The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-04-25
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS.
Items Which Are Of Particular
Interest to Pennsylvanians.
IN THIS AND NEARBY COUNTIES.

was discovered Monday IN tine cnlm banks,
at the Big Run colliery, is still raging fierce
ly, but as yet has not reached the mine, and
the officials are making surveys to ascertain
II the North Ashland creek can be turned
on the fire TO prevent its spreading. The
bottom Of the bank is a seething mass and
It will require the removal of many tons of
culm before the fire can be reached
A Lancaster watch Company in Trouble.
LANCASTER, April 1G-The Keystone
Standard Watch company has confessed 20
Judgments of SG0,05O.s6 The claim of the
Farmers National bank of this city is 49,
945 and that Of the Ephrala National bank
s13,0s5.
Crushed Beneath Gar.
GREENsBURe, April 16-William Moore
and Scott johnson, of near Latrobe, were,
it is thought, fatally injured in the stone
quarries on the Ligonier railroad by being
thrown under a loaded car, which passed
over them, crushing them in a terrible man
ner
A Boy Fatally Hurt.
CoNNELLsvILLE, Pa, April 16-A shift
ing engine and four loaded coke cars on the
branch railroad of the Dunbar Furnace
company ran off bridge fifty feet high
l0SltIuuNa lut tuklut men tStdptu ny
jumping. Abraham McQugan, a boy ON
the train, was fatally injured.
A Reward for sheiIenberger.
DoYLEsTowN, Pa, April 17.-Word is re-
ceived that the abscoDder Shellenberger dis
appeared from Tacoma before he could be
arrested. The police of San Francisco have
been notified that there is 81 600 reward Of
fered for Shellenberger's capture.
Charged with Poisoning Four People.
PTTTsBURG, April 2i.--Mary Stewart, a
girl aged 16 years, is under arrest at Nc
Keesport on a charge of poisoning her
mother, two sisters and 4-year-old broth
er, James from the effects of which the
little boy has just died
The Stewart family lived in the most
wretched of poverty stricken quarters in
McKeesport. The doctor, on arrival, sus-
pected that they had taken arsenic and ad-
ministered the proper remedies. He in the
meantime instituted an inquiry and found
that the family had been taken i'll on par
taking of some soup prepared by the
daughter, Mary, strongly impregnated with
arsenic.
Mary Stewart, who is in JAIL denies hav-
ing put the arsenic in the soup.
Ex-Governor Pollock Dead.
LOCK HAVEN, Pa, April 21.-Ex- Governor
James Pollock, of Pennsylvania, died April
10 at his home in this city. He was born in
Milton, Northumberland county, Pa, on
Sept. II, 1910. He graduated from Prince
ton in September, 1881. He was admitted
to the bar in 1893, and in 1885 was appointed
district attorney for Northumberland
county Though Wing in politics, he was
elected in 1874 to congress from a strongly
Democratic district and was twice re-
elected. In 1850 he was appointed president
judge of the Eighth judicial district of
Pennsylvania. In 1854 he was nominated
for governor of Pennsylvania and was
elected by large majority.
| After the Inauguration of President Lin
coin he was appointed director of the
| United States mint in Philadelphia. This
| position he held from May, 1861, to October,
| 1858, when he resigned. He resumed the
| position, however in 1862 under commits
sion of President Grant. He managed the
affairs of the mint for many years. In 1880
| he was appointed naval officer of Phila-
delpha, and served in that position four
Il years. After his withdrawal from public
| life he resumed the practice of his profess
| sion. Ex-Governor Pollock was always ac-
| tive in various movements tending to pro-
| mote educational and religious reforms.
| He was a constant advocate of popular
education, temperance, improvement in
prison discipline and the diffusion of the
| Bible.
Two Men Drowned.
| PHILADELPHIA, April 21-Daniel Mitch
ell, aged %, and Joseph Kani, aged 20, wers
drowned by the upsetting of a skiff in thu
Delaware Sunday. Three other men who
were in the boat were saved after being IL
the water two hours. The party had startet
out to spend the day fishing.
A Brotherhood Change of Date.
PITTsBURG, April 21.-A meeting of Play
| ers' league officials was held to consider tn
advisability of having the Pittsburg clul
| open the Players league season in Chicag
on the same day as the National league
instead of two days after the Nationa
league opening. The Pittsburg and Chi
cago clubs agreed to the change, and it nov
remains for the Cleveland and Buffalo club
to give their consent.
A Fight at a Wedding.
SHENANDOAH, April 21.-Jealousy cause
fight at a Hungarian wedding here las
night, and Constables Blaker and Phillip
were sent to subdue it. AS the officers Ell
tered the house the lights were extinguishe
and they were pounced upon by abor
thirty Hungarians The officers were ul
mercifully beaten, and but for the timel
arrival of the borough police they woul
have been killed. Four Hungarians hay
been arrested, and warrants have been
sued for twenty others,
Narrow Escape.
MECHANICsBURG, April 21-While Viii
lam Baker, of Lower Allen township, wa
driving along the dam at Allendale mill
the horse took fright at the sound of Il
falling water and leaped over an eighte,
foot embanSment. Strange to say, the ma
was uninjured, although the horse was te
ribly cut and bruised and the wagon col
pletely wrecked
Mountain Fires Raging.
WILIIAMsPoRT, April 2i.-Mountain fir
are raging in this county and much youi
growing timber is being destroyed. It
weather for the past couple of weeks h
been very dry, which is favorable TO t
spread of the fires. The atmosphere
heavily laden with smoke, through whi
> | the sun shines with a yellow glare.
The Licenses Refused.
WASHINGTON, Pa, April 22,-In COT
here Judge Mcllvaine in a lengthy decisi
refused 70 grant retail liquor licenses
this count, The county has been pro
L y
J much effort was made to secure license.
, is said that c. A. Bailey, of the Hotel Ma
will appeal to the supreme court.
McCaIIa's Trial CoInmeneed.
NEW YORK, April 23-The court marti
of Commander McCalla, of the Enterpris
has commenced McCalla's counsel c
, iected to Capt. Beardslee rs r member
3 the court and Beardslee Withdrew. Coz
mander McCalla pleaded not guilty to
the charges and specifications. He ask
} to be furnished with copies of the pl
ceedings of the court martial aboard I
p Enterprise. The court decided TO ask I
> navy department for the originals, A
r iourned for the day.
) AUGUSTA, Ga., April e3.-Mr William
jackson, well known lawyer of this cit
has solved the jute bagging problem tn
/, has agitated cotton circles for so long N
jackson has perfected mechanical app
ances for making the bagging from 4
, cotton stalk and he has just returned fro
: New York with roll of bagging IXpe
= cotton men say that IL is in every respe
J. equal to cotton bagging. lie will utili
! the bare stalks from the fields, and can
ford 10 pay about $2 ton laid down. 4
7 annual stalk yield will bale three yea
U cotton crop. The machinery compris
l. heavily weighted corrugated rollers, wi
v yats of ruuuing water cordinV machin