The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-01-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
EotabIe Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersely Fold.

Dozens of trains were snow bound in
southern Russia.
The transport Sherman was caught in
q typhoon off the japanese coast Dec. 1S.
A New York state tuberculosis hospital
Is to be built at Raybrook, Franklin
county.
The French Mediterranean fleet is to
be equipped with wireless telegraph ap-
paratus.
The Philippine commission has COM
pleted the code for the government Of
municipalities.
NJ. Paul Deschanel was reelected pres
ident of the French chamber by a vote Of
296 to 21T for NJ. Henri Brisson.
Three Bellevue hospital nurses were in
aicted in New York for manslaughter for
the alleged killing OF Louis billiard in
the insane pavilion.
Tuesday, Jan. 8.
President Mckinley has slight cold.
The situation in Venezuela over the
asphalt dispute was declared critical.
A man claiming to be one Of the Cuda-
by kidnapers offered to turn states evil
dence.
Ex-senator Fred r. Dubois was nomi-
fusion caucus in Idaho.
Captain ]. ID. Bulloch n famous agent
Of the Confederates during the American
civil war, died in Liverpool.
The residence of Edward III. Taylor at
Model City, near Lewiston, n. Y, was
burned. Taylor, his wife and three small
children perished in the flames.
Monday, Jan. Z.
Additional re-enforcements have been
ordered to Lourenco Marques.
The number of smallpox cases in Kan
sas City exceeds 100, majority of the
sufferers being white.
The first ice this winter was cut at
Catskll by the American Ice company
1t was ten inches thick and of high Iual-
ity.
The Right Rev. Bishop Winand Mi
chael Wiggcr, head of the Roman Catho-
lie diocese of Newark n. j., is dead at
South Orange, n. J.
President Stickney of the Chicago
Great Western railway went to Boston
to claim as his bride May Crosby, whom
he loved 40 years ago.
Saturday. Jan. 3.
A heavy gale has done much damage
on the Faclhc coast.
The recent snowstorm did little injury
to California orange crop.
ambassador White was elected to the
Berlin Academy of Science.
Grip is prevalent in New York city
but an epidemic is not expected.
Nineteen cases of plague are reported
at Vladivostok, 10 of them fatal.
Reported settlement of French shore
dispute in Newfoundland denied.
! Three men were killed in powder work,
explosion at Thompson's Point, n. j.
Earthquake occurred at Nevada. e
Dorado Springs and Appleton City, Mo.
Eight Turkish soldiers were killed ir
attempting to arrest suspected emissaries
! of the Macedonian committee.
Friday, Jan. 4.
Secretary Hay has recovered from hi
recent illness.
! Three failures were announced on tn,
London Stock Exchange.
Great snowstorm in southern Oregon
and northern California.
Very cold in northern New York. Thir
| ty-one below at Saranac lake.
Joseph Letter of Chicago is negotiating
| loi Noueloi VI puShihe tiuue'
Methodist Episcopal Bishop w. X
Ninde was found dead in bed in Detroit
French gunboat Menhir and torped
cruiser Fleurus collided in Brest harbor.
Duke Henry, betrothed of Queen VIII
helmina, has left The Hague in pc
over discussion of his position.
Governor Jordan of New Hampshire il
his inaugural address declared schoo
children should play more and study less
Several fires in tenement houses in Ney
York and Jersey City caused the death o
at least two persons. Many Others wer
injured.
Thursday, Jan. 3.
Ex-President Kruger has bronchitis.
A bomb was found in a Chicago stree
car tunnel.
The Berlin Reichsbank celebrated il
twenty fifth anniversary.
Erie's new sheriff pledged himself t
stop all gambling in Buffalo.
The Norwegian bark Hovdng ha
foundered in the Bristol channel.
Ten Germans were killed in the firin
of salute at Lei-tung, China, Jan. l.
Briefs in the insulnr possessions ease
have been filed with the supreme court.
The United States circuit court of al
peals sustained the lower court in den,
ing petition for n National Linseed O
receiver.