The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-01-11
CONDEMNED DISPATCHES.
aotabIc Events Of the Week Briefly
and TcrseIy Told.


The Fifteenth United States infantry
arrived at New York from Cuba.
The Prussian diet was opened with the
speech from the throne read by Prince
Hohenlohe.
The engineers have struck. and the en-.
tire railway system of Western Austria.
lia is tied up.
The United States cruiser Albany had
q successful official trial trip at Newcas
tie, England.
Princess Irene, wife of Prince Henry
Of Prussia. brother of the emperor, gave
birth to Il son at kiel.
A silver loving cup made from the
melted dimes of over 10000 contributors
was presented to Admiral Dewey.
The Commercial Trust company of
philadelphia is said to be preparing for
rivalry with the biggest banks of New
York city.
The session of the French chamber OF
deputies was opened. NJ. Paul Deschanel
was reelected president OF the chamber
by majority of 81 votes
Tuesday. Jan. %.
Independent sugar reHners advanced
the price of refined sugars.
Hugh John Macdonald accepted the
task of forming a government at Winni.
peg.
Comptroller Dawes announced that the
Broadway National bank of Boston would
oot resume business.
The foreign bankers of Caracas offered
the government of Venezuela n loan, with
the salt mines as security.
The French warship Cecille has arrived
Ut Santo Domingo to support the French
claim against the republic.
Alaska has been constituted a new mill
tary department and Colonel George NJ
: Randall assigned to its command.
Governor Nash of Ohio, in his inaugu
raj address, urged that all corporations be
required to make reports to the state.
Monday. Jan. $.
Mrs. Langtry arrived in New York on
the Lucana.
Julia Marlowe Tabcr. the actress. has
! been granted Il divorce from her husband,
Robert Taber.
Andrew Carnegie has promised the Col
tcge of Emporia, Kan, $4,000 for Ii.
brary building.
Major John s. Clark, the noted turf
man and horse breeder, died of heart dis
ease at Lexington, Ky. He was 80 years
old
Fred A. Newton, paying teller of the
Fidelity Trust and Guaranty company,
buffalo, is an embezzler to the amount of
$4,000.
Saturday. Jan. q.
Governor General Davis of Porto Rico
arrived in New York
The cabinet has definitely decided to
send additional troops to Alaska in the
spring.
The Lawton fund reached $40. 5.721. Sub
scrptions will be received up to about
4 Feb. /.
The Great Western steamer hex foun-
iered off the island of Guernsey. The
passengers were saved.
Secretary Wilson in an interview point
ed out the Importance of the "open door"
agreement with regard to China.
Vast quantities of food and fodder for
the British army in South Africa are be.
ing shipped from the port of New York.
Mail advices from southern China re.
port the defeat of the French by the
Chinese in a battle over the boundary
dine.
Friday, Jan. 3.
Count de Benomar, the Spanish embas-
sador to Italy, died at Rome.
The new royal yacht Victoria and AL
bert was foated at Pembroke.
Mexican scientists predicted series OF
earthquakes during the coming months.
Senator Mahlon Pitney was chosen
header of Republicans in the New Jersey
senate.
The University of Chicago has decided
10 use the reformed spelling in its papers
ard magazines.
The wrecked Hamburg American liner
Patra was hoated in English channel,
sat foundercd again, drowning five
Six villages in the Achalkalak district
sR Russian Transcaucasa have been com
zdetely destroyed by earthquakes, and SOC
dead bodies have been recovered
Thursday, jan. 4.
The First National bank at Ardmore,
T. T., was burned, also several other
aaiidings; loss, $4,000.
The Austria-Hungarian government con-
templates spending 800, ,000,000 imme
x@tely for increasing the army and navy.
A passenger train in the yards in st.
Paul crashed into stock train, causing
bad wreck. Seven persons were in
iRred. all on the freight train.
Mr.. William Waldorf Astor has con.
aributed $1,000 to the Prince Of Wales
hospital fund.-
Reports from Tifis show that COO lives
were lost during the earthquakes which
visited that district of Russia.
Three thousand miners have struck fol
m advance Of wages In the Koflach coal
district in Austria