The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-10-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Terseiy Told.

c. NJ. Mather, accused of stealing jew.
els in New York, was arrested in Seat
tie.
The complete suppression OF the revo.
luton in Santo Domingo is officially an.
nounced
The population of New York state
prisons is reported at $3.50, of whom 90
are women.
A fire in a tenement house in Montreal
resulted in the death by suffocaton of
five children.
The first instalment of the volunteer
army now in the Philippines will leave
Manila Nov |.
The seven insane convicts who broke
out of the Matteawan State hospital ON
Sunday have all been recaptured.
Tuesday, Oct. 23.
Faith Healer Dowie was mobbed by
students in London.
Cholera was reported to be rapidly
increasing in Japan.
The congress of Ecuador has arranged
to pay the entire foreign debt.
Two hundred Indians were reported
starving at Humbcrton Meadows, Il. G.
Nearly S3S 100000 of taxes have been
collected in New York city the last 10
days.
General Weyler assumed the duties of
his new post at Madrid, Notwithstanding
the cabinet crisis.
The ship Tam O'Shanter OF Portland,
Me-, was wrecked in Gaspar strait, but
her crew escaped.
Neighbors searching the room OF
miser in Hoboken, n. j., after death
found money and bankbooks represent
ing $1,000.
Monday, Oct. ~.
Electric cars were run in Galveston
for the first time since the hurricane.
Major General Leonard Wood military
governor of Cuba, arrived in Washing.
ton.
The Grand Central station. New York
city, rcmodeled at cost of Sl,OOO,0OO,
was thrown open t. the public.
The Mississippi river has reached the
highest point known for many years, and
much farming land in Iowa is flooded.
A fire in the Herreshoffs' shipbulding
yard at Bristol, X. l., destroyed one OF
the buildings. two boats and badly dam
aged two other yachts, the loss being
estimated at $4,000.
saturday, Oct. 20.
The muskrat catching season opened in
New Jersey.
Reports from Colombia were that the
country is being ruined by the civil war.
Masked men blew up with dynamite
the safe of the Farmers bank at Neva-
da, Mo-, securing $4,000.
Twenty-nine persons were injured in a
collision on the newly opened under
ground railway in Paris.
The Dewey arch in New York city will
be fixed up and retained in its present
place for at least another year.
Oscar Feyt, clerk in Havana post
Office, was arrested for tampering with
registered mail and confessed his guilt
Owing to the failure to agree to a new
commercial treaty, United States good.
will be subject to the Swiss general tariff
hereafter.
Friday, Oct. 10.
First fall of snow at Nome occurred
Sept. 2S.
Thirty cadets at West Point were
found deficient in their studies and dis
charged.
Dwight Il. Reed, United States vice
consul in Madrid since May, 1S99 has
died and was buried in the British ceme-
terry.
By a vote of 13 to 6 the trustees Of the
board of education resolved not to permit
in the schools of Chicago the use of
book Of selected Bible readings.
The foundry Of Mcintosh & Seymour,
manufacturers of stationary engines, was
destroyed by fire at Auburn, n. Y. The
xyhi oh 10 h,, ;,,s
not be closely estimated, as many molds
and patterns were damaged, but it will
reach $4,000.
Thursday, Oct. 1S.
The steamer Humboldt reached Seattle
with 100000 in Klondike gold.
Twentyseven distinct earthquake
shocks were felt at Kodiak, Alaska, Oct.
0.
Thennis Botha, a brother of Command
ant General Botha, has surrendered to
the British.
The Norwegian steamer Callandra was
run down in japanese waters and 33 per-
sons drowned
The lower house Of the Dutch parlia-
ment congratulated Queen Wilhelmina
on her betrothal.
LA-i lesiueht hrueer nus postponed MS
departure from Lourenco Marques for
Europe until Oct. 20.
Eight persons We're burned to death in
fire which destroyed a ramshackle Hes
ter street tenement in New York.
A successful surgical operation was
performed upon Senator Cushman X.
Davis of Minnesota for blood poisoning.
Tornado In Texas.