The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-06-12
TErEGRAPHIC BRIEFs.
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Continued uneasiness and run OF
Buenos Ayres banks is reported.
The French deputies vote on the pork
tariff is not final.
Wentzel, the imperial coachman at the
Emperor Williams court, has resigned
his position rather than drive the Rus
sian horses at such breakneck speed.
DR.. Fordyce Barker, one of the most
eminent physicians in the country, died
in New York.
Carl Schurz will go to Europe in the in.
terest of the Worlds Fair.
Senator E. G. Walthall has resigned as
a visitor to West Point.
Brazirs president, De Fonseca, has the
asthma, and obituaries are being pre-
pared.
False stories circulated about sinking
of United States man of war Vermont in
Chinese waters.
Mary Callahan, of Boston, distr,isted
banks, and hid 81, 900 in drawer Money
and relative disappeared.
Sheriff Campbell, of Anderson. Ind
has threatened to chain all the Midland
roads locomotives to the track if its debts
are not paid.
The II runaway senators of the Florida
Legislature have refused to approve the
journal for the day on which Call was
elected Senator, and they claim that in
validates the election.
The Berlin Post officially announces
that the Marquis di Rudini, the Italian
premier, has formally communicated to
the German and Austrian governments
the determination of Italy to adhere to
the driebund.
Public indignation in Germany against
Russia because of that governments
treatment of the Jews is becoming more
intense, and it is asserted that the state
ment of Mr.. Gladstone that the car does
not know of the cruelties inflicted on his
Hebrew subjects differs from the facts,
the car himself being the chief insti-
gator of the increasing seventies.
Count Won Moltke, just before his death,
concluded an exhaustive study of Euro
pean ornaments, and concluded that
France was ready for war, Russia nearly
ready, and that great conflict could not
be delayed longer than 1892
Mr.. Harris, the London manager. saws
he will try to enforce his contract with
Belle Billion, the music hall singer, who
became countess by the death of the
Earl of Clancarty, to sing with him for a
year.
Sir George Stephen, formerly presi-
dent of the Bank Of Montreal, and now
president of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way, has been raised to the peerage, be-
ing the first instance Of native of
British colony being made peer.
The French chamber of deputies has
agreed to allow the free importation of
raw hides and furs into France.
Congressman Mills, of Texas, is quoted
as saying that he believes he is entitled
to the Speakership, but has no desire to
force himself upon his party friends in
the House.
The Presbyterian General Assembly at
Detroit decided to meet next year at
Portland, Oregon.
DIR. Greaves, of Boston, who has spent
some time as a missionary among the
Indians, says he is disgusted. The
Indians, he says, know more than most
Boston people, and guyed him unmerci-
fully when he told them bible stories.
Improved facilities of extracting alum
mum from clay has caused reduction
in the price of the metal to so cents
pound.
The New Orleans grand jury have
made their final report referring to the
irregular proceedings about the court
building. The fact is mentioned that
the list of tales jurors in the Hennesy
case was delivered to the defense nearly
"a hours before it was given to the at
torneys for the State. The grand jury
was unable to ascertain who was RESPONSE
BILE for this.
AT a meeting of National Liberals in
Berlin motion was adopted declaring
that the party was determined to main
tain its independence and to preserve it's
Liberal sentiments. The meeting also
approved the sending of friendly tele-
gram to Prince Bismarck.
Lake linen, in the government of Nov
gorod, Russia, has been the scene of
terrible hurricane. Nineteen timber
vessels were wrecked in the hurricane,
and all Of their crew were drowned
The International Peace Congress at
Milan have approved motion that the
difficulty arising from the New Orleans
lynching ought to be referred to the In
ternational Institute at Ghent for ar
bitration.
Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, of Nash
vile, Tenn, purchased the controlling
interest in the Daily American from
Spiral Hill and others. The old board of
directors resigned and Colonel Cooper
and his two sons, F. F. and M. ID. Cooper,
E. w. Carmack, and John w. Childdress
were elected to the vacancy Colonel
Cooper was elected president. The
amount paid for the interest is not made
public.
Hon. II. A. Herbert, member of Con-
gress from the Montgomery (Ala) dis
trict, has written letter in answer to
constituent, announcing that he will not