The Columbian. (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, February 19, 1892, Image 6

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THE NEWS OF THE WEEL
Telegraphic Notes of Interest
Briefly Told.
HERE, THERE AXD EVERYWHERE.
hnnll but NntrH Ions The of the
World Prom Pole to Pole Carrfnlljr
Culled nit llolled Down for lliur
Readers Throughout the Country.
Wednesday, Feb. 10.
John A. McCnll has been elected
president of the New York Llfo In
surance Company at a salary of $50,
000 per year.
Warren Hnmmons, a farmer, of
Itosendale, Ulster County, N. Y., was
held in $1,600 ball by Commissioner
Bhtelds yesterday for falling to pay
revenue tax on sll the applejack he
made.
Bertha Jacobs, the fourteen-year-oM
daughter of a rich farmer of Lima,
Ohio, burned her father's barn Mon
day, causing aloes of $4,000, then ran
away, and was caught while setting
Are to a neighbor's barn.
John Jackson, the driver of An ex
press wagon was mortally wounded
in Cincinnati Monday. He was beaten
senseless with a hatchet while asleep.
It is a supposed case of parricide, as
the police believe his son is the per
petrator. The Sixth avenue surface railroad
In New York has been leased for 099
years by the Metropolitan Traction
Company of Philadelphia. It is tho
Intention of the latter company to
change the motive power. Probably
electricity will be used.
The Kansas Wagon Company, which
has been manufacturing wagons and
buggies for the last seventeen years
with convict labor at the State peni
tentiary, announced yesterday that in
future it would employ free or outside
labor exclusively.
United States Judge Lacombe
granted yesterday to Llzzio R. O.
Shaw and others an Injunction, re
straining the executors of the late
Charles P. Shaw and others from en
forcing property in the amount of 12,
000,000 and over, obtained by default
against the New York Cable Hallway
Company.
The will of Daniel Ilood, the philan
thropist, who gave $1,000,000 for the
amelioration of the condition of the
colored people, was admitted to pro
bate Monday in Ouilford, Conn. It
contained fourteen codicils. The es
tate amounts to more than $600,000.
The helrs-at-Iaw, twenty-nine In num
ber, will try to break tho will.
Thursday, Feb. 11.
Four Anarchists were executed by
garrote at Xeres, Spain, yesterday.
South Worcester, Mass., Is excited
over the elopement of four women in
one week.
The farmers of Huron county, Cal.,
have contracted with a Kansas rain
company for rain for the season's
crop.
The Capital City Opera House at
East Des Moines, Iowa, was burned
Tuesday night just after the audience
had departed.
The Alliance Advocate, of Topeka,
the official organ of the Kansas
Farmers' Alliance, advocates the
formation of a national people's
party.
Forty persons were poisoned at the
meeting at the Daughters of Rebecca
at Eldorado, Kan., Monday night,
through the coffee, but no fatalities
resulted.
Congressman Henry H. Bingham of
Philadelphia will deliver the oration
at the dedication of High Water Mark
Monument on the field of Gettysburg
on June 2.
Pitil'p Bruns, an old member of the
w York Stock Exchange, suspended
-e u-iday with liabilities of $400,000.
; whioh $160,000 was due to S. V.
White & Co. - .
1 he civil marriage of Miss Mattie
. Elizabeth Mitchell, daughter of Sena
tor Mitchell of Oregon to Duo Fran
cois de la Rochefoucauld was cele
brated in Paris yesterday.
A secret meeting of about thirty
trunk manufacturers, mostly from
New York, Boston and Philadelphia,
is being held at the Orand Paolflo
Hotel, Chicago, for the purpose, it Is
believed, of forming a combination.
Chicago has renewed her invitation
to Congress to visit the World's Fair
site, and a committee of Chlcagoans
are at Washington perfecting the ar
rangements for the excursion. The
World's Fair directors have no con
nection with it.
Chief Post-Offlce Inspector Wheoler
has received information that Jamos
K. Scranton, who was convicted of
robbing street letter-boxes in Denver,
has been sentenced to twenty-one
years in prison In the Canon City
Penitentiary. This Is the extreme
penalty for robbing letter-boxes.
Friday, Feb, 13.
From 10,000 to 15,000 men are wanted
for work this summer in North Da
kota. Over 10,000 coal porters are on strike
In London, and a coal famine is
feared.
One thousand cloakmakers, em
ployed by Meyer Jonason & Co. of
New York, went on strike yesterday.
Tho search for victims of the Hotel
Royal Are In New York has been
stopped. Seventeen bodies in all have
been recovered.
Revolution has again broken out In
Bnrzll, and it is feared that President
Pelxotto will share the same fate of
bis predecessor, Fonseca.
The president and cabinet are ex
pected to bo present at the reunion of
the Army of the Potomao, to be held
in Scranton, on June 15 and 16.
The new Reading Railroad deal
roused a great boom for Reading
Mock on the New York Stock Ex
nange yesterday. Tho stock went
up several polnls and over 8j0,000
shares were traded in.
Henry Villard will cease to be presi
dent of the Edison General Electric
Company upon its consolidation with
the Thompson-Houston Company of
Boston, An Issue of $10,000,000 of
hew stock will bo used.
Judge Fratt of the Supreme Court
hns appointed James K. O. Sherwood
of Brooklyn, N. Y receiver of the
property of the Poughkeepsle Bridge
Company in an action brought by the
Mercantile Trust Company as trustee.
The trial of Louis Harriott for the
murder of Mrs. M. Leonard was con
cluded yesterday at Freehold, N. J.,
before Chief Justice Beasley, when
the jury, after being out twenty min
utes, returned with a verdict of
"guilty of murder In the first de
gree." Saturday, Feb- 13,
Ex-rrcsldent Cleveland will spend
a few days doer hunting In North
Carolina.
Postmastor-Genral Wanamaker Is
said to have made about $1,300,000 by
the recent rise of Reading stock.
The Massachusetts House has
passed the bill prohibiting the giving
of free railroad passes to its members.
Tho opera house and eight stores at
Monmouth, 111,, were destroyed by
fire Thursday night. Loss, $150,000.
Will Lavender, a colored man, who
was charged with an assault, was
hanged by a mob near Roanoke, Ya.,
yesterday.
The war between the Navajo In
dians and the cowboys in Western
Valencia county, N. M., on the At
lantic and Pacific, has ended and
ponce reigns for the time being.
Malignant scarlot fever has caused
the death of six persons in the family
of James Broad, a boss slater of Ban
gor, N. J., within the past six days.
The father and Ave children were the
victims.
The Detroit police attribute tho sud
den and complete disappearance of
five young girls within the last fow
weeks to a Chicago woman named
Brownell, who is said to be operating
in that city.
John W. Mackey has Clod a notice
of appeal to tho General Term of the
Supreme Court from the judgmont of
$90,166.84 obtained by Edward S.
Stokes in the suit growing out of their
telegraph deal
John Malloy, a former Inmate of
the Ohio State Insane Asylum, shot
and killed his wife and then himself
Thursday night Their bodies were
found to-day. Malloy was over
seventy years old, and very Jealous of
his aged wife.
Mrs. Nancy Allison Frost died near
Marietta, O., Thursday, aged 108
years. She was born in Fayette
County, Pa., October 22, 1784, and
moved with her father and his family
to Marietta, O., in the fall of 1789, the
first year after the first settlement of
Ohio at that point.
George R. Webb, the young Chlca
goan, who came to Lock port, N. Y.,
a month ago and forged his father's
name to checks and obtained goods,
jewelry and cash on them, was sen
tenced to the Erie County Penitentiary
Friday for one year and ten months.
A farmer digging a well near his
house at Darlington, Ind., has dis
covered that his dwelling was built
over the remains of a huge mastodon.
He has uncovered about ten feet of
the tusk, but has stopped excavating
in the sandstone for fear of endanger
ing his house. Scientists estimate
that the tusk must be about 16 feet
'cng and the whole skeleton 30 feet
ng and 18 to 20 feet high. ..
Monday, Feb, 15.
Seven ice cutters ja'. Lake Hopat
co ng, N. J., were blown into the lake
during a blizzard.
The State enumeration in New York
which begins to-morrow must be fin
ished by February 29.
Twenty-five families were made
homeless by a fire in Elizabethtown,
Pa., Saturday morning.
Louis Layas was sentenced at Utlca,
N. Y., Saturday, to life imprisonment
for the murder of his wife. .
Philadelphia has ordered 5,000 bar
rels of flour in Minneapolis as a con
tribution to the Russian Famine Re
lief Fund.
The Chamber of Commerce building
at Findlay, Ohio, owned by G. L.
Cusack, was destroyed by fire Satur
day. Loss, $40,000.
The failure of the Merchant's Bank
has caused much excitement at Moor
head, Minn. The liabilities are $202,
100 and the assets $149,419.'
With the thermometer at ten de
grees above zero eight prisoners, bare
to the waist, were led to the whipping
post at New Castle, Del., Saturday,
and flogged.
Edwin W. Carpenter, who died on
Saturday, was the richest man In Ken
nett Square, Pa. He began life as an
errand boy, but died worth $5,000,000.
He was sixty years old, and left a wife
and one son.
Friday evening Louis Miller, an
employe of the Murphysboro, 111.,
brewery, aged nineteen, while intoxi
cated shot and killed Joseph Schille,
superintendent of the establishment,
who had discharged him.
Benjamin Koenlg, a native of
Prussia, died at the Home for Aged
and Infirm Hebrews, In New York,
Friday night, in the 108th year of his
age. He was born In a little village
near rosen, Prussia, April 16, 1774.
Sarah Althea Terry, who became
notorious through her divorce suit
against ex-Senator Sharon and her
subsequent marriage to Judge Terry,
has become Insane over spiritualism
and has disappeared from her house
in San Francisco.
Chester Roach, who was born In the
Allegany county, Pa., almhouse, seventy-five
years ago, and who tramped
with his parents through western
New York for several years, died In
Minnesota last week and left an es
tate valued at $400,000. He has sev
eral heirs in Steuben and Allegany
tountles, and died Intestate.
Tuesday, Feb. 10.
Millionaire John W. Mackey has
sold at Donver a mine for $250,000.
The wheat crop In Tennessee has
been badly Injured by the late frceiso.
The old carpet mill of John and
James Dobson, In Philadelphia, was
destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss,
$150,000,
Alfred Allen, a negro, In digging a
wall near Lathrop, Mo., struck, at the
depth of forty-eight feet, a stratum of
sand fifteen feet thick, which assayed
$105 in gold and $1.60 in silver a ton.
Emm a Schmied, a sixteen-year-old
girl, who was employed as a servant
in the family of Mrs. Mary Hendricks,
of Lakewood, N. J., has been missing
since January 20.
Ex-Senator Fair of Nevada Is said
to have modo a will bequeathing
$500,000 to charity, of which $200,000
goes to the Catholic Orphan Asylum
of San Francisco.
Daniel Chesboro, while attempting
to pacify George Rathbourne, who
was quarreling with his wife, near
Stonlngton, Conn., was shot and in
stantly killed by the lnfuriatod hus
band. Gov. Bulkcloy, of Connecticut, has
recolvod a requisition from Gov.
Flower, of New York, for tho delivery
of Charles E. Waterbury and John
McCann, the Long Ridge kidnappers,
who abducted the boy Ward Water
bury. Upon a plea of guilty, James New
man, sixteen years old, was sentenced
to fourteen years in the penitentiary
by Judge Anthony, in Chicago, for
the murder of his cousin, William
Dodson.
THAT CHRISTMAS DISASTER.
Brtkrmin Hcrrlrk Indicted and the
Central Road Censured.
White Plains, N. Y., Feb. 11.
When the County Court and Court of
Sessions convenod yesterday after
noon the Grand Jury presented to
Judge Mills two indictments against
Albert E. Herrlck for monslaughter
In the second degroe. The first in
dictment was for causing the .death
of Mabel Slocurn, and the second
for causing the death of Anna Maria
Baldwin, in the New York Central
wreck at Hastings on Christmas Eve.
In addition to tho Indictments the
Grand Jury read the following re
port, which was ordered spread upon
the minutes of the court:
"Tho Grand Jury of the county of
Westchester hereby censures the New
York Central and Hudson River Rail
road Company for careless and negli
gent management of the running of
their said road on December 24, 1891,
in that there was a blockade on both
tracks at Sing Sing which prevented
all trains from passing either north
or south."
TYPHUS ,. FEVER -IN". NEW YORK.
A Whole Colony of Russian Hebrews
.. Down with It.
New York, Feb. 11 Typhus fever,
the most dangerous contagious
disease known to this climate, and the
one most difficult to cope with, is rife
in this city. Perfect hotbeds of the
violent and frightful disease were dis
covered yesterday. In all, thus far,
fifty-seven cases have been found,
and they are now in the fever pavll
llon on North Brother's Island. They
were taken from lodging houses In
different sections of the East Side.
The fever stricken people are all
Russian Hebrews. A band of 200 of
them were driven from Russia. They
reached French territory and boarded
the steamer Massalla of the Frenoh
Navigation Company's line. They
came in the steerage and reaohed this
city on January 30.
ANTI-HILL DEMOCRATS.
They Hold a Big Meeting for Proteet
In Mew York.
New York. Feb. 12. The big hall
of Cooper Union was packed last
night by Democrats, who came to
protest against the mid-win'er con
vention called by the State Commit
tee. H. P. Blssell brought a delega
tion of 100 from Buffalo.
Speeches were made by Frederick
R. Coudert, Oswald Ottendorfer, ex
Sea Falrchlld, John G. Mlllburn of
Buffalo, Wm. A. Beach of Onondaga.
A. Frank Jenks of Chautauqua and
others.
Senator Hill's name provoked hisses.
and ex-President Cleveland's brought
out great applause.
STARVING ON THE RANCHES.
Another Fall of Know Diminishes the
Hope of Savlug the Stock.
Boise, Idaho, Feb. 10. Another
heavy enow storm la prevailing
throughout the mountainous regions
of southern Idaho, to the great
discouragement 01 stockmen, who
had hoped for an early spring.
Stockmen say to-day that there
Is absolutely no hope for stock
on the ranges, '.thousands or. animals
are already dead, and efforts to save
the remaining thousands will be
abandoned.
Wales Said to he Coming.
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 16. A private
cablegram was received in Albany
yesterday announcing that the Prinoe
of Wales, accompanied by a suite of
twenty-five, will pass through this
city May 27, on the way to Niagara
Falls. Two floors have been secured
there at the Clinton. The destination
of the party is Ottawa. The occasion
of the prince's visit to America is not
known. .
Couldn't Survive Hie Dying wife.
Napoleon, O., Feb. 14. Mr. Bouch
ard blew his brains out yesterday
when Informed that his wife, who was
ill with grip, could not reoover. The
wife died ot shock a few minutes
after learning what be had done.
The Change of Life.
The sole aim of women nearing
this critical period should be to
keep well, strong, and cheerful.
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable
Compound
is peculiarly adapted to this condi
tion. Girls about to enter woman
hood find its assistance invaluable.
It turn (ht wnrM form, of Frm.l. Comal ilnH, Bf .rt n Ir
an wn lln, Wrt nark, lunrrhcra. f.lli anil In,.
pl.rm,nt of in Womb, lnfl.mm.tion, tiirim Trouble,,
end .11 Organic li.r,r, of t!i. IVni. or Womb, Uloauue.
end i, ln,lu.li to thr Chans of Life.
IImoItm and fl!. Tumor, fioiu tot (!ro at an arl
St.... and check, any tcnnVncy to Canrfrmu tlumor.
Subau K.intn.,.. fcvrit.hililv, Mrrvoua I'matrntion, Es
Aauttion, Kiilurt Complaint,, and tone, thr Ntoinarb.
All Drufvliti .oil it. ,.r arm by mail, in form of IMIa of
Lni'nitM. on rrrrint of S I ,IMI. I.lrr Fill,. H.lr.
Cormnondmr (rely aixw-rrri. Artdrrn In eonflilrnc.
LIMA . 1'IMKUAM UliU. CO., LYNN, UAJS.
IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF
CAKFET, MATTSI,
or Olff CJLOTII,
YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT
W. H. BMOWEM
2nd Door above Court House.
A large lot of Window Curtains in stock.
Our Spring line of
PARLOR &, CHAMBER FURNITURE
" is now in stock.
See our values in -
. PARLOR SUITS
from $40 to $200.
CHAMBER SUITS
from $25 to $2o0.
We. pay the freight.
VOOBHIS & UUKBAY, Uffi-Kkst
ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO.
DEALERS IN
Cigars, Totacco. Candies, Fruits and Nuts
SOLI AGENTS FOR
Henry Maillard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week.
Penny Goods . a. Specialty.
SOLE AGENTS FOR
F. F. Adams & Co's Fine
- , Bole agents tat the
Henry Clay, Londres, Nonnal,' Indian Princess, Samson, Silver Ash.
. : ' Bloomsburg, Pa.
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LARGEST ASSORTMENT
MAKING AND FITTING
.-.OF THE.
Best, the Newest and Ulost Stylish, Lowest in
Price; ami to prove Satisfaction is
om Endeavor
The best value for Money is to buy your
Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Neckwear, Trunks and
Valises of
Corner of . Main and Centre Streets, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
uitEX0B&&BB mmmmu made
Largest Clothing and
J. R.Smith & Co.
JJMITED,
MIITON, Pa.,
DEALERS IX "
PIANOS,
Br the following well known makers i
Cliickcringf,
Ivnabc,
"Wcbcr,
Hallct & Davis.
Can also furnish any of the
cheaper makea at manufact
urers' prices. Do not buy a
piano before getting our prices,
.o.
Catalogue and Price Lists
On application.
Cut Chewing Tobacco
following brands of Cigars:
C10MU1
Comes to the front with the
AND
own wj
Hat House in Columbia
THOMAS GOllHETi
I Kills aim Aauuiaics un
kinds of buildings. Rcpairim
and carpenter work prompt!
attended to.
Dealer in Builder's Su;;:;:;.
Trie?!; T To tr1ltr."v1 f. r o I . -
specialty. f
Persons of limited means win
desire to build can pay part and
secure balance by mortgage
PATENTS. ;
Cuvcnts n1 Trade Mnrks ohtnliiftl, Anil u
Pntcnt business conducted fur .MolfKK.m
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F.NT OFFICE. W have no Mih-affinc,,.
tmslnniwdlrri't, honrornn tmnmirt mtint iMJ ,
nwn In Ion Unit' and at I (! Lout than thow
Unite from Washington.
Hend model, drawing or photo, with dtwrli
tlon. We advltw It patontjililn or not, fi(1. L
churKC our fi e not due till patent I ureiir.-d
A book, "How to obtain I'ntcntH," with tv(rr
encoa to actual cllt-nta In your Btinc, county, w
towiii wot frvv. Adilrous ,
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(Opposite U. 8. l'atent onice.) '
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Agency for
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Olrtent bllremi fur awnrltig pntonta In America.
KTery pntont takvn out bjr un Is brniiitbt. before
the public by a notice glruu froo of cluuxo Ui the
Scientific mcricau
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worM. Hplenillillr lllimtratod. No IntollKront
mnti fihniild be without It. Weekly. S:I.Otl a
ear; H.W all month.. AiMn MlINN & CO.
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(Piver't Frenc
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allNcrvou.di'ra
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Brain fowrr, fter
vou.ne.s. Head
BEFOnl AKO k'TIR U9I. ache, Wakeful,
ne.t, Lost Manhood, Latitude, all drains and lost
ef power In either tex, caused by overexertion ot
youthful indiscretion, which ultimately lead to In.
liiciity. Consumption anil In.noity. Fricc, $1.00 a
package. With every t order we give a writto.
ouarantoe to euro or refund money. By mail u
auy address. FIVOVS HEM ED V CO., Toledo, 0.
TH Chain of evidence
1 now complete that
OR. HEBRA'S VIOLA
CREAM U the only
Tiro Deration that foei-
tivi-lr doe all that is
claimed for It. It removes
Frocklpa. Llver-molne. Black
heads. Pimnlea. Tan. and all
Imperfections of thaskin. wlthotst injury.
A few applications will render a rough or 1
red 'kin suit, 1010011) and white. It is not
a coemetla to cover clefceu, but a cure, and
Buarnntoed tortveMllKtuctlon. Price&i'O.
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