The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

and rerseIy Told.
A fire at Middlebury, VT, caused q
loss of S1J0,000.
The bank at Cambridge, ILL.,, was
robbed by burglars of $4,000.
Two women baby farmers were
hanged in Holloway Jail, England.
King Edward was said to have the
Influenza. The attack is mild one.
A train struck bus near Lewis
four
The plant of the Chicago Railway
Supply company was burned; loss,
S250,OO0.
William Redmond was released from
Kilmainham Jail, although his sentence
had only half expired.
Americans were reported fleeing from
Spanish Honduras in expectancy of
civil war over the presidency.
A battalion of Mexican troops was
said to have been trapped by Yaquis
and to have suffered severely.
Tuesday, Feb. 3.
The discovery of a serum against
scarlet fever was announced in Berlin.
Advices from Nome via Dawson in
dicate that many natives are destitute
and i'll.
The New York Central railroad has
employed sixty surgeons to give first
aid to victims of accident.
All the crew, twenty-four in number,
of the Norwegian steamer Avona,
which went ashore at Lemvig, Den
mark, were drowned.
Monday, Feb. 2.
General Miles dined with King Ed
ward at Windsor castle.
Dutch railway employees were victo-
rious in their strike for higher wages.
The transport Thomas sailed for Ma
Mia with more than thousand pas
sengers.
Six persons in runaway car were
drowned in the Mississippi river at
Vicksburg.
The sultan of Morocco's troops have
utterly routed the forces Of the Moor.
ish pretender and captured Blu Hamara
himself.
SATURDAY, Jhns SI.
The first of this years sugar crop ar
rived at Philadelphia from Cuba.
Signor Prinetti, Italian foreign min.
lister, is recovering from the recent at.
tack of paralysis.
The Philippine constabulary defeat
ed a body of ladrones in west Leyte
province, killing eight.
The Clyde line freight steamer Gull
Stream went ashore in fog off Ava
lon, N. ]. Her crew was rescued.
Former Secretary of State McDon
ough of New York announced his ac
ceptance of a supreme court justiceshiI
In the Philippines.
Count Paul Tiesenhausen, private
secretary to the Russian consul, was
arrested for splitting on an 81" plat
! form in New York city.
Friday, Jan. 30.
The Spanish budget shows a surplus
Of more than $9,0000O0.
Illinois college has been absorbed b!
the University of Chicago.
James II. Davis, the engineer of th
Reading train which wrecked the Eas
ton express, died in Plainfield, N. j.
Two men were badly burned by tn
explosion of steam chest on the moni
tor Puritan off Old Point Comfort, Va
Italian Foreign Minister Prinetti wa
stricken with paralysis while address
ing King Victor Emmanuel at cor
ference.
The Eckart Packing company's plan
at Fort Wayne, Ind, was wrecked b
an explosion. Four were killed an
many hurt.
Thursday, Jan. 20.
Six were killed and twenty injure
in a boiler explosion at Admission, Ala
! The rebellion is spreading in Chin;
Two hundred imperial troops are n
ported killed.
A bonded car near Ell Paso, Tex, we
robbed of $4,000 in bullion. Thre
Mexicans are suspected. One killed.
The town of San Marcial, Mexic
was attacked by Yaquis. Eight Amer
: cans among the defending force WEI
= killed.
3 Patrick Diver, former police ju
:, tice and for many years TammaI
: leader of the Second assembly distrit
5;od Ia Nau Work. city