The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-11-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events OF the Week Briefly
ard Tcrsclv Told.

Charles Cc-'lnn. tie actor. died in Gal.
weston of aojtc gustrl;iS.
Much damage has been done by the
rapid rise OF The Yn,.ty river in Texas.
The mortality fo.l the plague in Man
churia was reported to Ice 40 to 60 daily.
At Yarmouth, y. s., I've important
business blocks were burned, causing a
loss estimated at $25,OoO.
Baron Paul Niotingkoff. Il representa-
tive of the Russian government, is in Chi
cago buying horses for the ear. !
1t was stated at Boston that most of
the New England cotton manufacturers /
would probably raise wages next month.
plot to assussinate the sultan has |
been discovered at Constnntinople, the
conspirators being arrested and eXilCd to !
| Yemen.
Monday. Nov. ~.
Montclair, n. j., has an epidemic of
dphthcria.
Rear Admiral Schley sailed on the Chi
cago for his new South American post.
Thomas O'Neill. a Newark policeman,
was mortally wounded by men supposed
to be New York thieves.
Two freight trains on the Erie railroad
ut Middletown collided causing serious
, wreck. No one was killed.
1t is reported that Lord Iveagh has
, purchased the MHckross estate, whsh
includes the Lakes of Killarney.
The first through train from Taien
: Wan on the Ncwchwang railway, in Chi
ma, left Friday with engineers for Port
4 Arthur.
The American Brick company, with
, capital of S15.0000OO, expects to control
the output of brick consumed in Greater
: New York.
r An explosion of ammonia, resulting
: from fire. destroyed the big plant of the
\ Passaic Beef company in Central ave
= nue., Passaic, n. j. The loss is SoOOOO
Z covered by insurance.
o Saturday, Nov. %.
q Two negroes were hung at Darlington,
S. c., for criminal assault.
, Wives and women relatives of striking
miners rioted at Nanticokc, Pa.
II The condition of Senator Hayward of
" Nebraska was reported very critical
d Emperor William visited the Duke and
el Duchess Of Marlborough at Blcnheim.
v The city of Tucson, \. r., has accepted
Andrew Carnegics offer of money for a
library building on condition site and
III maintenance are provided.
ly Ellery +. Ingham, former United States
district attorney, and Harvey X. hewitt
49,. his law partner. were sentenced at Phila
. delphia to = years and months imprls
onment for conspiracy.
d. Friday, Nov. -.
Yvctte Guilbcrt, the singer, was re
in ported seriously i'll in Paris.
News of the loss of the British shi
puntrune was cabled from Corone
Chile.
William L. Elkins of Philadelphia ha
decided to establish a college for girls i
~ that city.
To stop the desertion of farms co
lege of horticulture has been projecte
for New York city
Ia Alonzo j. Whiteman, former millioI
aire agreed to return to Chicago to fat
TX charges of swindling hotel.
ge- General Wingate, with an Egyptia
les force, defeated a body of dervishes
he the Sudan. Four hundred of the de
49,. wishes were reported killed.
ae' The elevator of the Hustled Milling AZ
Elevating company, in Buffalo, with /
700 contents, was totally destroyed; los
=, S1S0O0O, fully covered by insurance.
y Thursday, Nov. 23.
.eu Citizens of st. Louis sent solid silv
ing loving cup to Admiral Schley.
out The report that the Russians had occ
of pied Herat was reiterated In VIENNA
nan The czar has ordered an investigate
- of charges against the minister
finance.
the Two dynamite bombs were found in
lust barn used by the Cleveland street c
sleS strikers last summer.
hat Austria and Hungary have settl
- their long standing dispute as to the
vision of state expenditures.
- hn "a pf
lsed Exchange bank of Brooklyn Mlch,
eel. curing between $1,000 and S6,Ooo.
cate a court MARTIAL o1 rrta" uea,"'n ON most :,
lays oUs'1 oUs chnrges ,nr % was reported probable
con- Washington.
President Mitchell of the mine work
predicted a strike in the southern Hin
district unless the operators cease Sc
ing coal to the Gould lines.
Wednesday, Nov. %.
les A large six story building on Portlf
t we street. Boston, was burned at loss
but $4,000.
the Daniel S. Kidder of Florida has b
onnointed consul ut Algers, Africa, '
IItI c. II. Grelet.
auei- Two prospectors of Battle Lake, "
lures are believed to have perished in the
.ude. cent snOwstorm.
,oo.- The president issued proclama'
~. extending the benefit of the copyright
'o' to the Netherlands.
II A. Liquor men held conference IN Lo
sup Vile to petition congress to reduce
tax on distilled spirits.
Her serene highness the Princess
RE Amelie of Leiningen, sister or
+. Grand Duke of Baden, died ut Carlsl
in her sixty-ffth year
that " soventy,tive thousand pounds of
N of hut from the northern fishing grol
PCS in have been shipped from Vancouver
Get C.. TO Boston and New York.