The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-07-03
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS.
Items Which Are of Particular
Interest to Pennsylvanians.
IN THIS AND NEARBY COUNTIES.

Brief Mention Of Matters which Every
body Should Know About--A Weeks
Accidents and Crimes Accurately and
Concisely Chronicled.
LOCK HAVEN, June 23.-All the tim
Der and logs along the river will, it is
thought, be brought along by the heavy
rise in the stream caused by the heavy
rains of Sunday. A food six foot deep is
reported from Clearfield.
Sam smalrs Accuser Indicted.
PHILADELPHIA, June S.-The grand
jury in this city returned true bill for
criminal libel against Rev. j. Wesley Hill,
of Ogden, L. Il. The cffense is writing
and publishing a defamatory letter charg-
Ing criminal conduct upon Rev. Sam
Small in connection with the funds of the
Utah university. Hill having failed to
make good any charge against DR.. Small
in the recent Methodist conference inves-
legations of Small's official career, the lat
ter now seeks to bring his accuser before
the criminal courts
wright's Sureties Approved.
PHILADELPHIA, June 23-The matter of
the approval of the sureties of City
Treasurer Wright, which was argued on
Friday last before Judge Brcgy and held
under advisement, came up again Monday
morning in the old court house. After
argument on the case the attorney general
said that he was satisfied with the sureties
presented amounting to $3.50, 900, and
Judge Bregy approved the bond in that
amount.
What the Soldiers Cost.
HARRISBURG, June 23 The total amount
of expenses for the maintenance and trans
portation of troops during the coke region
riots was S35, ,02922.
Mr.. Wright Took Charge.
PHILADELPHIA, June 24--William Red
wood Wright who was appointed by the
governor, has assumed charge of the city
treasurer's office, and for the first time in
nearly n quarter of u century the city
treasury is presided over by a Democrat.
Vetoed by the Governor.
HARRISBURG June 24.-The bills dividing
the state into congressional and legislative
dist riots have been vetoed by the governor
The governor gives several reasons for this
action, his main objection being that the
bills are unfair and contain many irregu-
quirements
Death Sentences Committed.
HARRISBURG, June 4.-The board of
pardons has recommended that the death
sentence in the cases of Marion Crowl, of
Fayette county, and William Killer, Of
Philadelphia, be commuted to imprison-
ment for life.
Steel Works to Shut Down.
HARRISBURG, June 25.-The employees Of
the Mercantile mill of the Pennsylvania
Steel works have been notified that that
department Of the works will be closed
down for an indefinite period after next
Saturday 1t was reported that the en-
ployes would present the Amalgamated
associations scale this week. If this is
done it is sure to be rejected.
Editor as Well as Detective.
ERIE, June 25-Upon the recommen-
dation of President Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor. the direct
ors of a new labor paper here engaged T.
H. Garside to take editorial charge about
eight months ago. They sent Garside a
railroad ticket and some money at his re-
quest, but did not hear of him again until
he turned up few days ago as Detective
Freeman" in the Banker Marsh case at
Philadelphia.
He Disobeyed orders.
PHILADELPHIA, June 25.-Chief Special
Agent of the Census Thompson, charged
with the collection of the statistics of
moved. The ground for Mr.. Thompson's
removal was disobedience of orders.
Colonel Fitzgerald Dead.
PHILADELPHIA, June 25-Col. Thomas
Fitzgerald, of the Philadelphia Itep, who
has been travelling in Europe for the past
two months, died suddenly in London
Thursday morning from an attack of the
grip. His son Writer was with him, and
every effort was made to save his life, but
without effect. Colonel Fitzgerald founded
The Item in 1S47, and it is now one of the
most prosperous newspaper properties in
Philadelphia. He was the oldest newspa-
per man in Philadelphia being seventy
two years of age.
A Child Dies OF Hydrophobia.
BEAVER FALLS, June 25.-George Wick,
aged ten, has died here of hydrophobia,
the effects of bite received twenty-seven
months ago. He was taken sick last Sat
urday and suffered untold agony for three
days. The affected thigh turned black
and twitched violently when the lad was
taken sick, and Immediately after death
decomposition set in.
Suicide of q Farmer.
MEADvILLE, June 25.-Mr. James Will
son, we'll known farmer of Hayfield
township, committed suicide by hanging.
Insanity induced by the grip was the cause.
Her Head Almost Cut on.
SCRANTON, June 25.-The three-year-
old daughter of Albert Henry was run
over and killed by an electric street car
Thursday afternoon. Her head was almost
severed from the body
A Demon Convicted.
WILKEsBARRE, June 26-Edwin Nc.
Millen was convicted Of murder in the
first degree for the killing of his wife. The
murder was most brutal one, it being
charged that McMillen murdered the
woman by burning her with red hot irons
and afterwards pouring live Goals into the
wounds.
A Newspaper Man Appointed.
HARRISBURG, June 27.--Colonel A. w.
Taylor, of the Philadelphia Times, has
been appointed one of the commissioners