The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-11-07
The STATE AT A GLANCE.

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school will be opened.
At 1890 Sunday night an un-
known elderly man, fairly well dress
ed, was instantly killed at Hudson by
a Delaware and Hudson passenger
train. The body was manged be-
yond recognition. 1t is not known
how he was struck, as the engineer
did not see him.
-Diphtheria is raging around
Greenfield, and seven deaths have al
ready resulted. The place is quaran-
tined, and the authorities hope to
stay the progress of the disease. The
failure of the physicians to use anti
toxine in time is the supposed cause
of the epidemic.
1t is believed that murder has
been committed in the case OF John
H. Price, of Enterprise, whose dead
body was found IN the creek on the
outskirts of Shamokin Saturday morn
ing the general appearance of the
body gave evidence that struggle
preceded death. The head was cut
open, as was also the face.
The Shamokln borough council
has decided to adopt measures for the
prevention of smallpox two new cases
of which were discovered in Spring
field. They appropriated 5000 for the
erection of a smallpox hospital, and
it will be built at once. Shamokin is
now thoroughly alarmed, and is re-
solved to stamp out the disease.
-Winans Hull, of Carbondale, who
was returned guilty of murder in the
second degree in Honesdale on Tues
day last for killing Edwin Schoonover,
of Scranton, in the woods near Lake
Lodore, on June 26, was Monday
sentenced by Judge Purdy to twenty
years Imprisonment in the Eastern
penitentlary, the maximum penalty Of
| the law.
About two months ago Mrs.
Jacob Myers, of Wiliamsport, had a
number of teeth extracted. A few
days later she became i'll and the
doctors diagnosed her disease as
hasty consumption. Last night IN a
paroxysm of coughing she coughed up
tooth which had evidently been
lodged in her lung. 1t is believed
she will now recover.
To guard against burglars break
ing into the house and stealing the
wedding gifts to his daughter, Nellie,
who was married last week to Joseph
Cochran, ex-Attorney General H. c.
McCormick's home at Williamsport
is guarded by armed officers every
night. Three rooms in the house are
filled with gifts, the estimated value
of which is 100000.
Mrs. Helen George, of Sharon,
Pa, claims the distinction of being
the oldest woman in America. She
is said to be IaI years Of age, so
stated at birthday celebration. She
is the mother of nine children, three
of whom are living, They are Mrs
Helen Jennings, Mercer county, aged
90 years; William Emlenton, aged 50
years, and Henry George, of Plumber,
aged "a years. She retains all her
faculties and is in fair health.
Rev. James H. Bettens, the
young Methodist minister, who forgot
his VOWS of love to Miss Jane Perry,
of Hazleton, and married another
girl, for which ofense he was suspend
ed from the Danvllle Conference by
an Investigating Committee, has
quietly vacated the little parsonage at
Silver Brook. Rev. Bettens is said
to have been a devoted attendant
upon Miss Perry for seven years.
His letters read at the investigation
by'a committee of six ministers in
Hazleton teemed with endearing
terms.
The alleged nightly appearance
of a figure in black-presumably {
woman-on the road between Mont
gomery and Clintonville, near the
graves of the murdered wife and
children of William Hummell, ha
caused much excitement among th'
superstitious people in the vicinity
who believe it is the ghost of the mur
dered woman. 1t is said that ther,
is disposition among the more prac
tical people of the vicinity to watct
for the "ghost" and treat it to a dos
of bird shot, in which event some
sensation loving person in the com
munity will likely turn up for repairs
Thomas Shannahan, an emloye
for the railroad company at Osceola
died at that place on Tuesday even
ing. He was supposed to be yer
poor, but after his death money t
the amount of $500 was found o
his person, sewed up in the lining {
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