The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
The Latest Happenings at Home and Abroad
Collected and Presented in Terse
and Readable Form.
Domestic Summary.

Between 80 and 40 Indian skeletons
were exhumed during street excavations
in Chicago. The legality of the title
of Senator elect Kyle, of South Dakota.
is to be questioned --General II. II.
Sibley, the first Governor of Minnesota,
is dead. Senator German will rebuild
his house at Laurel, Nd. Surrogate
Ransom, of New y X, has appointed
commissioners to ta>e testimony in re-
gard to Ray Hamiltou's death. 1t is
stated that the Chicago Worlds FAIR
managers will abandon the lake front
site, and that the whole exhibition will
be held in jackson Park -lIenry
George is regaining his health in Ber-
muda. Edwin Stuart, Rep, was elect
ed mayor of Philadelphia by about 4O,-
900 majority. The American Baseball
Association has broken the national
agreement, deposed President Thurman,
and new baseball war is promised
Gibson, the alleged dynamiter, was
indicted in Chicago. -Governo Hill
has been incapacitated from duty by
illness. Tom Robin, a desperate negro
character. was lynched at Douglass,
Texas, ION general principles. '-The
grand lodge of the Knights of Iythias
met at Roanoke, Va.-Heavy floods
have been experienced in Pennsylvania,
New York, and West Virginia. boston
manufacturers have visited Alexandria,
Va, with purpose of locating a manu-
featuring industry. Heavy rains have
falled in California and the rivers are
high,-EX- Secretary Gibson, OF the
Liquor Dealers Association, was arrested
in Chicago on charge of bribing United
States revenue officials and released on
S25, 900 bail. THE woman suffrage
bill has been defeated in the Kansas
house. Anthony Dewster, a farmer,
was murdered and scalpei near Pine
Ridge Agency, South Dakota, by Indians.
john Jacob Astor, of New York, was
married to Miss Ava Lowle Willing, of
Philadelphia. - One hundred and
seventeen miners were killed by an eX-
plosion in the Spring Hill coal mines,
Nova Scotia. for New
York's Washington memorial arch now
foot up S93, lis Six lives were lost in
a Brooklyn tenement house fire, -
Washing glon's birthday was generally
celebrated through, ut the country on
Monday. Special religious services were
quite generally held on Sunday. -
Senator VOORHEES,, of Indiana, is fast
failing in health. Chicago World
Fair gate receipts are estimated at $10,-
900, 00O.-The Nicaragua Canal scheme
10 stopping for want of funds. Tile
English salt trust pays bonus to its
American rival for salt sold here. -
Jack, the Ripper, stories have set Cathe-
zine McCann, of New York, stark crazy.
William j. Handran, Naval Acad-
emy marine, killed himself at Annapo.
lis, Md.-Private advices from Canada
say that even if Sir John Macdonald
wins hls throne Will be rickety w.
Tuck Levely, of Annapolis, Nd, and
Miss Mary Lee, of Baltimore county,
Nd, both blind, We're married last week
at Baltimore -Four words Il second
for 25 minutes was the flood from the
mouth of Rev. Philips Brooks ut n Bos-
ton business mems meeting.
Francisco Augustine gave birth to IL
boy on Staten Island ferryboat on
Saturday. DIR. Henry William Ste
vens was inoculated at the New York
Pasteur Institute, and is dying of ner-
vous disorder that battles the doctors.
Rev. DR. II. NJ Wharton, OF Balti-
more, has received Masonic apron
from South Carolina which he is to pre-
sent to the master of the lodge at Jerus-
alem, the birthplace of Masonry. 1t
is said that at least 100000 pounds of
leaf tobacco were sold in Danville dur
Ing the week just closed, and the ship
ments by rail were the largest ever
known. The shipments of manufact-
ured tobacco amounted to 10000
pounds.