The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events OF the week Bricn,
and Tcrseiy Told.


Notable Events OF the week nricny
and Tcrseiy Told.
y heat wave has struck Australia
aud is burning up vegetation.
An American schooner was held ny
by Honduras gunboat and searched.
Miss Roosevelt ana Miss Root were
guests OF honor at the New Orleans
carnival
a Syracuse O.. " man celebrated
his eighty-sccond birthday by giving
reception to $50 widows.
King Edwprd VII, accompanied by
Queen Alexandra opened parliament.
His speech was an optimistic one.
The case of Potter, the Schenectady
militiaman who had a fight with the
labor union is to be taken to the court
of appeals.
Tuesday, Feb. II.
Bremen dock laborers go on strike.
The condition Of Prince Christian of
SaNony was pronounced much worse
President Palma of Cuba signed the
naval coaling station agreement with
the United States.
The Southern Pacific overland limit
ed was ditched in Nevada Two pas
scngers were seriously hurt five others
injured.
Two passenger trains were stuck i'm
the snow in Kansas, one on the Kansas
and Southwestern and the other on the
Santa Fe
The mother of Everett Coffin. in
jured in the Park avenue tunnel disas-
ter in New York city, sued the Central
railroad for 100000.
Wesleyan university received S25.OOO
from Charles Scott and his son of Phil
adelphia. \ laboratory costing 100000,
memorial to John ID. Scott, will be
built.
Monday. Feb. IG.
The Detroit Sulphte Fiber works
were destroyed by fire. The loss is
100000 and is covered by insurance.
The strike of the carders and ring
spinners at the Dover On. H cotton
mills has assumed more serious as
pect.
Ambassador Choate returned to Lon
don from his tour through the coun-
tries of the eastern Mediterranean and.
Egypt.
The New York and Florida express
of the Southern railway ran into an
open switch near Washington. The
fireman and engineer were killed.
A mass meeting of 10000 Macedo-
mans was held at Sofia, Bulgaria, to
protest against the action of the gov
ernment in dissolving the Macedonian
committees in Bulgaria.
Saturday, Feb. II.
Part of the Argentina navy depart
ment building at Buenos Ayres was
burned; loss, SS00,000.
The French chamber of deputies sus-
pended its session in an uproar growing
out of the Humbert case charges.
The First National bank of Asbury
Park, ~ j., has been closed by direc-
ton of the comptroller of the currency.
The II. G. Frick Coke company has
arranged to vaccinate its 10000 en-
ployees and their families, 100000 per-
sons in all, at a cost of $4,000 for vac
cine alone.
Friday, Feb. 13.
A British gunboat has captured three
pirate vessels in the Red sea.
DIR. Randall Davidson was en-
throned as archbishop of Canterbury.
American contributions for the relief
of starving Swedes amount to more
than $4,000.
The coal mines in Hooking and Sun
day Creek valleys, o., were shut down
for lack of cars.
The Gloucester fishing schooner An
ME Wesley, with n crew of fourteen,
is believed TO have been lost.
The Pollak-Viray quick telegraphy
system is said to have averaged $4,000
words an hour in test at Berlin.
Thursday. Feb. IL.
Salt Lake City, Utah, was visited by
a 100000 fire.
The trial of the noted Humbert fam
lily for alleged libel of a banker was
begun in Paris.
Advices from Guatemala announced
that the entire republic had been de-
clared in a state of siege.
A snowslide on the Northern Pacific
road in Montana broke trestle and
swept a freight train into gulch.
1t is estimated that the wheat har-
vest of South Australia will amount to
an eXportable surplus of 130,530 tons.
Strike Hearing Ended.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1.-THE an