The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-01-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Terscly Told.

and TerscIy Told.
Ambassador Powell Clayton is i'll at
City of Mexico with bronchitis.
French parliament reopcncd NJ. Bour.
geois was reelected president of the
chamber.
The people of Tuscola ILL.,. confiscated
ten carloads of coal at the Illinois Cen.
tral yards.
A woman cashier was robbed OF
| $4,000 while going to "A bank at Osh.
kosh. Wis.
Crown Princess Stephanie denied that
she had been deserted by her husband.
Count Lonyay.
Tuesday, Jan. IL.
The Cunard line has ordered two new
steamships.
The mayor of Stamford, Conn, pro-
hibited mice catching at the cat show
there.
Sheriff Reese of Bibb county. Ala
was murdered by negro whom he had
arrested.
Count de Lonyay is said to have de-
serted his wife, the Crown Princess
Stephanie.
The American Academy of Political
and Social Science meets in Phiadel.
! phia tonight.
New York city assessors have in.
creased real estate valuations over 81,
400,000.000 Andrew Carnegie heads
the list for personal property taxed.
A disastrous fire in the eight story
building at the corner of Allen and East
Houston streets, New York city, did
over $1,000,00 damage and threw over
600 men out of work.
Monday, Jan. IL.
Bend Or the famous race horse, who
won the London Derby in 1850, dropped
dead while exercising.
A heavy fall of snow was reported
in northern and western New York.
The storm reached blizzard proportions
in Michigan.
Fire destroyed the older portion Of
the w. Devices wood plant of the
American Sheet Steel company at Nc
Keesport, Pa.
/ Because three men were discharged
all the motormen and conductors have
struck and tied up the trolley system
of Waterbury, Conn.
Edward Powers, a Philadelphia prod
uce merchant, was killed and robbed
by an unknown highwayman on the
street a few blocks from his home.
Saturday. Jan. 10.
Daniel II. Hastings former governor
Of Pennsylvania, died at Bellefonte.
Russia and China have failed TO agree
on the Manchurian customs question.
The Equitable building annex in Bos.
ton was gutted by fire. Loss $4,000
Another violent earthquake has oc-
Cured at Andijan, but without loss of
life.
cier, was stricken with apoplexy at
Johannesburg.
Cracks have been discovered i'm the
arches of the palace on the north side
of the piazza of st. Mark. in Venice.
The famous old colonial house, grist
mill and barn on the Curzon estate,
near Newburyport Mass, was burned.
The profit sharing plan started some
years ago by the American Window
Glass company of Pittsburg has proved
failure.
Inc twenty-fifth anniversary of the
death of Victor Emmanuel III. was COM
memorated Mt Rome by great process
sion to his tomb
Friday, Jan. ..
Bandits in Chicago robbed two sa-
looms, killing the proprietor of one of
them.
Thirteen deaths in one day from
Asiatic plague occurred at Mazatlan.
Mexico.
Rev. DR.. Davidson, bishop of Win
chester. has been appointed archbishop
of Canterbury.
The appellate court in Chicago has
decided in the board of trade case that
corners are illegal.
over 1900 employees of the United
States Steel corporation have sub
scrbed for shares under the profit shar-
ing plan.
Baron Speck Won Sternberg is to rep.
resent Germany ut Washington during
the absence on leave of Ambassador
Won Holleben.
Thursday, Jan. 3.
Heavy snowstorms were reported in
northern New York.
In response to the demands of its
men the Northern Pacific has offered
10 per cent increase in wages.
The Norwegian bark Prince Arthur
was wrecked on the coast of Washing
ton and eighteen of the crew drowned.
Albert King, former coachman for
John Finley in Mount Vernon, n. Y,
cut the throat of Mr.. Finley's four
yeGr-old daughter and then shot him
self dead.
All the foreign ministers at Pcking
except Mr.. COnger have signed n joint
note to China threatening grave conse-
quences of the failure to pay indemnity
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