The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-04-07
NEWS FROM ALL AROUND
Condensed Accounts of Import
ant Happenings.
SOLID FACTS BRIEFLY MENTIONED.


World and Put in shape for the Conven-
ience of the Busy Reader.
Mrs. Maria Walden Morris. wife of Will
liam II. Morris, died at her home in Orange.
n. J.
Miss Mary Keiter, for thirty years
public school teacher In Reading, died Of
cancer.
The date for, the reciprocity convention.
70 be held In st. Paul, has been fixed for
June 3.
A passenger train on the LehiQh Valley
road struck and killed John Roske' OF
Stockton.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Maxwell Saturday appointed 1O7 fourth
class postmasters.
Cholera has broken out among the M
hvcs at Wong Lee, China. An average Of
ten deaths are reported daily.
Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartoris. with her
children, will return TO the United States
md reside in New York city.
Albert Hamlin, brakeman on the Alton
railroad, was cut In two by a train ut
Joliet, H., while coupling cars.
Edward sterrett, laboring man of Au-
burn, Neb,, shot his wife and then himself.
Both Will die Jealousy was the cause.
The will OF the late Colonel d. V. Ahl,
Of Newville, bequeathes 81 900 to the Big
spring Presbyterian church at Newville.
United States Treasurer Nebeker took
charge OF the New York sub-treasury this
morning, relieving Sub Treasurer Roberts.
st. Bamabas P. E. church was burned
In Baltimore. The fire started near the
furnace in the basement. Loss, $50, 900.
The wage trouble between the Ohio and
Mississippi railroad and its telegraph opera
tors has been finally settled by a compro-
mise.
Governor Pattison issued death war
rant for Pietro Buccieri, an Italian mur-
derer, who will be hanged at Reading on
Juno /.
An average Of fifteen deaths day for the
past week have been reported in st. Peters
burg az result Of the cholera scourge in
chat city.
John Prico, O notorious character, was
sentenced at Baltimore to seven years i'm
prisonment for attempting the life Of Car
rie Rock.
Owing to an accumulation Of business
Consul General P. A. Collins has postponed
his departure for London from April to
A April 22.
Washington dispatch says that Mgr
Satolli has 30 far recovered from his recent
Illness as to be able to appear on the street
again.
A lumber shanty In the woods near
Calumet, Mich. was burned and its occu-
pants, two men and u woman, were Gre
mated.
Frank P Slavin and Jim Hall have been
matched In London to fight inside of two
months for a stake Of 81, 800 side and tho
largest purse offered.
William G. Elsm, chief of the division Of
railroads, and Henry G. Potter, chief Of the
flee, have resigned.
Mike Chambers, in jail at Sacramento,
Cal. hos confessed that he Is the man who
murdered Fred Fetterman some months
ago at Huntsville. Tenn.
The Paris Temps states that Italy, fol-
lowing the example Of England and France,
will raise her legation at Washington to
the dignity Of an embassy.
Senator German, chairman of the senate
committee on printing, has appointed +.
NJ. Cox, editor Of the Port Tobacco Times,
as clerk Of that committee.
Peter Msher, the Irish champion pugi-
list, will travel with "Denver" Ed. Smith.
He will be the Denver mans sparring part
ner at salary Of 800 per week.
Joseph Dumas, French lad, IA years
old, was run over at Putnam, Conn, by
six box cars. Being small and keeping his
presence Of mind he managed to avoid the
wheels, but the last car broke his leg.
Several arrests have taken place in Chi
cago as result Of the fist fight in the
noon. An effort is being made in the
an end to tho outrageous proceedings.
Harpin A Batsfcrd, the Philadelphia en-
bezzler, who, In company with A. A. Cad
wallader, the dsfaulting Wisconsin bank
cashier, was brought back to this country
has besn given hearing at Philadelphia
and held for trial In the criminal court
John A. Haney, who was some time ago
released from Moyamensing Jail, where he
had been confined ON the charge OF murder
ing Ella Winters, died of consumption at
the home Of his brother In Philadelphia.
Haney contracted the disease while In
jail.
Joseph Chambers, a former brakeman on
the Chesapeake aud Ohio railroad, who had
lost two limbs, was killed bya freight
train near Hinton, w. Va. A note was
found in his possession which read
Rather than be a burden to you l will
end my life"
A dispatch from Madison, Wis, says that
Senator Villas has not yet been appraised OF
the death Of his daughter, Miss Nellie Villas,
owing to the fact that his location in Florida
cannot be ascertained by his friends. Over
fifty kilograms have been sent and all have
failed to reach him.
The fire In the Lattimer mine at Wilkes
Barre has not yet been extinguished and
fears are entertained that 1t will work its
way over to the Milnersville coliery. A
force of men are still at work trying to
subdue the flames, but are making little
headway in the attempt.
The contemplated strike of carpenters at
the Worlds Fair grounds in Chicago has
been avertod by the demands of the men
being granted. The carpenters are to re-
ceive an increase in pay and the contractors
are to dismiss from their employ all of the
non union men employed in the construc-