The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-07-03
BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World from
Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TINE

The Developments of Each Day During
the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy
Wires and Carefully Edited and Con.
densed for Our Readers.
Governor Bulkeley is reported to have
said that he would not accept the nomina-
tion for vice president, and that he would
be a candidate in 1892 for nothing less than
the presidency.
The trial of Ameer Ben Ali, alias
Frnchy No i for the murder of Carrie
Brown, has begun at New York.
Labor organizations threaten to make
contract prison labor an issue in the New
York state campaign next fall.
Rev. DR.. Aaron Il. Ballard, vice presi-
dent of the Ocean Grove camp meeting
and Mrs. Ballard are living together again.
The remains Of James McHenry, the
we'll known Erie railway litigant, were
exhumed at London. 1t is believed he was
poisoned.
Colonel Clapp, who has been with the
Boston Journal for twenty-five years, has
been succeeded by Stephen O'Meara.
Indications in Wales point to the proba-
bility that the tin plate workers will nearly
all remove to America.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest
of Edward De Cobain, member of parlia-
ment for East Belfast and deputy grand
master of the Orange institution in Ire
land, who is charged with immoral prac-
tices.
Timan's sawmill and lumber yard at
Cammat, Pa, was burned. Loss, $4,000.
At Rochester, n Y, Salvan Viano was
convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in
Albany prison for assaulting girl under
fifteen years of age. Viano is an aged
Italian.
The total loss of property by the Iowa
floods will not fall short of 81, 100000, and
is more likely to exceed that sum.
At Newburyport, Mass, the stable and
carhouse of the Newburyport and Ames-
bury Street Railway company were burned
with thirteen cars. Loss estimated at
100000.
Charles f. Gunther, the Chicago con-
fectioner, has purchased in London the
portrait of Christopher Columbus, which
is generally believed to have been painted
by Chevalier Antonio Moro about the year
1870. The price paid was $4,000.
Mrs. Charlotte Smith, of Washington,
alleges that there is an extensive system
of Office brokerage and blackmailing of
employees in some of the government Of
fees.
Jockey Britton was severely hurt by
being thrown from his horse in a race at
Chicago. The right side of his face was
frightfully mashed, but no bones were
broken.
Francis Murphy, the we'll known tenn
perance orator, of Pittsburg, and his wife
were injured, though not seriously, in
railroad accident near ST. Paul.
The body of an unknown flood victim
was found on the Morrel grounds at
Johnstown, Pa, during a baseball game.
The Amalgamated association has ad-
journed after having been in session
twenty-five days All the old officers, ex-
cept the vice president of the Fifth dis
trict, were reelected. John Martin, of
Anderson, Ind, was elected to I'LL that
position.
Tom Harris, colored, was hanged at
Shreveport, La, June 26, for the murder
of Ella Franklin on the night of May 10
last. Harris killed the woman in a fit of
jealously and narrowly escaped lynching
at the time
The monument of the One Hundred and
Eleventh New York Volunteer infantry
has been dedicated at Gettysburg, Pa
Benjamin b. Snow, Of Auburn, N. Y, de-
livered the grafton, and c. d. MacDougall
of the same place, made an address. The
benediction was pronounced by Rev. s. G.
Hopkins, of Palmyra, N. Y.
Kimball Bros, manufacturers and deal
ers in carriages, at Boston, have assigned
The Indebtedness of the firm is about $780,
600, and the nominal assets from $50 900 to
$4,000.
Andrew A. Meyer and Benjamin p.
Walker, directors of the Eastern Invest
ment company of Boston, charged with
conspiracy to defraud, have been dis
charged from custody. The case was dis
posed of without public hearing
The crew Of the schooner James W.
Fitch, Captain Pitcher, which arrived at
Boston from Matanzas, were all placed
under arrest as witnesses in the case of
the murder of the second mate, Adolph
Nelson, by Steward Charles Ford in the
harbor of Matanzas May 20 last.
The Vanceboro Wooden Ware company's
mill at Vanceboro, Me-, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000; partly insured.
Rev. Father Quigley, the Catholic priest
who was recently convicted at Toledo
of violating the Ohio compulsory educa-
tion law in refusing to make returns under
its provisions, was fined twenty five dol
lars and costs by Judge Pugsley, in the
court of common pleas. This is believed to
be the first case of the kind decided in the
state.
John FELTON,, the originator of the idea
of selling newspapers and books on rail-
road trains died at his residence in Buffalo,
June 25
In the superior court at New Haven
Mrs. Sarah A. Camp was granted a di.
vorce from Edwin A. Camp on the ground
Of desertion by Judge Prentice The plain
tiff is allowed 1855 alimony. 1t is an
nounced that Mrs. Camp will Immediately
bring suit against Mrs. Laura f.. Piersol,
the correspondent in the divorce suit, for
alternating her husbands affections She
will place the damages at $4,000
Fourth class postmasters were appointed
In New York state as follows G. w. Croft
at Bethany and A. S. Brownell at Sacan-
daga Park.
The New Jersey Editorial association ar
rived in White Sulphur Springs, w. Va,
June 23 on their thirty annual tour.
There are 176 in the party. They left Phila-