The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-11-07

The assignee of r. g. Peters. the Michi-
gan lumber king reports Peters assets to
be e., 900, 600 against liabilities of &, ,000, 600
Peters creditors will give him time.
w. T. Tannahill, member Of the New
York Cotton Exchange, committed suicide
by shooting himself at Englewood. N J.
The journeymen freestone cutters, who
have maintained strike against the COIN
bined contractors and master builders for
eight months during which time they
have raised and distributed over s,1, 900
relief money, and have had only seven de-
serters from the $50 men who went out,
have voted to declare the strike off.
Springer 81 Co., wholesale dealers in silk
and worsted yarns at No. ASS Broome
street, New York, have failed. Liabilities,
$4,000.
The public bequests of Mrs. Lydia
Rhodes, of Lynn, Mass, widow of Amos
Rhodes, are as follows: Second Congrega-
tional society, Lynn, 5000; Lynn Home
for Aged Women, Lynn Public library and
the Lynn hospital, 5000 each; 10000 for
the erection of a Rhodes memorial chapel
in Pine Grove cemetery.
Anthony Benson, treasurer of the Ulster
and Delaware Railroad company since its
organization, died Oct 30, aged "a years.
He had been treasurer and secretary of the
Rondout IN. W Savings bank for twenty
years and also vice president of the First
National bank of Rondout
John Norton, senior member of the firm
Of John Norton e. Co., ship and freight
brokers at No. 80 Wall street, New York,
died suddenly Oct. 30 He was we'll known
In shipping circles and had been engaged
in the brokerage business for the last forty
five years.
A state board of trade has been formed
by the business associations of Massachu-
sets.
j. l.. Falk & Co., clothing manufacturers
at No. COL Broadway, New York, have failed
with liabilities of about $3.50, 200.
Commenting on the Behring sea fishery
question The London Times thinks the
closed sea question, which Mr.. Blaine ap-
pears to throw into the background, must
be dealt with before any progress is possi-
BILE When this question is settled Eng
land is perfectly ready to cooperate with
America.
Franklin Nichols, president of the
Thames National bank, died at Norwich,
Conn, Oct. 80, aged S. He had been en-
gagged in banking business for over half a
century.
Letters from the Emin Pasha expedition
state that all are well and that the expedi-
A serious defect has been discovered by
experts in the new battleship Maine, at
the Brooklyn navy yard 1t can be rene
died at great expense, and the vessel will
probably be launched Nov. IS.
Morris Miller (colored) was sentenced to
imprisonment for life for the murder of
James H. Miller, on the night of Feb. 16,
at New York.
Secretary Window has appointed J. X.
Moore, of st. Paul, Mimi, as chief of the
appointment division, treasury depart
ment, to succeed T. E. Byrnes, resigned.
Mr.. Moore was for many years editor and
proprietor of The Tribune, of st. Paul,
Mimi, and was more recently private secre-
tary to Governor McGill of the same state.
Yale and Princeton have agreed to play
their Thanksgiving day football game at
Eastern park, Brooklyn, the management
having guaranteed a proper handling of
the crowd.
A thousand weavers have been thrown
out of work in Silesia by the decrease of
manufacture owing to the Mckinley bill.
| Admiral Freemantle of the British
South African squadron, has captured
| Vitu and burned the town to the ground.
Only three men were wounded on the Brit
| ish side.
n hiBu IlCcusc, iOCdl optlOu
with provisions similar to those of the law
now in force in Massachusetts,, has been
introduced in the Vermont Legislatures;
also bill providing for the dedication of
| the Bennington battle monument and the
centennial anniversary of Vermont's ad-
mission into the Union, at Bennington,
Aug. 16, 1891.
A girl named Flanagan and her mother
have been murdered by moonlighters in
county Glare, Ireland.
The Italian steamship Entella, from
Palermo, has arrived at New Orleans with
$40 Italian emigrants.
Pasquelle Bouchette, who shot and killed
Francisco Cicerello in July last in New
Rochelle, was convicted of murder in the
second degree at White Plains, N. Y.
James Stafford, whose skull was fract-
ured 1t is charged, by James Enwright a
week ago Sunday at Long Island City in a
quarrel over Mayor Gleason's imprison-
ment, died at st. GATHERINGS hospital.
The Dutch parliament has deposed Will.
lam III, king of the Netherlands. The
king is too i'll to perform his duties