The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-04
THE NEWS.

? Fire damaged the Omaha and Grant smell
Ger in Durango, Co., $4,000, destroying the
receiving house, sampler, roaster and several
smaller buildings. The fire caught from the
Soiler room, and for two hours the entire
plant. representing 81, 5OO 600, was in danger
OF total destruction. .--G Gen. John c. Black,
limited states district attorney at Chicago,
received ins ructions to investigate the al
legged combination of Chicago packers to
control the price OF beef. His instructions
Games from Attorney General Harmon
The st. James, M old hotel, centrally located
in Columbus, o., was damaged by ilre to the
amount Of $40, ,0t0 at A A. NJ. Many guests
had 10 be saved by ladders. No one was lost
or hutt.-Nartin Adams, OF Cincinnati,
who caused the death OF ohm dinner by put
ting strychnine into int OF beer, was
hanged in the penitentiary annex nj Co um-
bus. United States Revenue Collector Bond
has received information Of the capture In
Harden county. Tennessee, near the Missis-
sppi line, OF George Davis and Bob Thomas,
two noted desperate moonshiners. Nelson
Miller, a colored man, charged in Wilkes
barre, Pa, with the murder OF three Hun
garians, was found guilty OF murder in the
first degree
At Hot Springs Ark, a fire destroyed the
Pacific Hotel, the Crescent House, adjoining,
the Valley Livery Stables, the Jewish Asy-
ium, and FIVE cottages to the rear ofthe Paci.
flc Hotel, involving a loss Of $4,000, which
was only partly insured. While the wind
was blowing forty miles an hour FIRE was do
s:royed in the Moore Galloway lumber
yard, North Fond du Lac, Mich. The mill
and about ten million feet OF lumber wero
burned. Loss $4,000 insurance s73 45O.
The Chicago Methodist ministers, who
have undertaken to secure, through the
Pope, greater religious freedom Tor the Pro-
testants OF Peru, Ecuador aud olivia, have,
in response to circular letters, received en-
oouragement from Justin Mccarthy, Alger-
non Charles Swinburne, and the historian,
w. Z. II. Lecky. y.-All FIVE companies OF
the Michigan troops, stationed at Ishpeming,
Mich, to prevent lawlessness during the
miners strike, left for their homes. - Daniel
Cory, OF Boston, was struck aud killed by
the Pacific Express, near Tyrone, Pa
Gov. McCorkle has appointed the following
delegates to represent West Virginia at the
first annual convention Of tho International
Deep Waterways Association, at Clevelandi
United States Senator S. b Elkins, George
A. Burt, State Senator N. Z. Whitaker, Hon.
Frank Hearne and ex-Gov. A. B. Fleming.
Dy the explosion or a lamp In the dwelling
OF Leon Kuchinsky In Pittsburg, two daugh-
ters OF Kuchinsky, aged six and eight years
were fatally burned. DR.. L. S. Mcdonald,
h. ba ohiiJran ha Oar
was severely burned, and will probably lose
the sight OF one eye. ye.--Five Indians were
killed and several others wounded In fight
with ranchnen, who lost three men.-The
large frame icehouse OF Frank Richards, near
Bustleton, a suburb OF Philadelphia, was de-
etroyed by fire. great quantity OF ice was
destroyed. Loss, 800, 600. Various coun-
ties in Pennsylvania fear water famine un-
less there is q rainstorm within a few day.
Rev. Thos C. Hanna fought two bur-
glars who entered his room in Stonington,
CT. They cut and beat him, but got nothing
Two men were killed on the Amboy di-
vision OF the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Hightstown, n. j., while attempting to cross
the tracks. john Lemmons was found
guilty GO murder at Chattanooga, Tenn, in
the frat degree for the killing OF Eugene
Lynch, a constable, last March. A verd let
of murder in the first degree wGs returned AT
Cheyenne, Wyo.. against E. S. Crocker, one
of the most prominent stockmen Of Wyom-
ng, who has been on trial for two weeks,
charged with the murder in January Of hii
partner Harvey Booth.
Erwin Clarke, a diamond broker who dis
appeared from Denver. Col, July 25, with
several thousand dollars worth OF diamonds,
entrusted to him for SALE has been arrested
at San Francisco and will be brought back
to Denver. He was traced by means OF let
ters mailed TO him from Louisville by his
wife. r. Lanier was shot and killed
at Point Pleas ant, W. Va, by Thomas Potts.
The crew OF the schooner. .Menuncatuck, from
Perth Amboy, Nj, narrowly escaped drown
ing, and were landed at Lynn. The ques-
tion OF the revival Of American shipping was
discussed at the International Deep Water
ways Convention, in Cleveland.-The Irish
New Movement Convention, in session In Chi
cago, passed resolutions demanding the free
dom Of Ireland from English rule. Holt
Robinson, white, and negro, name un-
known, were killed in q shaft at Winter Rock
coal mines, in Chesterfield, Va, the sides
caving in.-John S. Matthews was sen'
fenced TO four years in the renitentiary fol-
embezzlement in Martinsburg, W. a.-Ms. s.
Violet Haskell who last June left her hus'
band at Deer Isle, Maine, and married the
colored leader OF the Pickanlnny Band a
Cincinpati, aud shortly afterwards returned
and was forgiven by her husband committed
suicide.
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