The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-11-13
Thursday, Nov. 3.

lSddC M. Anvil, SuOc Iudu uldCtuTeL
Of Lynn, assigned Wednesday. Lila.
bilities, 1000; assets, unknown.
G.. w. Price was shot and instantly
killed by his camping companion,
who mistook him for a bear, near
Jerome Park, Col.
President Harrison has declined the
invitation to be present at the Augusta
exposition owing to pressure of public
business.
William Cox and his son Of Wapelis,
ILL.,, were both suffocated Wednesday
by gas In an old we'll which they were
trying to deepen.
J. 1. Todd's new mill aud the plant
OF the Grimshaw Silk Manufacturing
Company at Paterson were burned
Tuesday night Loss, $4,000; in
sured.
The trouble in the Maverick Bank
In Boston started small run on the
Five Cent Savings Bank The bank
has 125,OO0 depositors and S1S,OOO.OO
in deposits.
The new Furness line steamer Otta-
wa is ashore, a total loss, at Blond
Rock, near Nova Scotia. The crew
were all saved, and she had no pas
sengers aboard.
Destructive fires have been raging
in the woods extending from Wilton
to New Canaan, Conn, since Satur-
day. Several hundred acres have
been burned over, doing Il great
amount Of damage.
Judgment for S125, 1870 was entered
against the Scranton, Pa, Steel Com
pany Wednesday in favor Of John A.
Nichols on promissory notes for pig
iron furnished by William r. Hart g.
Co., Of Philadelphia.
The British ship Strathblane, six
teen days from Honolulu, went ashore
twenty-five miles north of Astoria
Wednesday morning. or thirty-one
people on board six were drowned, in
cluding the captain. The vessel is
total loss.
The case Of DR.. Charles A. Briggs,
charged with heresy, which has caused
so much attention, has been dismissed
by the New York Presbytery by
NopC Va Of otSulhoI OJ. uc
on prosecution will, however, appeal
to the Synod.
The Monongahela River coal opera
tors have decided to reduce the rate
from three and half to three cents
bushel. The cut will affect 5000 men.
The operators have 100000 bushels
OF coal on hand, and say they can shut
down Unnecessary.
The Brazilian congress has de-
termined to re-establish the dictator
ship and to proclaim martial law.
Fonseca was indorsed with full power
fife and death when Dom Pedro
was expelled. AS president he has
not been popular.
Lewis Cox. colored, aged twelve, was
killed by the accidental discharge Of
his gun while hunting near Cape May
Wednesday. William johnson Of
South River, N. j., was killed while
cunning yesterday. the upper part of
his head being torn off.
A Government survey OF the bound
ary line between Indiana and Ohio,
which has been conducted for the
past two months, has resulted in the
discovery that Ohio is entitled to
about 1900 square miles Of territory
which lies west of the present State
line.
Nathaniel Laird cast his eighty
seventh vote Tuesday at Oswego, N.
7. He was born 109 years ago in
Tipperary, Ireland. and came to this
country at the age OF fifteen. His
wife is still living at the age OF sew
enty-nine. but they have no living
children.
When her mother was searching for
a basin of water, a six-year- old
daughter OF Louis Wahl, of Dunel-
len, N. j., was slowly burned to death
Tuesday night. The child had been
playing with bonfire of leaves, and
sudden gust Of wind communicated
the fire to her dress.
The boys of the State Reform School
at Jamesburg, N. J. took advantage
OF the darkness caused by disar-
rangement Of the electric lighting
system, to escape through the win
dows. Eleven effected their escape,
seven OF whom were recaptured dur
ing the night, the rest being still at
large.
w. S. FELTON, and J. T. Smith were
taken from the parish Jail at Bastrop,
La, Tuesday night by mob and
hanged. Smith and FELTON, were
suspected Of the murder Of j. A. Dry
Gus, at Mer Rouge, near there, on Oc-
tober 6, but no arrests We're made at
the time. Later they We're arrested
for making threats.
Conductor Unger of Albany was
killed Wednesday afternoon by a
Peekskill local train near the Irving
ton station. He was in charge of a
freight train which was wrecked at
noon to-day. He was standing on the
track giving directions for the clear
ing Of the wreck, and did not hear the
approaching local.
Tony Hart, for many years one OF
New York's favorite comedians, died
Wednesday morning at the Worcester,
Mass, Lunatic Hospital, where he
has been confined for a wear past.