The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-12-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events OF the Week briefly
and Tcrsciy FOLD.

aud Tcrsciy Fold.
Deputy Attorney General Edward y.
Coyne has resigned.
The president nominated John G. A.
Lcishman for minister to Turkey.
Impressive funeral services for the late
Oswald Ottcndoifcr were held in New
York.
The river and harbor BILL as provision
ally agreed upon, coils for more than
S75.000,000.
The Canadian steamer Alpha was
wrecked on Vancouver island, and eight
lives were lost.
A man supposed TO he one of the gang
which held up the Chicago limited was
found dead in the suburbs of New Or
hans.
Charles s. Francis of New York was
appointed to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plcnipotcntiary of the United
States to Greece, l,oumania and Servia.
Reports to the New York state forest.
6sh and game commission show that hun
ters killed more than 1000 deer in the
Adrondncks during the season just
closed.
Tuesday, Dee. IL.
The first issue of the London Sun un-
der the edtorship of Rev DIR. Parker
has appeared.
The agrnrian provinces comprising 300
square miles around Leutschau, Hun
gary. are famine stricken.
red haired Italian girl was the first
immigrant to land at the new depot at
Ellis island New York harbor.
The French government has ordered
cases of Chinese loot sent to President
Loubet enlarged at Marseies.
Lehigh Valley coal train dashed into
mn electric car at Lu2crnc, Pa complete
ly wrecking it and njuring seven people
Monday. Dee. IL.
The discovery of magnificent waterfalls
in the Canadian Rockies was announced
at Winnipeg.
Oswald Ottendorfcr, editor of TIE New
York Stats Zeitung. died after many
years of suffering.
William j. Bryan announced that he
would establish Il new weekly to be
called The Commoncr, to uphold the Chi
cago platform.
Telcphoning without wires was sue
cessfully accomplished at Minneapolis.
The distance was over 1000 feet across
the Mississippi river.
Tho antique golden vase given by or
phans of Lima, Peru, to orphans of the
Galveston Hood reached New York aud
will be exhibited for sale.
The official report of the finances of
the Paris exposition shows a loss of
100000. The total of expenditures Is
S23,300. 900. The receipts amounted to
S22900,000.
Representative Boutelle's physician an
nounccd that he showed Improvement,
leading to the hope that he might be
taken home, but that he would never be
fitted for work.
saturday. Dec. 10.
The Taft Philippine commission has
passed liquor license law for Manila.
Hamilton Harris, former counsel of the
New York Central roaroad, died in AL
bany
Professor G. W. Tyrrell has discovered
rich forests on the so called barren lands
of northern Canada.
The Order of Chosen Friends. fratcr-
nal insurance association doing business
in 80 states, has failed.
The skeleton of man was found in
the hull of the American line steamer st.
Paul at Cramps shpyard.
In New York city Alexander Stewart,
l4-year-old boy, was sentenced to ~
years in prison for murder.
Miners in the Shamokin region will re-
eeive this month over S2I5,OOO, the lar
gest pay roll ever known there.
The jury in the case of Jessie Morri-
son, ON trial at III Dorado, Kan, for
murder of Mrs. Oln Castle, disagreed.
Friday, Dec. II.
Michael G.. Mulhall, the statistlcian,
died in London.
Ernest Brenner of Bale has been elect
sd president of Switzerland.
The Alaskan and Klondike gold output
for the year is estimated at SO, I2o,OOO.
A woman who lived near Rochester
committed suicide by taking three KINDS
Of poison.
-Four masked men robbed John Doer-
schuck's private bank at Shanesyille, O.'
of between $4,000 and $1,000.
Patrick +. McCabe an aged man, com
soitted to the New York almshouse was
found to have 5000 pinned to his shirt.
A number of electors in Caribou, X. C.,
agreed to let n jackpot decide whom OF
three parliamentary candidates they
would vote for
Thursday. Dec. 13.
The Illinois circuit court upheld the
antitrust laws.
Professor Marshall Henshaw of Am
herst died suddenly at Springfield, Mass
The river ana hufbor OIL WIN call
S20,000,000 and authorize S3oooo,oo,
more.
1t has been discovered that the Portu
guese settlement of Maceo Is point oi
Filipino insurgent activity
The official canvass showed that NC
Kinley's plurality in New York state wa'
l43,606 and Odelfs l1l,l26
General Alger, former secretary ol
-. a h,-o inf NNrh
he found in his house in Detroit.
A nonunion telegraph operator wa
driven from the Santa Fe station at Sc
dalia, Colo, and shot in the arm.
The report of the New York Lying Ii
Hospital society showed IA birth rate of 1
child every ten minutes on Manhattan
Island
New stntehOusc For Mississippi.