The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-03-08
CONDENSER DiSpaILnaS.
Notable Events Of the Week briefly
and TcrscIy ToiS

and TcrscIy Tol6.
The plant ~ the Nationo, Linsccd Oi!
company at Chicago was burned.
Professor f. l.. Harvey of the Univer
sity of Maine h.lled himself at Orono
Me.
The transport Grant. arriving nt San
F-ancisco, reported Mo<rcll island could
not he found.
A heavy storm prevailed in Minnesota,
Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. Snow
sleet and rain fell in turn.
The discovery of Russian and Polish
nihilist plots has led to renewed police
precautions in st. Petersburg.
Ellen Duff who applied for lodging 81
the New York city lodging house. had
bank books representing nearly $4,000
Of deposits.
Burglars blew open safe In brewing
company's Office at Pawtucket. X. l.. and
carried of $500 in cash. 81 900 in reve-
nue. stamps and checks for more than
$1,000.
Geraldine, the famous racing mare,
holder of the worlds record for n half
mile in 46 seconds. is dead at Sprcckels'
Napa farm. in California. Her newly
born foal by Creighton died at the same
time.
Tuesday. March O.
Martin Gallagher, seventh victim of the
lodging house fire at A New Bowcry,
New York city, died.
Cotton quotations reached 93i cents
pound. the highest price since 1898, when
10 cents was the figure
Thrty-five carloads of hay and 10
freight cars were destroyed by the burn.
ing of freight shed in Boston.
John Corcoran of New York city fell
seven stories in an apartment house air
shaft and was only slightly injured.
Solicitor General Richards moved in
The supreme court at Washington to ad
vance the hearing OF Admiral Deweys
appeal in his claim for bounty.
The navy department announced that
the Detroit and Marblehead had been
sent to Central American ports to protect
United States interests there.
Rumors reached Benson, A. r.. that
Yaqui Indians are headed for the interna.
tional line, and General Merriam ordered
troops to be in readiness to repel any at
tempted invasion.
Monday, March ..
Liberals won in the elections in Chile.
The presidential party reached Wash
ington from New York.
The Western Union tannery at Spar.
tansburg, Pa, was burned at loss OF
$4,000.
The worlds skating record was broken
by Norval Baptie of North Dakota at
Preston, Ont.
Pauline Fitzgerald, domestic, aged 19
y hpS in tpn, . l,g A
eral hospital in New Haven for six
weeks.
The laying of the German cable from
Emden to New York will begin about the
middle of April. 1t is expected that the
cable will be opened to service next Octo-
Der.
Saturday. March 3.
Pope Leo XIII celebrated his ninetieth
birthday.
Mahlon n. Gilbert. bishop coadjutor Of
Minnesota, died at st. Paul.
Many belated steamers arrived at New
York with stories of rough usage.
The Alsatian government has refused
to allow the introduction of American
vines as precaution against phylloxera.
Congressman Sydney Eppes of Vir-
ginia. who was operated on for appendi-
citis in Washington, died at Garfield hos
pital.
The Utah Democratic convention at
Salt Lake City adopted resolutions de-
ploring the exclusion of b. H. Roberts
from the house.
Friday, March 2.
The curfew law went into effect in St.
Louis.
Russia ordered 100000 tons of Ameri-
can coal for her Baltic ports.
Former Banker L. S. Dreyer was
found guilty of embezzlement in Chicago.
The cannon factory at lie Creusot,
France, where the Beers got their IA
nous Long Toms" was burned
A feet of sailing vessels with frostbit-
ten crews and tales of being driven off by
the big gale arrived in New York.
Thursday, March 1.
A heavy snowstorm greatly delayed
traffic in Chicago.
Joseph b. Martin has been named BY
the governor as premier of British Co
lumbia.
A futile attempt to assassinate Pres-
dent Castro Of Venezuela was made at
Caracas.
Eleven universities have decided to es-
tablish uniform requirements for gradu-
ate degrees.
One woman lost her life and four other
persons were injured in fire that de-
stroyed an apartment house in Chicago.
Sixty thousand machinists may strike
because of the refusal of the Machinery
Manufacturers association to increase
wages and recognize the union in Chica-
go.
Particulars were announced of the loan
to the Russian government negotiated by
a New York syndicate through the pur-
chase Of guaranteed Russian railroad
bonds.