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

has arrived in New York on visit to
his brother, Abner Mckinley.
Governor Hill, on Saturday, issued
his Thanksgiving proclamation, fix
ing Thursday, November 26.
In Wharton, Texas, Saturday, Wes-
ley Harris, prisoner, cut the throat
of Stephen Brown, another inmate Of
the jail.
George Faerber, shipping clerk for
J. W. Craneer q Co., hardware, Of
Leavenworth, Kan, has been arrested
charged with swindling his employers
out of $1,000.
The Edgemoor Land Syndicate Of
Chicago, has secured $50 900 acres Of
land in North Dakota, on which it will
colonize German farmers and raise
barley for malt purposes.
The coroner's jury in the case Of
Mrs. Amelia Gregory, who was mur-
dered October IA in her home near
Middletown, N. Y, has been unable
to fix the crime upon anyone.
For beating and robbing sailor in
Halifax, Alexander Davidson was
yesterday sentenced to ten years in
prison, Samuel Deaney to four years,
and Reuben Shaw to three years.
The October report of the general
superintendent Of construction of tho
Worlds Fair states that work in the
engraving and building departments
is In most satisfactory condition.
The water in the st. Lawrence river
at Montreal is lower than it was ever
known to be before. 1t is only 26 feet
6 inches in the channel, and is still
falling
Col. Sibley, the Grand Army man Of
Charlestown, Mass, who was arrested
recently for forging checks for a few
hundred dollars, was indicted Satur-
day by the Grand Jury in Boston.
William A. Murdy, Of Saratoga, N.
Y, had both his legs crushed off at
Mechanicsville Saturday. by falling
under the wheels of Delaware and
Hudson freight train which he was
trying to board.
BY an explosion Of six boxes Of
blasting caps at Last Chance Mine,
Idaho, Friday night, Daniel Sullivan,
Daniel Mclean and William Parks
were badly mangled, and it is thought
that all three will die.
Mcleod Stewart, formerly Mayor Of
Ottawa, large real estate owner, has
assigned. The liabilities are $500, 900.
The creditors are English. Mr..
Stewards relatives are largely in
volved through his failure.
The statement of the public debt
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the total Indebtedness to be $235, 5OO,-
600, being an increase in the month of
October Of $4,000. The amounts
payable in England are $l95, ,OOO, 900.
Lord Stanley. Governor General Of
Canada, has returned from Halifax to
Ottawa, after bidding farewell to his
son. Lieut.. Stanley, of Her Majesty's
Ship Bellerephon. which has sailed
for Bermuda, to go into Winter quar-
ters.
Charles f. Atwood. theatrical
manager, was found demented In the
streets Of Hyde Park, ILL.,, Saturday
night He was taken to the Cook
County Hospital where he died Sunday
with no friend or relative to mourn
his end.
At Henderson. KY, Saturday night,
a jury decided that E. B. Newcomb
was not Of sound mind when he made
his will, in which he gave his entire
fortune Of $2OO, 900 to his second wife,
disinheriting his only child, William
Newcomb.
Several small fires Of supposed in
cendiary origin have occurred in Mill
vile, N. j., within a week, and Satur-
day night the police arrested Joseph
Sayres and Frank and Harry Near,
all under sixteen years Of age, on the
charge Of arson.
Samuel Williams, a thirteen year.
old farm hand, was caught in Way
land, Mass, yesterday, setting fire to
barn. He confessed that he had
caused the fire which destroyed the
summer residence OF John E. Fitz-
gerald, last Thursday.
Mary Neuman died Sunday at the
home Of her granddaughter, Mrs.
Henry Maulberger, In Cleveland, O.,
aged los years. She was born in
Prussia and was serf. In 1866, when
eighty years old, she came to America
to live with her children.
Engineer McIlvaine was instantly
killed, and the fireman and brakeman
were fatally injured, in the wreck OF a
freight train on the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy Railroad at Nedron,
ILL.,, Friday night. The wreck was
caused by an open switch.
The Virginia State Debt Commits
sion and the New York Olcott Com
mittee, representing the foreign bond
holders, will hold another conference
at Richmond, Va, on Tuesday, No
vember II, when the committee will
submit another proposition looking
to settlement Of the debt.
Edward Fogarty and F. r. Bryant,
thirteen and fourteen years old, re-
spectively, were arraigned before a
police magistrate in Toronto, Ontario,
Saturday, charged with stealing $500
from their grandfather, at Foxbor-
ough, Mass. The boys agreed to re-
turn with the officer, who had been
sent after them, without extradition