The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-11-20
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Telegraphic Notes Of Interest
Briefly Told.
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Readers Throughout the Country.


hc NNdllOudi NOuGIcSS
met at Sedalia, No.. on Wednesday.
Farmer Barrett, living near Lin
coin, Neb., is in jail for killing book
agent.
The Massachusetts, Board OF Trade
will have its annual dinner at Boston
December 10.
Cara, who led the recent revolu.
to Central America.
The flour mill OF McMannes &
Arnold at Findlay. Ohio, was burned
on Wednesday. Loss $4,000.
The lepers at Vancouver have been
released and are now at large. There
Is talk OF their crossing the American
/ line.
The Worlds Convention Of the
Women's Christian Temperance
Union was opened on Wednesday at
Boston.
Washington county. Tex, was de-
vastated by a tornado Sunday, many
houses being demolished and several
people injured.
Consul Sewall, Of Samoa, now at
Bath, Me-, states that the treaty with
those islands has brought about most
OF the results desired.
At the annual meeting OF the Man.
haitian Elevated Railroad Company in
New York the years gross earnings
were reported at SIC, ,1O3, 197
New York and Boston capitalists
have agreed with the Omaha Board
OF Trade to invest $1,000, 600 in beet
sugar factories in and near Omaha.
Fears are entertained that Thomas
Hendry, formerly manager Of the
Hudson Bay Company, Of Victoria,
has been murdered near Los Angeles.
School Commissioner John B. Mer-
rill, OF Ozone Park, l.. l., was hanged
in effigy shortly before midnight
Tuesday by a mob OF anti-incorpora-
tion shouters.
Henry Higgins and Joseph Eveland
and their wives were arrested at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Wednesday after
noon charged with the murder Of
two old farmers named Kester in 1886.
George r. Lawrence, a prominent
lawyer OF Pittsburg, Pa. committed
suicide In the Everett House, New
York, Tuesday night, by shooting.
He Is said to have lost considerable
money in gambling resort.
Train 8, fast express on the Erie
Railway, jumped the track at Adrian,
| N. Y, between Hornellsville and
Elmira, at 12. so Wednesday afternoon.
Engineer James Stickney was killed,
and three or four passengers were
slightly injured.
A movement is said to be on foot
among the Chicago National Banks
to forfeit their national charters, be-
lieving that the credit OF National
Banks has been impaired by the lack
OF supervision manifested in the
Keystone and Maverick affairs.
H. w. Stearns of New York city was
bunooed out Of $500 by two confidence
men on the train which reached West
Superior, Wis, Wednesday morning.
Stearns sat up all night to save sleep
ing car fare, end was accosted by the
strangers, who proposed a game Of
cards.
A suit was begun Wednesday in the
United States Circuit Court against
John Hoey, ex-president OF the Adams
Express Company, his wife and son,
on behalf Of the company from whose
management he was recently deposed,
to recover 10000 shares of the COM
pany's stock.
DR.. Charles A. Barnes, OF Mechan-
icsville, N. Y, was arrested in Bing-
hampton Wednesday morning for ab-
duction. He has been married six
times, and Is said to have three wives
living. He is charged with having
stolen the child OF the last woman he
married, after separating from her.
Hiram Chase, a full-blooded Indian
Of the Omaha tribe, was admitted to
practice in the Federal Court, at
Omaha. Tuesday. He was educated
at the Indian schools in the East, and
graduated last year from the law
school Of the University Of Pennsyl-
vania.
Walton J. Osborne, prominent
lumber dealer and leading Prohibi-
tionists, Of Rochester, N. Y, has fed
to Canada under serious cloud, and
many unpaid executions are recorded
against him. 1t is stated that he is
urer OF the Spencer Ripley Memorial
Church.
Early Wednesday morning the pris-
oners in the Morrow county jail, at
Mount Gilead. Ohio, picked the lock,
and, overpowering the sheriff, made a
break for liberty. Every prisoner es-
capped, and none has SO far been re-
taken. Among them were the Rev.
Mr.. Gano, a wife murderer, and two
burglars, who are thought to be dam
gerous crooks.
Special Treasury Agent Charles s..
Wilbur and his detectives have un-
earthed big case OF opium snug
Cling In New York. Large quantities
Of opium have been brought in con-
cealed in logs. The detectives have
already arrested u man who signed
his name as Thomas S. Chase, OF
Providence. Several New York par
ties will probably be arrested.
Friday, Nov. 13.