The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-10-26
CoNoeNssp olsPATCAEs.
Notable Events of the Week Drien.
and Terscly Told.

is to treble its capital.
Tha French minister Of war signed
decree modifying the organization of the
superior council of war.
Russia has agreed to arbitratc the dif.
fcrenccs with the United States over the
seizure Of whalers in Bcring sea.
General Castro, the Venezuelan insur.
gent leader, has assumed control of the
government and has formed cabinet.
The court of appeals has affirmed the
conviction of Howard G. Benham of Ba.
savia, n. Y, of the murder of his wife.
General Carlos Ezeta ex-president OF
Salvador. has made the City Of Mexico
his headquarters and is trying to stir up
n revolution in Salvador.
Tuesday, Oct. ~.
Anti-Scmtic riots have occurred at
Halleschau, Moravia.
The Prince Of Wales received General
BENJAMIN Harrison ut Marlborough
House.
The total registration for New York
city was $4,000, or $4,000 short of last
year's figures.
Five persons were killed In fight be.
tween Americans and Mexicans at Naco,
A. T., border town.
Tho United States consul at Panama
reports an insurrection there and the
proclamation of martial law.
General Castro, the Venezuelan insur-
gent general, has entered Caracas, and
~ more fighting is expected.
William 7. Lord of Oregon has been
appointed minister to Argentina, succeed
Hug W. ). Buchanan, resigned.
Disrespectful persons mutilated the
noses and hands of the new statues in
Berlin of seven of Emperor William :
ancestors.
Monday, Oct. ~.
A statue of the late Senator Vance will
soon be unveiled in Raleigh.
General Andradc, the deposcd presi-
dent Of Venezuela, has fled to Trinidad.
+. Tcnnyson Nicely, a New York city
book publisher, failed for $685. His
assets are S414.739.
Mounted Policeman Matthew Faulds
OF the New York force was thrown from
his horse and instantly killed.
BY the advice of his physician Admiral
Dewey has cancelled his engagements in
Atlanta, Philadelphia and other points.
An appeal has been issued for funds
ior the erection of n permanent Dewey
arch in New York city. One million dol
lars will be required.
Five men were swept from a narrow
Tootwak on the Brooklyn Elevated rail
road by passenger whose body project
cd from the steps of a train. One was
killed, and another may die.
Saturday. Oct. 21.
A sepoy outbreak is reported from
British Burma.
Serious riots are reported from Prague
and other cities in Bohemia
Secretary Hay was formally notified
of the assent of Great Britain to the
Alaskan modus vivendi.
A posse near st. Annes, Miss. burned
at the stake negro who had confessed
10 the murder of n whole family.
A dispatch from Vienna announces
the death of Colonel Schneider, former
Austrian military attache in Paris and
prominently connected with the Dreyfus
ease.
Two hundred and thirty persons neal
Toledo. Spain, have been attacked with
a disease believed to be the buboni,
plague. Five new cases and three death,
were reported at Oporto.
Friday, Oct. 20.
The yellow fever epidemic has nearly
subsidized in Key West.
DIR. John A. Dowie, Chicago's "divine
healer," was mobbed by medical students
Mrs. Mary G. Mears of Albany was
elected president of the State Assembly
of Mothers.
Fifty thousand dollars were stolen from
the Carbon Hydraulic companys safe al
Ashcroft, Ii. c.
Chief Justice of the United States Su
Iy..llo
Brewer returned from Europe.
Acting Indian Agent Nicholson, at SaI
Carlos, A. r., reported that the threaten
ed Indian outbreak had been averted.
The American Bridge company, witt
S6I,5OO,OOO capital. was reported under
organization at Pittsburg, to control 9s
per cent of the output.
Thursday, Oct. I'd.
Admiral Dewey promised to visit Phil
xdelphia on Oct. 81 and Nov. L.
Lord Mayor Talon of Dublin and Johl
Redmond, Nj. F., arrived on the Majestic
Storms have done much damage ant
caused some loss of life in southern Italy
Ex-Speaker Thomas b. Reed was ad
United to practice before the bar of New
York state.
The premier of Ontario has resigne,
and will be succeeded by the presen
minister of education.
Mrs. Jane Lindsay of Brooklyn finishe,
her eight hundredth mile, beating tn
record held by Miss Yatman.
Signor Marconi has been sued 70
100000 damages for alleged infringe
nIent of Il patent covering wireless teleg
raphy.
Ex-President Ezeta of San Salvado
has left California to persuade Mexic
TO join in stirring up San Salvador to an
Other revolution.
San Carlos agency Indians, in Arizona
resent a wanton attack by United State
negro troops and have threatened to ex
terminate the soldiers.
Large Order For Cars.
PHlLADELPHlA, Oct "a. - Tn