The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-01-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
SotnbIc Events of the Week Briefly
and Terscly Told.

An earthquake shock wds felt at Da-
sosPlatz, Switzerland.
The plague is reported to be spread
ing in Mexico. The disease has ap-
peared in Sonora.
d The senior class at the Naval acad-
emy is to be graduated Feb. 2, five
months earlier than usual.
The Chicago city council has ap-
proved a bill providing for municipal
ownership of street car lines.
Charles Il. Kelly has been convicted
of forgery in connection with the ST.
Louis Suburban Street railway fran
chise deal.
Tuesday, Jan. 30.
Four men were burned to death i'm a
hotel at Morrissey, Il. C.
Two persons were killed and three in
iured in Il fire in Cleveland.
Eleven persons were arrested in Mis-
sissippi for lynching two negroes.
Four steamers sailed from Blyth,
England, with coal for America.
Five Cinnamon We're shot, two fatal
ly, in Tong war at San Francisco
Long wharf, Boston, was partially de.
stroyed by fire and the Yarmouth line
sheds burned.
One person was killed and thirty in
jured in a wreck on the Great Western
railroad near Sycamore. Ill.
Dr. Charles G.. Hendrick convicted
of conspiracy in the Biggar-Bennett
case, was released from the Freehold
On. j. Jail on bail.
Monday, Jan. 10.
General William Booth of the Saliva
tion Army spoke to 10000 people in
Cleveland o.
The crown princess of SaXony and
NJ. Giron, with whom she eloped, ar
rived at Mention, France.
Mahmud Pasha, brother-in-law of the
sultan of Turkey and leader of the
Turkish reform party, died at Brussels
in exile
The San Jacinto Oil company, one of
the largest concerns in Dallas. Tex,
operating in the Beaumont field. has
been placed in the hands of a receiver.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Lain, from Mediterranean ports for
New York, with 1.o00 passengers, went
ashore five miles east of the rock of
Gibraltar.
saturday. y.'Jan. II.
The crown prince of Germany has
arrived at st. Petersburg on a visit to
the car.
Intense cold prevailed in England.
The Thames was frozen over for the
first time in years.
a fight between labor unions caused
serious strike in the shoemaking
trade of Lynn, Mass.
The pope has appointed Cardinal
Nannutelli vice chancellor of the Ro-
man Catholic church, to succeed Cardi-
nal Parocchi, deceased.
The official report states that the
earthquake at Andian killed AHA per-
sons and destroyed 33, ,112 houses.
-Four men were killed in wreck on
the Baltimore and Ohio road at Cum
berland, Md, caused by messenger
boys throwing a signal without knowl-
edge of the operator.
Friday. Jan. 16.
Cardinal Parocchi, subdean of the
! Sacred college, died at Rome.
I May Yohe's claim against Lord Fran.
els Hope was settled for $1,000.
/ South African firms in London agreed
to offer $150,000,000 as their war con-
tribution.
The state legislature advanced the
bill appropriating $250,000 for coal for
New York citys poor.
/ The Wells-Fargo and Pacific Express
companies are said to have established
n community of business.
/ John Weaver. present district attor-
! ney, has been nominated by Republic.
| ans for mayor of Philadelphia.
Records of United States naval gun.
merry for speed and accuracy We're ex.
ceeded by men of the battleship Ken.
lucky.
Thursday. Jan. 10.
Five buildings at Piqua, O., were
badly damaged by fire, entailing to.
tai loss of $150,000.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail
road company offered to increase the
wages of engineers 10 per cent.
The Prussian budget estimates for
1903 show a deficit of more than $1S,.
100000, making loan necessary.
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph
company Of Canada was organized al