The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-02-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Dricny
md TerseIy Told.

md TerseIy Told.
Two defeats for Venezuelan govern.
ment troops were reported
New York city was threatened with
q milk famine owing to the storm.
The Chicago city council removed re-
siric,ions upon the height of freproo,
buildings.
1t was announced that Lord Sails.
bury will retire from office ut the con.
ciusion Of the Boer war. d.
Tuesday, Feb. 4.
The storm in the English channel be
gan to abate
The Austrian village of Bleiberg was
partially destroyed by an avalanche.
Twelve English fishermen were re
ported lost in a snowstorm Off Iceland.
Mrs. Hammond Moore of New York
city committed suicide in Stockton, Cal.
Twenty-one men of the crew of the
French ship Chanaral were drowned
off Ushant, Brittany.
Two members of n Philadelphia fam
ily were found dead from starvation
and two others insane from the same
cause.
Monday. Feb. q.
Home skaters won all of the cham.
pionships of the United States and
Canada at Verona Lake, N. j.
Five thousand men of the American
Woolen company have been thrown out
of work by a weavers' strike at Oney-
vile. II. |.
At boar hunt near Arras. France
shot from one of the hunters went
through the boar, struck a stone.
glanced and killed the Countess Depas.
Saturday, Feb. 4.
Severe gales have occurred in the
English channel.
Two large passenger steamers with
200 passengers are fast in the ice off
Chicago.
The London Metropolitan company
has refused to turn over its property
TO Mr.. Yerkes.
supplementary army estimate of
f3,000,000 has been introduced in the
house of commons.
A committee of the German reichstag
has adopted u clause of n new tariff
bill providing for retaliatory duties.
Mountain peaks in the Olympia
range, Washington, are reported to
have been broken off by the recent
earthquake.
The transatlantic steamship pool has
sent ocean freight rates skyward, the
increase on many products being fully
30 per cent.
Friday, jan. 81.
Snow and frost impeded traffic and
work in England.
Charles H. Sprague, former member
of congress from Massachusetts, died
in Providence X. l.
Ignace Jan Paderewski. the celebrat.
ed pianist, arrived in New York, ac-
companied by his wife.
The navy department announced
that Rear Admiral Sampson will be re-
tired Feb. on account of age.
A fire destroyed the largest hotel in
Virginia, at Norfolk, and other build
ings, causing loss of $500,000.
Rear Admiral Rodgers telegraphed
that nope had been abandoned for the
safety of the ten marines lost in Sa.
n mar.
y A jury at Frankfort, KY, found
A James Howard guilty of the assassina
q ton Of Governor Goebel and fixed pun
81 ishment at life Imprisonment.
n A heavy sleetstorm crippled railway
"A and telegraph lines and damaged build
NJ ings and trees in Tennessee, Arkansas
,& and Mississippi to the extent of sew
"a eral millions
81 Thursday, Jan. 30.
M Caleb w. Mitchell committed suicid
s at Saratoga.
III Admiral Schley's appeal to the presl
~ dent was made public.
X John +. Dryden was formally electe'
WI senator by the New Jersey legislature.
N Adelaide Ristori, the actress, cee
fX brated her eightieth birthday at Rome
M Ex-President Cleveland arrived a
M Princeton, n. j., from his seven days
X hunting trip to Georgetown, S. G. IL
# was apparently in good health.