The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-11-23
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week BrieHy
mud TerscIN Told.

Daniel S. Kidder of Florida has been
appointed consul at Algicrs, Africa, vice
I G. r. Grcllct
Two prospectors of Battle Lake. wy,
are believed to have perishcd in the re-
cent snowstorm.
The president ISSUED proclamation
extending the benefit of the copyright act
to the Netherlands.
Liquor men held conference in Louis
vile to petition congress to reduce the
tax on distilled spirits.
Her serene highness the Princess Ma
rie Amelie of Leiningen, sister of the
Grand Duke of Baden, died at Carlsruhe
in her sixty-ffth year.
Seventy-five thousand pounds of hall
but from the northern fishing grounds
have been shipped from Vancouver, Il.
c., to Boston and New York.
Tuesday. Nov. 81.
The transport Logan sailed from New
York for Manila.
The trial of Squire Tanlard for mur-
der was begun in Buffalo.
Secretary Long denied the reports that
he intended to resign from the cabinet.
About 100000 has been received by
the New York Dewey arch committee.
The United States supreme court ad-
journed for the usual Thanksgiving re-
cess of two weeks.
Two steamers arriving at Norfolk re-
ported that ten vessels were sighted
ashore in the strait of Magellan.
State Banking Commissioner Brieden-
thai has warned bankers that an organ
lied gang of bank robbers is abroad in
Kansas.
The Franco-Chinpse frontier of Kwang-
Chao-Wan has been delimited so that
France secures two islands commanding
the entrance of the bay.
Monday, Nov. 20.
The Shamrock. which left New York
Nov. ,, has arrived in the Clyde.
The transport Logan sailed from New
York for Manila with the Forty-first reg
iment.
Civil war has broken out in New GUM
ea. Eleven villages have been wiped out.
with great slaughter.
Sir William Dawson. late principal OF
McGill college, Montreal, the well known
educator and geologist, died.
Des Aloincs is complaining of an "early
to bed" law just enacted which prohibits
| street walking aften IL o'clock
About $500 Chicago members of the
! knights and Ladies of Honor have Sc
ceded from the organization because of
! dissatisfaction with the management of
| affairs by the supreme lodge.
Saturday, Nov. 1S.
| Vice President Hobart had a slight
change for the worse.
Emperor William and the empress left
Potsdam for England.
| Mrs. Leslie Carter, who is i'll at Colum-
bus. was reported much improved.
| The new battleships kenrsarge and
| Kentucky will be fitted to use smolAless
powder.
| Two new cases of bubonic plague and
three deaths were reported at Oporto
/ Portugal
! The khedive Of Egypt inaugurated a
monument to Count Ferdinand de Les.
seps at Port Said.
Former Speaker Thomas b. Reed ap-
peared for the first time as counsel in the
New York supreme court
| The San Francisco Chamber of Com.
merce has pstitioned Secretary Hay to
make no concessions to Canada in the
Alaska boundary dispute.
| Friday, Nov. IT.
There was short but very sharp
earthquake at Verona, Italy.
Herr MOrtz Busch, author Of Bis
marck's Life" died at Leipsic.
Subscriptions to the Dewey arch fund
are'hveraging about $25, 900 week
| Sixteen valuable race horses on board
the Patria, which was on fire in the Eng
lish channel, were suffocated or burned tc
death
A bold but unsuccessful attempt was
made to rob the Lake Shore train be
tween Erie and Conneaut early yesterday
morning
The government will save over $1,000,
600 by relieving the money market under
the offer by Secretary Gage to buy S25,
100000 of bonds.
Thursday, Nov. 10.
The republic of Brazil celebrated il,
tenth anniversary.
A terrible tornado has devastated tn,
Negapatan district in India.
The Yaqui Indians We're reported t.
have taken the aggressive against the
MeXicans.
An enthusiastic demonstration greeted
Queen Victoria on her visit to Bristol Il
dedicate "A home.
Vice President Hobart still continues
to improve. He sleeps and eats well ant
strength is returning.
The astronomers on the Schnee Berg
on the frontier of Styria, counted 140 me
teors. Many photographs We're made.
Daniel Dupuis, the well known Frencl
engraver, was shot dead in Paris by hi
insane.wfe, who then committed suicide
The New York prison commission ha
determined to stop the sentencing o.
United States prisoners to the King'
County pcntentiary for terms Longer
than year.
| Eniher,a Terrible Crime.