The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-06-26
BRIEF MENTIONO 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 Roaders.
Fire destroyed the house and barn owned
by Charles Smith, Of Pittsfield, Mass, with
their contents, including one horse. Loss,
$500; insurance, s2,6OO.
The jury to try the indicted New York
! Central directors has been completed. The
taking of testimony will begin today.
Peter Mclaughlin was killed and John
Poker severely injured by premature
explosion of dynamite ut Leiper's quarries,
Chester, Pa.
The trial of Meyer & Dickinson's second
suit against the government for the recov-
cry of duties on articles used as hat trim
mings has been resumed in the United
+, States circuit court at Philadelphia.
Acting Secretary Spaulding sold to Har-
vey Fisk & Sons, Of New York, the entire
, issue Of District of Columbia az per cent
bonds a., 400 900 at t1O0. 53l for each slOO
bond.
j. II. Moreys, of Ogdensburg. n. Y,
| aged twenty two, n clerk in Lamb g. Co. 8
dry goods store at Northampton, Mass,
! was drowned in the Connecticut river by
! the upsetting Of his canoe.
The Florence National bank Of Florence,
! Ala, has closed its doors. The immediate
! cause Is attributed to the spread Of false
reports, which caused run on the bank.
| At the meeting Of the trustees Of Will
! liams' college, Willamstown, Mass, Ber-
nard c. Steiner, of Johns Hopkins, was
J appointed to fill the chair Of American
| history during the absence of Professor
Rice in Europe.
! Philip Corner, OF Wellsbury, N. Y, was
struck and killed by lightning rs he was
looking out of window Of tannery at
| that place. The building was not dam.
aged
Pennsylvania's Worlds fair bill has been
approved by the governor and the commits
sion appointed.
! Captain Lawler, of Marblehead, Mass.
has sailed on his trip across the Atlantic
! in dory.
! An engine on the Nablette narrow guage
road, about ten miles west of Willow
Springs, Mo-, ran into push car contain
| ing eleven employees. James kamtzer and
Fred Ebcrles were instantly killed and w.
| W. Richman severely injured. The other
, eight men escaped by jumping
| Frederick Molock, of Newark, n. j., who
has spent fifty Of his eighty years in prison,
was sent to Jail for ninety days by Justice
| Preisel.
Joseph Barton, a farmer, was drowned
in the Hackensack river at New Bridge,
| n. j., while bathing.
| The slaughterhouse Of Jacob Schlemmer,
on the turnpike road, Harrison, N. j., was
destroyed by fire, involving n loss Of SO, 900.
Charles Woodruff a farmer at Giffords,
! S. l., has been missing from his home the
| past three weeks. He is man Of about
forty-three years, medium build, has gray
hair and brown mustache.
| Pasqualo Delto, an Italian saloon keeper
at 153 South Canal street, Newark, was
arrested for assaulting the thirteen-year.
old daughter Of Abraham Guenstone with
stick and breaking her leg.
Fourth class postmasters have been ap.
pointed in New York state rs follows: f.
NJ. Ingelow at South Lima and A. Wemple
at Waupenville
The secretary of the interior has awarded
the contract for repairing the great Casa
Grande prehistoric ruin near Gila river in
Arizona The sum of 1900 was appropri-
ated by the last congress.
| At a special meeting of the New York
Life Insurance company resolutions were
adopted calling for a thorough investiga,
ton of its affairs, especially with regard 10
| the Spanish-Am department., and ex.
pressing confidence in the solidity of the
institution.
The census Office has in press and will
shortly publish for distribution an elabor-
ate report on lumber production and allied
industries for the states of Michigan, Wis.
consin and Minnesota.
Henry c. Tanning, convicted Of the mur
der of Mrs Emily Taylor on April 1s in
| New York, has been sentenced to be exc
cuted during the week of July q.
News comes from Alaska that Lieuten
ant Robinson, of the United States steamer
Bear; Mr.. W. Moore and a boat crew OF
four, all belonging to the Mount st. Elias
exploring expedition, were drowned re-
Gently in Icy bay.
Captain George Pearce and his crew OF
fourteen, of the British bark Exile, have
arrived in New York. They were rescued
from their ship, which was in distress in
midocean, by Captain George Won Hugo
and five Others of the German steamship
Sophia.
The British parliament will be prorogued
Aug. 5. Salisbury made an address in the
house of commons on the treaties of 1867
and 1865, which created a sensation.
Sixty earthquake shocks were felt in Ben
gal Thursday, great damage being done.
Seventy five bodies of victims OF the ter
rible railroad disaster near Moenchenstein
Switzerland, are known to be still missing
Ex-senator John j. ingalls, says; "Th5
newspapers, i think, have been misin-
formed in regard to Mr.. Blaine's illness
and they in turn have misinformed the
public. He is, in my opinion, Il pretty sicl;
man, but think he will recover in time
for the presidential nomination"
The compulsory education bill, passed
just previous to the adjournment OF the
Pennsylvania legislature, was vetoed by
Governor Pattison.
At Trenton Receiver Brown has filed al
inventory of the assets and liabilities o
the Star Rubber company. The assets arr
placed at S3SS, ,397, and the direct and con
tingent liabilities at 1851 Al.
Rev. Howard MacQueary's counsel viii
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