The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-08-07
BRIEF MENTION or NEWS
Happenings Of the World from
Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME

tho Week Caught Fresh from the Busy
Wires and Carefully Edited and Con
depsed for Our Readers.
Malignant diphtheria Is prevalent In tn.
South Dakota Hospital for the Insane.
The California wheat crop this year will
be 3o,OOO,0o0 centals, worth s4S,0OO,OO0.
Five large double furnaces are now being
run by the Pottsville Iron and Steel com.
pany.
Two battalions Of cavalry have left f,
Reno, l. T., to drive cattlemen and cattl,
from the Cherokee outlet.
-Four Chicago capitalists are reported t1
be ready to build an elevated railroad on
the west side In that city.
Deputy Cal Tucker has been indicted foi
aiding in the escape Of the notorious burg
lar Huderson from the Jail in Hamilton
county, o., two weeks ago.
The sealing schooners Minnie and G. d.
Rand have been sent home from the Beh
ring sea by the Thetis, which has so fan
warned forty schooners to kave that sea
The National Bank of the Republic has
begun business in Chicago, with capital
stock Of 81, 100000.
The Bank Of England is shipping gold to
the Argentine Republic, sign that the
financial crisis Il over.
William O'Brien has been granted three
days extension Of time by the bankruptcy
court to explain his failure TO pay the costs
in his suit against Lord Salisbury in July,
1889.
Mrs. Helen NJ Cougar, the Iowa prohi.
bitionist, will follow Major Mckinley all
through Ohio during the campaign and
talk low tariff and increased wages foa
workingmen.
The president has signed the commission
OF j. Sloat Fassett to be collector OF the
port Of New York.
The Rev. Francis +. Williams, who was
burned to death In Palmer, Mass, was
over sixty years Of age. IIe was ordained
minister Of the Orthodox Congregational
church In 1853.
Edward Arnheim, who recently eloped
with Elsie Van Horne from New York
turns out to be bad yonng man, and was
sentenced to the Elmira reformatory under
the name Of Hurlbert.
The Farmers Alliance has failed to reap
any advantage for It's members through
its proposed wheat trust, 1t is said.
Alexander l, the boy king of Ssrvia, has
ersburg.
The marriage of Minister Linooln's
daughter will take place on Sept. =.
Samuel Hano, real estate operator At
Allston, Mass, has assigned to his father,
Louis Hano. Liabilities, 100000; gross
assets, 100000.
Rev. William N. Perry, aged forty, pas.
tor Of the Central Presbyterian church, at
Bowling Green, Ky, fell dead in his pull
pit from heart disease.
4. w. Scripps, proprietor of the Cincin
natl Post, IL talked of as tho Peoples
party's candidate for governor Of Ohio.
The Wabash Avenue Sub-railway Trans
portatiOn company has been incorporated
to build an underground railway In Chi
cago.
James ]. Coogan denied that Matthew
Quay gave $4,000 toward his candidacy
for mayor in 1888 at New York.
A small mob attacked the barracks at
Barcelona, Spain, and there was some
sharp street lighting, but the outbreak
was quelled and . number of arrests made.
Right Rev. Kilian Flasch, bishop OF the
Roman Catholic diocese Of La Crosse, Wis,
Is dead.
The German colonial Office, it is alleged,
is preparing to repudiats the acts OF Emin
Pash in German East Africa.
Captain Townsend, of New Haven, will
introduce a bill at the next session Of the
Connecticut legislature for the establish
ment OF naval reserve militia of $50 men.
Melbourne, the Australian, says he Is
going to take his rain machine to Death
valley, Cal, the Sahara and other dry
places, where he will produce lakes.
George w. Taylor, Of Tuttle, Morehouse |
& Taylor, Of Newt Haven, died Saturday
night. He was:ths ldest printer in Con-
necticut.
Jacob Seemillsr, director Of the Balti.
more and Ohio railroad and Of several
banks, died at the Deer Park Hotel, west
ern Maryland.
From 1880 to 1890 Cuba exported 5,s5l,-
1S9 tons Of sugar, 92H per cent of which |
came to this country.
The Arbeiter Zeitung, socialist organ at |
in its issue Sunday con
tains an article advocating resort to per |
jury by socialists In political trials.
Hiram Wood. one Of the Oldest business |
men in Rochester, N. Y, is dead, aged |
years.
The well known periodical comet OF
Enecke was re-dscovered at Lick observa-
tory by T. f. Barnard. 1t is very faint, |
and is following closely the path predicted |
for it by Dr. Barklund.
James Harvey Ransom, a retired New
York dry goods merchant, died suddenly |
at Saratoga, aged sixty-tive
The great race at New York for $4,000 |
a side between Tenny and Longstreet was
won by Longstreet.