The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-11-28
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that the test was unsuccessful.
The national commission on the Worlds
fair IN Chicago definitely settled the ques-
ton OF site by providing that the main ex.
hfbition be located in jackson park, the
art gallery, music hall and electric display
on the lake front, and the overflow In
Washington park
The Brooklyn police have nearly COM
pleted the census Of that city. Estimates
show that IL will increase the population
by 10 900 In excess Of the federal count last
June.
Mrs. Elizabeth Siffel, Of Brooklyn, Is
anxious to find her husband who went to
Pittsburg some twenty years ago, as he has
been left fortune Of s350,00O in Germany.
The New York and New Jersey Bridge
company propose TO bring all railroads
centering at New York into great union
station within the city. The bridge which
is 10 accommodate this traffic is TO cost be-
tween $50 10000 and si0,0O0,0O0.
In the trial Of w. +. Pettit an ex-Metho-
dist minister at Crawfordsville, Ind,
charged with poisoning his wife, the jury
returned verdict Of guilty OF murder in
the first degree. Petit was sentenced to
the penitentiary for life.
TIE statement was made In Dublin that
Mr.. parnell would resign his seat in par
lament and stand for reelection. Mr..
Parnell is also said to have written to
friends saying he would not resign the
leadership Of the Nationalists.
Dr. ID. V. NJ. johnson, for nearly forty
years rector Of st. Mary's Protestant Epis-
copal church, Brooklyn, died at his home
in that city Nov %, aged 7s years.
The estate Of the late Frank S. Pease.
the oil manufacturer OF Buffalo, Is in tho
courts The widow, who was his second
wife, presents bill of sale Of the estate to
her 1t is contested by the sons, who
threaten to let loose all the skeletons of
the family.
Thomas d. Jones, dealer in lumber at
No. 81 West street, Brooklyn, made an as
signment to Austin s. Clark The house
is one of the oldest in the lumber trade in
Brooklyn, having been in business over
thirty years. The assignor was. formerly
park commissioner.
Gen. T.. Burd Grubb, of New Jersey, has
sailed from New York on the Normannia
to assume his duties as minister to Spain.
At Olate, Kan. Nov. 20, Lulu St. John,
the only daughter of Ex-Governor st John,
of Kansas, and Henry Louis Page, a capi-
talist of Fort Scott, were married
At the sale Of Hon. w. l.. Scott's racing
stable Philip Dwyer bought Bolero for $685.
OO0 Mike Dwyer paid 81, 700 for Banquet.
DIR. Charles II. Spurgeon the famous
minister, is confined to his house with an
attack of gout
Mrs. Potter Palmer has been unanimous
| ly elected president Of the board of women
| managers OF the Worlds Columbian ex-
position.
W. S. Wharton, Of No. 1852 Washington
| street, Chicago, has been arrested in Phila-
delphia. Wharton fed from Chicago on
Oct 81, leaving behind debts estimated at
between $4,000 and 100000.
| At the annual session of the New Jersey
grand lodge of Odd Fellows in Trenton
1t was shown that the membership of the
order in the state was q, $3.50.
The Turkish authorities in Macedonia
have arrested fourteen persons on suspi-
cion Of having been connected with the
murder Of the Greek pope, Stojan. Four
OF the persons arrested died under the
judicial examination and the torture
which attended it.
S. Henry Easton, confidential clerk of
ii. T. Mavn, tobacco dealer in New York,
is n fuei'.ye from justice, having obtained
$4,000 drafts forged in Mr. Mayo's
name.
The trustees Of the Childs- Drexel home
for printers, at a meeting in Chicago, ap
pointed committee to make the contract
for the erection of the building.
Four young men will leave Pittsburg OF
Monday for Africa on an exploring expe
dition, their object being to prove tha
Stanley has greatly exaggerated the hard
ships to be met with in travelling through
the Dark Continent
Venice Omalya, a burlesque actress
fell down fue in the opera house at Car
1 hAnI al at,l h,,N f.,x H., III,
the tin would have been precipitated int
the furnace.
The Knights of Labor convention il
Denver abolished the general CO o-operativ
board and adopted a resolution asking TO
the passage of the Australian ballot law.
Advices from Corea state that the broth
er Of the king of Corea, who was arreste
as the leader of the recent conspiracy I
murder the king, has been put to deaf
and his head exposed on the chief gate {
Seoul.
Col Adeneh Baker, of New Orleans, a
ex-Confederate soldier, was killed Will
assisting President Bogran, of Hondura
to quell the insurrection headed by Gel
| Sanchez.
Mrs. Harriet Dunn was robbed OF h,
pocketbook in broad daylight while wal
= ing on Sixth avenue, New York. I'll
highwayman was captured and the pur
recovered.
At the convention of the Methodist Epi
copal Missionary society in Boston it w
stated that the churches must raise 81 25i
900 for the next years. work.
, The report of United States Treasur
\ Huston states that the revenues of the go
ernment during the fiscal year ended Ju
8 80 last were s403 0s0, ,9S2, an increase of 81
3 ca. gS over the preceding year. and t
Q expenditures $297, 1876, ,436, an increase
SIS, ,739, ,s71.
9 A crowd of starving farmers and labC
b ers, numbering nearly thousand, sor
q of whom carried black banners, applied
the Schulz uniop, county Cork, for eth
q Red Cloud, the Sioux chief, believes tn
i. the present excitement among the India
4 will melt away like q sprinc snown