The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-09-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersety Told.


Mexico.
During terrific storm at Saratoga,
lasting l3 hours, nearly ID inches Of
rain fell
The lion cubs in Central park mcnag-
erie have been named Dewey, Olympia
and Manila.
A new steamship line between Port
land, Or, and Manila has been announc.
ed at the former place
In memory of Frances Il. Willard a
national agitation against saloons has
been planned in Chicago.
The Potts Creek iron ore property in
West Virginia was sold for $500. 900 to
the Valley Ore company.
Prince and Princess Cantacuzcne Cnee
Miss Julia Dent Grant sailed for Eu-
rope on the steamship Saale.
Corn brought from Porto Rico and
planted in Wisconsin in June has reach
| ed height of nearly Ii feet.
The Standard Oil company has pur-
chased the Manhattan Oil company, its
largest competitor in the Lima field.
Tuesday, Sept. 20.
Three cubs were born TO Rose, the
lioness. In Central park menagerie.
The subscriptions for the Cuban or
phan fund were reported to have reached
| $50, ,676.S9
Subscriptions in New York city for the
relief Of Porto Rico were reported to
have reached S50,395.16.
Heavy sentences were meted out at
Belgrade, Scrvia, to the conspirators who
had tried to kill exKing Milan.
Two hundred Roman Catholics of Wa
terville. Me. began pilgrimage to the
shrine of st. Anne de Reauprc, Quebec.
The Swift packing house interests in
Chicago have purchased valuable cattle
ranches in Oklahoma and the Panhandle
of Texas.
Monday, Sept. %.
The bubonc plague has again appeared
in Alexandria.
Freight valued at $4,000 was de.
stroycd by fire in the Darlington Is. c.
freighthouse.
The Austrian cabinet has resigned
owing to inability to.settle parliamentary
differences.
Two Chicago factories were burned mt
loss of SlSO,0OO which was fully COW
cred by insurance
Six passengers were killed in a collision
on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad
near Florence, Colo.
In Joliet, Ills, Irwin Bush was said to
have been cured of insanity by the in
lection of lymph from the glands of "A
goat.
Saturday. Sept. 23.
Twelve new cases of plague have been
reported from Lourcnco Marques, Della
goa bay.
General Brault, who succeeded Cen
cral Renouard as chief of the French
general staff, died.
The strikers at Cramps shpyards,
Philadelphia, were joined by the black
smiths and their helpers.
Vermont will welcome Admiral Dew
cy's return to the state with parade
and reception on Oct. II.
Max Regis, the Jew batting ex-mayor
of Algiers, escaped the police and was
believed to have gone to Spain.
The Mexican national assembly has
appropriated 100000 for the expenses of
President Diaz's trip to Chicago.
The $4,000 estate of Emmons Blaine
has been finally divided in Chicago be-
tween Mrs. Blaine and their son.
The Dewey home fund committee at
Washington reported $270G5 had been
subscribed and that the amount ought to
be made up to $4,000 at once.
Friday, Sept. ~.
The cza: and czarina arrived at Kiel on
the yacht Polar Star.
Almost 1000 more coal miners struck
at Montgomery w. Va.
Dewey's former captains accepted invi-
tations to participate in\ the celebration
next week.
The New York franchise tax will be
L., ,...l -
earnings, as reported.
The new battleship Kearsarge sailed
from New York for Boston preparatory
to making her official trial trip.
Work on the government transports at
San Francisco has been further delayed
by the strike of the boiler makers.
Mail advices from the orient stated
that Japan, France and Italy were push
ing their claims to concessions in China.
1t was said in Chicago that Prince
Alexis Karageorovitch of Servia had ask
ed Miss Mabelle Swift, daughter of Mr.
Il. Z. Swift of Chicago, to be his wife,
Thursday, Sept. II.
Another small strike occurred Mt the
Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia.
A shock OF earthquake at Adm, Asia
Minor. killed hundreds Of people.
MISS Jane 4. fatnian or brooklyn com
pleted her 700 mile bicycle ride in thor
oughly exhausted condition.
Arthur Sewall Of Maine has been sued
for $4,000 on his liability as stock
holder of defunct Kansas corporation.
Secretary Root has requested photo
graphs of every commissioned officer in
the army to be filed ut the war depart
ment
An anchor and Il buoy marked "Andree
Polar Expedition were reported found
on King Charles island Sept. 8 by Nor
wegian ship captain.
The Chickasaw Indian legislature at
Tishomingo, |. r., has passed Il bill fix
ing 5000 as the price of marriage Ii
censes to shut out white men.
storm Lake Erie.
TOLEDO, Sept. 25.-Lake Erie yes