had a population of
325.
AT the annual meeting of the Southern
society Hugh h. Garden was elected pres-
dent; James IL. Parker, Charles A. Deshon,
James Swami and W. l.. Trenholm, vice
presidents; I. A. Beall secretary, and How
ard Saunders, treasurer. The executive
committee is headed by j. c. Calhoun.
The president has appointed A. c. Bar
wick, of New Jersey, to be collector of Gus
toms for the district of Burlington, N. j.
The head of a Nihlist traitress was left
at the residence of Prince Dolgoroukoff,
governor general of the city and province
of Moscow. With it was found "A letter say
ing that the writer would outdo the deeds of
Jack the Ripper"
AT New York a controlling interest in the
Twenty-third Street Railroad company has
been sold for S9OO,0OO to a syndicate made
up of w. e. Whitney, Daniel s. Lamont, F.
A. B. Widener aud w. s. Elkins and other
owners of the Broadway railroad syndicate
The price paid sequal to about $500 per share
Munroe, Eckstein & Co., OF -Four Corners
=. l., have failed, giving preferences at
slS,OlL09 The total amount involved Is
SS00,0O-
! General MarIfats