The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-09-25
BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS
Happenings OF the World from
Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME

deused for Our READERS.
The acting secretary OF war has awarded
10 John Moore, of Syracuse. n. Y, the
contract for completing the unfinished
gymnasium building at the West Point
Military academy. The contract price was
$4,000.
At Sheboygan. Wis, James II. Mead, n
we'll known banker, fell dead from heart
disease while walking on the street.
The Southern Gas Trust and Constr rue
ton company at Jacksonville, Fla, has
been placed in the hands Of receiver
Frederick Doelan, consul general Of
Chill in the United States, who was re-
moved few weeks before the downfall Of
Balmaceda, has been reapponted by the
provisional government.
One million two hundred and forty-eiyht
thousand dollars Of the debt Of Jersey City
will fall due on Nov. 1; s2ls,OO0 will be
paid and the remainder funded ut 4 per
cent
Secretary Blaine expects to acquire Mole
st. Nicholas, Hayti, as naval station
within the next year.
The body Of Mary Iovinsky, who d!sap-
peared from ll9 Old Bergen road, Jersey
City, was found In the Morris canal.
The Prohibition party of Hudson county,
n. j., nominated the following ticket: For
senator, Stephen b. Ransom. Kelly Hes
ter, Of Hoboken, was nominated Tor sur.
rogate without opposition. Theodore Free
was nominated for coroner Nominations
for assembly were made in some of tho
districts. j. ID. Dorr was nominated for
tho Second district. X. l.. Brown in the
Third, l. n. Quinby, NJ. d., In the Fifth,
4 1. ..I.. s...N.. A. 4 ~
Rev. Robert Gaskell In the Eleventh.
At Saratoga the Democratic convention
Of the Fourth judicial district indorsed
the Republican nominations of Martin l.
Slower, of Amsterdam, and Leslie w. Rus
sell, of Canton, for justices OF the supreme
court.
New England Associated press. has re-
signed. He ia succeeded by j. l.. Shipley,
of the Springfield, (Mass.) Union.
Washington Cowen, aged eighty, a
prominent citizen Of Mansfield, o., is
dead.
Mrs. Elizabeth Borden Biddle died at
Philadelphia aged ninety-two. Her father
was Judge Hopkinson, author Of 'lIail
Columbia"
The Republican convention OF the Eigh-
teenth New York senatorial district nomi-
mated John II. Derby, of Sandy Hill, for
state senator
David Barry, a letter carrier, was mr.
rested for stealing letters containing
money ut New Haven. He admits his
guilt.
Italians at New York. Boston and other
cities celebrated the twepty-first anniver-
sary of Garibaldi's entry into Rome Sept
81.
Miah j. Blake, a talented young musi-
clan, who wrote most OF the musical score
for "The kAedive," the comic opera re-
Gently produced in New York, is dead.
Marie Jansen says she will not be mar
ried this year. II was claimed that she
would wed rich Englishman named bass.
Edward Kennel, "a barber, hanged him
self from ventilating pipe on the roof Of
= house in Roxbury, Mass.
Bishop Henry Mcneil Turner (colored),
OF Boston, advocates the migration OF
10000 Of his race to Africa, as there II lit
tie hope for his RAGS In this country.
Governor Pattison. Of Pennsylvania, has
telegraphed Mrs. w. L. Scott his sym
pathy in her bereavement. Ex-President
Cleveland will attend the funeral.
The reported assassination Of President
Bogran, of Honduras, was fake"
The original draft of the state constitu.
tion of Wisconsin is missing from the
archives of the secretary Of states Office.
A syndicate of Boston capitalists Satur-
day purchased controlling interest In tho
Nebraska Stock Yard company at Lin
coin.
Southport, Conn, is greatly excited over
the appointment of Miss Keely, Roman
Catholic, AS a teacher In the public school.
A man named Vanderbilt, who claims
to be related to the New York family, has
been arrested at Springfield O.. for burg
larry at Dennison.
William O'Connell and Carlos Z. Stew
ems, OF New Haven, who married sisters,
quarreled over Stevens attentions to
O'Connelrs wife, and the latter was
stabbed in the neck by Stevens.
Ira Berry, grand secretary of the Masons
OF Maine, died at Portland, aged ninety.
In 1874 he went to Boston and assisted in
building the first telegraph line to New
York, and was the first operator and man
ager Of the Boston office.
At Rochester. N. Y, Assemblyman +.
NJ. Jones was renominated in the First
district Of Monroe comfy by the Repub-
licans.
The Lyons Qa.) paper mill was burned.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, 200.
At Sheffield, Ala, the Cleveland Hotel
and ten business houses were burned. Loss,
$4,000.
The Atlantic transport line of steamers
between London and Baltimore has ar
ranged to start a line between London and
New York.
In speech in Ohio Roger O. Mills told
the farmers that free silver coinage would
not help them.
General Grubb, of New Jersey will soon
marry Miss Violet, daughter OF Hon. #.
Sopwith, of Lismore, Scotland
Miss Gertrude Whiting Potter, the &C.
centric daughter OF the Chicago million
aire, from whom the boy Rust obtained
divorce last week, was remarked to Mr..
J. c. Daniels, of New York, whom she
welded year ago under an assumed
name.
Secretary Tracy has awarded the con-
tract for building torpedo boat No. to the
Iowa Iron works, Of Dubuque, Ia, fer
Sll3500.