The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-06-19
BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS
Happenings of the World from
Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME.


| Full dispatches from :Berne and Basel
| give detailed descriptions of the heart rend-
ing scenes accompanying the terrible rail
road accident which occurred on Sunday.
At least 100 were killed.
Alderman Charles Smith, of New York,
better known as "Silver Dollar Smith,"
was indicted by the grand jury for assault
In the third degree, committed on Frank
Wolf.
| Statements are made that the New York
Life Insurance company, owing to loss
OF &, 100000 in shrinkages Of real estate
values, finds the Merzbacher defalcation
an exceedingly serious matter.
The sloop yacht Emilia was run down
and cut In two in the North river, at New
York, by tugboat. The yacht sank in
stantly, and two of her passengers. Frank
jenkins and William II. Bahan, were
drowned. The pilot of the tug. Thomas
| Walsh, Is under arrest
General o. Woodward, OF the League Of
Atlantic I. o. o. r., has appointed Dr.
James +. Mum, Of Syracuse, to the office
of assistant surgeon general in place Of
DR.. James II. Hunt, resigned.
Sevill Schofeld, of the firm of Sevill
Schofleld, Son Il Co., the Manayunk wool
manufacturers, has assigned. Liabilities
between 100000 and 81 ,0O0, 900.
The reports that Rev. Sam Small was
expelled from the NJ L. church are erro-
| neOus. He was discontinued at his own re-
quest.
The United States and Great Britain
have agreed upon plan for stopping seal
killing in Behring sea until next May. A
joint commission will also be appointed to
provide plan to preserve the seal herd.
Hon. j. J. c. Abbott has been chosen
premier of Canada to succeed the late Sir
John A. Macdonald. 1t is believed that
Sir John Thompson is to lead the Conser-
vatives in the house of commons
John Van Cott, an odd character of
Oyster Bay, l.. l., committed suicide.
The Japanese authorities have decided
to stop the emigration Of low Japanese
women to America by refusing to issue
passports to them.
The "Rickisha" men who saved the life
of the czarewitch in Japan were sent for
by the prince and presented with gold
medal and s., 500 in coin each and were
promised a pension of 81 900.
Prince Bismarck is suffering from lum-
bago.
j. +. Albrecht, clerk of the Camp Spring
Milling company, of st. Louis is behind
the bars. He bet on "cinches," and en-
bezzled &, 500 of the firms money.
Tanner, the United States consul at
Pictou, n. s., has been indicted by the
grand jury of that place for indecent as
sault Tanner has fled, forfeiting his bail
Billy O'Brien knocked out Jack King at
Hammond, Ind, in a fight for the middle
weight championship of the state. He
finished his man in the twentieth round
The Montgomery county (O.) Republican
convention has elected q solid delegation
Of twenty-three for Mckinley for governor
The sixth annual convention of the Order
Of Railway Telegraphers takes place at st.
Lous today. Over 300 delegates are in at
tendance.
Attorney General Miller was at Dams
vile, N. Y, June IA, where he attended the
funeral Of his sister, Mr.. Peck, who died
there Friday.
1t is reported at Butte City, Mon, that
the Anaconda copper mines have been sold
through August Belmont to a syndicate
of which the kothschilds are the head, the
consideration being between 2O,0OO, 600
and So, 100000.
The rabbis OF New York have inaug-
urated a strong movement for the better
observance Of the Hebrew day of rest.
Balmacedas warships shelled the port
of Tocopilla, held by the Chilian in
surgents, landed a force of men, pillaged
the town and carried away all the money
they could get.
Sixty-four cadets of the West Point Mill
tary academy graduated.
A daring highway robber who attacked
Miss Jennie Lessburger in Madison ave-
nue., New York, in broad daylight, was
captured after an exciting chase.
The Pennsylvania railroad has named
the new fast train to Chicago, which be-
gan running last Sunday, the Columbia
express" in honor of the Worlds fair.
The president has appointed Frank X.
Utter postmaster at Friendship, N. Y,
vice Robert A. Scott, resigned.
The National Bank of North America,
New York city, capital $7OO, ,OOO has been
authorized to begin business.
Stanwood Dodge, brother Of "Gail
Hamilton" died at Beverly, Mass, aged
sixty-fve years.
Major John II. Walker, who was beaten
by Alfred Hall because OF the latter's jeal-
ousy of Walkers attentions to Mrs Hall,
died of his injuries in Brooklyn.
Colonel John Albert Monroe, II veteran
of the civil war, died June II of hemor-
rhage caused by cancer in the jaw. He
was prominently identified with the artil-
lery service during the war.
1t is said that on account of Hippolyte's
perfidy all relations between the United
States and Hayti are broken off.
Special correspondents at Iquique say
the Chilian insurgents have refused to ac-
cept Balmaceda's ovcrtures for negotia-
tiops and that Admiral McCann has taken
measures to protect the Itata from an at
tack by torpedoes.
The New York Law school, which will
be a rival to Columbia, IN which the so
called Dwight system of instruction will
be perpetuated, has been chartered.
Miss Wilhelmina Tunstall, y young
woman Of seeming refinement, insists that
her cousins husband, William p. Crary,
was too intimate with her She is Mrs.
Crary's chief witness in her suit for di-
voroe. Mrs. Crary is daughter of ex-
Mayor Howell, Of Brooklyn.
Charles Fisher, the famous actor, died at
New York, of general debility, June II.