The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-11-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersely Told.

Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersely Told.
Earthquake shocks in Roumelia are
terrorizing the populace.
Eighteen Egyptians were killed by
the explosion of a magazine in Cairo.
A cholera epidemic is spreading rap
IDLY in Palestine. The people are in a
bad plight.
Hugh Miller Thompson, Episcopal
} bishop of Mississippi, died at Jackson,
that state.
The Reading Railroad company has
; announced an increase OF wages of its
employees.
! Former Queen Lliuokalani 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 a new trial to George Blssert,
: former wardman, convicted of bribery
and sentenced to state prison.
Tuesday, Nov. 1s.
! General Chaffee has arrived In Chi
! cago.
| DR.. Henry Churchill King is to be
! the next president Of Oberlin college.
Admiral Casey has ordered Ameri-
: can marines to evacuate the isthmus
of Panama.
/ A Standard OIL dividend of 10 per
cent was declared, making a total of 40
per cent for the year.
4 freight station at Pell City, Ala,
has been blown up by dynamite. Two
were killed and ten hurt.
A case was begun in the United
! States circuit court at Richmond, Va,
to test the legality of Virginia's new
constitution.
Monday, Nov. IL.
| Because of weakness of his eyes The
/ odore Roosevelt, Jr.. has left the Gro
! ton (Mass,) school for short rest.
The Inauguration of DR.. Rodrigues
! Alves as president of Brazil took place
at Rio Janeiro, with brilliant festivi-
! ties.
Thirty-eight bids as sites for a new
by the government commission at
Washington.
! The Poughkeepsie police have arrest
! ed Vent Gildersleeve, employed as
handy man at Nassar college, for rob-
. bing the rooms of students.
! While on a squirrel hunt William
Holmes, aged eleven years, Of Meriden,
. ChA ,,I ir- l.
by the accidental discharge of gun.
/ Ambassador Cambon. who returns to
| France was the guest of honor at a
| dinner at Sherrys attended by large
number of the best known men in
American public and business life
Saturdays football games resulted as
follows: At Princeton-Yale. H. Prince
ton. 5, At Philadelphia-Car Indi-
ans, 3; University OF Pennsylvania. o.
At New York-Amherst, 20: Colum-
bia, 0.
Saturday, Nov. Is.
The Bulgarian cabinet has resigned
on account of personal differences.
A sailor on the transport Sumner
jumped overheard to save flag and
was drowned.
A fast Baltimore and Ohio train was
wrecked near Washington, Nd, and
several were hurt.
A party of burglars shot the town
marshal at Elyria, o., and one OF them
was killed In an attempt to rob a
house.
4 raft from the wrecked British
steamer Elingamite was picked up,
with eight survivors and eight dead
upon it.
The proprietor of the Limerick Ore
land Leader has been sentenced to
four months in prison at hard labor
for melting to intimidation.
Friday, Nov. IL.
The vote of Ithaca, y. Y. for mayor
was tie.
Fire swept Olyphant, Pa, destroying
ten business blocks.
Henry b. Conan conceded the elec-
ton Of John Cunneen as attorney gen.
eral of New York state.
An increase of wages was demanded
by engineers and telegraph operators
employed by the Southern Pacific COM
pany.
The Philippine commission in an act
aimed at ladronism has made highway
robbery By three or more persons a
capital offeDse.
Thursday, Nov. Is.
The Burnside eolliery, near Shame
kin, Pa, is ON fire.
The Hudson Hominy mills at ST. Jo-
seph, Mo-, were burned; loss. 100000
William II. George left the Junior
Republic at Freeville to start a similar
institution in Connecticut.
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