The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-06-05
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of Current Events.

COW.
The Templars' Congress at Edinburp
decided to meet in 1893 in Des Moines,
Iowa.
Mr.. Parnell's friends announce that he
will wed Mrs. OShea in June.
John Bardsley, the ex-treasurer of Phil
sdelphia, who placed city and State funds
in the bankrupt Keystone Bank, was sent
10 Jail to await trial
Secretary Blaine has so far recovered
from his recent illness that he was able
to leave New York for Bar Harbor. Me-.
where he will spend the summer.
Dispatches received here from Chill
state that the insurgents, contrary to their
promises, now threaten to lombard the
city of Valparaiso. In view of these
threats the defenses of Valparaiso are be.
ing hurriedly strengthened.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir
presumptive to the throne of Austria. is
seriously i'll with measles. The physicians
in attendance on the patient insist that
the utmost care must be taken to prevent
q fatal termination of his illness. The
archduke Is about 2S years old.
Reports that ex-Prcsident Hayes was
losing his mind as result of an attack
Of the grip are denied. Mr.. Hayes made
Decoration day address at Dayton, Ohio,
on Saturday last.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland has been elected
life member of the Darling Chapter of
the Daughters of the Revolution at the
residence of Mrs. Edward p. Steers, of
New York.
Gladstone, in reply to Mr.. Montagu. q
member of parliament, writes that the
pressure of opinion of the civilized world,
based upon ascertained facts, is the best
mode Of proceeding in behalf of the Jews
in Russia.
a well known American, who has been
travelling in Sicily, says there has been
no excitement there over the New
Orleans lynching.
The newspapers at Naples bewail the
large exodus of Italians to America, "the
land of assassins.
Plenty Horses has been acquitted of
the murder of Lieutenant Casey, the
judge charging the jury to that effect.
City Treasurer Bardsley and Bank
President Kennedy still remain in Jail in
Philadelphia, bail not having been pro-
cured for either of them.
The Pennsylvania legislature finally
passed ballot reform bill and adjourned.
Harry Tracy, the Cambridge, Mass,
boxer, who in a glove fight at Lynn
caused the death of John Burns, was re-
leased from Jail on a 5000 bond and
acted as a pail bearer at Burns's funeral.
Norfolk has been placed in direct COM
munication with Hatteras by cable.
The funeral of Hon. Alonzo Taft, ex.
Attorney General of the United States,
and ex-minister to Austria and Russia.
was largely attended at Cincinnati.
The Georgia Central Railroad has de-
license tax levied upon railroads by the
State Of Alabama, and has notified tho
auditor that its branches in Alabama will
pay the tax.
Joseph Newton, an alleged counter
feiter living in the northern part of John
son county, ILL.,, was captured near Lick
Creek, in Union county, ILL.,, whereupon
hebrew a revolver and killed himself
The reports of French commanders
stopping the sale of bait to Americans in
Newfoundland are confirmed. Steam
launches from the French war ships drove
the boats from the sides of the American
schooners. They also took up the nets of
Newfoundland fishermen, putting them
ashore. The outrage is great loss to the
inhabitants and to American fishermen.
The agreement among the furnace own
ers of the Mahoning and Shenango Val
leys, Ohio, made several months ago, not
to resume operations until reduction in
railroad rates and the price of coke could
be secured, has been abrogated, and
general resumption is looked for in few
days.
Edward Hageman a constable, went to
the farm of Cyrus Aldrich in Norton
county, Kan, to take possession of some
mortgaged horses. The farmer refused
to give up the animals, and opened fire
upon the constable. The constable shot
the farmer fatally. Hageman was shot
in several places, and died soon after.
The French chamber of deputies re-
fused to put duty of 80 francs on Amer
ican pork.
Cut worms are running Iowa corn and
potatoes.
The Third Party will not name a candi-
date for Governor Of Ohio.
Senor Patres, Guatemalan minister to
this country, has presented his creden-
tials.
The quarrymen and manufacturers at
Concord, n. H., have compromised their
differences.
= Seney Miller, the California stage rob
ber, has been sentenced to 10 years in the
N penitentiary.
French fishermen off Newfoundland
cut off American bait supplies and lifted
Observation-Disclosures nets.
G. IL. Medick, of Wheeling, w. Va,
has been elected president of the national
Butchers Protective Association in ses-
sion at Pittsburg.
New Jersey importers have been dodg-
ing the tariff by receiving pearl buttons