The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-10-17
THE HISTORY OF A WEEK
Thnradax. Oct. d.


one ho1r in the passage from Queenstown TO
New York.
, James Atkins. ,,, lawgsg end prominent Re. e.
Office in Savannah.
William sprague, Jr.. grandson Of Salmon
Rhode Island, committed suicide by inhalihg
chloroform at Seattle, Wash.
II is probable that an indictment will be
found against Sohweinfurth, the self-styled
divinity" The sheriff at Rockford, Ills has
served papers on the dwellers In heaven" to
appear before the grand jury.
Friday Oct. 10.
The census bureau places the population Of
OF New Jersey at 1,44l, l,0l7, an increase of 8O9,-
N1 In ten years.
The Pullman Palace Car company has been
successful In its vestibule suit against the
Boston and Albany railroad.
At meeting Of the Flint and Lime Glass
Manufacturers association In Pittsburg an
advance Of nearly per cent. was made in
prices.
Eight Asbury Park druggists and the pro-
prietors of the Neptune club are being
charged before the grand Jury at Freehold
with violating the law by the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors.
While miners at Humboldt mine near
jamestown, Colo, were eating lunch in the
blacksmith shop several sticks of giant pow
der exploded, instantly killing Mack Miles.
Hugh Morgan and Harry Atkinson, and seri-
ously injuring Tom Richardson.
Saturday, Oct. II.
The first snow of the season fell in Sierra
City Cal. tnxX ens
The Belle City street railroad of Racine,
Wis, was sold to New York syndicate for
$4,000
The interstate deep water harbor conven-
tion met in Des Moines, Ia. Only about thirty
delegates were present.
The Rev. DIR. Booth, of Englewood, N. j.
has declined the presidency Of the theological
seminary at Auburn, N. Y.
At the annual session Of the grand lodge,
Knights of Honor, in New Jersey, held at
Newark, r. c. Jones was elected grand die
tator..
The amended constitu ton of the Patriotic
Sons of America was adopted in Boston. The
most important change was the insertion of
the word white" making only white native
born citizens eligible for membership.
Monday, Oct. 13.
The military works at Forts Pike and Ma
comb, La have been ordered abandoned.
A fire in La Harpe, Ills, destroyed the Gou-
cher block and several stocks of goods. Loss,
$4,000
The steamer John e. Tygert was burned at
her docks in Baltimore, where she was laid
up for repairs. Loss, $4,000.
John d. Nichols, late assistant postmaster
at Berien Springs, Mich, has pleaded guilty
to embezzliug postal money orders.
Andrew Schmitt was shot and killed by
John Turner a bartender, at 1dlewild, sub
urb of Cincinnati. The cause Of the murder
was an old quarrel.
At St. Louis, the firm of Ketzinger Tuhols-
ker & Nichosten Frolichstein. clothing
manufacturers, confessed judgment in the
sum of $685. assets unknown.
Tuesday, Oct. IA.
The New Jersey conference of the Methodist
church will convene at Pennsgrove on
Oct. 81.
The reported drowning Of five men in the
Delaware river, near Kinkora, N. j., proves
to be erroneous.
John Rea, a seaman of Philadelphia, was
drowned in Baltimore while attempting to
abandon his ship.
The twelve Trenton brick yards have closed
and 100000 Of pressed brick will have to be
carried over to next season.
The breaking of a derrick In the yards of
the Illinois Steel company, Chicago, resulted
in the injury Of six men, one of whom will
probably die.
The Slate and Metal Roofers' union, OF
Boston, have decided to demand an advance
from 50 to S3.25 per day and eight hours on
Saturday on and after Oct. 22.
The following population of states is an
nounced by the census of1ce Illinois, q. SlS 536;
Increase, 74O,665. Louisiana, 1,l18S2S; increase
176,Ss2 Mississippi, l2s4, Ss7; increase, l53 30
The sixty eighth annual meeting of the
Presbyterian Synod of New Jersey will be
held in the First Presby terian church, at At
lantic City, commencing on Monday evening
Oct. 20, at o'clock.
Wednesday, Oct. 10.
The Merchants National bank of Carlisle
Pa, capital 100000, was authorized to begir
business.
An lS-year.old boy held up an overland
stage in California and secured 500. He wa
arrested and has confessed.
While Mrs. Allen Blake, of Lexington. Me.
was handling a rifle, the weapon was dis
charged, fatally injuring her little child.
Charles Queen, an actor with Leavitt'
"Spider and Fly" company, who was arrested
in Trenton, N. j.. for passing counterfeit
| money, was sentenced to eighteen months
imprisonment
| Five hundred representative business mer
| OF Philadelphia arrived at Chattanooga
Tenn, in special trains to attend the sale o
property at Kensington, Ga, new town o.
the Chattanooga Southern road.
Patrick German, foreman of the gas de
partment of the Otis Iron and Steel company
| Cleveland, went into the drying department
to take nap. Soon afterward the heat wa
| turned on and he was roasted to death.
Ex-Presideut Rutherford B. Hayes stoppe
over in indianapolis while en- route for tn
st. Louis meeting of the Loyal Legion, q
which he is president, and was banqueted b
the Indiana commandery of that order at tn
| Grand hotel.
The treasury department has decided tina
| books imported for the of colleges
schools, ETC., are admitted to this countr
under the new law substantially as they wer
admitted under the old tariff law and subjeS
| to the same restrictions N 80