The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-06-02

Condensed Accounts Of all the Important
Happenings.

Happenings.
Arkansas floods are receding despite
more heavy rains.
Bethlehem iron works have just turned
out four 1S-inch guns
A quarantine may be necessary to check
the Lancaster county flea plague
Three cattle owned by ]. NJ Mcdonald,
near Phonixvile, were killed by lightning
Colonel Rockwell Tyler died at White
! Sulphur Springs, n. Y, sged sixty eight
| years
Big improvements are making at the
Thomas Iron Company's furnaces NC Hell
lertown.
Thirty one members Of the Union league,
of Philadelphia, spent Sunday at Gettys.
burg
The Lancaster flea or louise pest has ex-
tended TO the western borders of Chester
county.
The viking ship from Norway, has ar
rived OH Newfoundland, on its way to the
Worlds Fair.
While attending meeting of Heavenly
Recruits in Reading, George German
dropped dead.
The National Federation of America ap-
peals for money TO help the home rule bat
tie in England.
In a quarrel at Elliottborough. Alle-
ghcny county, Michael Fleckenstein shot
Patrick O'Donnell dead
Kansas populist state officers have form
ed publishing company and will send out
I tons of Alliance literature.
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company has paid into the state treasury
$50, 900 tax on loans for 1880.
Putting four bullets in his wifes head,
Captain w. f. Ahrron, of Sassafras, Va,
then blew his own head off.
Going to sleep with lighted candle in
her lap, aged Mrs. Davis, of Ebensburg,
woke up fatally burned
Archbishop Satolli the apostolic dele
gate, will go to Chicago, TO preach mis-.
SION to Italians of that city
The body of an unknown man was found
in the river at Allentown and the coroner
is investigating the matter.
Lawrenceville, H., was visited by ter
rible windstorm. Trees were uprooted
and several houses destroyed.
A movement is on foot to connect Sea
Isle City, Ocean City, Cape May and Phila-
delphia by teleplsone system.
Proved an embezzler of $1,000 from the
Victoria Mills, of Newburyport, Mass,
Agent ]. Albert Mills, is missing.
Harry Dodd, aged IS. and Thomas Stag
er, aged II, expert swimmers, were drown
ed in the lake at Muskegon, Mich.
A decree for 81 200, 900 against W. N.
Riddle, late president Of the defunct Penn
bank, Pittsburg, was sold at auction for 81.
The dead body of n tinker named Fernell
was found on the railroad near West
Chester. Death resulted from heart disease.
While older people hunted for ropes, H.
year-old Frank Artley jumped into the
river at Johnstown and saved a drowning
child.
Professor w. M. Irvine, Of Franklin and
Marshall College, has been chosen presi-
dent of Mercersburg College, at MERGERS
burg.
r. Cory, Of Lakeview, Iowa, and George
Burgess and Bert Cory, Of Odebolt, Iowa,
were drowned while fishing in Wall Lake,
Lakeview.
In u crusade upon towboat owners the
officers of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
at Pittsburg, cut loose and set adrift thir-
teen boats.
With suicidal intent, Charles Van Maus-
bach, of Zionville, threw himself in front
Of a train in Pottstown, but was rescued
by an officer.
A long fight has ended in the selection
of Professor G. w. Bible, Of Indiana, as
principal of the new Stroudsburg State
Normal school,
The Van Wagner & Williams Company,
hardware manufacturers, at No. IA War
rem street, New York, have been put in n
receivers hands.
Running in front of horse, Jesse Jones,
8 years old, Of New Haven, Conn, was
seized by the trousers and carried two
blocks screaming.
T. G. Erwin & Co., dry goods dealers, of
Chattanooga, Tenn, have made deeds Of
| trust to secure preferred creditors to tho
amount of $50, ,393.
William It. Boyle, Of Freeland; George
! w. Fink, OF Irwin, and William II. Hay,
OF Meyersdale, have been appointed presi-
dentisl postmasters.
Mayhem Little, the pioneer sxpressman
Of Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, N. j.,
and founder of Little's express, died at his
home in Asbury Park.
By failing to advertise their primaries,
publicans, it is said, will not be able to
hold legal election this fall.
DR.. Seward Webb, the New York mill
lionaire, Is building about his private park
in the Adirondacks, a wire fence sixty
three miles, that will cost $50, 900.
Trying TO drown himself In the river at
Topeka, Kan. James Dalton, supposed to
be one Of the Dalton gang, was rescued by
policeman and found demented.
A petition in favor OF the reinstatement
Of Rev. DR.. Richard l.. Bintsell TO the rec
tolship OF Epiphany church., New York
city, was presented to Archbishop Satolli.
John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, will
supplyS, 900 pairs of shoes to the National
Guard and Augustus Thomas K Son, of
Philadelphia will furnish 5000 canteens.
Dir. John Schrady was arrested in New
York and released ON $1,000 in the action
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