The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
nstabIe Events of the Week Briefly
md Terscly Told.

Henrik Ibsen. the Norwegian drama
list, is i'll at Copenhagen.
Antispring election advocates at Trcn.
ton won preliminary victory.
-Four firemen were killed and two hurt
by a falling wall at New Haven.
General Pole-Carew was married to
Lady Beatrice Butler in London.
One of the three men In the Cudahy
kidnapping plot was arrested at Omaha.
Addicks gained four votes in the Della
ware legislature for short term senator
ship.
Baltimore at the battle of Manila, was
retired.
An uneasy feeling was reported in ca
racas over the governments attitude In
the asphalt controversy.
The twenty-ifth annual bench show of
the Westminster Kennel club was opened
In Madison Square Garden. New York.
Tuesday. Feb. 10.
The first class at West Point was grad.
mated.
The British steamer Homer Is believed
10 have been lost, with 16 men.
Three were killed in freight wreck on
the New York Central at Aiken, N. Y.
Severest cold in 80 years in Denmark.
Heavy SHOWS and very cold weather
throughout Europe.
Senor Carlos Martinez Silva. the new
minister from the United States of Co
lombia to the United States, arrived in
Washington.
Monday, Feb. 1s.
Francis Il. Loomis, the United States
minister to Venezuela, is very i'll.
Striking potters at Cooksville, o., have
organized pottery company capitalized
at $4,000.
Russia has imposed the maximum tar
if duties on American iron and steel
goods of all sorts.
Severe cold weather, with snow in un-
heard of localities, was reported through
out southern Europe
A British army surgeon said he had
driven malaria bearing mosquitoes from
Hongkong neighborhoods.
New York bank loans increased $19.-
100000 and surplus reserves reduced by
S7GjO.O00 during the past week.
Miss Frances Roberts suit to have. her
father. DR.. c. IL. Roberts, a fnancier, de
clared insane has been dismissed in tn
supreme court at Albany.
WIS -hhhu luhL, uiltEtl W Dt Il Dib-
fessional beggar, was arrested in Wall
street, New York city. where she expos
ed a child of . months to the rigors of the
weather.
saturday. Feb. 10.
The Indianapolis zoo keeper was killed
by Bengal tiger.
Mrs Stevens, president of the w. G. 7.
U... indorsed Mrs. Nation.
Tun tx--, min Ia; Ia, 4,
trolley wreck near Cincinnati.
King Edward inspected the Canadian
troops returned from South Africa
Maurice Thompson, the author, died ut
Crawfordsville, Ind, after long illness.
The Duke of Connaught was elected
grand master of Masons in place of King
Edward.
Labor riots continued in Budapest.
Three persons were seriously and 10
slightly injured.
Friday, Feb. Is.
A seat on the New York Stock Ex-
change sold for $4,000.
All railroads in northern New York
were reported blocked by snow.
King Edward VII opened the British
parliament in person with great pomp.
new theory of terrestrial magnetism
was advanced by Professor L. NJ. Pence.
A sneak thief stole an overcoat with
valuable passes from General John Il.
Gordon in a Chicago hotel.
Judge Hollister issued Il permanent in
junction against the Jeflries- Rubin con
test scheduled for Sangerfest hall, Gin
cinnati.
Navigation in New York harbor and
the East and North rivers was greatly
impeded by ice. Many boats were frozen
in for hours.
The Presbyterian revision committee
completed its work in Washington. Ma
jority report favors slight explanatory
changes in creed.
The University of Pennsylvania an.
nounced that Burnham, Williams x Co.
owners of the Baldwin Locomotive
works, have subscribed $25,000 to the
new engineering building of the uni
yersity.
Thursday, Feb. II.
Disastrous floods were reported from
In Paz, Bolivia.
Moscow students rebelled as a protes,
against the kiev sentences.
Forty-two Russians were killed in O
fight with Chinese at Kiao-Chau.
Several New York ferry lines suspend
ed traffic owing to ice in the river.
Several Mexican ranchers have beer
killed by Yaqui Indians near Hermosillo
The New York Glucose company, will
u capital of $4,0OO0O0, was incorporated
at Trenton.