The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-12-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week briefly
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Cudahy kiduapers.
Further discoveries of rich quartz mines
have been made In the Klondike district.
Chief of Police Dcvery Of the New
York police is said to be about to resign.
st. Petersburg papers approve the ac'
ton of the senate in amending the Hay
Pauncefote treaty.
The steamer State of Nebraska. which
iocked at New York, lost lifebonts and
sustained other damage during her pro-
tracted trip from Glasgow.
Tuesday, Dec. %.
Andrew Carnegie announced gift OF
$4,000 for library building for Tuske-
gee institute.
Many boats were lost and at least -
fishermen drowned in the recent gales
that swept over the Shetland islands.
Louis +. Payn, former superintendent
Of the New York state insurance depart
ment. and Miss Marion X. Heath were
married in Albany.
The torpedo boat destroyer Macdon-
augh was successfully launched at the
yard Of the Fore River Engine works.
West Braintree. Mass.
There was another severe shock of
earthquake at Santiago, Cuba, which
caused considerable OF a panic in the
poorer quarters of the city.
Burglars made an unsuccessful attempt
to open large safe in the Office o
Trower Bros, live stock commission mer-
chants. at the Kansas City stockyards, by
using electricity.
Monday. Dec. -.
Fire partially Quilted The Chronicle
newspaper building in Halifax, causing
n loss of $1,000.
A movement is on foot for a great ma
tional religious revival at the opening of
the new century.
The electric trolley system is rapidly
displacing the storage battery system on
the busiest streets of Berlin
The Rev. David Whitney Thurston,
one of the oldest Methodist preachers in
New York. died in Syracuse.
A strike of electric railway men was
ordered at Scranton, Pa, and the whole
Wyoming valley was completely tied up.
Saturday. Dec. -.
The gunboat Annapolis grounded near
Norfolk.
DR.. Richard A. Wise, NJ. c., died at
Norfolk.
Immigration for the calendar year will
reach about 100000.
Mrs. w. T. Frye. wife of the Maine
senator. died in Washington.
Philip ID. Armour. head of Armour &
Co., was reported seriously i'll in Chi
cago.
The proposed national home for aged
Elks will probably be located at Colorado
Springs.
Some 10000 French Canadians are ex-
pected to leave New England for their
native land.
\ motion to propose arbitration for the
Beers was defeated by one vote in the
Hesse-Cassel chamber.
We're Foster, who for 80 years had as
sisted in the emigration of women from
Ireland, died at Belfast.
Friday. Dec. Fl.
The Kentucky arrived at Port Said.
More antiforeign outbreaks were pre-
dicted in China.
Clyde shipbulders have ordered 150,-
600 tons of steel plates from the United
States.
1t was said in Duluth that Archbishop
Ireland will visit Cuba at the request of
the president.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
rob the Nebraska state treasury in the
capitol at Lincoln.
The closing argument in the Porto Rico
Philippine cases was made before the
United States supreme court.
| Councillor of Commerce Sanden has
been arrested at Potsdam in connection
with the Prussian Hypotheken AktieI
! banks troubles.
Thursday, Dec. 20.
Ex-President Kruger visited Amster
dam.
The strike of dock laborers at Callao
the port of Lima, has ended.
The French chamber of deputies pass
ed the amnesty bill by vote of 15S to
Diplomatic relations between Turke,
and the United States have been re
! stored.
The funeral services of John Addison
Porter, former secretary to the president
We're held in New Haven.
The French government has offered th
cross of the Legion Of Honor to Lieuten
ant w. S. Sims, former United State
naval attache at Paris.