The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-11-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
Notable Events of the Week Bricny
md TerseIy Told.

A heavy shock of earthquake has oc-
Cured at Latacunga, Ecuador.
The new Pacific cable to Australia
will be opened for business Dec. 8.
King Victor Emmanuel has given
$4,000 to Rome hospitals in honor of
lhe birth of the Princess Mafalda.
A hurricane has swept over San Ur-
bano, Argentine Republic. A hun
dred houses were destroyed, five per
sons killed and number injured.
Monday, Nov. ~.
Commissioner Ware advocated pen
sioning 500 superannuated pension
clerks.
A stuffed dummy sat beside Miss
Jerdock, whose bridegroom failed to
appear, at her wedding feast in Pater-
son.
Richard Stockton Emmett descend
ant of the Irish patriot died suddenly
at New Rochelle n. Y. aged eighty
two years.
The United States government has
ordered II thorough inquiry into the
mystery of Mrs. Ellen Cores violent
death in Paris.
An actual count for three Sundays
showed that 451,7 ,731 adults ON the is
land OF Manhattan attend Christian
worship and 997. .1s9 do not.
Saturday, Nov. ~.
The Chicago and Alton Railroad COM
pany increased the wages of It's EN-
ployees.
Thirty Servian workmen were drown
ed in the Danube by the sinking of
steamer.
Baron Tolls expedition that is ex-
ploring the Siberian coast has been cut
of from the mainland by Ice.
Sheriff Dudley of Sullivan county,
Ind. wns deprived of his office because
of the lynchng of negro billiard.
AS the result of mistake of youth
employed In drugstore in New York
city two persons are dead from cyanide
of potassium poisoning.
Friday, Nov. ~.
The Crown Prince Frederick of Sax
ony broke leg while hunting.
A fire destroyed a block and half
in Monongahela, Pa: loss, S125,000.
A. l.. Collins, mine manager at Pan
dora, Colo, has been shot by an as
sassin.
A Dromore mob stoned Mr.. Russell.
Irish member of parliament, who is op-
posed TO home rule.
The government has withdrawn
100000 acres in the Thunder noun
tnin mining region, Idaho.
The Ohio supreme court has enjoined
Mayor Tom l.. Johnson from reor-
ganzing the Cleveland police force
The Pardee collieries near Hazleton.
Pa, have resumed. the strikers having
agreed not to molest the nonunion men.
The Southern Pacific depot and ferry
slip at the end of the Alameda mole,
San Francisco. has been totally de-
stroyed by fire.
Martial law has been repealed in the
Transvaal and Orange Free State.
though the government reserves the
right to reimpose the military rule if
necessary.
Thursday, Nov. 20.
Queen Helena of Italy gave birth to
daughter.
Nearly 100000 gallons of petroleum
| was burned in reservoirs near Odessa.
The mother of Blind Tom" the ne
gro musician, is dead in Alabama at
the reputed age of 102.
Five masked men dynamited the
postoffice at Edenboro, Pa, took $500
| in stamps and wounded citizen.
The conference of charities and cor
rection at Albany sharply criticised the
states management of the insane
Alfred Walter has resigned the presi-
dency of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
company owing to differences of opin-
| ion regarding its management.
wednesday, Nov. ID.
| Earthquake shocks In Roumelia are
terrorizing the populace.
Eighteen Egyptians were killed by
the explosion Of n magazine in Cairo.
Hugh Miller Thompson. Episcopal
bishop of Mississippi, died at Jackson,
that state.
| A cholera epidemic is spreading rap.
| idly in Palestine. The people are in a
bad plight.
The Reading Railroad company has
announced an increase Of wages of It's
employees.
Former Queen Liliuokalani of Ha.
wall has arrived in San Francisco on
her way to Washington.
A resolution for an old age pension
for wageworkers has been reported un
favorably to the Federation of Labor
convention.
The New York court of appeals has
granted new trial to George Bissert
former wardman, convicted of bribery