The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-07-17
BRIEF MENTION or NEWS
Happenings OF the World from
Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TINE

A grant of sl25,Ooo has been made by the
British government to promote the in |
terests Of British exhibitors at the Column |
bian exposition at Chicago.
The Peary exploring expedition steame,
Kite was stopped by pack ice AZ Green
island, straits Of Belle Isle, n. +.
The longshoremen's strike at Chicago
has collapsed and the docks are crowded
with men seeking employment.
The Inland Sash and Door company Of
Milwaukee made an assignment to Ed.
ward Il. Paine of the Commercial bank
The collector Of customs Mt Victoria has
seized the sloop Flora, which had on board
400 Cinnamon, whom it was intended tc
smuggle into the United States.
Lieutenant Stafford, L. 5. n. and George
A. Dusey, Of Harvard, have discovered a
mummiied family in an Inca tomb, neal
Ancon, which will be exhibited at the
Worlds fair.
The schooner yacht Tidal Wave, of New
York, is ashore at PasQue island, lying
among the rocks in bad position and full
Of water.
David Molloy, OF Fort Hamilton, who
was stricken deaf and dumb II month age
and robbed Of sl44 in cash and 500 in
checks by naughty hoodlums OF the Chi
nese quarter, ut New York, was intoxicat.
oil at Bay Ridge the other night and
fought the police. His father and the
neighbors think that his brain was in.
jured, and he does not act rs II he was
sane.
Henry Brill, eighteen years old, OF
Southilgton, Conn, was killed by II fall
from his bicycle.
Chief Engineer Conway, of the Jersey
city fire department, was severely injured
by being thrown from his gig and striking
ON his head in the street.
Bank Examiner Drew has handed in his
resignation, which was promptly accepted.
William G. Duncan, the seventeen-year
old clerk who in January last stole dia-
monds valued at $4,000 from his employ
ers in New York, was sentenced to four
years and five months imprisonment.
An enormous cavern that is said to rival
the Mammoth cave of Kentucky has been
discovered in Josephine county, Ore.
State Treasurer holland, of Missouri, was
found guilty of embezzling state funds
and sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary.
Arthur Miller, young man of Brook.
lyn, was drowned in Sheepshead bay by
the capslZlng OF small Doat.
Tom Richardson, the robber and cave
dweller of Islip, l.. l., is still at large.
While 200 armed med watched his caves
he boldly appeared near the house of JUS
tice Waller, his father-in-law, three miles
away, and told a neighbor that he in.
tended to kill his wife, the Justices daugh-
ter.
At meeting of the council of ministers
of France the removal of the prohibition
OF the admission of American pork into
France was discussed.
Attorney General Miller has issued in
structions to United States district attor-
neys in regard to the enforcement of the
antitrust law.
Andrew Brennan, who kaped into New
York harbor from boat on Saturday
night, and who was supposed to have
drowned himself, swan to Governors
island and returned home to find his
parents making preparations for his fu-
neral.
Annie Adams, of fremont, n. ", is IN
dying condition, and many mounted men
are securing the country for the scoundrel
who assaulted her.
Burial in Calvary cemetery was refused
for the body of "Tom" Kenny, the life
saver, who jumped into a sewer and was
afterward found dead at New York.
DIR. Lannelongue, of Paris, has disclosed
the results of treating infantile cases Of
tuberculosis with injections Of chloride Of
zinc. He thinks he has a cure for con-
sumption.
"The" Allen, the dive keeper, was dan
gerously stabbed in quarrel over a game
Of cards at New York.
Cassie Brooks story of Lawyer Byron
w. Cohen's efforts to steal the Robertson
millions by means of bogus widow is
corroborated by Assistant District Attor-
uey Weeks and Attorney Baker and Lock
wood.
Charles Brown was arrested after having
made $4,000 year by swindling messen-
ger boys Mt New York. He held the pack
ages of jewelry for messenger boys and
stole the contents.
Frenchy or Ameer Ben Ali, convicted OF
murder in the second degree for killing
"Old Shakespeare" was sentenced by Re
corder Smyth to state prison for life.
Joseph Schubert eleven years old, took
paris green with suicidal intent in Will
liamsburg because he had been threatened
with whipping. He is likely to die.
Corporal Westervelt, of company A,
Seventy-frst regiment, ran bayonet
through the leg Of Private Wilkes, who
was trying to sneak through the guard
lines at night at the state camp.
The Belgian mining strike is over. The
Knights of Labor gave up the fight and
5000 men returned to work.
At Leicester the Prince of Wales stakes
We're won by Reverend with Deemster
second and Orvieto third.
At the Syracuse meeting of the l. o. o.
f., the first prize for the prize drill was
awarded to Canton Oswego, Amsterdam
second and Buffalo third
Attorneys for the American Petroleum
company, of Rotterdam, owners OF the
steamship Chester, which towed the dis
abled steamship oervia to port, have hled
petition for libel against the Ser Via.
Ex-Congressman Perkins, Of Kansas,
says the Farmers Alliance movement is
the most blighting curse that has ever be-
fallen his state.
Secretary of the Treasury Foster has de-
cided not to ask for the resignation OF Ap-
praiser Marvelle w, Cooper, of New York
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