The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-11-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events oC the Week briefly
and TerErly Told.

erected in Texas. at Denison.
The Hackettstown y. .I.) seminary was
burned. All the students escaped. The
loss will be 100000. on which there Is
S15O,OO0 insurance.
a native revolt has broken out at Jen.
Huaih Sien, province of Kuci-C Chow, Chi
ma. magistrate has been murdered.
and the situation is considered serious.
Tuesday. Oct. RI.
The new battlcship Kentucky has sail
ed from Newport News for preliminary
trial trip.
tion calling for a general thanksgiving on
Nov. 80.
II. Il. w. Stephenson Of Liverpool has
sent his famous trotter to the horse show
in New York
The torpedo boat Dahlgren showed a
speed of 30 knots, one-half knot less
than contracted for.
The Moineux case was transferred
from the court of general sessions to the
criminal term of the supreme court, New
York.
The body of General Guy " Henry re-
ccived military burial at Arlington, Va.
the president and high officials being
present.
The Hamlet Cotton mills of Woon-
socket. II. L.. were put under sheriff
attachment for 100000 at instance of
Frank a. Sayles of Pawtuckct.
Monday, Oct. 80.
The Chilean minister of public works,
Gregorio Pinechet. is dead.
Ottmar Mcrgenthalcr, the inventor of
the linotype typesetting machine, is dead
in Baltimore.
Lord Rosebery has been elected rector
of Glasgow university by 500 votes to
515 votes cast for Lord Kelvin.
Flint e Co. of New York have sold
their entire fleet of sailing ships, num-
bering II vessels, to San Francisco
syndicate for 100000.
The three men accused in New York
city of swindling Lewis \. Cushman out
of $1,000 by an alleged wire tapping
scheme We're held for trial.
The Richmond Locomotive and Ma
cine works have just received an order
by cable for three ten wheeled locomo-
/ tives for one of the private railroads of
! Sweden.
saturday. Oct. %.
state of siege has been proclaimed in
the province of Barcelona. Spain.
At the sale of Herefords, in Kansas
City, Marshall Field of Chicago paid ST.
200 Tor n COW.
The Colombian revolution was said to
be confined to the departments of Bolivar
and Santander.
Queen Victoria has approved the ap-
pointment of Sir Henry Stafford North
cote as governor of Bombay.
Captain Ernst Andree brother of the
polar explorer, expresses confidence in
the safety of the missing balloonist.
Admiral Dewey has declined Chicago's
invitation on account OF the impending
meeting of the Philippine commission.
BY decision at Syracuse John Boyd
Thacher was permitted to retain the In
dian wampum belt over which legal
battle has been fought
Friday. Oct. ~.
Senor Pando has been elected president
of Bolivia.
The Alaska territorial convention at
Juneau adopted n memorial to congress
| asking for Il delegate TO congress and
other privileges.
| The report of the commissioner general
| of immigration shows that the total arri-
| walls for the year exceeded those OF the
| preceding year 3G per cent.
The New York state land board has
| granted j. J. Albright's application for
80 acres of land under water abutting the
site of Buffalo's new steel plant.
The British steamer Zurich foundered
| during n hurricane Oct. 81 off the west
coast of Norway. The captain was saved,
but it is feared the crew have been lost.
| Thursday, Oct. 20.
| Grant Allen, the author, Gisd in Lon
don.
Fire did $4,000 damage on the dock of
| Palmer's cooperage in Brooklyn.
Governors Roosevelt and Lowndes
started on n speaking tour of western
Maryland.
Mr.. William Waldorf Astor will build
fat in New York city to accommodate
93 families.
At Wsetin, Moravia, serious rioting oc-
CURED, and gendarmes killed two persons
and wounded II.
Russia was reported to be working to
secure n naval station on the Pacific be-
tween Vladivostok and Laio Tung.
The Anglo Egyptian expedition has
been ordered to return to Omdurman, the
khalifa having fled from his position at
! Teb-pl- Rir