The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-10-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
ara perseIy Told.

Jnc convention OF the American
Bankers association began in Milwau-
kee.
The Duke of Westminster. two
year-old colt, sold in England for S105,-
600.
rumor of the cay.urc of General
Botha was current on ne London Stock
Exchange.
The Farmers and Citizens bank of
Trio. o., was robbed by six men, who
kept people at bay with rifles.
Twentyseven works In the Pan
American art show at Buffalo have
been sold, catalogue prices aggregatns
S14,935.
Tuesday, Oct. -.
French miners voted for general
strike.
Six brothers and sisters met I'm Chi
cago after forty years separation.
Governor John s. Pillsbury Of
Minnesota was reported to be dying.
Ranchers near Albuquerque, n. NJ,
are killing wild horses on neighboring
ranges.
DR.. Donald Il. IIinckley Of North
bliBlplis hdSos, SIlOl anu
killed himself.
Government vessels completed the
survey of Fox Island passes, the gate
way to Bering sea.
orders were received Mt Aldershot.
England, to hold every available man
ready for active service.
Mrs. Graeme Harrison had jewels
gr 81.
New Haven train to New York city.
Monday. Oct. II.
Results of the registration in New
York city indicated n heavy vote.
Fire in Dubois, Pa, caused loss of
100000, partly covered by insurance.
Peter Nissen of Chicago made sue
cessful trip through the whirlpool rap
ids of the Niagara river in n boat of his
own design.
Nearly the entire business portion of
Los Gatos, Cal, was destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at u quarter of a
million dollars.
The First Parish Unitarian church Of
South birmingham, Mass, observed
the two hundredth anniversary of its
organization and ordination of its first
pastor.
saturday, Oct. IL.
The net cost to the United States of
the Spanish war was $513, ,S3O,907.
The last steamer for Cape Nome until
next spring has sailed from Seattle.
The British cruiser Amphion has
been ordered to Panama because of
fighting on the isthmus.
c. +. w. Neely, accused of misap-
propriating Cuban postal funds, was
placed on trial in Havana.
The Pocahontas Coal and Coke COM
pany was Incorporated in Trenton, n.
j.. with capital of $40.000,0OO.
President Roosevelt has changed the
official title of his residence from the
executive mansion to the White House.
Friday, Oct. II.
The national purity convention at
Chicago discussed vice.
Marquis Ito, "the grand old man of
Japan" arrived at Chicago.
The $2,00O,000 contract to dredge Ma
Mia harbor was awarded to a Seattle
company.
Three noteworthy pictures were
bought in London for the Hartford
Atheneum.
The heirs of the Humphries estate
fued for possession of n $50 ,000, 900
tract of oil land near Beaumont, Tex.
Four trainmen We're killed and three
others were slightly injured in a coll-
sion of freight trains on the Chicago
Great Western near Lombard, Ill.
In New York Mr.. and Mrs. III. M.
Rice were sentenced to ten days in
prison for tying their little daughter to
a table while they went on a pleasure
jaunt.
Thursday, Oct. 10.
General Smith has left Manila with
troops to fight the Samar rebels.
Loss by fire in Chicago put at
| $595, 900 is covered by insurance.
Charles a. Bookwalter, Republican,
was elected mayor of indianapolis.
Burglars robbed the house of Samuel
| Coykendall of Kingston, n. Y, of booty
! worth $4,000.
The twentieth annual meeting of the
American Street Railway association
was held in Madison Square Garden,
New York.
The new Russian battleship Retvizan
| has started from the Philadelphia
builders yards for New York to pre-
nat.a fou hap tpinI t,in