The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-11-13
SATURDAY, Nov. q.


Indiana is suffering from the worst
drought in fifty years.
An extensive forest fire is raging in
the village of Woodstock, in the Cats
kills.
Director Nathan of the Worlds Fair
announced that the price of tickets will
be fifty cents.
The report Of the appraisers of the
estate OF the late Mrs. Theresa Fair
values it at $4,69i,000.
Constable Harris OF the Winnipeg
mounted police has been found dead
with a bullet in his head.
Seven thousand bltuminous coal
miners have been ordered on strike in
Indiana for advance OF wages.
The trial Of ex-Assemblyman DEM
crest, indicted for forgery, has been
set for November 20 at Nyack, N. Y.
Ex-Governor Smith OF Vermont,
president of the Central Railroad, died
Friday OF heart failure at st. Adams,
VT.
Reports at Little Rock, Ark, say
that prairie fires have done over
800, 900 damage in the interior Of the
State.
The iron firm Of Jones & Louthlin,
OF Pittsburg, Pa, reduced the wages
OF the 500 laborers employed by it from
S1.5O to $125.
Frank Taylor and John McKernon
were smothered to death Friday by
the upsetting Of load OF hay on which
they were riding at Lima, Ohio.
Claim has been put into the Vice
Admiralty Court by Andus Island
sailors for sixty per cent. salvage on
the cargo Of the steamship El Dorado.
Fifty employees OF the Baker Wire
Mill, at Lockport, ILL.,, have been
locked out for belonging to union
of the Amalgamated Iron and Steel
Workers.
James Sullivan and Mrs. Catharine
+. McDonough were arrested at Bos-
ton Friday charged with conspiracy
to defraud the New York Life Insur-
ance Company out Of $4,000.
Florence Blythe, heir of the late
Thomas Blythe, became Of ago Nov
ember 10, and has announced she will
end the litigation over her fathers
$4,000 by giving the contestants
81, 100000
The federal authorities Mt Rio
Grande city, Tex, are investigating
the recent examinations by the Mexi-
can military Of suspected revolution
lists, said to be American citizens, and
two OF whom were shot.
The strike that has been In progress
at the tin plate department of the ST.
Louis Stamping Company's mills has
been declared off, and yesterday all of
the men went to work, including the
skilled laborers from abroad.
Charles Criftenfort, young man
employed as "a collector and delivery
man for the Weise Produce Company
OF Klingerstown, Pa, has disappeared,
taking with him valuable papers and
money to the value Of $4,000.
Sarah Cornelison, sixty years old
and an inmate of the Roclland County
IN. ~ Almshouse for the last six
months, fell down flight Of stairs in
the building Friday night and broke
her neck. She was dead when picked
up.
The Cochrane- Fulton Company, dis
tillers and wholesale liquor dealers, at
Louisville, KY, assigned Friday to
the Louisville Trust Company. The
| liabilities and assets are supposed to
be about equal and to reach nearly
$5OO,OOO.
The Bank of Florence, Ala, failed
on Friday. The assets are about $780,
600 and the liabilities about 100000
There is great indignation among the
depositors. One man went to the
president and, drawing a pistol, de-
manding his money. He didn't get it,
however.
Two girls OF ten and twelve, named
Kunz, averted a terrible railroad acci-
dent on the Pittsburg and Youghlo-
gheny Railway on Tuesday night.
They found n telegraph pole across
the track, and by swinging lantern
stopped train.
In the case Of the Jewett Publishing
Company vs.. General b. F. Butler,
Judge Holmes Of Boston has decided
that there was a breach OF contract,
but reserved the question Of equitable
remedy for the full bench of the
Supreme Court.
A delegation from Savannah, Ga,
headed by Senator Colquitt and Mayor
McDonough, called on the president
yesterday and urged him to visit
Savannah during the coming winter.
The president said he would visit
Savannah. as requested, if he could
possibly do so.
The Giant Powder Works at Clipper
Gap, Cal, blew up Friday. James
Hamilton was blown to atoms, moth
ing being found Of him but one fin
killed, and only his que was found.
Joseph Peppin, resident of Santa
Cruz, was badly cut about the head.
He leaves wife and six children.
Bert Hicks, boy, had his skull
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