The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-12-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersely Told.

notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersely Told.
The British parliament will meet on
IAN. 16.
King Edward has fixed June 26, 1902,
% the date for his coronation.
The Big Lick, one of the best mines
n the Lykens valley of Pennsylvania,
was reported on fire.
At Orange, N. j., one man was killed
and four injured by the collapse of a
Building in the course of erection.
The Nobel prize for the encourage
ment of peace and arbitration was di-
vided equally between DR.. Henri Du-
mont and Frederick Passy.
Tuesday, Dec. 10.
The president reappointed Postmas-
ter Van Cott of New York city.
A snowstorm in Texas caused ranch
men to fear loss of live stock.
Americans We're reported to be ex-
amning iron ore lands in Iceland.
Severe snowstOrms have swept over
Scotland and many parts of England.
Two members of the Korean cabinet
nave been dismissed for being too
friendly to Japan.
Miss Stone and Nine. Tsilka were
said to have been definitely located in
Bulgarian territory.
Monday, Dec. %.
Serious riots of the unemployed oc-
Cured at Lyons, France.
The Australian legislature has pass
cd a stringent compulsory arbitration
law.
The entire business portion of the
village of Coolies, Mich, was destroy
ed by fire. loss. 100000.
A large cotton warehouse was burn
ed at Alexandria, Egypt. The damage
Is estimated at $150,000.
Thirty-nine prisoners serving SEN
tences for minor crimes escaped from
the Birmingham (Ala.) city Jail by
digging through q sixteen inch wall.
The Queens hotel at Southsea Eng
land, was burned. Forty guests es-
capped from the building in their night
clothes. Two chambermaids were suf-
focated.
Saturday, Dec. z.
Forty Turkish soldiers were killed
in a fight with tribesmen in Arabia.
Open approval of McKinley's assas-
sination was expressed ut a Chicago
meeting.
A railway station at Frankfort. Ger
many, was wrecked by a train which
jumped the track.
The Peruvian chamber of deputies
has sanctioned a gold standard law
which had passed the senate.
A temperature of 10 to 33 degrees
below zero was reported in various
localities in New York and New Eng
land.
The navy department was informed
that the gunboat Vicksburg, about
which anxiety had been felt, is safe in
China.
Friday, Dec. o.
Fog has stopped traffic ON the Seine
1t Paris.
Herbert Marx, who killed two men
in Virginia, was exonerated by the girl
in the case.
The Dutch government has again an.
ncunced that it cannot intervene in
South Africa.
The main building of the Michigan
Alkali company at Wyandotte was
burned; loss, $500,0OO.
General Chaffee has ordered all the
9orts in Laguna and Batangas PROV
nces closed SO as to cut off supplies to
the rebels.
Rear Admiral Endicott has asked for
aver $21 100000 for the maintenance
sf the navy yards, stations and i'm
provements.
Thursday. Dec. 3.
A destructive fire ragged in the busi-
ness quarter of Jackson, Tenn.
General A. ID. HaZen, formerly third
assistant postmaster general, died at
Washington.
Lord Kitchener and Lord Miner
have been sued in England for deport-
Tag Miss Hobiense from South Africa.
COrean and Japanese.
The Koreans as people are better
developed physically than the Japan-