The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-10-24
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FRESH TIPS FROM THE WIRES.
What Is Going on of Interest That Is
Worth Reeding-The wheat of the
Worlds News wInnowed from Q Whole
Weeks Threshing.

worth Readtng-The wheat OF the
Worlds News wInnowed from Q whole
Weeks Threshing.
The population of South Dakota is an
nounced by the census office as 327, ,sis, an
increase since 1880 of 229, $50. The popula-
tion of Sioux Falls, S. d., is 10154; in
crease 1890.
At the annual convention of the Young /
Peoples Christian Union of the Univer-
salist church, the following officers were ,
elected: President, Lee f. Joslyn, of Bay
City, Mich; secretary, James ID. Tilling- |
hast of Buffalo. n Y; treasurer, Miss N. |
Jenison, of Lynn, Mass; executive com /,
mittee, Miss Mary Grace Webb, of Akron, |
o.; Miss Clara b. Adams, of Lynn, Mass; |
Miss Angie NJ. Brooks, of Portland, Me-;
j. Thomas Moore, of Philadelphia.
Bids were today opened at the treasury
department for building the immigrant
station at Ellis island, New York harbor,
and for furnishing the plumbing at the
public building ut Bridgeport, Conn.
Sheridan 81 Byrne, OF New York, were the
lowest bidders for the immigrant station
at S115, 200, and Donahue Brothers, of New
York, the lowest bidders for the Bridge
port building at &, ,9f3.
Joseph Lowery, aged IA, was killed by q
New York Central railroad train while
stealing ride on a gravel train at Lock
port, n Y.
Maj. H. C. Seymour, United States army,
connected with the signal service de-
partment, died at Galveston, Tex, aged 5S
years.
A bill has been introduced in the Yer
mont legislature Incorporating the so
called Vermont Medical college at Rut-
land, which is characterized as fraud by
regular physicians.
Charles Wetherell Keim secretary of the
Cumberland and Pennsylvania railroad,
died at Baltimore, Oct. 81. He was a
brother-in-law of President Mayer, of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
A supreme court jury has rendered a
verdict in favor of John Mcnamara against
the New York Central railroad company
for 5000 for the death of his daughter,
killed in 1887 in Buffalo.
Pete Mccartney, one of the most famous
counterfeiters in the United States, died
at the Ohio penitentiary, Oct. 81 Nc
Cartney once made 81 900 United States
bond 80 perfect that 1t was actually re-
deemed at the treasury, and the holder Of
the genuine was later arrested and charged
with counterfeiting.
Count Herbert Bismarck became en-
gagged to the Countess Anne Conradine
Berthe Platen, aged H. while he was visit
ing at Riga lately. The count is Al. The
Countess Platen belongs to a Hanoverian
family of some renown.
The Jews have been ordered to leave the
cities of Kishenef and Akerman, southern
Russia.
Patrick Gleason, mayor Of Long Island
City. was locked up in Queens county Jail
for five days and sentenced to pay fine of
$3.50 for an unprovoked assault upon George
r. Crowley.
Mrs. Annie Wilmarth, the daughter of
wealthy parents, Is voluntary prisoner
in Raymond street Jail, Brooklyn, where
she was first committed for being drunk in
the street. An unhappy marriage drove
| her to drink.
| Secretary Window has called halt upon
the national worlds fair committee on ac-
count of its too liberal plans for the dis
posal OF government funds, especially in
the way Of salaries.
| 1t is reported that some of the Italians
suspected of the murder oflChief Hennessy,
at New Orleans, have confessed and i'm
| plicated others.
The dock companies at London have
issued notices that all agreements with the
Dockers' union expiring on Nov will be
cancelled. The companies will hereafter
employ free men and ignore the union
leaders, but will continue the present sys-
TEN of piece work.
George NJ. Baker, the well known writer
of plays for amateurs, formerly with the
publishing house Of Lee & Shepard Bos-
ton, died at his home in Barnstable, Mass.
He was So years of age.
| At Winchendon, Mass, the wooden ware
shop OF Orlando Mason was burned. Loss
81, 900; insurance, $4,000.
William Fisher, United States shipping
commissioner for Bath Me-, dropped dead
of heart disease. He was SO years of age.
Capt. Richard Burton, famous as a sol
dier, explorer, linguist and author, is dead
at the age of "a years.
A suit has been brought In the United
States circuit court by William Fleron, who
translated and dramatized Alexander Du
mas work, known as "The Clemencear
Case" against the Pollard Publishing com
pany for infringement of copyright. FleroI
claims the firm is publishing the booi
under the same name and selling it at hal
price. The company will have to show
cause why it should not be enjoined from
publishing the work.
Peter Lampman, aged So years, mai
carrier and old soldier, stepped in front o
light engine on the New York Centra
road at st. townsville, N. Y, and was in
stantiy killed
Professor Galbraith, the prominent nat
uralist, Is dead.
Jacob Crops was nominated for congres
by the Democrats of the Twenty frs
Pennsylvania district, Ex-Sheriff Guffe
was nominated some time ago, but dc
clined to accept
At the twelfth annual reunion of tn
veterans of the Fifth New York heavy al
tillery the following named officers wer
elected for the ensuing year; President
Col. John II. Graham, OF New York; vic
presidents, Capt. Henry L. Smith, Of NeN
York; W. W. Hanna, of Philadelphia, an
Thomas f. Searles, of Bainbridge, N. Y
chaplain, Rev. w. A. Barnes, of Connelli
vile, Pa; secretary and treasurer, Lieu
Joseph X. Barker.
Isaiah S, Emery, of Rochester, N, Y
labor candidate for congress, committe
suicide by taking chloroform and openin
an artery in his wrist,
Charles Armstrong aged n, heretofoI
much respected at Harvard, Ills Is char
ed with embezzling SIS 900 of money b
longing to his friends.
Jack Dempsey has signed articles
agreement to fight Bob Fitzsimmons for
purse and the middle weight champion
ship Of the world before the Olympia clu
in New Orleans about the middle of ID
|, cember. A telegram from Dempsey sa!
the articles are ON the way by mail.
b At Elmira the jury in the Mrs, Ellie
berger murder case acquitted the woman
A Berlin dispatch states that univers
J, labor congress will he held in Brussels {
AuR l6 ISgl.