The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
CURRENT EVENTS.

In defending himself at Tomahawke,
Wis w. Reiter killed an Indian.
A school of whales have been sporting
along the Virginia coast for week.
The celebrated slave trader. Tippoo
lib, is contemplating visit to England.
The anti Pinkerton bill has passed a
second reading in the New York assem-
by.
Salt, supposed to have been absorbed
from Salt Lake, fell at Salt Lake City in
snow storm.
AT Rutland, VT, G.. f. Kibing is serv-
ing n sentence of 90 ,047 DAYS for illicit
liquor dealing
The Lee Battery, light artillery, of
Petersburg, has disbanded 1t was or
ganized in 1885.
Masked robbers forced II. b. Utter, of
Kansas City, to open his safe and hand
over his cash, $40,
Ben Folsom, cousin to Mrs. Cleveland
and consul at Birmingham, England,
has returned home.
Buffalo Bill wants to see the Indian
given vote, and compelled to earn his
own living, like the negro
General Sherman once declined an
offer of $4,000 year to contribute reg.
ularly TO Grand Army paper.
President Clrnot has an idea of sug-
ing the demolition of all the fortifca.
tions in the neighborhood of Paris.
The printing press which Voltare set
up in Fernay to denoIsh Christianity
is now u>el to print bibles in Geneva.
Judge Lacombe at New York again
upheld the constitutionality of the Nc
kinIey tariff in the lace test case before
linn.
Murderer Jugiro's appeal from electri-
Cal execution will be considered by the
Uai,ed States Supreme Court early in
March,
The yacht Restless, while on winter
cruise along the coast of New England.
ran upon II sleeping whale, but suffered
no damage.
native Japanete paper mentions the
case of a man aged Al who has divorced
35 wives, and is about 10 marry his
thirty
game If billiards, and though lie is 50
years old, he plays with steady hand,
and usually wins.
Private reports which have been re.
ceived from a great many constituencies
indicate that the election i'll Canada will
be exceedingly close.
One of the employees of the postal
telegraph flee in St Petersburg has
invented a watch (which will run 45
days at Il single winding"
A carload of maple sugar was received
at St Joseph, Mo, the other day from
Canada. 1t contained 20,410 pounds,
and WAS valued at 81. 4S0 As.
Among the arrivals at Castle Garden
this week WAS Standing Bear, All Indian
Of Buffalo Bills show, and his German
wife, whom he married in Germany.
The Wisconsin legislature passed a
joint resolution opposing the bill in Con-
grcss for the unlimited Coinage OF silver
There were only three vot, $ against it.
The tin di. covered at Millwood, Clarke
county, Va, is said to be the richest in
the United States, and the development
and working of the mines will be vigor-
ouSly pushed.
General B. F. Buffers autobiography,
on which lie is dong the entire work,
assisted by his private secretary, Colonel
Thomas E. Major, will be published
early in October.
Chicago has again been discredited in
q domestic way. a judge in that city
has just granted a man Il divorce be-
cause his wife preferred life in New
York to living in Chicago with her hus.
band.
Several Catholics are among the newly
elected II bers of the parliament of
Japan, this being the first instance of
the direct representation OF the Japan
ese Catholics in the government of that
country.
Mrs.. Marian r id, the aged mother of
Minister Wilelaw Reid, who resides
near Cedar vile, Ohio. has received from
her son some leaves from the Mount of
Olives and II marigold from the GBrden
of GetlIsemane.
AT South Colchester. Ont :, NJ Brown
aged S4, led to the altar Mrs. Margaret
Clikert, aged 81. The groom had Lirled
four wives and the bride mourned the
loss Of five husbands. Her last husband
died two years ago, aged 1874 years.
For many years it was believed that
the atmosphere had IL great deal to do
with thread making, and that good
thread could only be made in Scotland.
1t is now known that it is all in the
twist and nothing in the atmosphere.
The German emperor has been nick
named "the Flying Dutchman" (der fe-
gende Hollander) by the wits of Berlin.
lie is also called the "Iravel Emperor"
(Reise Kaiser) because of his liking for
taking flying trips throughout the en-
pire.
Mrs. May French Sheldon, who is
about 10 invade Africa in search of the
novel and the curious, was a PittsUurg
belle in her youth. 1t is even declared
that she was the most beautiful woman
that ever graced the society of the
smoky civ