The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-07-10
BRIEF MENTION OF 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 Readers.

"A SltSt lOdu VI young lneu lTOUi INtWdTk
was struck by an Erie train at n crossing
in Passaic. Thomas Hart, twenty one
years old, was killed, and several others
were injured.
At New York a Second avenue horse car
ran down two merchants. One was killed
outright and the other seriously injured.
J. d. Shaw, editor of the Bishopsville
Eagle, was stabbed to death at Telly's
Ferry, S. c., by Dallas Kelly in Q row at a
picnic.
The Fourth was celebrated at Chautau-
qua Assembly grounds, Beatrice, Neb., by
an attendance of 10000 people. Ex-Presi-
dent Hayes addressed large audience.
John f. Godne, of New York, was seized
with cramps, while bathing at Asbury
Park, n. j. He was unconscious when
John Logan, life saver, succeeded in
bringing him to the beach,
San Francisco loses 100000 by Fourth
of July fires, including the Centenary
Methodist Episcopal church.
Sheriff Robinson, of Scranton, Pa, was
mortally injured by an exploding giant
firecracker Saturday night.
Galveston, Tex, is flooded along the wa
terfront, and the shipping there suffered
severely from terrific storm yesterday.
Steve" Daley, the instructor in athlet-
les at Trinity college, Hartford, who shot
and killed John Z. Mccarthy June %, has
been held in $4,000 for trial on a charge of
murder in the second degree.
The storehouse of the John p. Lovell's
Arms company. on Wharf street, East
Weymouth, Mass, was destroyed by fire.
The loss on building and contents is est-
mated at S35, 900; insurance, $4,000
The hailstorm which prevailed at Lam
caster, Pa, has proved very destructive to
the tobacco and fruit crops in this section.
The loss to farmers is quite severe.
John Vosburgh, aged eighty years, of
Rochester, n. Y, an eminent mathema-
tician and teacher, died in Washington, of
heart failure.
The lumber sheds of Grand, Fuller &
Sons on Fulton's wharf, Brighton, Mass,
were burned, together with about / 900 900
feet of lumber. Loss, $4,000; insurance
unknown.
Thirty-eight thousand pounds Of Ameri-
can pig tin were shipped to the American
Tin Plate company, of st. Louis, by the
Tennessee tin mines of South Riverside
Cal. The mines have only been in opera
ton six months.
Pierre Barguet (colored), a custom house
inspector at New York, was held in &, 900
bail at Jefferson Market court, charged
with assaulting Gertie Robinson, aged
fourteen.
James Piel, German electrical engineer,
who boarded at 32S Broome street, New
York, jumped from the ferryboat Erastus
Wiman near Liberty island. He was res
cued and taken to Bellevue hospital
prisoner.
Thomas Lyde, 1s, of IS Roseville avenue,
Newark, was instantly killed by the burst
ing of an old gun which he had loaded to
the muzzle. A portion Of the stock tore
away one side of his head.
The monument to Adjutant Campbell,
of the British army, who protected colon
lists from Tryon's cruelty and fell in the
attack of New Haven, July s, 1779, was un-
veiled over his grave in the woods at Al
lington.
While Patrick McCourt and Howard Will
son, of Plainfield, N. j., were engaged in
loading famous old one horned cannon
which served in the revolution the gun
prematurely discharged and both of Nc
Courts hands were blown of, while Wilson
lost one hand. The ramrod was sent dis
tance of $50 feet, glancing against tele-
graph pole and injuring Jennie, the twelve
year-old daughter of George Feller. All
the injured were taken to the Mullenberg
hospital.
George w. Bailey, an old time theatrical
man and one of the pioneers in the burnt
cork business, died at Milford, Mass. aged
siXty-five.
A circular extending the ~ per cent.
bonds at per cent. interest has been is
sued from the treasury department.
Colonel Joseph G. Tilford, of the Ninth
cavalry, and Colonel Alexander Piper, of
the Fifth artillery having served for forty
years as officers of the army have been
placed on the retired list.
The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has signed the triple alliance treaty. Dis
patches declare that 1t is substantially the
same old treaty
The Vatican has requested the papal
nuncios abroad to invite donations to COM
pensate for speculative losses of Peters
pence.
The house of lords has passed the Irish
land purchase bill through committee.
The first movement of the Beers of
south Africa into Mashonaland has taken
place and has been repulsed by the troops
and police.
Ameer Ben Ali, murderer of Carrie
Brown, or shakespeare" at New York,
was convicted Of murder in the second de-
gree.
L. c. Rathbone, late chief postoffice in
spector has taken the oath of Office and
assumed his new duties as fourth assistant
postmaster general.
William +. Smonds, of Connecticut, was
appointed commissioner of patents, vice
Charles E. Mitchell.
The western sales agents of the anthra-
cite coal companies have decided that the
the July output be limited to 8, 600, ,0O0tons.
William Cox, of Phelps, N. Y, was SEN
fenced to nine years and nine months at
Auburn prison for incest.
The secretary of war has appointed
among others the following civilians for
examination for appointment as officers in
the army: Robert Sewell, OF Camden, N.
j., and John Howard, of Governors
island, n. ", son of General Howard
George w. Ritchie, who pleaded guilty
TO the larceny of over s., 900 from the Com
monwealth National bank, of Philadel-
phia, was sentenced to three years i'm