The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-03-21
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES
The Worlds News Cleaned,
Sifted and Condensed.
FRESH TIPS FROM THE WIRES.
What Il Going on of Interest That h
Worth Reading-The Wheat of the
Weeks Thrashing.

Worth Reading--The wheat of the
Worlds News winnowed from a whole
Weeks Thrashing.
Charles l.. Harrington, Of Holyoke, Mass,
until recently paymaster of the Hadley
Thread company's works at that place. has
been appointed manager of the New York
Players League Baseball club.
Gen. Charles l.. Young, of Toledo, has
been appointed superintendent of tine Ohio
Soldiers and Sailors Orphan asylum at
Xenia.
The Democratic majority in the Rhode
Island house of representatives have intro.
duced provision for the amendment of the
constitution making change to biennial
elections of general officers and biennial
sessions of the legislature. The measure was
temporarily tabled.
Secretary Window has made the follow
ing appointments in the New York custom
house: Examiners, appraisers department,
L. ]. Chapman, II. w. Rudd, Charles c.
Brown, Cas- A. Muller, Zachariah Jellison,
Fred A. Russell, George Brown, James X.
Hillyer and w. d. Davis
Charles II. Taylor, of The Boston Globe.
has been reelected president of the Boston
Press club.
W. w. Willard, chief of police of Troy,
N. Y, has been indicted on two charges,
one of interfering and obstructing the pro-
gress of voting at Troy in November, 1888,
and the other of inducing and encouraging
an illegal voter to deposit his ballots at the
same place.
The board of managers of the New York
State Industrial school have elected these
officers for the ensuing year; President, Hon.
William Purcell; first vice president, Rev.
DIR. Gibbard second vice president, Capt
Henry Lamb; secretary and treasurer, Mar
senus Briggs
Samuel w. Hester, formerly superintend-
ent of The Brooklyn Eagle office, and later
a contractor at Poughkeepsie, is dead, aged
7S years His son, Samuel, is president of
The Brooklyn Eagle association.
The coal firm of Gumbert & Hue, of Pitts.
burg, made an assignment.
p W. Dickerson & Co.. brick commission
merchants, of New York, have assigned.
Liabilities large, but no statement has been
filed.
The government steamer Dispatch is still
fast aground in the Potomac. The captains
court martial is probable
In the McCalla inquiry yesterday a num-
ber of sailors testified that they had been
cursed, cuffed, triced up and placed in irons
for trivial offenses on board the Enterprise
brokers may only charge Is per cent. per
annum on loans Of 500 and over and per
cent. on sums under SlO0 has passed the
assembly at Albany.
At the Flack trial, March Is, Mrs Flack
told the story of her troubles with her hus-
band, the sheriff, and related the manner in
which her son, viii, by deception, procured
her signature to papers in the action for
divorce
The indictment against John L. Sullivan
has been quashed by the supreme court on
the ground Of being defective in its aver
ments, reversed the case and remauded de-
fendant to the next term of the Marion
county Miss court to answer such indict-
ment as may be found against him there.
The Union Street Railway Company Of
Brooklyn has filed articles of incorporation
with capital of 100000
Ex-Assemblyman Daniel F. Talmage, Of
Brooklyn, has obtained verdict of $4,000
damages against The New York World for
libel.
At the annual meeting of the Commercial
Cable company in New York the following
directors were elected for the ensuing year:
John w. Mackey, James Gordon Bennett,
Hector and Jules De Castro, A. B. Chandler
George s. Coe, w. L. Scott, G. G. Rowland,
Charles Nordhoff, Z. C. Platt, Z. j. Mat
thews, Richard Irwin and A. De Castro w.
l.. Scott is the only new name in the board.
The labor troubles in England grow seri-
GUS. In Liverpool there was noisy DEM
onstration of dock laborers, requiring the
military to be called out
The president sent to the senate the fol-
lowing nominations: United States consuls
William S. Preston, of New York, at
Cognac; A. N. Street, of New York, at
CoatipnOly. Daniel I,aka Of Maui Vorl, 60
be United States marshal for the Eastern
district of New York.
The supreme court of Connecticut has de-
cided that the petition of Eli Whitney and
others of New Haven for an injunction to
prevent demolishing the state house should
lot be granted.
George Grassman, prominent horse deal
er of Lancaster, Pa, and inventor of the
Grassman horse car, has made an assign
ment. Liabilities about $4,000; assets
about half that amount.
Judge Charles j. Nehrbas, of New York,
died of the grip on March l5.
The open handicap cross country run,
under the auspices of the National Cross
| Country Association of America, was won
by William b. Day, of the New Jersey Ath-
letic club. The distance was eight miles.
Days time was 1894 He won The New
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