The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-11-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Terseiy Told.

Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tcrseiy Told.
Two men were killed and four injured
at polling place in Denver.
The new torpedo boat Stockton made
2G19 knots on her trial trip at Norfolk.
The steamship Roanoke reported lost
at Port Townsend Wash, arrived, bring
ing 410 passengers and 100000 in gold
dust.
The population of the state of Wyo-
ming, as officially announced by the cen
sus bureau, is 92,531 as compared with
Co. 705 in 1890.
James Elliott, Jr., of Walker Hill. y.
H., committed suicide the day before he
attained his majority because he differed
with his father in political belief.
Tuesday, Nov. q.
A case Of the plague has apparently de-
veloped at Bremen.
Soldiers of the South African contin-
gent returned to Toronto and were re-
ceived with tremendous enthusiasm.
Adjutant General Corbin will take n
months leave of absence from his work
in Washington to recuperate his health.
The funeral of former Mayor William
L. Strong was attended in New York by
an unusual gathering of men prominent
in all walks of life.
Judge Vail of the Illinois state circuit
court decided that Chicago board of trade
quotations must be given to the public
without discrimination.
Motion at meeting of Dublin city cor
poration to confer freedom of city on for
mer President Kruger was ruled out of
order by the lord mayor.
Monday. Nov. 3.
Mrs. Kruger, the wife of ex-Prcsident
Kruger, is very i'll at Pretoria.
Eleven persons were injured by the col
lision of two electric cars in Cincinnati.
The disturbances in China have struck
a severe blow to the silk industry in Eu-
rope.
The cabinet crisis in Chile has been ter
minated by the formation of coalition
ministry.
large tannery at Rancho del Chopo,
near City of Mexico, was burned, with
loss estimated at 100000.
The Mississippi state board of health
officially reports one case of yellow fever
ut Natchez. The source of the infection
is not yet known.
Standard Oil certificates made new
record in the New York curb market
They touched 625, or ~ points higher
than the highest price ever quoted.
Saturday, Nov. 8.
Every colliery in the Hazleton region is
in operation.
A football injury paralyzed a substitute
on the University of California eleven.
Arthur Harris, the negro who stabbed
Policeman Thorpe in New York, was SEN
fenced for life.
Constitutional guarantees have been
suspended throughout Spain as a result
of the Carlist disorders.
Three hundred thousand dollars have
been left TO Lehigh university to provide
fund to lend money to needy students.
Exports of manufactures amounted to
more than $1,OO0,000 a day during the
nine months ended with September, 1900.
Stockholders of the Stickney Ware
house company Of st. Paul have petitioa-
cd court to terminate its corporate ex.
istence.
Twenty-four students have been on
rolled in the American School of Classical
Studies at Rome, representing ten col.
leges and universities.
Friday, Nov. 2.
General Daniel Mcclure, U. s. A., re-
tired, died at Louisville.
Count Tolstoi was hurt by fall and
in consequence will not spend the winter
in Moscow.
big demonstration was held at Hall
fax Ill honor of the troops back from the
South African war.
Subscriptions to a new Swiss loan OF
40,O00,OO0 francs will be received in New
York city as well us in Europe.
Beers captured British outpost of 90
men near Geneva and also looted and
destroyed Cape Town mail train.
Dr. Chase of the Yale observatory pre-
diets that the meteor display which fail
ed last year will appear this month.
The British steamer Orange Prince res
cued at sea two sailors from an Ameri-
can schooner who had become lost in a
fog and spent four days in an open boat.
The London Yachting World printed a
letter from Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt to
Captain Parker in which ne assumes all
responsibility for the extra ballast on
the yacht Rainbow.
Thursday, Nov. 1.
A London dispatch reported the death
of Edward Henry Stuart Bligh, seventh
Earl Darnley.
John w. Yerkes, Republican candidate
for governor of Kentucky, visited Presi-
dent Mckinley at Canton.
A valuable horse in Bath Beach, n. Y,
was cured of lockjaw. This Is the first
cure in veterinary history.
Doctors at the Post Graduate hospital,
New York city, were unable to rouse
Nina Leavitt, the baby who has been
asleep for % days.
Three hundred miners employed at the
Hudson colliery, at Wilkesbarre, went on
strike. There was also u strike at one
eolliery in the Hazleton region.