The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-03-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Brieny
and Terse1y Told.

.
Senator Turlcy of Tennessee will be a
candidate for the Democratic nomination
for vice president.
The Swedish steamer Rex stranded off
Lohme Ruegen island. in the Baltic sea.
Five lives were lost.
Five Aberdeen trawlers. with crews ag-
gregating 40 men. were reported missing
and given up for lost.
The revenue cutter Onondaga left Phil
adelphia to rescue the crew of the Mi
nerva, drifting helplessly at sea-
General Patrick Walsh. pension agent
Tor the Pacific coast in President Cleve-
lands first administration, died at San
Francisco.
The total United States revenue re-
ceipts for January, 1900, amounted to
S23.019,4 ,423, an increase as compared
with the same month in 1899 of 81 206.-
672.
BY the California supreme courts de-
cision upholdng the trust clause of Sen
ator Fairs will his children, Mrs. w. *.
Vanderbilt, Jr.; Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs
and Charles Fair get only the income
from the estate.
Tuesday. Feb. ~.
A serious epidemic of diphtheria has
broken out in Ithaca, n. Y.
An oyster syndicate with n capital of
S4,OOO,0O0 was announced at New Haven.
Fire in the Minetto Shade Cloth facto-
ry at Oswego, n. Y. caused loss of
100000.
The United States Milling company,
known as the flour trust, has gone into
the hands of n receiver.
After fasting for 80 days and Z hours,
S,thcictinc o,,ti,,l,
Rathbun of New York has finally tasted
food again.
Mrs. Theodore w. Birney, president Of
the mothers national congress, issued a
call for the annual meeting at Dcs
Moines May 81.
Antonio Ferraro was electrocuted at
Sing Sing prison for the murder of Lu-
ciane Muchio in Brooklyn, whose throat
he cut with razor on April 4, 1898.
Monday, Feb. 20.
Seven men were killed in Pullman,
Ark, by the explosion of sawmll
boiler.
Heavy thunder and sharp lightning
were reported in many parts of New
England.
The barge General Wiley foundered off
Narragansett Pier, II. l., and five lives
were lost.
Explosions at fire in a Paris suburb
injured 100 persons. The loss was 2O0O,-
600 francs.
-Four hundred mules were shipped from
Kansas City Tor the British army in
| South Africa
| Grace Clarke, the 15-year-old daughter
of William Clarke, Jersey City, who was
under the care of a Christian Scientist,
| died.
Fifteen hundred Pennsylvania miners
in the employ of the Northwestern Min
ing and Exchange company will receive a
20 per cent increase March /.
Saturday. Feb. "a.
A blizzard was reported raging at Hall
| fax.
Fifty persons were shocked by electric
| ity on Chicago trolley car.
Schoolboys pelted the British flag hung
out by the British consul in Chicago.
The French senate sentenced Deputy
Marcel-Habert to five years Punishment.
| Fire destroyed the Masonic temple and
! many other large buildings at London,
| Ont.
The body of T. NJ. Atkinson, marine
| missing from the United States steamer
| Prairie, was found at Havre.
Michael Farrell, who shot out the eyes
of New York policeman, was declared
| insane at Sing Sing prison and was re-
| moved to Matteawan.
Friday, Feb. 23.
DR.. James II. Smart, president of Pur-
| due university, died at Lafayette, Ind.
| Solomon Roosevelt, builder of the first
Atlantic steamers, died at Delaware, o.
| Tho Tayao oil H.. a
| sine die without having passed the tax
adjustment bill.
Nine. Patti sang for the war fund at
! Covent Garden, London, the scene of her
former triumphs.
Wash-a-kie, chief of the Eastern Sho-
shone Indians, died on the Wind River
reservation in central Wyoming.
| Mayor Harrison Of Chicago said the
city would use the water power of the
drainage canal for municipal purposes.
| The Cincinnati university trustees an
! nounced their approval of the action of
DIR. Ayres toward the dismissed profess
| ors
! Professor Dean c. Worcester lectured
at the University of Wisconsin on the
| Filipinos. He declared them incapable
of self government
| Degrees were conferred on n number of
| distinguished men at the dedication ex-
ercises of the law school of the Univer-
| sity of Pennsylvania.
| 1t was announced at Mason City, Ia,
that the Sons of Veterans committee had
made good progress toward the proposed
national military college.
| A mob of Mussulmans wounded the
British vice consul's son at Siden, Syria,
and surrounded the consulate. Troops
were sent to the scene of the disturbance.
Thursday, Feb. %.
Some 5000 Berlin cabinet makers have
| gone on strike.
Dr. Charles Piazzi Smyth, for 43 years
astronomer royal for Scotland, is dead.
Philadelphia election resulted in de-