The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-10-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and PcrseIy Told

The French chamber rejected n mo
ion to fix a minimum wage for miners
N. G. d. Borden again increased the
wages of his cotton operatives at Fal
River, Mass.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago suggest.
d law forbidding private winerooms
u city saloons.
Miss Eastwick of Philadelphia plead
ID guilty in London of forging a rail
Dad certificate.
The Northern Pacific railroad took
,ut at Duluth, Mimi, a $4,000, 900 fire
insurance policy covering its whole
ystem.
Tuesday, Oct. 81.
Marquis Ito called on the president
nd Secretary Hay.
The Duke of Teci was robbed of
watch and money on the Ophir.
Bubonic plague is reported to be raw
lging Fuchau and vicinity, China
The Pennsylvania supreme court de-
ided that the Philadelphia ripper
NV is unconstitutional.
Henry NJ. Fedlcy of New York city.
Yale freshman, was arrested on the
barge of causing the death of Edward
lorrigan, a fellow student
Monday, Oct. ~.
Rear Admiral Francis Nj. Bunce died
t his home in Hartford, Conn.
The steamship Siberia. $4,000 tons,
vas launched at Newport News, Va.
Hall Caine has consented to become
/ candidate for the Manx parliament.
1t is estimated that the Florida
range crop will amount to 100000
oXes.
At Niagara Falls, n. V, the Interna-
ional theater was badly damaged by
ire; loss, $4,000.
The Republicans of Ohio have form
lily opened their state campaign at a
reat demonstration in Delaware.
A destructive fire swept Sydney, G.
l., causing heavy property damage
nd rendering many people homeless.
Five firemen were injured and ST.
10000 worth of property destroyed in
fire on West Fourteenth street. Chi
ago.
The captain and ten sailors of n
'rench fishing vessel from Newfound-
md were drowned in the wreck Of
heir vessel off the coast Of Finistere,
rance
Saturday, Oct. 10.
Former Governor John S. Pilsbury
led at Minneapolis.
Congressman Hull, who is i'll at Des
Ioines, Ia, is reported better.
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
ave left st. John, n. b., for Halifax.
The National bank of Boyertown.
"a, was closed on account of cash
,rs defalcation.
Gold and silver bars have been wash
d out of an old wreck on the island
{ Grand Cayman, near Jamaica.
General James A. Walker, ex-con-
ressman from the Ninth Virginia dis
'fct, is reported critically i'll at his
ONE in Wytheville.
The new battleship RetviZan. built
/ Philadelphia for Russia. averaged
So knots for twelve hours, breaking
,ie battleship record.
-t.a Friday. Oct. is.
Naples was officially declared free
ON plague.
Earl Russell was released from jail
/ London, having served his sentence
,r bigamy.
A large gold shipment and 300 passen-
,rs from Cape Nome, Alaska, reached
uget sound.
An anarchist editor was sent to pris-
4 in Berlin for approving McINinley's
assassination.
Thursday, Oct. IL.
Empress Augusta Victoria is still con.
ned to her sickroom.
Secretary Hay has resumed his du-
. ,es at the state department.
The battleship Indiana started from
ew York for the West Indies.
Congressman who have been visiting
re Philippines sailed for home.
King Edward was assailed by ritu-
istic organs for attending Presbyte-
an church at Crathie.
Kingston, n. Y, celebrated the one
Indred and twenty-fourth anniversa-
of its burning by the British.
Clinton, mining town located on the
ortheru Pacific sixteen miles east of
lssOula, Mon, was wiped out by fire.