The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-04-18
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS.
Items Which Are of Particular
Interest to Pennsylvanians.
IN THIS AND NEARBY COUNTIES.
Brief Mention OF Matters which Every
body should Know About-A Weeks
Accidents and Crimes Accurately and
ConciseIy ChronloIed.


body should Know About-A Weeks
Accidents and Crimes Accurately and
Coneisely Chronioied.
WEST ELIZABETH, Pa, April 10.-Tw'n
children of George Beatte, aged Z years,
were drowned here while going to school,
They were crossing n swollen stream on
foot log. The little girl fell in and was
swept down with the current Her twin
brother jumped in to rescue her and had
almost succeeded when his strength failed
and both were drowned
Left for Parts Unknown.
PHILADELPnIA, April lO.-A dispatch
from Doylestown says that James Monroe
Shellenberger, "A member of the state bontd
of charities, and one of he best known men
In that borough, has left for parts unknown
and is charged with being short in his ac-
counts fully $4,000 He left the town. so
1t is said last Sunday afternoon, and was
last heard from at Atlantic City. Mr.
Shellenberger was d, mocrat in politics
and served one term as district attorney of
the courts. He was chairman of the county
Democratic standing committee The cause
of his alleged defalcation is extravagant liv-
ing. An effort will be made to settle with
his creditors The alleged misappropriated
cash is said to have come mainly from es-
tates of which he had charge. His property
is said to be entirely in his deceased wife's
name.
The Lehigh Valley Must Settle.
HARRISBURG, Pa, April 1O.-Two opinions
have been handed down by the court in the
state cases against the Lehigh Valley Rail-.
road company on appeals,by the defendants
from tax on gross receipts. Both opinions
are for the commonwealth, one Judgment
being for S2,31I5 54 and the other for $l,-
747s4
BuckDell University's New President.
LEwIsBURG, Pa, April 11.-H. S. Hopper,
Philadelphia banker, son-in-law OF the ate
Mr.. Bucknell, has been chosen president of
Bucknell university, vice William Bucknell,
deceased.
The Flood Mt Johnstown.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, April 11-There is little
danger of loss of life by the present flood in
the Conemaugh Valley, but the damage to
property is already past calculation. VIII
more, twelve miles from Johnstown, is en-
tirely inundated. Woodvae is partly under
water, and the food is running all over the
lower part of this city. Many of the fam
lilies who were driven from their homes
when the South Fork dam burst are again
forced to seek shelter on higher ground
United After Many Years.
SHAMoKIN, Pa, April ia remarkable
case of the reunion of mother and child after
forty years of hopeless separation has just
occurred here. Mrs. Sadie Krechebaum
who was stolen from her home when she was
years DID, has returned to her mothers
arms but she is now woman of 45 and the
mother of several children. Mrs. Kreche-
baum is the daughter of John Gilbert of
Northumberland, Pa, whose nearest neigh
Dor was John Matthias, childess farmer
In 1850 Matthias moved to Indiana, at which
time he kidnapped the 5-year-old girl Gilbert
spent his fortune in the search for his child
and died broken hearted His wife married
again. The little girl grew up in absolute
ignorance of her parentage until 1t was re-
vealed to her few months ago upon the
death of her abductor. She at once came
on here, found her mother who is again a
widow, and will take her to her western
home, which is now in Youngstown, o.
A PhiiadeIphian's Suicide.
PHILADELPHIA, April 12.-Herman Myers
committed suicide last night after making
two futile attempts to kill his wife, who had
left him on account of ill treatment The
tragedy occurred at 800 Lithgow street
where Mrs. Myers was living. Myers was y
years old, and had no permanent residence.
Look Out for the Frauds.
CARLISLE, Pa, April l4.-About a hun
dred farmers in Adams and York Counties
have been defrauded of q sum aggregating
about Sl25,000 by swindlers who sell them
fictitious rights to sell wire fence. They
take their notes for Sl25 as guarantee for
their share of the commission on the first
1000 rods, which are afterward disposed of
In some way No arrests have as yet been
made
Philadelphia's Licenses for 1890.
PHILADELPHIA, April 15.-The liquor
license judges have granted 1,175 retail
| licenses or 81 less than the court granted in
| 1899, and 9l9 wholesale licenses or 279 more
than it granted last year. All of the large
hotels, with one exception, were granted
licenses The charge against it was that
the bartender sold to minors. Old time
saloon keepers who had sold on Sunday or
| in any other way violated the law wore
almost uniformly rejected.
| A Dime Novel Devotee's Suicide.
| PITTsBURG, April 15 The body of Will
| lam McGregor, aged II years. was found
last night suspended by the neck from II
| rafter in Mrs Johnston's boarding house,
| No 1855 Fifth avenue. Whether the boy
| deliberately committed suicide or whether
he suspended himself as an experiment is
not known. Young McGregor was an assid-
uous reader of five cent novels. On his per-
son were found two-"The Boy Sheriff, or
the Regulators of Pico Valley" and "Cool
| Sans Girl Pardn
| A New Pennsylvania Railroad.
| HARRISBURG, Pa, April u The D-la-
ware, Susquehnnna and Schuy 4.lll Railroad
company has been allowed a charter with a
capital Of 100000. This line will be about
thirty rallies long, extending from Drifton,
Luz,rne county, to Eckley at the junction
of Lu2.rue, Schuylkill and Columbia coun-
ties. Is 'sley b. Coke is president