The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-12-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
sotabIe Events of the Week Briefly
and Tcrsciy Told.

Horner was chosen as speaker and
| Boyd as leader of the lower house of
| the New Jersey legislature.
Thirteen anarchists were arrested ut
! Spegia in the act of taking oath to as
sassinate King Victor Emmanuel.
| A meeting of the canal Improvement
advocates at Buffalo declared for the
! 1000 ton barge plan and the inland
| route.
A box of dynamite exploded In
! mine at South Wilkesbarre. Four men
were killed and ten wounded. three Sc
riously.
| Tucsdny, Dee. %.
The price of bread was raised in the
! east end of London.
Prince Oscar, the kaiser's fifth son,
broke his collar bone.
The king of Portugal started home
from England by way of Paris.
A. Lincoln Dryden of Baltimore was
named as assistant treasurer of the
! United States.
The new Union Steel company organ.
lied at Pittsburg is to have a capital
IF $75,000,o0o.
The SEVENTEEN birthday of Bjorn.
stierne Bjornson was generally cee-
brated In Norway.
Two of q seighing party were killed
and two fatally hurt by railway train
at Havelock, Ont
Oliver Wendell Holmes was sworn
ms associate justice of the United
States supreme court.
Severe winter weather was reported
In nearly every northern state east Of
the Mississippi. In western New York
snow had reached depth of two feet.
Monday. Dec. y.
Fire originating in n planning mill Mt
Denver destroyed property valued at
$120,000.
Owing to the cold. wet summer the
people of the northern districts Of
Sweden are threatened with famine.
The annual meeting of the National
Civic federation began its deliberations
in New York city, to continue three
days.
The Eagle Valley tannery at Ridge
Vile, Pa was destroyed by fire, caused
by an explosion of natural gas in the
engine room; loss, over 100000.
The mayor and the entire city coun-
Jail for four months for contempt in
passing and signing the tramway fran.
chise bill.
The Prince line steamer Tartar
Prince. Captain McFarlane, New York
Nov. 10 and st. Vincent Nov. %, for
Port Natal, has been totally burned at
sea. The crew and passengers were
rescued.
Saturday, Dec. q.
The Mead building at Rockford, ILL.,.
was burned; loss, S21o,000,
An engine company was buried by a
falling wall in 100000 fire at Cleve-
land. o.
Bitter cold weather, with general
snowfall. was reported in the United
Kingdom.
The Pickering Manufacturing com.
pany of Lowell. Mass, has failed, with
liabilities of 100000.
The Grand Opera House and other
buildings at Saltwater Mimi, have
been burned; loss, $4,000.
One person was killed and another
fatally hurt in an accident on the Bes.
ton and Maine railroad near South
Ashburnham, Mass.
A severe snowstorm ragged from Yir-
ginia to Canada in the eastern and
middle states. Cold weather was re.
ported in the southern states.
Friday, Dec. ).
The worlds greatest gun was safely
landed at Sandy Hook.
A threatening break in the Mississip.
,, ri river levee has occurred near Belch.
err La.
,, Two miners were instantly killed
while descending a shaft near Halle
ton, Pa.
At Santa Monica, Cal, Samuel Car
son was found dead in his hut as the
result Of q spider bite.
Thursday. Dec. 4.
Senior Sagasta has resigned as pre-
mier Of Spain.
Andrew Carnegie has sailed for New
York ON the Oceanic.
! San Francisco voted against munici
+ pal ownership of railways.
, The coroner's inquest In the Fitzger
, aid shooting In Guatemala showed b,
was assassinated
r Jake, the big sturgeon in the New
, York aquarium. is dead after having
1 starved himself for eighteen months.
Seventeen malleable iron companie,
agreed at meeting in Detroit to form
one great company, with a large capi