The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-10-02
BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS
Happenings of the World from
Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME

pleaded not guilty when charged with
Christie Warden's murder. He was car.
ried into court on cot on account of his
broken leg.
In Covington, KY, the John Seller
Brewing company made an assignment
Assets, 100000; liabilities, $4,000
In New York the Indictment against
John Carrera for assault on "The" Allen
will be dismissed on the recommendation
OF the district attorney, who says that a
conviction is impossible
In Newark, o., Wilson McCreary and
Tim Murphy were killed by cavein while
at work in a sewer.
Fire consumed the finishing and store
sheds of Gross Brothers marble quarry in
Lee, Mass. In the building were stored
1000 finished government headstones,
which were practically ruined.
At Pittshurg the jury in the case of Pat
rick Fitzpatrick, charged with the murder
Of Samuel Early, rendered verdict Of
guilty, first degree.
At Plankinton South Dakotas first grain
palace has been opened to the public.
Rufus Ferry, hackman, and Carrie
Green, mulatto, were drowned in the Chi
cago river at the Washington street bridge,
Ferry driving into an open draw.
Annie the seventeen year-old daughter
ofW- +. Myer, Shiloh Valley Oils. farm
er, has disappeared because her parents
insisted on her marrying an Objectionable
suitor. II is feared she has killed herself
William Gould, Jr., of Albany, who was
found guilty of aiding and abetting Book.
keeper Whitney in falsifying the accounts
of the Albany City National bank, was
sentenced to six years imprisonment.
Bands Of riotous negroes have almost
taken possession of Lee county, Ark. The
killing of Tom Miller, white man and
agent for J. F. Frank by the rioters and
strikers at Mariana, precpitated a seri
GUS state of affairs
Thomas j. Marsh, well known figure
in Massachusetts politics, died very sud.
denly at Roberts, Wis.
1t is again rumored in Washington that
the president will ask for the resignation
OF Pension Commissioner Raum.
Two storage passengers on the Waes.
land are attacked with smallpox after
landing in New York. There were l50
other immigrants on the vessel
1t Is denied that Convict Meredith, who
shot Phil DAILY, was transferred from Sing
Sing to Auburn asylum because he knew
dangerous prison secrets, and asserted.that
he stole and falsified the prison books
while in Sing Sing.
At Fall River, Mass. the striking weav.
ers ut the Barnaby mill have returned to
work.
Controller Lacey has issued call 70,
the report of the condition of national
banks at the close of business Friday,
Sept. 25.
James f. Goddin, sixty-two years old, at
one time wealthy lawyer of Richmond,
Va, died in poverty in the workhouse on
Blackwell's island, New York.
A heavy rainfall has extinguished nearly
all the forest fires in Minnesota.
Frances Elizabeth Willard celebrated
her fifty-second birthday at Evanston,
Ills, Sept. %.
Charles johnson shot and killed Mrs.
Emma Hopkins at Henderson, Ky, be.
cause she refused to marry him.
The marble statue of the pope presented
to the Catholic university ut Washington
by Joseph Loubat, Of New York, was un.
yeiled.
The general executive board of the
Knights of Labor has issued boycott on
the product Of the shoe factory of Thomas
& Co., Of Brooklyn.
Emmett b. Stanley, superintendent Of
the money order department OF the post.
Office at Atlanta, Ca. has been arrested
on charge of embczzlement.
The Princeton freshmen won victory
in flag rush over the sophomores.
An investigation by the Newark fire de-
partment fixes the number of the injured
~ ha Gfr
two. Seven were killed.
The Dacoits have again attacked tn
British in Burmah.
The pope received at st. Peters Sept. 2S
1000 pilgrims, delegates of societies for
the young. He passed through the ranks
of the pilgrims. addressing them and CIV
ing them his hand to kiss.
Rev. DIR. Rocker, of the American COL
lege in Rome, has left Rome FOR the United
States, taking with him the pope's present
to the Most Rev. Peter Richard Kendrick,
d. D., archbishop of st. Louis.
Diphtheria is raging at Niles, o. Five
children died in one afternoon. Schools
have been closed
At New York the Rev. Madison c. Peters
preached against hosting foreign aags on
the city hall.
A severe earthquake shock was felt on
Saturday night throughout Illinois, Indi-
ana, Iowa. Missouri, Kentucky and Ten
nessee. People fed from their houses in
alarm, but no great damage was done to
property.
1t is officially stated that GOO buildings
remain standing in Consuegra, Spain,
out of 2, 100 that stood there before the food.
Rev. Howard MacQueary has been form
ally deposed from the Episcopal ministry
by Bishop Leonard.
Unless heavy rains come soon, water
famine is threatened in several Connect
cut cities. ..I
The claim is made that Jay Gould has
been forced to agree to the new Ian for
reorganizing the Union Pacific.
Hon. Carl Schurz has resigned the presi-
dency OF the lIamburg-American Packet
company. b.sr..... t.,.
Water in the New Hampshire rivers is SO
low that many of the mills can run on ~ on
half time.
Secretary Rusk says it has been found
by experts that women make better meat
Inspectors than men. , utH I,44s Q6
Moorehead, McCleane & Co., of Pitts
t,.,~ L. L..