The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-01-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Bricdy
and TcrScIy Told.


yer, Il. c., will permit married man to
vote twice.
The conference of coal miners and OPP
orators to fix the scale for the year con-
vened at Indianapolis.
The steamer Ardandhu was sunk in
Vineyard Haven sound in collision with
,he Herman Winter. Two lives were
probably lost.
1t was announced that Canada would
open another deep waterway for the
grain trade of the west leading it down
the St. Lawrence.
Tuesday, Jan. ~.
The proposed new German navy will
! rost S652, 100000.
DIR. Alfred J. Watts, the inventor of
crystal gold. is dead.
Andrew Carnegie offered $4,000 to
Leavenworth, Kan, for a public library.
Mr.. James Stilman of New York gave
$4,000 more for the Harvard university
hospital.
j. Z. Stockton, former attorney general
of New Jersey, died suddenly in New
York city.
A GOLFERS strike extends throughout
the whole of northern Bohemia. Seventy
two thousand men are idle.
Mrs. Luetgert, supposed to have been
murdered by her husband, the Chicago
sausage maker, is said to be alive in
Akron, o.
At n post mortem examination held
over the body of Miss Ella Gates, who
died in Ontario, n. Y, two perfectly de-
veloped hearts were found. Both hearts
were small.
Monday, jan. -.
A New Haven ice company will use
automobiles for delivery purposes.
The Venezuela revolution is reported to
be spreading.
The Merchants Exchange in Rutland,
VI, was burned at loss of over 10000.
George Silbee and Ed Meeks. convicted
of murder, were lynched at Fort Scott,
| Kan.
Rev. j. Henry Sharpe, ID. D., one of
| the most prominent ministers in the Pres
| byteran denomination, died at his home
| in Philadelphia.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
| the city of East Orange, n. j., $4,000
for the erection of a public library on
certain conditions.
The buildings, machinery and manu-
! factured lumber of the Taylor Lumber
company at Lafayette, Ind, were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Saturday, Jan. 20.
Smallpox is epidemic in II counties Of
Indiana.
The Rod mill strike at Pittsburg is
practically over.
Canon Henry Twells, well known
writer of hymns, is dead in London.
| A heavy rainstorm in North Carolina
delayed railroad traffic in the vicinity of
Wilmington.
Secretary Root extended the time for
forecosing Porto Rico mortgages for the
space of six months.
The famine area in India is extending,
| and the suffering exceeds the worst fears
of the British government.
Nj. Daily, j. Kelly and NJ. Palmer, New
York Central section men, were run down
at Crittenden, n. Y, during a heavy fog
and killed.
Nine freight cars were totally wrecked
| by an accident at Pennington Junction,
n. j., and the Lehigh Valley road was
blocked for hours.
Friday, Jan. 10.
Three small mine strikes were inaugu-
rated in the vicinity of Wilkesbarre.
Count de Castelane's father denied the
story that his son had sustained heavy
losses on the bourse.
Sir Thomas Upton, owner Of the Sham
rock, has applied for membership in the
Chicago board of trade.
Shaker village, at East Canterbury, n
H., was visited by fire, entailing loss OF
$4,000, with no insurance.
Sixty persons were sickened at Belle
vue hospital, New York, from eating po
tatoes that had been frozen.
Representative Bailey has offered hi,
legal services to Colonel Colson in con
nection with the Kentucky shooting.
The gold supply of this nation surpass
es that of any other country, according t.
Assistant United States Treasurer Muh
leman.
The Maryland house of delegates
which is overwhelmingly Democratic
practically killed a resolution asking w
j. Bryan to address it.
Thursday, Jan. IS.
A bank at Philippi, w. Va, was robbed
of 100000 by cracksmen.
Nineteen men were killed and 6S in
jured in the collapse of n church in Rus
sia.
The condition of the Dowager Duches
of Sleswick Holstein, who is very ill a
Dresden, was worse.
The Paris foreign office has been in
formed that the trouble with Santo Do
mingo has been settled in II manner com
pletely satisfactory to France.
A Caracas dispatch published in Pari
said that anarchy prevailed in Venezuela
Bank directors, including foreigners, hav
been imprisoned for refusing to lend tn
government money.
A large increase is shown in the sale
of postage stamps and stamped envelope
during the three months ended Dee. 81
1899, as compared with a similar perio
of the preceding year.