The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-04-28
THE NEWS FROM ALL AROUND.
Condensed Accounts OF all the Important
Happenings.

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Thomas Porter Miller, for fifty years a
prominent merchant of Mobile, Ala, died
in East Orange, N. j.
The Red River of the North is still rising
near Grand Forks, N. D., and threatening
to food million acres
Bad investment caused the failure Of the
Krouskof millinery store at atSavannah, Ca,
with over 500, 900 liabilities.
Mrs. General Handcocks funeral was
held at New York Saturday and the body
taken to st. Louis for burial
With 1000 cargo of seals, Captain
Farquhar, Of the steamer Newfoundland,
has returned from Halifax, N. s.
Francis Kile, director of the poor Of
Montgomery county, died at North Wales.
He was sheriff Of the county in 1850.
Specializing with his congregations
money, Father Van Deven, Of Butte Mon,
lost $40, 900 and has gone to Belgium.
The city election held In Danbury, Conn,
resulted In sweeping democratic victory
Charles 8. Andrews was elected mayor.
Ercole Tamajo, duke of Caste Lucia,
who married an American woman and
lived in this country, died in New York.
Pedro Garcia, one Of the so-called Garcia
rcvolutionists, has been captured by United
States troops near Fort Ringgold, Texas.
Charles A. Pillsbury, the miller Of Min
neapolis, Mimi, denies that he lost any
thing in the recent Chicago wheat deal.
\ A. NJ. Stadler & Co.. dealers in clothing
at Cincinnati, o., have assigned. Assets
estimated at $40, 1000; liabilities probably
$4,000
The Pelican saw mill, 1000, 900 feet of
lumber, thirty cottages and O pile driver
were burned at New Orleans. Loss, $780,
600.
False certifying of checks puts Asa p.
Potter, Of the wrecked Maverick Bank,
Of Boston, in Jail for go days with 81 900
fine
While Mrs. Henry Burvenich, Of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, horsewhipped brother. in-law,
Anton Burvenich, her husband, stood BY as
umpire.
Matthew Nobaker, an unmarried butcher
% years old, was shot and killed at St.
Louis by Isaac Dickson, colored, in . sa-
loon row.
Corporal Michael J. Kirnies, who was In
jured at the Worlds Fair grounds Monday
while experimenting the placing Of big
rifle mortar in the government building, Is
dead.
An express car on the Atlantic and Pa
cifc railroad was burned at Hancock, N
NJ, and $100, 900 in grsenbacks destroyed.
OF a similar amount in gold, q portion was
melted.
The Akron, O., board of health has fled
charges Of incompstency against D s.
Conklin, of Canton, president Of the State
board Of health, in his management Of
smallpox.
The Pacific Coast Council Of Trades and
Labor Federations, with 40,0 members,
has protested to President Cleveland
against the appointment Of o. w. Ed
wards as public printer.
At Cincinnati, o., Judge Sage, of the
United States district court, has issued an
order to Receiver Leland to act a. commits
sioner for the sale of the Dayton Natural
Gas Companys holdings.
Edward Shmsucher, the Belgian who
was shot in Paterson, N. j., on Sunday, by
Victor dc Wold, will probably die. Peter
Vanderfeet, who was also shot, will prob
ably recover. De Void is in jail
For forging check that won $4,000
worth OF jewelry from Mexican jewellers,
Robert Knox, a young American, was SEN
fenced to fifty-two months imprisonment
and $500 fine and his wife to six months
and 1925 fine.
were turned off and on in the Atlantic City,
n. j., opera house, John w. Crox, one of
the proprietors, was terribly shocked, and
his right thumb so badly burned that it
will probably have to be amputated
In the chancery court at Chattanooga,
Tenn, j. D. Roberts has been appointed
receiver for the Lookout Iron Company on
the application of the Harryman Manufac-
turing Company and the East Tennessee
Land Company. The bill alleges that the
iron company is in debt over $135, 900.
The East Jersey Water Company, which
sold the city Of Newark its $6,00O,0 900
water supply, has decided to appeal from
the decision which allowed severae manu-
claims amounting to $164, ,%58. .38 B'
for depriving them Of water by using the
entire supply Of the Pequannock river.
The British steamship Handel has ar
rived at Philadelphia with 1900 tons Of
oranges and lemons, gathered at Messini,
Catania and Valencia, Italy and
Spain. She met with heavy weather dur
ing the egtire run, and had her temporary
matches swept overheard by the heavy seas.
The failure of the Irwin Manufacturing
Company at Louisville, KY, few days
ago was for $75, 900, with assets about half
that amount. L. NJ. Pearce, one of the
indorsers for the firm, after in
specting some of the bank paper purport-
ing to bear his signature, has pronounced &
it a forgery. G. H. Irwin, the head of the
firm, is missing. M
Charles Tieman, a Hoboken, N. j.,
butcher, received verdict of 81 900 in the
county court against Druggist William
Kamlah whose clerk gave Tieman pure
acid when he asked for disn-
fecting wash for cut finger He applied
the acid to the wound before he discovered
the blunder and the finger had to be am
putated in consequence. Herman sued for
S5 600.
When John H. Webb, a clothes wringer
peddler of No. 27S Grove street, Jersey
City, failed to effect n sale to Mrs. Bes-
singer, of No. 81 Pine street. he put his
arm around her waist and tried to kiss her,
but she applied hot curling iron to his Il
lips, blistering them severely and then