The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-06-09
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.


A tornado literally annihilated the
village of Cunningham, Kansas.
Balboa boulevard, San Francisco
has been changed in name to Dewey
boulevard,
Bishop John P. Newman, of the
M. E. church, will soon retire because
of i'll health.
The price Of bread has advanced
fifty per cent. in the southern part of
Germany.
Alonzo P. Carpenter, chief justice
of the supreme court of New Hamp.
shire, is dead.
American cable companies in Lon
don refuse to transmit Spanish gov
ernmeEt messages.
Thieves stole $4,000 worth of jew.
elry from United States Senator Ma.
sons Washington residence.
By the fall of an elevator IN an 'un.
completed warehouse, in Boston, four
persons we've killed.
Mrs. Lena Sporn, of New York,
while insane, chopped the heads off
her two infant children.
Cramp & Sons, the ship builders,
Philadelphia, have advanced the
wages of their employees twenty-five
per cent.
A New York financial journal says
the banks of that city have a larger
reserve than for fourteen months past.
A great fire in Sollern mine, near
Dortmund, Prussia, is believed to
have caused the death of forty-fiv
miners.
Edward Bellamy, the renowned au-
thor of Looking Backward" is dead
at Springfield, Mass, aged forty. eight
years.
Isaac Smith, residing at Proctor,
w. Va, has attained the age of log
years. He is a native of William.
sport, Pa.
What is claimed to be the biggest
American flag in the world floats over
a building in Chicago. 1t is 7ox4o
feet.
Two men were run over by hose
cart and fatally injured at Lorain, O.,
during a celebration of the Manila
naval victory.
Charles H. Allen, of Massachusetts,
has been appointed assistant secretary
of the navy, vice Theodore Roosevelt,
resigned.
The Kansas court of appeals has
sustained the state law prohibiting
corporations paying employees IN scrip
and operating company stores.
Mrs. Mary F.. Sellner, of Phila-
delphia, has been arrested on suspic-
ion of having caused the death of her
aged and wealthy husband by poison.
Cincinnati ladies have refused to
purchase goods of French manufac-
ture because of the French sympathy
with Spain in the pending war.
Judge Wilson, of Seattle, Wash,
and James Wesley, OF Tacoma, have
returned from Dawson City, bringing
500 letters and $1,000 in gold dust.
Gardner c. Sims, of Providence.
r. l., who has been commissioned an
engineer in the volunteer forces of the
navy, is three times millionaire.
A bonded loan Of 100000, at Il
per cent. interest, issued by the city
of Philadelphia, has been awarded to
a New York firm on premium of
$Io3.2I.
Vandals at Lafayette college,
Easton, Pa, entered the chapel and
smeared the pulpit Bible, hymn books
and other articles with thick coating
of tar.
Rather than call an extra session
of the Maine legislature, to mobilize
the troops of that state, Gov. Powers,
1t is said, proposes to foot the bill
himself.
American ladies in London are
boycotting French stores because of
expressions in France of sympathy
with Spain in the war with the United
States.
Secretary of War Alger has asked
congress to create an additional office
in that department, viz: second as.
sistant secretary of war, with a salary
of $4,000 year.
A cyclone is reported to have des-
troyed great part of Bima, a seaport
town OF the island Of Sumbawa, Malay
Archipelago, causing the death of
thousands of persons.
England is strengthening her Pacific
naval force and Notifications. 1t is