The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-11-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events OF the Week BrieGy
md Tersely Told.

! More colieries in the Hazleton district
/ resumed operations.
| The sum of 81 ,250,00O in gold dust ar
-,vcd at Seattle from Alaska
! Reports from Malaga say that the
rnisin crop is 80 per cent short.
/ Fifteen persons were injured in a col
Esion on the Chicago and Alton road.
Count Tolstoi is reported in excellent
! health and engaged in writing u drama
entitled "A Corpse"
The department of agriculture issued
an official report saying that the horse
chestnut is poisonous.
Returns from the British parliamentary
election in the Orkney and Shetland
district show a Unionist gain.
The Russian government has twice
within two months imposed special
tax for the benefit of the Red Cross 500
ciety.
Tuesday. Oct. 20.
The report of General Wilson, chief of
engineers, was made public.
William $. Stryker, adjutant general of
New Jersey, died at his home in Trenton.
Long contest over the Yale sophomore
societies has been settled by Il compro-
misc.
The steamer Dolphin brought 100000
in gold from the klondike to Seattle,
Wash.
The American Tube and Iron compa-
py's plant at Youngstown, o., resumed
operations.
Eight persons were killed and 2t in
juicd in a wreck on the Northern Pacific
near Livingston, Mon.
Monday, Oct. 20.
The torrontial rains in the coast coun.
try of Guadalajara, Mexico, have caused
widespread damage.
All wine merchants agree that the
French vintage of 1900 is the biggest and
best for many years.
Comte Cahen d'Anvcrs. Il well known
figure in Partisan society, was killed in
an automobile accident.
In collision on the Transcaspian
railroad between Batoum and Tiflis :
persons were killed and 20 injured
London dispatches said that William
Waldorf Astor had donated 10000 to
the Cambridge university benefacton
fund.
George W. W. Blake, Democratic can
didate for the Legislature, fell dead from
heart disease just as he had finished u
speech at Dana. Ills.
saturday, Oct 20.
An alligator two feet long was found
in Newark IN. j. pumping station res
orvoir.
Four hundred thousand dollars was
transferred to Chicago from the New
York subtreasury.
Explosion of boilers crippled hoisting
apparatus at a coal mine near Minonk,
nd Inn. 81,
workings.
Imports into the United States from
Porto Rico have trebled and exports to
the island quadrupled since the new tar
if went into effect.
Mai Lucy Lection filed a breach of
promise suit against United States Sena-
tor Sullivan of Mississippi in the District
of Columbia supreme court
Friday, Oct. 26.
At the New York Stock Exchange a
single share of Standard Oil stock sold
for S605.
American locomotives have been order
ed for the new Russian railroad between
Orenburg and Taschkend.
An explosion destroyed one of the fir
ing houses and magazines ut the Indian
Head proving grounds. No one was in
jured.
Governor Gambler OF Georgia in his
message to the legislature recommended
an educational and property qualification
for voting.
Mrs. Anna Hart, friend of defauter
Schneider of Elizabethport, n. j., surren-
dered to the bank officials jewels, horses
and carriages valued at S24 600
The home Of the late Bayard Taylor at
West Chester, Pa. known as Cedar
Croft, has been sold at sheIiff's sale to
satisfy the claim of trust company.
Thursday, Oct. 25.
The annual report of the judge advo-
cate general of the army was made pub
lie.
Daniel f. Dobie, warden of Clinton
prison at Danncmora, died of heart dis
ease.
G. NJ. Cotterman has been appointed
director general of posts in the Philip
pines.
An extraordinary scarcity of money
was reported to threaten a financial cri-
sis in Sweden.
The Fidelity bank of New York city
was authorized to do business by the
state banking department.
A Simla (lndia) dispatch said that an
officer and AZ Sikhs had been killed in
brush with Mahsud raiders.
The Chicago labor troubles, as far as
they affect the construction of the new
postoltice building, have been settled.
Twenty-four lives were lost in COLI
sion between the French steamers Faid-
herbe and Mitidja off the Spanish coast.
Funeral services of former Secretary
John Sherman We're held at his former
residence in Washington, and the body
was taken to Mansfield, O., for burial.
Fitz-Hugh Lees Appointment
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-An order
has been issued at the war department
, discontinung ON Nov. 10 the military