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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-11-20
Wednesday, Nov. Is,

An Eastern philanthropist has en-
dowed Colorado College with q library
fund Of $4,000.
Bessie Blossom, a pretty girl Of
Genoa, New, has eloped with an In
dian Of the Wushoe tribe.
Postmaster Winters. OF Logan,
Iowa, has disappeared. His accounts
are supposed to be entangled
Ten prisoners escaped from the new
jail at Trinidad, Col, Monday night,
by cutting out q section of the wall.
The largest receipts of cotton in the
history of New Orleans were during
the day ending at noon on Tuesday.
A terrific blizzard ragged in North
ern Wisconsin, Monday night. Much
apprehension is felt for vessels on the
lakes.
Angelina Delutta, sixteen, disap-
peared from her home in Boston,
Monday, with 1900 belonging to her
mother.
Reports from Port Townsend, Wash,
Tuesday presaged trouble in Alaska,
the people being tired Of Off cial prac-
tices under successive administra-
tions.
Three Yuma. CAL, Indians were
sentenced to death at Los Angeles
Tuesday for numbering an old medi.
cine man who failed to bring rain
when told to do so.
Smallpox Is reported as raging at
Nimrods. five miles from Dundee, N.
Y. The only doctor in the town is ill
and other physicians have been sum.
moned by telegraph.
Bridget Barrett, while playing
Mon day evening with some other
children near bonfire at Archibald,
near Scranton, Pa, tripped and fell
into the fire and was burned to a
crisp.
The plant and buildings Of the Bir-
mingham Safe and Lock Company,
located at Avondale, u suburb OF
Birmingham, Ala, burned Monday
night. The loss is $3.50, ,OOO-th thought
to be fully insured.
Rear Admiral George H. Cooper, U.
s. N, died at his home, in Brooklyn,
N. Y, Tuesday, of heart failure. He
had been i'll but a short time. The
dead officer was in his seventy first
year. He had lived in Brooklyn since
1876.
Charles Bott Ackerman is in jail in
Chicago, charged with embezzling
500 from the Central Map Company.
He is said to have taken SO, 200 from a
life Insurance company while acting
as their agent in Brooklyn a few
months ago.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-11-20
Tu esday, Nov. IL.

A gale at Syracuse Monday night
blew down q large two-story frame
building, wrecking it completely.
Albert Church, postmaster of Mt.
Airy, Ga, was shot and killed by
some unknown person Sunday night.
Frank Almy, the murderer of Chrys-
tie Warden, was arraigned at Ply
mouth, N. H., Monday, and pleaded
guilty.
James Sheridan and Joseph Colog-
insky were instantly killed in Clear
Spring Colliery at West Pittston, Pa,
Monday afternoon by fall of coal.
The Seymour, Conn, post-o office
safe was blown open Sunday night
and about 5000 in money and stamps
and some valuable papers were stolen.
The American steamship Brigham.
from Philadelphia for Valesce, with a
cargo OF steel rails, has been wrecked
off Western Dry Rocks, Fla, and will
be total loss.
AlJackson, night operator at the
Pittsburg, Columbus and st. Louis
depot, was held up and robbed of
$l65 by a masked man at o'clock
Monday morning.
Mrs. Mary Jones struck Mrs. Jane
Leonard on the head with a shovel
Sunday night during quarrel at
Poke Hollow, Pa, and broke her
skull. Mrs. Leonard will die.
The large wholesale and retail store
Of William Fl. Tehan, dealer in meats,
at Auburn, N. Y, was closed by the
sheriff last evening on confessed
judgments aggregating $4,000.
John II. Bonn, of Weehawken, N.
j., the millionaire land owner, died
suddenly at his home on Gregory ave-
nue. Sunday morning. His body was
found in the bathtub shortly after
midnight.
Thomas Denning, a hired man, re-
covered $4,000 damages from George
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-11-20

W. Gould Of Newtonville, Mass, Mon
day in his suit for injuries received
by the careless tying of two ladders
by Gould.
Charles II. Gross obtained in the
Supreme Court at Newburg, N. Y,
Monday, a verdict against the Central
New England and Western Rail-
way for $4,000 for injuries sustained
while an engineer on the road.
Mrs. Edgar George, living a few
miles south OF Peru, Ind, gave birth
to four girl babies Sunday night,
weighing four pounds each One has
since died. The mother is forty years
old and has four other children.
The low water in the Kennebec is
causing great distress in the cities and
towns along its bank. Mills are shut
ting down daily. The city of Augusta
is in darkness, rs the low water has
caused the electric company to shut
down.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, William Rud-
dy, aged twenty-six, spoke angrily to
his mother, and she replied mocking-
ly. In fit OF rage he poured coal
Oil over himself, and thrusting a hand
into the fire was instantly developed
In flames. Burning flesh dropped off
in shreds, and he suffered excruciat-
ing agony during the brief period be-
fore death ensued
George I. Chester, wealthy mill
owner Of Lockport, N. Y, contests
the foreclosure of $50, 900 mortgage on
the Chester mills on the ground that
the money was given to llquidate a
gambling debt. He lost a good deal
OF money in wheat speculation year
ago and used the $4,000 in paying
commissions. The mortgage was
made to the Buffalo Loan, Trust and
Safe Deposit Company.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-11-20

PITTsBURG, Nov. II. - Brakeman
Hardy OF this city was burned to death
and Engineer Thomas Whitesides of
Allegheny and Fireman John McFar-
land of Cadiz, Ohio, were mortally
injured in a arear-end collision between
two Pan Handle Railroad freight
trains near Bergettstown, twenty
miles west Of this city, at about 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Fourteen cars Of perishable freight,
with the caboose and engine OF the
second train, were burned. The loss
will reach 100000.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-11-20
Saturday, Nov. IL.

Fire in the business center Of Silver
City. Iowa, did 100000 damage Fri
day.
The Cheyenne, Wyo., National bank
has suspended with liabilities Of
100000.
T. T. Gardner has been reelected
president Of the Kentucky Farmers
Alliance.
Fire at Silver City, Idaho, on Thurs
day. destroyed property to the amount
of 100000.
Kouts' carriage factory at Lawrence
vile, Pa. was destroyed by fire Fri
day. Loss, $4,000.
The Leland Hotel, in Chicago. has
been sold to a syndicate of Chicago
and New York capitalists, for $780,
900.
Five persons were burned to death
in tenement house fire in Columbus.
o., early Friday morning. Incen-
diarism.
Thomas Joseph and William Jones.
little boys, found $500 in money, hid
den in the woods, near Miners Mills,
Pa, on Friday.
Ihe plant OF the Knickerbocker
Brewing Company in New York was
sold at auction Friday for $40, 900, to
satisfy judgment.
Oris G. Palmater, formerly deputy
clerk of Richmond county, NO., has
been arrested at st. Louis, charged
witt. embezzling $14. 900 Of the county
funds.
Mrs. Gretchen Lenzenbager, who
keeps saloon in Chicago, was choked
and beaten to death, together with her
son. George, fifteen, Thursday night
by robbers.
Suit has been brought by the State
of Iowa against the State of Illinois to
ascertain in whose jurisdiction strip
Of territory along the Mississippi be.
tween the States lies.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-11-20
Monday. Nov. 10.

The banking house of Bonner &
Bonner, of Tyler, Tex, has suspended
with liabilities Of about S500,00O.
Ore found in borings under the Mis-
souri, River, at Hannibal, has been as
sayed and found to yield 1928 in gold
to the ton.
Depression in the market caused
George 2. Kepler, prominent oil pro-
ducer Of Titusville, Pa, to shoot him
self Saturday.
Two negroes were hanged with the
same rope near Brenham, Texas.
They had been mixed up in fight at
negro dance.
Michael Henrahan, convicted at
Saratoga of killing Thomas Churchill,
has been sentenced to imprisonment
for nineteen years.
The Post Office at Jersey Shore,
Penn, was entered BY burglars Fri
day. night, and S400 in money and
stamps were stolen.
The apple crop of Michigan this sea-
son is the largest known for years and
of unusually fine quality. Potatoes
diS diSO 'ciy Pleulilul.
James Charleston, q workman on
the Chicago Masonic temple, fell nine
teen stories yesterday, and was
crushed into a shapeless mass.
United States officers have arrested
Amos Moyahan and Martin Healy, at
West Detroit, for smuggling Chinese
across the Canadian boundary.
Gov. Pattison OF Pennsylvania is
sued his Thanksgiving proclamation
on Saturday, appointing November 26
as a day of Thanksgiving and prayer
in that State.
The difficulty between the Presi-
dent and employees on the Southern
Pacific Railroad system is as far from
settlement as ever. A general strike
is threatened.
At Kingston, N. NJ, William Huch-
mos and Richard Jay were Saturday
blown to atoms in the Brushheap mine
by the premature explosion Of guam
tity Of powder.
Marie A. Stelling, wife Of actor NJ.
B. Curtis, has sold a hotel at North
Berkely, CAL, for 1925, 900, in order to
obtain money with which to defend
her husband against the charge Of
killing a policeman.
Nine striking switchmen, who had
worked for the 800" Road, have
been found guilty of conspiracy to in
timidate men employed in their
places. This is q new procedure on
the part of railroad for suppressing
strikes.
The coal famine caused by the
strikes in the coal fields is assuming
very serious aspect for steamers on
the big lakes. There is not a pound
Of coal to be had at Michigan City or
South Chicago, and some steamers
have been delayed twenty-four hours
waiting for fuel.
Rev. H. w. George of Leeds, N. Y,
was convicted Saturday of man.
slaughter in the first degree for caus-
ing the death by a criminal operation
in January last Of pretty Lolita Town
send, whom he had adopted as q
daughter. He was sentenced to fifteen
years in State Prison.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-11-20
CLEVELAND SNOWBOUND.
A Fierce Northwester and Heavy Storms
Vessels i'm Danger.

'VSsois !" b"hser'
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov, IA ter
rifle Northwestern has been raging here
all day, and tonight all travel is i'm
peded by the falling snow. Vessel
men are anxious for their craft on the
the lake, and but little hope is enter
tanned that any vessels caught out
side will escape being wrecked.
Street car lines are having the utmost
difficulty in operating. The storm is
the worst November blow known in
years.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-11-20
PAl0 ALTO IS KING,
Senator Stnnford's Great Stallion Trots
a Mile Ia 2.OS ia.

STOCKTON, Cal. Nov. 17.-Palo Alto,
United States Senator Stanford's peer
less stallion, is king Of the trotting
turf. To-day this greatest son OF the
worlds greatest trotting sire, Elec-
tioneer, trotted a mile here in 2.OSa,
equaling the record Of the queen of
the trotters, Maud S., and going dam
gerously near to that of his recent
stable companion, Sunol.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-11-20
GRATEFUL - COMFORTING.
EPPS,S COCOA .
RREAK AKEAC'r

"By thorough knowledge OF the natural laws
which govern the operations OF digestion and
nutrition, and by careful application Of the
hne properties or well-selected Cocoa. Mr.. Epps
has provided our breakfast tables with a deii,
cately f1avored beverage which may save us
many heavy doctors bills. u is by the Judlcious
may be gradually built up until strong enouSh
to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds
OF subtle maladies are floatling around us ready
may escape many fatal shaft by keeping cur.
selves well fortified with pure blood and a prom
erly Doulfshed frame."-CipU Se1'pice tyazeffe
only In half pound tins, by grocers, labelled
thus:
JAMES EpPS q CO., Homoeopathlc
Chemists, London, England.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-19
UNsUsPsCrlNG MICHAEL AMBROSE.
A Cattle steamer Story Catches Him
for Yen Dollars.

A Cattle Steamer Story Catches Him
for Yen Dollars.
Frederick Ward was arraigned in JUS
tice O'Donnell's Court this morning, &C.
cused Of tapping Michael Ambrose's till,
at No. 1l6 Pavonia avenue, to the tune of
$40. Ward, with a friend named Wilson,
entered Ambrose's saloon and ordered
drinks, and then asked to be allowed to
remain near the fire as they had to walk
co Weehawken to catch q cattle steamer
they intended going to Europe on. Am
brose gave his consent AND went about his
duties. Abont four O'Clock this morning
he discovered that he had been robbed.
Ward was found on Pavonia avenue, and
when searched IS So was found in his
possession. When confronted with this
evidence Ward turned deathly white, aud
woald have tainted had 1t not been for
the prompt action of Court Officer Pear
son in giving him 4 glass OF ice water.
Wards trip TO Earope Will DE postponed
until after the Grand Jury investigates
his case.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-19
A Novel Plea.

A murderer posing as a philanthro-
pist is something of a novelty, yet
that is exactly the position occupied
by Frank Almy, who killed Christie
Warden. He went on the stand
yesterday and told the jury that he
shot the girl by accident and then
her suffering vas SC great that he
killed her to end her pain. 1t would
be a pity to hang such a man-at
least in the ordinary fashion. A man
who can nerve himself to kill the
woman he loves in order to put her
out OF physical misery should be put
up in chains in order that the world
may have an opportunity to admire
him as long as possible.
The mistake Amy made in his plea
was twofold. In the first place the
girl was killed bv the first shot, con-
sequently she could not have suffered;
and, secondly, his shrewdness has
destroyed any hope his counsel may
have entertained Of working the in
sanity dodge upon a sympathetic
Jury.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-19
Mr.. Furst and Mr., wolfson.

1t is intimated that the Freeholders
will, tonight, without enquiry, award
the contracts for hosiery and drygoods
to NJ. Wolfson. This indicates a
spirit of jobbery in the Board which
is highly reprehensible.
1t is a matter of general public re.
port that M. Wolfson is either the
partner or the employee of Charles s.
Furst, who was a rival bidder. 1t
should be definitely a~scertained
whether the report is true
or false, for if it is true, the
inference is irresistible that Wolf
sons and Furst's bids are col
lusive. The notion that one partner
would bid in bona tide rivalry with
another, or that an employee would
put in genuine proposals against his
employer, is rank arrant nonsense.
Ii the F~reeholders make the award,
under the existing circumstances, the
other bidders ought to get out an in
junction against them, and have the
whole business ventilated in court.
Collusive bidding should be stamped
ort
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-19
The Chicago Fair scandal.

The fraudulency of the Chicago
Pork Show is shown in the effort now
being pushed to cure a loan of So
600. 900 from the Federal Government.
There is a committee OF the managers
in Washington at present, helping
President Harrison to prepare an APP
peal to Congress for this money. The
plea to be used is that the National
honor is at stake. and the Govern
ment is bound to come to the rescue
to save the country from disgrace in
the eyes Of the world.
When Chicago stole the Fair from
ises as to the money she would raise.
The National Government vas not to
be asked for AGENT. This was iterated
and reiterated. The most solemn
pledges were given by the managers
and by the Congressman from Illinois.
1t is now plain that they falsiied
themselves wilfully. They conducted
q huge bunco game and made a uc-
cess OF it, dishonesty being always at
a premium with Republican major
tiles.
The next House of Represen-
tatives will be Democratic. We
hardly believe it will be
wheedled into giving the taxpayers
money to the big fraud show. This
exhibition of inpudent knavery ought
to operate, too. to prevent any Demo-
cratic State from spending money on
the fraud exhibition. To help make
the Chicago Fair a success is simply
to encourage corruption and in justice
in our politics in the future.
1t is to be hoped the Fair will be
just SO much of a success as Chicago
and the West can make it, and no
more.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-19
Humorous Advertisements.

"Courtship Corner is the name of
an advertising department in some
Scotch newspapers, answering to the
PERSONAL column in some of our
American journals, says the New York
Ledger. In justice to "Canpie Scot
land' We must say that its "Courtship
Corners are not occupied by notices
which are at all equivocal. The Gale
domains in pursuit of love through the
press seem to be in search of the legiu-
innate article. Matrimony appears to
be their object, and a characteristic
desire for dowry is most unromantic-
ally apparent in many OF the adver.
tisements.
Some of the announcements are
very funny. For example, three
young ladies, Jagged respectively six
teen, nineteen and twenty-one," an
nounce that they have set their hearts
on marrying ''three special con-
t tables Why special c~onstables?
Upon what metaphysical principle
can this prejudice in favor Of tipstaves
be explained? Let us hope they have
been taken into custody. "A Tilted
young lady" wishes to unite herself to
"a Tilted young gentleman"-for the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-19
Highest of all in Leavening Pcwer--Latest u. S. Govt Report.
Rel q! B BsM5sz
ABSOLUTELY PURE

reason, we suppose, that misery loves
cofnpany-and a young lawyer, high
in position" would be willing to cham
himself for life to a young lady with
three hundred pounds a year.
Advertising being costly. and the
Scotch an economical people, the can
didates for matrimony in the Court
ship Corner" appeal in groups to the
sensibilities of the unmarried, the ex-
pense of the notices being divided,
share and share alike, among the par
ties interested.
1t is interesting to know that Young
Scotland is tolerably quick, although
it cannot keep pace with Young Amer
lea.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-19
NEW wUMAN's SOCIETY.
Organized at "a Reception Given by the
Rev. MIR. Heisig and Wife.

Organized at IA Reception Given by the
Rev. MIR. Aeisig and wife.
The Rev. and Mrs. Theodore Heisig
rendered a reception to the ladies of the
First Baptist Church last night in the
church parlors. They were assisted by
Miss Vandycke aud Miss Rouse. Miss
Robinson rendered a piano solo excellent
iy and Miss Alice Outwater delighted the
guests with a rec iJation. Miss Katrina
Green sang Il pretty solo in pleasing man
ner, and Miss Nora Foster also S ng a
contralto solo, which WAS we'll received.
During the evening refreshments were
served.
Another pleasant feature of tine event
was the organ. zing of a Women's Society
by Mr.. Heisig, the purpose Of which Is
general church n missionary work.
There will be committees TO distribute
tracts, to pro oote sociability in the
church and for visiting throughout the
congregation.
Among those present were Mrs. A.
Crawford, Mrs. Bale, Mrs. George
Miller, Mrs. Ihurston. Mrs. William
Bush. Misses Lawrence, Mrs. WaIace,
Dunbar, Mrs. Lyman Brown,
Misses Rouse, Mrs. j. Clark.
Mrs. Margaret Brown, Mrs.
S. Collins, Mrs. Mary Cutler,
Mrs. E. Campbell, Mrs. H. Carlton. Mrs.
Il. CauIfield, Mrs. Emma Carswell, Mrs.
Dobbs, Mrs. Agnes Edwards, Mrs. X.
Foster. Mrs. A. Fla riet, Mrs. Anna
Fighee, Mrs. Cough, Mrs. Holmes. Mrs.
Howe, Mrs. $. Hopson. Ms. Hampson.
Mrs. NJ. Henderson, Mrs. jennings,
Miss Jesslna Kerr, Mrs. Knapp, Mrs. s..
Kenney, Mrs. c. Klein, Mrs. Mary Laws,
Mrs. n. Lyme, Mrs E. Larkins, MIS-.
Morrison. Mrs.. NJ. Main. Mrs. Mcbride.
Mrs. Purdy, Mrs. Poland. Mrs.
Quaife, Mrs. NJ. Rollins, Mrs. Kate
Krgan, Mrs. Shaw. Miss Nettie Shafer,
Miss Maggie Van Dyke, Mrs. Wakefield,
low. Mrs. Henry Wulp, Miss Hattie Con-
nett, Miss Emma Dear, Mis- Ella Fischer.
Miss Nora Foster. Miss Eloise Fowler,
Miss Aida Cramer aud Miss Lulu Brown,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-19
CHEERING UP A HUPnFUh C0NTEM-
PuRARY.
From the Paterson Press.

Hope springs eternal in the breast Of
the Trenton State Gazette. 1t utterly
scouts the idea that New Jersey must be
given up to the Democrats in 1892. and
aduces often before submitted figures TO
prove that the Democrats nave not
polled u majority of the Votes cast in this
State in any National or G~ubernatorial
election in over ten years, except in 1889
and $780," The Gazette says:-"New Jer-
sey has not given her electo al vote to a
Republican Presidential candidate since
1872, but we have strong faith that she
VIII swing into line next year." That's
the sort OF tulk. Never say de-"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-19
The Shortest VIII.


II read in a New York paper thu
other day." said a former member o
the bar of Luzerne county, Pa, "ar
item about a will recently admitted tc
probate in McKeesport, which only
contained twenty-four words, ant
which, the item stated, was unique
among wills, because of it's brevity
l was reminded by this that the
shortest will ON record is n on file
in the office of the Register oil Luzerne
county. That will, including the
signature, contains but nine words.
1t was written with a lead pencil on @
half sheet of note paper. and is as fol-
lows:
Emily r. Miner is my heir.
SARAH K. MINER
''The will when found was enclosed
in an envelope, which was indorsed:-
Read this when I am dead The
maker of the will was a blind woman,
and was famous in her day as the
Blind Poetess of the Wyoming She
was a daughter of Charles Miner,
whose History of the Wyoming Val
ley is among the rarest and most val
liable local histories eve written. He
was also the ablest and best known
journalist in Pennsylvania half a GEN.
fury ago. He founded the Village
Record of Westminster. Pa. and SUB
sequently the Miners Record, in
Wilkesbarre. He represented the
West Chester district in Congress sew
eral terms, and was one of the first to
develop the anthracite coal interests
of the Lehigh and Wyoming valleys.
Miss Miner, his daughter. who died
in 1874. was blind from childhood, and
learned to read by touching the wood
types in her fathers printing office.
She was the first person admitted to
the Pennsylvania institution tor the
blind who could read before entering.
She early developed poetical genius,
and the earlier magazines and peri
odicals contain many of her contribu-
lions. She was possessed of a marvel
Gus memory, and when her father was
collecting data for his proposed his
tory OF Wyoming she accompanied
him on his visits to surviving pioneers
OF the bloody days OF the valley, lis
tened to their narratives, and recited
them word for word to her father on
returning home, while he put them
upon paper. Some of these are strik-
ingly graphic and stirring in their
language. Her will, although it dis
posed of large and valuable interests,
and although there were many heirs
at law, was admitted to probate with
out question. The legatee was a fav-
orite niece of Miss Miner
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-19

after Mr.. Cleveland and his family
Grover, Frances and Ruth. The
triplets were born October IL and
were named before election, as
chronicled by all the newspapers in
the land at the time. But November
10 is rather too oon tor the World.
December IS would be neare its mark.
Today's publication was both acct
dental and premature.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-19
PIE

Governor Albeit this morning went to Tren-
ton 10 attend he wedding OF the daughter of
A dlutant q neral Stryker, which takes place
this al, ernoon.
has q Two p ge illusti alton emit led The Two
Democra ic Governors" II shows Governor
Albeit and Governor Hill seated before a tent,
and was taken at Sea Cart last Summer. Both
Likeness es are excellent.