The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-08-21
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 Com
densed for Our Readers.
The excitement in the foreign grain
markets has abated, and prices rule lower
in Liverpool, Berlin and Amsterdam.
Reports from private sources confirm
the stories about the dangers of an upris-
ing Of Chinese fanatics.
The sub-treasury scheme has been beaten
In the Mississippi legislature in the SEN
atorial fight.
The Damon safe and iron works at Cam
bridge, Mass, were burned Loss 5000, 600
0Michael Ahern. of Murray, Ia, shot his
fourteen year-old daughter for interfering
In n quarrel between father and mother.
Thomas McCreevy Of the Canadian par
Lament has resigned his seat rather than
testify In the present parliamentary in
vestigation.
The members of the Alliance at Terre
Haute want the stallion Axtell taxed for
el05, 900. and will protest against the val
uation Of $500 by the county board.
Farmers have established shotgun
quarantine over the "Blue Bottoms" dis.
trict, near Independence, Mo, where there
are twenty-five cases Of smallpox.
Leslie W. RUSSELL Of Watertown, n. V,
announces that he will resign the position
of congressman for the Jefferson-St Law
renee district to accept the supreme court
justiceship.
The returns at Indianapolis show that
the typographical unions Of North America
failed to ratify the nine hour proposition
by 322 votes In u total of 1880, three
quarter vote being necessary. New York
city voted 1,462 for and 4l9 against.
Denis Kearney's old home in San Fran
cisco was burned by incendiaries.
1t is reported that Warner Miller rs
quite Ill in London.
Mayor K F. Beck, Of Vicksburg, Miss,
is dead. He was native OF Poughkeep-
sic, n. Y.
The New York Recorder claims that the
James II. Edgar, of London and New
York, and known in 1888 and 1887, is the
same Edgar who has written the recent
letters to The Recorder.
There is considerable excitement in New
York over the alleged discovery Of i'm
purities in the Croton water supply. An
investigation is in progress of the Croton
watershed.
The grave of Nathaniel Hawthorne has
recently been 80 mutilated by relic hunters
that it has been found necessary to en-.
circle i: by high fence.
Joseph Thonissery, the Belgian econo.
mist, is dead. He was born in 1917.
At Newport, II. l., Colonel J. A. Hovey
has been nominated for mayor by the
Democrats.
Henry Lagats, the prime mover in the
ceived letter from Master Workman
I. v. Powdsrly in which he indorses the
plan.
James Boyce, a prominent bituminous
coal operator and mine owner Of Balti.
more, died at his residence in Towson, in
the sixty ninth year Of his age.
Mrs. Lavinia Munger. widow of the late
Calvin Munger, of Saratoga. died suddenly
at Asbury Park of heart failure. She was
eighty-two years Of age.
Philip p. Dunn, who was an officer in
the embarrassed Star Rubber company
and Trenton IN. J.) China company, died
at Spring Lake. He was for twenty years
president Of the First National bank, OF
Trenton, but resigned after the financial
crash here.
The Rev. Sam Jones addressed a large
crowd at Prohibition park, Staten Island,
and denounced the fashionable sins OF
New York people.
William L. Scruggs. United States min.
lister to Venezuela, who is now In Wash
ngton, believes that country will soon be
willing to negotiate q reciprocity treaty
with this government
Ellsworth, Mimi, has been wrecked by
q cyclone.
Mayor Chaplin, of Brooklyn, who is i'll,
is reported to be improving.
The following Philadelphia newspapers,
which have published the mercantile ap.
praiser's lists for the past two years, have
been notified by Attorney General Hensel
that they must refund the rebate of &C
per cent. paid an alleged agent of the state
for securing the advertisements: Press,
North American, Inquirer, German Demo
crat, Bulletin and Telegraph. The papers
are given until Sept. TO refund the money.
Baron Hirsch, who Ia at Carlsbad, has
signed document empowering DIR. Low.
enthal and other gentlemen TO purchase
lands In the Argentine Republic to the
value of 10, ,0oo, 900 pesos.
Captain John Palmer, commander in
chief of the G. A. r.. has selected as adju
tant general Colonel Frederick Phisterer
acting assistant adjutant general of the
state OF New York.
At Cincinnati the furniture factory OF
Stiifo 8 Duhlmeir was destroyed by fire.
Loss. 100000
Judge Joseph P. Rowe. of the superior
court Of the city and county of San Fran
cisco. Is dead.
The United States steamer Pensacola is
in such bad condition that she will be
put out of commission al Mare island
shortly.
1t is now believed that the total liabili
ties Of William e. Schmertz, of Pitts
burg, will reach 100000. Eastern credit
ors, it is said, will contest tho assignment.
DR.. Roland II. Falkner, OF the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, has been asked by
the senate committee on finance to assume
the direction Of its coming investigation
into the effect OF the Mckinley tariff upon
wages and the cost of living.
The old American Hall building at Wes
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