The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-07-24
BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World from
Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME,


bus, Ind, awoke after continuous nap of
100 hours
Rev Charles S. st. John, Of the North
ampton (Mass.) Unitarian church, has ac
cepted call to Pittsburg.
Judge Rumsey, at Rochester, has dis
missed the indictments against the cloth
ing manufacturers for conspiracy.
There is strong prospect of strike Of
conductors all over the Illinois Central
system on account of the recent wholesale
discharges.
Broker Samuel w. Lewis was convicted
at New York of swindling Mrs. Bostwick
out of $50, 900 on the plea of investing the
money in stocks. He squandered the
money and when it was all gone he mar
ried his victim.
The New York Press states that Recor-
der Smyth, of New York, is on Inspector
Byrnes' bond, and that despite this fact
the recorder presided over the trial of
"Frenchy, whose conviction of murder in
the second degree was greatly desired by
Inspector Byrnes.
The customers of Hop Sing, the New
York laundryman who has leprosy, have
deserted him aud he is in danger of being
left without means of support
Frank Sherman, who declares he is an
American citizen, was ordered to be i'm
prisoned and sent back to England by
General O'Beirne Mt New York, because
he came here rs a stowaway
Mrs. j. c. Carson, an aged widow, worth
100000, has been induced to give large
amounts to Mrs. Mamie Darling, a spirit
ualistic medium, who has since confessed
to shoplfting.
Mrs. Lochridge, Of Spring Hill, Tenn,
killed herself and her three children.
There are fears in London that other
failures will follow that of the English
River Plate bank.
At Bayreuth "Parsifal" was given un-
der the management of Frau Wagner.
Four of the Chilian insurgents war
ships are outside Coquimbo, and an out
break is expected. Intense excitement
rules in the town, many of whose residents
are fleeing to the interior.
Seventy millions of dollars in gold and
any amount of valuable gold ornaments
and precious stones have been found in an
old castle in Rio Janeiro, according to n
South American newspaper. The castle
was formerly monastery.
Byron w. Cohen, one of the conspira-
tors in the Robertson bogus widow case,
has fled to Canada.
The Itata has paid the $500 fine imposed
for evading the customs laws. She will
shortly give bonds for sl6O,OOO and will
sail for San Francisco for repairs.
The national educational convention
has adjourned, to meet next at Helena,
Mon.
Henry Smith, truckman at the Erie
depot, Suspension Bridge, was killed by
passenger train while wheeling n truck
across the tracks. He was sixty years old.
A syndicate has purchased all the lead
ing mines Of tin in Colorado. The price
paid is $500, ,0O0.
Articles of incorporation of the Ameri.
can Master Mechanics association have
been filed. Its purpose is for the advance
ment Of knowledge concerning the princi-
pies, construction, repair and service OF
the rolling stock of railroads.
Bart Houghton, a we'll known resident
of Victor, n. Y, committed suicide by
hanging.
Mr.. Balfour proposes to increase the
grant for the relief Of distress in Ireland
during the coming financial year by 9l0O,.
900.
Santiago, Chilli, was swept by a two
million dollar fire.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has written letter
to Governor Buckner giving her reasons
for selecting Virginia as the final resting
place of her husbands body.
Five-sixths of the stock of the Pittsburg
Commercial Gazette has been sold to John
Dunlap, wealthy tin importer aud free
trader, for 100000.
The New York Herald prints what it
calls an exposure of George w. Dunn's
STANDARD Chemical company" organic
ing with capital of q, 200, 600, which The
Herald claims Is nearly all wind"
1t is proposed at New York to erect n
filled d-successively the offices of postmaster
at New York, secretary of the treasury
major general of volunteers in the war of
the rebellion and governor of the state of
New York.
Hon. John G. Carlisle says, "Some of the
Kentucky papers have been throwing dirt
at me, saying that 1 had been presented
with a house and lot by the Frankfort lot
adoption of a new constitutions; but will
survive their ISLANDERS and attend to busi-
ness at the old stand"
III tic SHhilDcT VI dcpulltS Uly
II NJ Ribot demanded vote of confidence
in the government and got it by vote of
319 to l03.
Mr.. Parnell has not yet paid the costs in
the O'Shea divorce case, and an order in
bankruptcy has been issued against him.
An Italian riot is feared at Dobbs Ferry,
N. Y.
For some mysterious reason the water in
Lake Hopatcong has been gradually fall
ing during the last three weeks. The fall
has averaged one and half inches day,
making total of three feet
George Parker, formerly of Brooklyn,
was found in his boarding house in Lon
don shot through the heart under circum-
stances that leave it uncertain whether he
committed suicide or was murdered.
A resolution in favor of unrestricted
reciprocity between the United States and
Canada has been adopted by the provincial
legislature of Prince Edward Island.
The resignation Of President Melville
Dewey, OF the American Library associa-
tion, has been accepted. S. S. Green, Of
Worcester, Mass, succeeds Mr.. Dewey as
president. f. p. Hill, of Newark, N. j.,
was chosen secretary.