The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-05-05
THE NEWS FROM ALL AROUND.

Canada's grain crop will be above the
average
Boston will have 81 gas beginning mex,
Monday.
Halifax, n. s., chose Michael L. Keefe
mayor.
Baltimore's elevated railroad is about
completed.
Drought will cut Kansas wheat crop
down one half.
Baseball is attracting good crowds in the
-cuth this year.
Boston lasters will demand a nine-houy
day after October /.
against railroad thieves.
..he Cordage trust will increase the pro-
fsrred stock by 81, 800, 900.
The Novelty works, at Weatherly, have
been closed by the sheriff.
Bay City, Mich, has launched the big
Sest steamer afloat on the lakes.
Principal Assessor Wheeler, Of Lowell,
Macs, proposes to assess bicycles.
Execution has been issued on Judgment
note by Justice Goodwin against Samuel
Marks, Of Philadelphia, for $4,000.
The Ohio republican state convention
will meet at Columbus June 7 and s.
A contract has been awarded for new
$43 600 school building in Pottsville
Falling forty feet from coal breaker, al
Wilkesbarre, J. J. Brown was killed.
The wages of minors in the Schuylkill
region have been reduced one per cent.
Diphtheria has closed the schools in the
Heckschersvlle Valley, above Nnersville
A baby's cries aroused Gustave Reiff's
taniily in New York and saved their lives
Four-year. old John Underwood. of West
Pittston, fell into cistern and was drown
ed
Rev. Sam Small retracts scandalous re-
marks concerning young women of Griffin
Ga.
Coal companies in Tenness4.es Jellico
district have combined with $3.50, 900 capt.
tai
The Unitarian conference Of the Middle
States and Canada met in Washington,
y. G.
Studying flying machines, Benjamin r.
Goodell, Of Fort Wayne, Ind, has gone
iasnne.
The weeding-out process at Sing Sing
continues, six underkeepers having been
removed.
Lancaster colhery, at Shamokin, has
been purchased by Detroit and Buffalo
capitalists.
The Produce Exchange at New York will
put timothy and clover seed in the list and
call options.
New York's war of walters is still on,
and the guests are now the waters for
.hAir meals.
Lieutenant Governor Sheehan, of New
York, has been seriously i'll, and is now
Horyalescent.
The dead body Of Thomas Ryan, OF
Trenton, n. j., WA found in bed in Bal
timore boarding house.
In Green county the "Jobes" republicans
and the regulars" each threaten to nomi-
nate a candidate for Judge.
The little daughter of Joachim Schultz,
near White Haven, was burned to death
while kindling brush piles.
George jeremiah, of Columbus, O., has
patented an electrical execution chair that
will give painless death.
Professor Thomas Hancher is most gen
orally spoken Of rs the coming principal Of
the Kutztown normal school.
Several persons were injured by the col
lapse of the floor Of the Clark Avenue Bap-
tist church, of Cleveland, Ohio.
1t is probable that the trial of Lizzie
Borden for the murder of her parents will
begin in June at Fall River, Mass.
The duchess of Veragua has been made
an honorary member Of the National Mary
Washington Memorial association.
At the state pharmaceutical examination
In Harrisburg 800 young men and one girl
applied for druggists certificates
By court Of appeals decision, leaf to-
bacco importers will recover nearly 81, ,000,.
600 in duties from the government.
The Florida legislature is struggling
with the valued insurance scheme, and all
companies threaten to leave the state
The baseball team at Chicago university
has three thurman, two Yale and one
Princeton graduates among its players.
The awarding of the contract to build
school house in Pottsville not to the lowest
bidder. c. II. Lnelly, has aroused strife.
Dean Lawrence, OF Cambridge, Mass,
has been nominated for the late Bishop
Rrcoks place by the board of churchmen.
Ex-Governor Merriam, of Minnesota, has
been sued for $4,000 by Thomas O'Con-
nor, life convict, for false imprisonment.
The Presbyterian parsonage, occupied by
Rev. Paul Houghtaling, and all contents,
was burned at Riverton, N. j. Loss,
$4,000.
A pair of kid button shoes made In
Lynn, Mass, in fifteen minutes and forty
five seconds will be exhibited at the Worlds
Fair.
Owen Carlin, who was for twenty years
prominent in democratic politics in the
Tenth ward, of Newark, N. j., died there
of dropsy.
An effort is being made to raise the gun
boat Scraps, sunk in the war Of 1919 ut
Upper Marlboro, Nd, for exhibition at the
Worlds Fair
Blaming himself for the fire that de-
'troyed Cornelius Vanderbilt's Newport
house, Micheal Helsin, head servant, shot
himself in New York.
All the iron ore mines near Ashland,
Wis, except the Aurora, have shut down
on account of the scheme to bring Besse
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