The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-04-14
The NEWS OF The WEEK
Condensed Accounts of Import
ant Happenings.
SOLID FACTS BRIEFLY MENTIONED.

place at the Worlds Fair
Thomas w. Wooden, n well known Young
man OF indianapolis, Ind, is an alleged de.
Iaulter in the sum Of $4,000.
Harry knier, one of the best known citi-
hens In Harrisburg, died at his residence
there OF neuralgia of the heart
The Ohio State Miners Association has
resolved to use all honorable means to have
the present system of convict labor in the
south abolished
Three business blocks were burned in
Leadville, Colo, entailing loss of over
SsooOOO. They were among the finest
blocks in the city.
This fall William X. Vanderbilt. Ogden
Goelet and James Gordon Bennett will 20
on cruise through European and Asatic
waters In their yachts.
'Denver" Ed Smith has issued chal-
lege to fight Peter jackson to a finish for
$4,000 side and the largest purse offered
by any responsible club
The White Star Steamship Company has
officially recognized the loss Of tho freight
ship Noionic, which went down in the At
lantic about two weeks ago.
Mrs. s. NJ. Cate, jr., Of New Haven.
years Of married life naming Helen Trafer
ss co respondent, has withdrawn her suit.
The College Hill sanitarium, at Cincin-
natl, was damaged by fire to the extent OF
$150,000. During the progress of the fire
two insane patients escaped to the woods
and are still at large.
After fierce struggle the Illinois state
| senate passed the woman suffrage bill, ex-
! tending the elective franchise to women in
| certain municipal and township elections
A fire at Podhaiozyki. near Sambor, in
GRllcia, Austria, destroyed 100 buildings
| including the school house and three per
sons perished in the flames.
BY the explosion OF boiler In a planning
! mill at Fcrndale, Texas, four men were IA
tally injured and the mill WAS completely
wrecked. The cause Of the explosion Is not
known.
Valentine Lucronic, 30 years old, was ac-
cidentally shot by Fillmore Russell at Little
Ferry, N. j.. and died in the Hackensack
| hospital a few hours later. Russell has
| disappeared.
Fire broke out In the dye house of John
Greenwood, Emerald and Huntingdon
| streets, Philadelphia, causing loss ON
| building and contents Of between $4,000
and $1l 900
1t is stated in Pittsburg that there is no
| foundation for the report that steel and
iron syndicate with capital stock of $780,
| 900 600 Is to be formed there to rival the
Carnegie interests.
A special investigating committee ap,
| pointed by the Legislature to inquire into
| charges Of mismanagement OF the Connec-
| ticut state prison at Hartford has begun o
| series OF secret sessions in that city
The steamship Hekla which caused so
much uneasiness b, sora her arrival mt New
| York Sunday, will lay at her pier there for
| two weeks awaiting the arrival of Il new
| shaft from Liverpool to replace the broken
one which caused her long delay.
Joe Bertin, II prominent horse dealer,
| whose operations extended over several
| Western and Southern States, committed
suicide ut Pine Bluff, Ark, by shooting
| He was once engaged in business in Dalti-
| more.
All the big logs have not disappeared.
| The Olean Times tells of hemlock log
| hauled to a mill near Austin recently that
| was AZ feet long and measured Al inches ut
| the top end. 1t scaled over 5000 feet OF
| lumber
W. c. Rppey, the old man who shot
John w Mackey on February "a last, was
| arraigned in San Francisco, Cal, Saturday
| afternoon on u charge OF assault to mur-
der He plead not guilty aud his trial was
set for Maya.
A large building belonging to the estate
| OF Roger X. Fears WAS burned at Glouces-
| ter, Mass, causing q loss of S25, 900. The
| tenants who suffer are: William p. Gray,
fshermen's outfitter; j. w. Lufkin Il Co.,
sailmakers, and Connolly & Co., liquors.
An explosion In the Chicago rubber
works at Grand avenue and West Ohio
street, Chicago, caused by defective heat
| or, killed Philip Fogarty and 20 seriously
injured Jesse McCue, that his recovery 10
considered doubtful.
Henry Ritter, stage carpenter, has sued
Actor Alexander Salvini, before Recorder
McDonough in Hoboken, to recover $73 for
wages due Litter orce attached the scenery
OF the company, but though settlement Is
/ alleged to have been made, he says he
never received the money.
By the will of the late John Taylor John
son, filed for probate In New York City,
the Metropolitan museum Of art and the
University of the City of New York receive
loHhcltS OI SlV,uVV coShy nHu oho iohioii'AoA
is divided equally among his four children
The estate Is valued at 81 100000.
A little girl stuck hat pin in the back
of John Vensel, of Petrolia, the point
touching the spine. Vensel has been suf'
fering from spasms ever since and has lost
his mind resident of Butler is now suf-
fering from paralysis, the result of aprac-
tical joke of the same nature played on
him.
Town Clerk John Nickerson, of Redding,
Conn, has prepared bill to prohibit cor
poral punishment in schools. His boy Is
suffering from whipping by Principal
Webster, of the Redding Center academy
Mr.. Nickerson maintains that spanking, if
it is to be, should be left to the school COM
mittee.
A suit against President James g. Fargo,
of the American Express Company, because
two dead deer were carried from the Adj
rondacks to Newburg, N. Y, in violation
of the game laws, was thrown out of court
at Newburg as it was shown that the car