The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-01-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tcrseiy Told.

successful builders trial at Portland, OR.
"A scheme to combine the zinc interests
of the country was reported started in
Kansas City.
Commissioner General Peck announced
that 1000 firms of this country would
have exhibits at the Paris exposition.
Ten villages were reported destroyed
by an earthquake in the Achalkalak dis
trict of the government of Tiilis, Russia.
1t was said in Washington that $500
troops are 10 be withdrawn from Cuba
and the nuiNAer of military departments
reduced to two.
Treasurer of the United States Roberts
said the distribution of internal revenue
receipts to the first group of banks would
be completed in about eight days.
Tuesday, Jan. z.
Nine. Sara Bernhardt is i'll in Paris.
Western Germany is suffering from
coal famine.
Lady Alice Montagu was reported to
be dying in London.
Two slight shocks OF earthquake were
felt in southern California
Fifty thousand dollars for the Lawton
fund was announced to be in sight.
The treasury estimates the stock of
900 worth in coin.
The charges against Senator Gallinger
of New Hampshire for violation of the
civil service law were dismissed.
! An explosion of gas at Knoxville, Pa,
wrecked large number of houses and
stables and tore up several streets for
hundreds of feet.
Monday, Jan. 4.
Great suffering was caused among the
poor of New York city by the intense
cold
George B. Eyre of Chester, Pa, has
been missing from his home for ten
days.
According to Bombay dispatch, bu
bonic plague is causing fearful ravages
in that city.
Miss Elida Wilbur, who has lain un
conscious for neatly two years in hei
San Francisco home, is gradually reviv
ing.
Judge Mcpherson of the United States
court has decided that all social clubs
which sell Intoxicating liquors must pay
a revenue tax.
According to the surgeon in charge,
the soldiers who became ill on the trans.
port Rio de Ianeiro were poisoned by
spoiled fresh beef.
The Rev. J. j. Axtell the Fighting
parson" of Royal Oak, Mich, has con.
sented to spar in public at an entertain.
ment for charity in Detroit.
John j. Hannigan, Il policeman who
was sentenced to two years in Sing Sing
prison for shooting a boy, has been par
doned by Governor Roosevelt.
| Samuel Wolf of New York city went
to Poughkeepsie to hear the story of his
wifes death in an insane asylum. In.
stead he learned that she had been dis.
charged as cured.
Saturday, Dec. 80.
Almost 100000 persons are receiving
famine relief in India
! Mr. Cleveland's physician denied that
the ex-presidents condition was danger.
ous
| The Honolulu authorities have taken
active measures to prevent the spread of
the plague.
One man was killed and many seriously
injured in Union Pacific railway wreck
in Colorado.
The steamer Tallahassee reported the
sinking of an unknown schooner neal
Cape Hatteras.
Carl Milloecker, the composer, was re-
ported as suffering from paralytic
stroke at Vienna.
The municipal council of New York
city adopted resolutions of sympathy fol
Filipinos and Beers
The official canvass at Albany showed
that all the constitutional amendments
were carried at the recent election.
Friday, Dec. 20.
1 Nawa roocbad Gop Erapo;sco of thn
prevalence of the plague in Honolulu.
Gottfried Kruger of Newark, n. j..
has just completed $25O,000 family
tomb.
The subscriptions to the Lawton home
fund received in Washington reached
$26,792.
Mr.. Harry Escombe, former premier OF
Natal, died suddenly on the street in
Durham.
Renewed reports of strained relations
between Russia and Japan reached Vic
tora, B. G.
The New York Central stockholders al
Albany unanimously ratified the Boston
and Albany lease.
Mayor Hayes and the Baltimore Off
cials denied that the city would default
on some of its bonds
The decision reached IN the matter OF
the extension of the foreign settlement al
Shanghai has been ratified.
One million two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars in gold was announced tC
sail from New York on the Campana
Saturday.
Thursday, Dec. %.
A fire in Fort Wayne, Ind, destroyed
$200,000 worth of property.
The postofiice safe at Watkins, n. y.
was blown open and robbed.
Edward G. Hodges & Co., Boston
bankers and brokers, suspended business
A disastrous food was reported along
the Nooksack river, in Washington state
The subscriptions to the Lawton homo
fund from all sources have reached SOL,
405.45.
The new boathousc of Harvard college
oarsmen, just nearing completion, wa'
burned.
The Noranmore, which arrived at Nor
folk, reported the loss at sea of an un
known bark with Is persons on board.