The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-11-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Ssstnble Events of the Week Briefly
md TerseIy Told.


Jamestown, Miss, was nearly destroy.
I'd by fire.
The trial of Police Captain Diamond
of New York began at Albany.
The presidents message was com.
pleted and given to the printers.
-Four were reported dead and one dy.
Ing at Knoxville, Pa. as the result of
using kerosene to start fire.
The main building OF the Bradley
Fertilizer works, North Weymouth,
Mass, was burned; loss, 100000.
Monday, Nov. %.
The business portion of Waynart
village, Pa, was burned; loss, S500,000.
A son was born to Mr.. aed Mrs.
Alfred c. Vanderbilt at 721 Fifth ave.
nue.. New York.
Harvard defeated Yale in the cham
pionship football game at Cambridge
Mass. The score was % to 0.
Yale. Harvard, Princeton. Columbia
and Cornell have formed an intercol-
legiate basketball association.
Fire completely destroyed the large
felt plant of julius De Long & Co. In
Allegheny, Pa; estimated loss. S6O.O00
At Saulte Ste. Marie Mich. the
bleaching plant of the Canadian Elec-
tro Chemical company was burned
loss, $4,000.
Saturday. Nov. 81.
The Bank of Liverpool was robbed
by bookkeeper of SS00,OOO.
The president appointed William Gro
zier chief of ordnance of the army.
The court of appeals declared uncon-
stitutional the law prohibiting ticket
scalping.
Count Won Hatzfeldt, until recently
German embassadoy to Great Britain,
died in London.
Fire Commissioner ]. J. Scannell and
William l.. Marks were indicted by the
grand jury in New York city.
At Huntington, w. Va, the packing
house and office of Armour & Co. were
destroyed by fire; loss, $4,000.
President Castro of Venezuela caused
the arrest of Ramon Guerra, minister
of war, on suspicion of conspiracy
against him.
Friday, Nov. 22.
The Grand Opera House in Detroit,
Mich, was damaged by fire to the ex-
tent of $4,000.
Two hundred press feeders and help
ers in Baltimore job printing offices
went on n strike.
The national grange at it's final meet
ing in Lewiston, Me-, decided to meet
in Michigan next year.
John Verrall, an Englishman, deliv-
cred himself at the police station in In
dianapolis, Ind, admitting forgeries
aggregating $4,000.
Two explosions of nitroglycerin at
the Forcite Powder works, near Land
ing, n. j., shook the country for miles
around, but fortunately no lives were
lost.
Thursday, Nov. 21.
Lord Kitchener reported a Boer de-
| feat near Pretoria.
The vault Of the Woodbury. Comm
| Savings bank was robbed by burglars.
A Chicago man committed suicide
under the mistaken belief that he had
| killed his wife.
The president will recommend that
| the Chinese exclusion act be strength
ened to increase its efficiency.
| The appeal court in London decided
that the crown is entitled to legacy
duty on the estate of w. l.. Wnans.
Charles II. Yerkes revealed scheme
to run deep level express line under
meath the existing Metropolitan Dis
trict lines in London.
| Wednesday, Nov. 20.
The new Italian ambassador has
been presented to the president.
| An Alabama negro has been sentenc-
ed to death for highway robbery.
A fire at Charlotte, n. c., destroyed
property to the amount of 100000.
The national reciprocity convention
of manufacturers has begun in Wash
ington.
strong government force has left
| Panama to attack the Colombian in
surgents ut Chorrera.
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