The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-08-14
BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World from
Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME.

Wires and Carefully Edited aud Con-
dcnsed for Our Readers.
A mob nearly lynched the mayor and
aldermen Of Kansas City, Kan, because
the council was accused of accepting bribes
from an electric light company.
The reception Of the Grand Duke Alexis
in Paris, although he arrived unexpected.
ly, was of the most enthusiastic character.
John Amelman, an old negro criminal,
dragged n woman into the woods at Great
Neck, l.. l., assaulted her and only spsred
her life on being given fifty or sixty dollars.
The chateau Of President Carnot at
Presles, which was occupied by his mother,
has been looted by burglars.
A high ecclesiastical authority in Ger.
many says that there Is no obligation to
believe that the Holy Coat of Treves was
ever worn by Christ.
John NJ. Plumer, doing business as J.
NJ. Plumer e. Co., wholesale dealer in
rubber goods, Boston, has filed petition
in insolvency.
The attachment Of the Bennington bat
tie monument by the Hartford Security
company Is now denied.
David King. a farmer Of Fort Dodge, Ia,
who was buncoed out of $1,000 by two
men, claims that they hypnotized him.
The Peoples party in Kansas will put
ex-Congressman Kelly it is said, against
Plumb for senator, and wants to retire
Jerry Simpson and his followers.
Edward McGovern ran into runaway
milk team while making "A home run in a
game of baseball at Glen Haven, near
Rochester, n. Y. He has since died.
The contract for the 100 high power
guns to he given to the Bethlehem Iron
company, of South Bethlehem, Pa, has
been approved by Acting Secretary Prout.
of the war department. The amount of
the contract is S3,5S0,3 ,373.35.
The International Congress of Hygiene
was opened in London by the Prince of
Wales
William McMahon has sued James NJ.
Waterbury for 81 ,000, 900, which he claims
is due him for working the interests of a
rapid transit scheme.
Grasshoppers are doing great damage
throughout Ohio. They have destroyed
the clover seed crop, are running tho wheat
and corn fields and eating up the pasture.
Fruit trees are also being damaged by
them.
Mrs Leila Robinson Sawtelle, Massa-
chusetts' first woman lawyer, died at AM
herst, n. H., where she was stopping, Of
an overdose of medicine she had accident
ally taken.
Major w. w. Carter, one Of Indiana's
noted politicians and lawyers, is dead.
The Salvadorian government has con-
fscated the Pacific Mail steamship City Of
Panama at La Libertad for leaving La
Union without permit from the captain
of the port
The son OF Mrs Hettie Green proposes
to have big newspaper in Chicago with
eastern editors.
A monument to the heroes of the revo-
lutionary battle at Bennington is to be
unveiled with the most imposing cere-
monies at that place.
Ex-Governor Henry Lloyd, of Maryland,
says that the story of his son being swim
dler is falsehood. He was not married
nntil 1856, and his children are very
young.
William F. Round, secretary of the
Prison association, has received permis-
sion from Superintendent Lathrop to in
vestigate Clinton prison, and has gone to
Dannemora, N. Y, for that purpose.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America has concluded its annual ses-
sion. indianapolis was selected as the place
for holding the next annual convention.
Bishop Cotter was reelected president.
Herbert Kenny, an insurance agent Of
Pittsburg, has been arrested at Toronto,
charged with embezzlement and forgery.
It has been decided that Mr.. Parnell will
visit the United States during the autumn
and conduct a campaign throughout the
entire country. Mrs. Parnell will accom-
pany her husband, making her public
debut as n politician.
The body of Jennie Van Horn, an at
tendant at the Harrisburg Insane asylum,
was found In the canal. 1t is supposed to
be case Of suicide on account of unre-
| Quilted love.
The Russian council of state has decided
| to prohibit the expectation Of corn, owing
| TO the bad harvest.
Ten prisoners, with fine saw, escaped
from the county Jail at Lacrosse, Wis.
Governor Buchanan has issued procla-
nation calling an extra session of the
legislature Of Tennessee.
George Theodore Won Moltke, nephew OF
| the great German field marshal, was mar
Red at Tacoma, Wash, Wednesday to
Miss Jane Smith.
A clerk in the clothing store of Abra.
| ham g. Co., at West Superior Wis, hid a
half smoked cigar from one of his employ
ers in a pile of clothing Loss, so, 1000.
| Thomas w. Bocock, for fourteen years a
member of congress from Virginia, and
speaker of the Confederate congress for
four years, died at his home In Appomat-
tox county, Va.
| An officer Of the United States steam
ship Pensacola says that Balmaceda is
flooding Chilli with paper money. PHI box
covers, redeenable by a firm of druggists,
are used for small change in Santiago
United States Commissioner Hirshbeck
rendered decision at Buffolo to the effect
that Cinnamon smuggled from Canada
into the United States must be sent back
to China and not to Canada, as heretofore
Chicago Democrats have agreed to final
peace.
Parliament was prorogued to October
"a. The queens speech contained nothing
OF grave Importance.
slsvin Will Fight Sullivan.
LONDON, Aug. l2.-Frank p Slavin say,
he will cover the q, 600 now posted by Sui