The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-10-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersely Told.

and Tersely Told.
The annual convention of the American
Bankers association began at Richmond
The Michigan supreme court declared
the beet sugar bounty act unconstitu-
tonal.
The Peruvian cabinet resigned as the
result of the scandal over the purchase
Of arms.
More than S11,00OOO0 was collected
in the five boroughs of Greater New York
on the first day for taking taxes.
Prince Albert, heir presumptive to the
throne of Belgium, was married Mt Mu
Mich to Duchess Elizabeth of Bavaria.
The Russian naval estimates for 1901
will amount to 91.00000 rubles. an in
crease of 100000 over the current
year.
The Brave, having on board Professor
Delabarre of Brown university and par
ty has been sighted off Hopedale, Labra-
dor. bound south.
The steamer Eagle Point colided with
and sank the steamer Bela ut sea early
Monday morning. The Eagle City picked
up all ON board the Biela and took them
to Philadelphia.
Tuesday. oct. 2.
Town elections were held throughout
! Connecticut
! Luther Edgerton Newport of st. Paul
became suddenly insane at Hartford.
Much property was destroyed in Ma
zatlan, Mexico, by a severe windstorm.
II is stated that Secretary Root will
probably be able to resume his official
duties this week.
The mayor OF Georgetown, s. c., ap-
pealed to the governor for troops to pre-
vent race riot ia that place.
President Adams of the University OF
| Wisconsin has been obliged to take n
! years rest because of poor health.
| At the opening of the Nottingham
! autumn meeting Johnny Reff, the Amer
lean jockey, rode the winners in four
chief races.
Monday, Oct. 1.
Thirty persons were injured at Wichi-
ia. Kan, by the derailing of n street car.
| Mrs. j. w. Clark of Avondale. Ala.
was shot in the head and instantly killed
by her own son. aged Is.
Governor Sayers of Texas announced
that he had received $GI2 2,41620 for the
sufferers on the Texas coast
Hon. s. y. Parent has accepted the
premiership of Quebec province to sue
ceed the late premier. Marchand.
The recent storm damages at the town
of Nelasco, Tex, are announced 10y the
local committee to aggregate 100000.
A Santa Fe passenger train was wreck
ed at Waterloo, O. T. Two persons
were killed outright and three others
were fa,ally wounded.
| Saturday. Sept. ~.
( No case of yellow fever has been re-
ported at Santiago, Cuba, since last De-
cember.
The town of Solomon City, at the
mouth of Solomon river, Alaska, was de-
stroyed by recent storm.
4 Paul Sloan, deputy sheriff, was kill
| ed by a mob at Lake Charles. La, while
| saving negro prisoner from lynching.
The United Mine Workers ordered a
strike in the Oak Hill district of Ohio un-
I less the operators raised wages to the
district scale.
Fire in Hamburg, Germany, destroyed
several warehouses, n granary and resi-
dences, causing n loss of more than
100000 marks.
American exports to Asia and Oceanica
for August show falling off, but total
exports for eight months of the year
show large increase in all directions.
Charles Z. Yerkes of Chicago and New
York was elected chairman of the new
board of directors of the Charing Cross
Euston and Hampstead Underground
railroad in London.
Friday, Sept. 2s.
The Greek warship Navarchos Mao
ules arrived in New York harbor.
The United States training ship Hawk
ran ashore nine miles above Montreal.
Secretary Hay will resume charge OF
his Office in Washington early next week
Irving NJ. Scott of San Francisco has
been elected president of the Pacific Com
mercial museum.
The two hundredth academic terms OF
Yale opened yesterday. The freshman
classes number GOO.
The new bessemer plant of the Repub
lie Iron and Steel company ut Youngs
town, o., began work.
The United States received more
awards at the Paris exposition than any
other nation except France.
Charles A. Collier, prominent either
of Atlanta. was found in his back yard
having been shot, probably by burglars.
The steamer Robert Dollar, which sail
ed from Port Townshend for Cape Nom,
on Aug. %, has not since been heart
from.
Thursday, Sept. 27.
The Russian church has excommuni
Gated Tolstoi. the novelist.
An appeal for further relief was issuet
by the Galveston committee.
Four lives We're lost in q tornado a
Ferguson, Marshall county, Ia.
Lieutenant Richmond Il. Hobson ha
gone to Alabama to visit relatives.
Professor Frank X. Sanders of YAH
has been elected president of Iowa col
lege.
The Mexican congress declared Gen
eral Diaz unanimously reelected presi
dent.
Steps have been taken for the fedora
ton of the Fiji islands with New Zea
land.
Admiral Walker, chairman of the Mica
ragua canal commission, visited Cantor
and conferred with the president.
Boer sympathizers in convention a
Chicago invited President Kruger L