The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-08-07
BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS
Happenings of the World from
Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME.
The Developments of Each Day During
the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy
Wires and Carefully Edited and Con.
densed for Our Readers.

densed for Our Readers.
Colonel L. L. Polk, the Alliance leader.
says he could not vote for Cleveland for
president.
William j. Elliott. who shot Editor A.
I. Osborn in Columbus, o., June 23, has
been convicted of murder in the second de.
gree.
F. c. Hsvemeyer. the founder Of the
great sugar firm, is dead
In Lawrence county. Ills, a disease is
raging among cattle which kills within
fifteen minutes after the attack.
The average number of deaths daily in
New York state for the month of June
was 3l0, as against 39l in June, 1890.
A carriage containing six persons was
struck by train at Elmira, n. Y, and
four Of the occupants were killed outright
and two fatally injured.
A telegraph messenger, aged fifteen. and
a flower boy, aged sixteen. were arrested
while engaged in prize fight on Boston
common.
Theodore d. Lorich. Of Jersey City, was
drowned at Sharon. Mass
The anti-pool selling law at ST. Louis
has been declared unconstitutional
Captain William W. Bair, of Clarion,
Pa, has been appointed president Judge
OF Clarion county, TO succeed the late
Theophilus Wilson.
Eighty motor men and conductors OF the
Newark (N. j. Passenger Railway COM
pany have struck for reduction OF hours
and an increase of wages.
The Massachusetts, Democratic state con-
vention will be held on Tuesday, Sept. g.
at Worcester.
The First National Bank OF Kansas City
Kan, is insolveut. a receiver will be ap-
pointed.
+. H. Morris, of the Republican state
central committee of Illinois. has been
offered the position of minister to Liberia
by the president.
Mrs. Samuels, the mother of Jesse
James, the outlaw, has received an offer
TO exhibit the James log house near
kearny, Mo, at the Worlds fair.
The lobster factories at Bay of Islands,
n F., with the exception Of those operated
by the French, have been closed by the
commander of the British ship Pelican.
A conscience stricken unfortunate has
sent thirty-eight one dollar lottery tickets.
none of which drew a prize, to the dead
letter Office, with the comment that the
lottery is a humbug.
Treasury officials are said to be greatly
worried over the letter written BY Mr..
Owen, superintendent of immigration. in
which he said tin plate workers might be
brought into this country in spite Of the
contract labor law.
The total loss by fire at Dallas, Tex, will
foot up nearly $500, 900, with an insurance
of about sa0o, ,0On.
During a heavy thunder storm at Green
Vile, Pa. the tall steeple of the United
Presbyterian church was demolished by
lightning. Rev. Scouller was Just finish
ing his sermon and about 200 people were
In the building. The greatest excitement
prevailed for while, but no one was in.
jured.
While Edward Dwyer was walking near
Washington Park Lake, Albany. n. T.,
he was taken with q fit and rolled in the
water. Before assistance could reach him
he drowned. His body was recovered later.
w. c. Tinany's picture store, 2aS Seneca
street, Buffalo, n. r., was damaged by fire
TO the extent OF 200. Insurance un-
known.
Charles Curtis, well known thief,
snatched pocketbook from Miss Bessie
Mead, Of Is East Thirty-second street, New
York, while she was walking on Madison
avenue, near Fifty-frst street. Curtis
was captured after something Of chase.
Christie Hughes. saloon keeper, Of Stone
street, Newark, n. j., who took a prom
inent part IN the Clark Thread works
strike, has disappeared, owing many debts.
George Gasser, Of Newark, y. j., whose
two sons and son-in-law were drowned re.
Gently, Is to be admitted to the Kruger
home. He Is seventy-two years old and
nearly blind.
Major Grover shot his brother Henry at
Lexington, Tenn. Both men were drunk.
The Pokegama Athletic association, of
Grand Rapids, Mich, has decided to offer
$4,000 for the Hall l-FitLsimmons fight,
with or without gloves.
The United States steamship Bennipp-
ton will be docked and painted at the New
York yard in few days for her final
trial.
Syracuse is out of the Eastern associa-
tion and President White is trying to get
the club into Toronto.
Passengers on the steamer Drew, which
collided with an excursion barge on the
Hudson river, near Albany, believe at least
two persons were drowned.
Harvey J. Searles has been appointed
postmaster at Liberty, y. Y; Clement
Russell, postmaster a Massillon, o.
Levi Gaines, of Illinois, serving a sen.
tence Of one year in the Chester (Pa. pen.
itentiary for violating the pension laws,
has been pardoned.
Josephine Sickengen, beautiful and
we'll to do German girl who left home TO
escape from a marriage she could not en-
dure, was burned to death at New York
President Ignatius Donnelly, Of the
Minnesota State Farmers Alliance, has
published an open letter TO members in
opposition to the scheme for withholding
the wheat crop. Mr.. Donnelly says the
market would eventually be glutted with
wheat, and prices would drop to ruinous
figures.
The tower Of a church in the process Of
erection at Szalatina, Hungary, fell, kill.
ing sixteen workmen.
S. Gerber, who lived in Omaha. Neb,
for five years, has, il is said. been exiled TO
Siberia by the Russian authorities.
The Columbia Oil company, of Chicago,
has failed.
At Paterson n i Mrs Annia Eauf.