The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Brie6y
and TerseIy Told.

Masonic temple at Toledo was burned.
Loss. S15O,OOO.
Sarah Bernhardt took out insurance
policy for 100000.
Chicago saloon keepers were arrested
for violating Sunday law.
Rail communication with Europe via
Bering strait is predicted.
Transport Mcpherson went ashore on
Cuban coast eight miles west of Matan-
zas
Governor Voorhees, of New Jersey NOM
| mated Senator Pitney for supreme court
| justice.
Exposition hotel, Binghamton, n. Y.
| was burned. Two dead and three fatally
injured.
Arrest was made in Philadelphia in
connection with robbery of Adams Ex-
press car.
Tuesday, Feb. ..
ambassador Meyer was received by
King Victor Emmanuel.
The new Austrian reichsrath was open
ed with speech from the throne.
President Mckinley is to address the
University Of California students May 16.
An Adams Express car on Pcnnsyl-
vania train was robbed of $4,000 worth
of goods.
japanese were reported to be organic
ing home company to compete with
Standard Oil.
John Marshall centenary was celcbrat-
cd in Washington, Albany, Boston, Phil
adelphia and other cities.
4 German expedition is reported to
have started to escort the Chinese en-
peror back to the capital.
ftNt- n n xnp
nedy for the murder of Dolly Reynolds
was begun in New York.
Monday. Feb. 4.
Hugh Kerr. father of George j. Kerr,
who was removed to state prison Friday,
died at his home in Paterson, n. j., of II
broken heart.
Eva Irwin, a deaconess in the Episco-
pal church, arrived in Atchison. Kan in
Il snowstorm, having tramped all the way
from New York alone
Workmen excavating for the rapiG
transit tunnel in New York city found a
well preserved skeleton OF an Indian 30
feet below the surface of Center street
Saturday, Feb. 2.
Severe fighting in Abyssnia reported
from Cairo.
Governor Allen Of Porto Rico reports
prosperity and contentment.
Jennie Bosschieter's four assailants
were taken to Trenton for imprisonment.
w. Nj. Collier was elected president of
the New York state civil service commits
sion.
Friday, Feb. 1.
Venezuelan revolution is considered
ended.
British ambassador at Berlin has been
summoned to England.
Hostilities are threatened between Nj.
; caragua and Costa Rica.
Fire caused 100000 damage at Reade
and West streets, New York city.
The deadlock continues in the Nebras
ka, Oregon and Montana senatorial con
tests.
After rejecting various amendments
the Paris chamber adopted by 353 to .:
the first article of the law of associa
, tions.
Thursday, Jun. 81.
State Senator Cornelius X. Parsons
died at Rochester.
Forty sailors from the cruiser Alban!
were convicted of mutiny.
. Neely reached Havana and was turned
over to the keeper of the city prison.
The consul at Glasgow reported 3S'
e cases of smallpox and that the diseas
Z was spreading.
S The Merchants National bank of Bal
Y tmore inauguratcd secret examination
: of its accounts.
: The late Benjamin u 'Siliman's vii
o provides for bequests of $4,000 to Yal
!. and $4,000 to Columbia.
> During fire in the Hotel Jefferson i
;. New York city a woman nurse was kille
by falling from a window and a servan
:, girl was suffocated
Test of Compressed Air Locomotive