The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-11-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerreIy Told.


ply inventor, sailed for Europe.
Mail advices report that 80 lives were
lost in fire at Canton, China. on Oct. 2.
Vice President Hobart was weaker. but
was able TO sit up and take some nourishi
ment.
The steam schooner Aloah arrived at
Seattle with considerable gold from Cape
Nome.
The United States transport Meade has
returned to New York from her trial trip
disabled.
1t is believed in Washington that Ma
jor 4. G.. Rathbone will be appointed
civil governor of Cuba.
Ex-Postmaster General Dickinson won
his suit against the interior department.
by which he retains possession of Strom-
ness island, at the mouth of the st. Clair
river.
Tuesday, Nov. Z.
Major Samuel Robinson. surgeon, L.
S. A, died at Hot Springs. Ark.
Colombian insurgents were reported to
have lost 80 men in a sea fight.
William A. Smith of Buffalo was acci-
dentally burned TO death in his room yes
terday morning.
Prince Albert of Prussia has conferred
the order of the Black Eagle upon King
Alfonso Of Spain.
Trouble was feared at Tahlequah, l.
t.. at the count of votes cast at the last
Cherokee election.
a passenger elevator in the Phoenix
building, Minneapolis, fell four stories,
seriously injuring ten persons.
The French forces occupying Kwang-
Chao-Wan district, China, have been in
terrupted by the viceroy of Canton.
Monday, Nov. o.
Two postal thieves were arrested in
Halifax.
a crowded motor car on the Brooklyn
IL suddenly caught fire.
Ex-President Harrison arrived from
London on the steamer st. Paul.
Hackensack. n. j.. was aroused by a
battle Of bullets between a prominent
citizen and "A burglar.
Thirty-eight gowns of modest colors
will compose the trousseau of Mrs. Ha-
zen, who is to wed Admiral Dewey.
EX-Assistant Attorney General Fran
els Devices died in Washington. His
former home was in Pottstown, Pa.
The steamer Tallahassee, from New
York to Savannah, collided with the
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Branch. Serious damage resulted.
Saturday. Nov. 4.
Admiral Schley and party of friends
left Washington for the south.
a great gale was reported raging over
the lakes, and many vessels We're said to
be in distress.
BY the breaking of the landing stage of
a ferryboat at Antwerp 10 or 20 persons
were drowned.
General Andrade. the deposed president
of Venezuela. has arrived at St. Thomas
en- route to Porto Rico.
Secretary Gage has approved the selec-
tion of Mr.. Cass Gilbert as architect of
the New York custom house.
Three officers of the Bank Vile Marie
Of Montreal We're indicted for making
false statements of the banks affairs.
Friday, Nov. 3.
Light falls of snow were reported from
Milwaukee and Marquette.
Signor Sarano has been reappointed
president of the Italian senate.
The estimated gold output from Atlin,
Alaska, for the year was 81 100000.
A colonial bureau will be established
in connection with the war department.
A Texas convict forged pardon and
walked out of the Rusk pententiary un-
molested.
The monthly statement of the director
of the mint shows a total coinage of
S11 ,S3S, 100 during October.
A petrified snake weighing more than
100 pounds and 81 feet long has been
found near Pottsville, Pa.
While driving from Louis City. Neb..
90 81
out of a carriage and bruised, but not
seriously.
General Castro leader Of the Venezu-
elaG revolution, has formally blockaded
Porto Cabello, the only port not occupied
by his forces.
Thursday, Nov. 2.
Alvin Saunders, former governor of
Nebraska. died at Omaha.
The Philadelphia mint coined over 90
000,0 pieces of money during October.
The Chicago police rescued Healer
Dowie from a mob which was besieging
his Oak Park church.
In New York city Justice Fursman fix
ed Tuesday, Nov. IA, as the day of Ro-
land B. Molineux's trial.
The storm was especially severe on the
Carolina coast, considerable damage be-
ing done at Southport, y. c.
The United States has informed the
British foreign Office that it indorses the
proposal for the government Of Samoa
by one power.
Wreckers at work on the sunken ferry
boat Chicago in the North river succeed
ed in raising silver bullion valued at
about $4,000 from the wreck.
The lumber steamer George L. Colwell,
from Fernandina. Fla, for New York,
foundered off South Carolina, only the
captain, out Of a crew of 13 men, being
saved.