The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-08-28
BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World from
Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME.

the Week Caught Fresh from the busy
Wires and Carefully Edited and Con-
densed for Our Readers.
The Western Union denies that IL will
reduce cable rates between America and
Europe.
Acting Secretary Nettleton has in.
structed the collector at New York to take
steps to prevent the importation from
Germany of goods produced by convict
labor.
President ID. II. Moffatt, of the Denver
and Rio Grande railroad, has rendered his
resignation because he was not in harmony
with the board of direction and English
stockholders.
Half of Charleston, Ark, was burned
out.
William H. Danley has died at Williams.
port, Pa, from the sting Of honey bee,
which caused paralysis.
A young man demanded food of several
persons in Milford, near Cincinnati, aud
then killed himself.
The Weekly Argus, of San Francisco.
the personal organ Of Senator Leland
Stanford, puts him in nomination for the
presidency.
lis, has been arrested on q charge of set
ting fire to seventy-five buildings in order
to get work repairing them.
President Diaz Of Mexico has suspended
the customs duties in chihuahua, so that
food may be imported from this country
to the starving people Of that state.
The Brainerd party, wrecked in Lake
Superior in the steam yacht Cruiser, was
rescued in starving condition from
cave near Chapel beach.
The proclamations for the opening of the
Sac and Fox, kickapoo and Iowa Indian
reservations, in Oklahoma territory, are
being prepared in the interior department.
Solicitor General Taft at Washington
has authorized Marshal Walker, of Ala.
bama, to pursue Bob Sims, the outlaw,
in Choctaw country, with posse Of forty
men.
The interior department has decided to
establish permanent government post
near Fort Francis, $50 miles northwest OF
Duluth, on the Rainy river, to prevent the
stealing of timber.
News Of the arrest and sentence to exile
Of several leading citizens Of Nicaragua is
confirmed. Two Of them are ex-presidents.
They will be shot If they return to
Nicaragua.
Miss Susan B. Anthony is authority for
the statement that there Is project to
build, in Rochester, N. Y, new univer.
sity, which will be coeductional for the
sexes.
At New York health department chem.
lists report result Of investigations show.
ing that certain parts Of the croton water
supply are greatly contaminated with
putrid and obnoxious matter.
John Wood, treasurer Of the building
committee of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, re-
ceived complimentary dinner and testi
monial from the board Of trustees Of the
church at Cottage City, Mass.
Matthew Ryan, thought to be suffering
from yellow fever, is under strict quaran.
tine in Fordham, N. Y, while his five
fever stricken companions wander about
the streets.
President Hippolyte, Of Hayti, Is de-
Tended by United States Consul Terres.
who says he is trying to be Just ruler. II
ia now quiet in the black republic.
George w. vedder, of Hoosac Falls, n.
Y, who was knocked down and run owe,
by wagon at Boston, is dead.
At New York Isidor Elbs, manufacturer
has made an assignment.
The new United States revenue cutter
Galveston has been formally placed in
commission.
The Berlin Saale Zeitung says that Bis.
marck is aging rapidly and that he is som.
nolent and losing his memory.
1t is said that Actor Richard Mansfield
will wed Miss Beatrice Cameron, his lead.
ing lady.
At New York policeman found live,
naked baby in an ash barrel, where it had
been thrown to die.
Emin Pacha has fought q successful Sc.
ries Of engagements with the dervishers,
conquering them completely and captur
ing much ivory.
Mamie Roach, the Brooklyn girl who
threw can of vitriol over Charles Ger
hardt, was discharged by Justice Engel.
There is trouble In the Peoples party oi
Ohio The chairman of the executive
committee is charged with treachery.
The production of cloth at Fall River
has been curtailed $1,000 pieces In the past
two weeks, owing to scarcity of weavers.
Mr.. !. Fleischman, lessee Of the Walnut
Street theater and owner Of the Park
theater, Philadelphia, is dead.
Major Mckinley opened the Ohio cam
paign at Niles, where he spoke to 80, ,OOO
persons and pushed the silver question
forward as one Of the issues Of the cam
paign.
1t is alleged that Count Herbert Bis.
marck has written to the Hamburger
Nachrichten denouncing the interview al
legged by NJ de Blowitz, the Paris CORE.
spondent of the London Times, to have
been held by him with Count Won Munster,
the German ambassador at Paris, as q
fabrication, and that Count Herbert will
endeavor to force Won Munster into duel
At the Democratic district convention
at Addison, N. Y, 1t was decided unani.
mously to favor Hill for governor and
Charles F. Peck for lieutenant governor.
A young fellow named James Roberts
has been arrested at New Washington, O.,
as being the Columbus Grove murderer
and bank robber. Two people who saw
the Columbus Grove murderer ut the time
he was making his escape have identified
him.
The New York Herald says that Presi.
dent Harrison's alleged plan to confne the
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