The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-04-18
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES,
The Worlds News Cleaned,
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FRESH TIPS FROM THE WIRES.

What Is Going ON OF Interest That Is
worth Ecndirg-The wheat of the
Worlds News Winnowed from whole
Weeks Thrushing.
Mrs Mary Soudt, of Pottstown, Pa, drop
| ped dead after snatc'.ing two of her chill
| dren from a railroad track in the face of an
approaching tr0in
Postmaster General Wanamaker has pre-.
pared a postal telegraph bdl in which the
rates are made higher than was proposed in
the original measure.
Mr.. William N. Wyeth, a we'll known
wholesale steel and iron merchant, died
April Is at Baltimore. He was member
OF the firm of Ely g. Williams, New York
and Philadelphia, and president of the Iron
Merchants association of Baltimore.
Maryland's defaulting treasurer, Archer,
has been formally removed from office.
The municipal officers of the cities aud
towns interested in the Knox and Lincoln
railroad have recommended its sale to a
syndicate represented by Levi c. Wade. of
Boston, for 5000 cash and 81 300, 900 Of
4per cent. bonds
Deacon Jacob Estey, founder of the Estey
Organ company and senior member of the
firm, died suddenly April Is of heart dis.
ease at brattleDoro, VT.
Robert w. Griswold, who was convicted
of manslaughter in the first degree for kill
ing Dennis O'Shea, was sentenced to Au-
burn State prison for term of fifteen
years
Mike Gushing has posted 500 on chal-
lenge to fight Austin Gibbons for the 1876
pound championship and 81 600
The following fourth class postmasters
have been appointed in New York state:
I. N. Doubleday, Fly Creek, Otsego county;
j. M. Brown, Miller's Place, Suffolk county,
and f. b. Fellows, Shutters Corners Scho-
harie county.
Supervisor Henry L. Butler, Contractor
John Tobin and Inspector Cook of the New
Jersey State prison, were arrested at Tren-
ton, charged with having violated the law
which requires the stamping of all goods
made in the prison.
The New York Sun says that ex-Presdent
Cleveland has become alarmed at his rapid
ly increasing weight and has placed himself
under the care of a practitioner of the
Schw ulnser system of fat reduction, from
whom he is to receive daily treatment until
his flesh is reduced 1t is said that one feat
ure of the treatment in the ex-president's
case will be daily exercise in a sort of tread
mill, or "mountain climber" invented by
DR.. Schweninger.
The First regiment at Hartford Conn,
has nominated Capt. G. B. Erickson, of New
Britain, for colonel and Capt. A. L. Thomp-
son, OF New Britain, for lieutenant colonel.
Col. Appleton, of the Seventh regiment,
N. q, s. N. Y, says it will be impossible
for the regiment to accept the invitation to
attend the unveiling of the statue of Gen
Lee at Richmond Va, on May 80
Editor E. l.. Godkin, of The New York
Post, has been arrested charged with crimi-
nal libel by Peter Mitchell, New York
lawyer.
A movement TO raise funds for q monu-
ment to the late Samuel j. Randall has
taken substantial form in Philadelphia.
The body of man named Maiers, who
was murdered in Denmark, was found in
cask of lime at the appraisers stores in New
York. 1t had been shipped to a fictitious
firm in Racine, Wis, by Phlllipsen, the
Danish murderer.
The Republicans in the assembly at AL
bany have unseated Michael Gillice by de
oiding that Leroy was elected in the Cohoes
| district.
John Welsh well known Democratic
| politician, was stabbed in the side at Tren-
ton, N. j., by Jonathan Coakley, a notorious
character. Mr.. Welsh will probably die
The assignee of John +. Plummer 81 Co.
announces the following schedule: Liabil-
| tiles, SS11, COS 80; nominal assets Sl,O41,-
64S.oO, and actual assets only s75, 5,S03 A.
| There were also filed individual schedules of
| Mr.. Plummer showing his liabilities to be
| $40, ,359.67; his nominal assets, S59l ,9U5;
while his actual assets are valued at SIPS.
5S6.6S
Mrs Robert Ray Hamiton's motion tc
compel her husband to pay her counsel fees
| in defending his sniff livorna baa laa
denied. When the motion for the fees was
argued Mr. Hamilton's affidavit was read,
| showing that the woman had 81, 600 last
fall. As this was not disputed Judge An
drews had to deny the motion.
| Matthew Harris, Parnellite member of
parliament for East Galway, is dead
George Shafer, of last seasons Detroit
club, and Taylor Shafer, of the Toedos,
have signed with the Athletic club of Phla-
delphia.
John w. Davis will be the next governor
| of Rhode Island.
The United States supreme court has de-
cided that Marshal Neagle cannot be held
responsible for the killing of Judge Terry,
in the California state courts. Justice Miller
says Neagle's act was proper under the cir
| cumstances.
G. W. Hatch, accused of the murder of
his uncle, Henry ". Hatch, near Flagler,
Colo, a year ago, has been acquitted.
| Engineer George Kerr, of Trenton, N. j.,
was scalded to death beneath his engine at
bordentown, April II.
Mrs. Sarah NJ. Drummer, of Asbury Park
n. j., widow of the late William Brunuer
Of Doylestown, Pa. lost every penny of her
| property-about $50, ,000-by the defalcation
OF j. Munroe Shellenberger, of that place
She has two children dependent upon her