The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-01-08
Saturday, Jan. 3,


A fire at Clarksville, Tenn, yester-
day did $4,000 damage.
The bank Of L. A. Mears, at Minot,
N. D., closed its doors Thursday.
The Jackson block in Birmingham,
Ala, was partially destroyed by fire
Friday. Loss, Sl50,0Oo.
Fire, supposed to be Of incen-
diary origin, at Nashua, N. H., yester-
day, did $4,000 damage.
w. w. Hannah, wealthy real es-
tate agent Of Detroit, has been miss
ing since Wednesday night.
Mrs. Palmyra Cotton, Of Water
bury, Conn, celebrated her Tooth
birthday on New Years day.
Stephen II. Bell was hanged at
Windsor, VT, Friday, for the murder
Of his wife at Fairfax in 1882
Thirty-ilve State militiamen have
been sent to Coal Creek, Tenn, to
guard the 200 convict miners there.
A fire in Mt. Airy, N. c., a flourish
ing tobacco town, on Friday morning,
caused loss of $780, 900 to $500, ,00o
The Eureka Transportation Com.
pany began business at Kansas City,
Kan, Thursday, with a capital of $2,-
000,000
Fears are entertained at San Fran
cisco that the Union Pacific steamer
Oregon has been wrecked off the Ore
gon coast.
Gov Russell has issued an earnest
appeal to the people of Massachusetts,
asking them to contribute generously
to the aid Of the sufferers in Russia.
Mrs. Fred Ketchell of Valparaiso.
Ind, has received notice that she is
one of eight heirs to fortune of
$4,000, 900 left by an aunt in Scotland.
The total shoe shipments from
Haverhill, Mass, for the year have
been 292, ,065, against 327, 7G6 cases for
1890, showing a falling off in the
amount paid for labor of 1857, 900.
Ex-Congressman Thomas B. Ward
died in Plaintleld, Ind. early yester-
day morning. Mr.. Ward several
months ago returned from Dwight.
where he had taken the bi-chloride of
gold treatment.
George Weidler, who in 1885 was
sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment in Brooklyn for mauslaughter
in the second degree, and William
Conroy, sentenced to life imprison-
ment in the same year for murder in
the second degree in New York, were
pardoned from Sing Sing prison by
Gov. Hill and released yesterday.
John Dietel, who has been on exhi-
bition in Cincinnati at museum as a
fat giant, died Friday morning from
an attack Of the grip. His waist meas
ure was eight and one-half feet, and
his weight 763 pounds. He was
butcher in Baltimore, where he re-
Gently married a wife who boasts a
waist measure of six and three fourth
feet, and weighs 596 pounds.
Governor Humphreys Of Kansas,
Friday evening appointed ex-Con-
gresham Bishop w. Perkins as
United States Senator, to fill the late
Senator Plum's unexpired term. Mr..
Perkins has served four terms in the
House Of Representatives, having
been elected from the Third District
OF that State to the Forty eighth,
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty. first
Congresses.
James E. Cooper, proprietor Of tho
Adam Forepaugh shows and former
partner Of Phineas L. Barnum, died
in Philadelphia yesterday Of inflam-
nation Of the stomach. He started in
the circus business in 1868. Mr..
Cooper made fortune in the circus
business. He owned four farms near
Philadelphia and much real estate in
that city, besides the Forepaugh show
property. He leaves widow and
three children.