The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-01-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Rssable Events OF the Week briefly
Chronicled.


all hope of rescuing the two miners
who were entombed at Mount Hope
colliery, near Pottsville Pa, has been
abandoned. One body has been re-
covered.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor is
resting comfortably at his home in
Llewellyn Park, near Orange, n. j.,
sitter coming through serious opera
tion for the removal of mastoid alb
scess behind the left ear.
William j. Bryan was the guest of
honor at dollar dinner given in War
ner hall, New Haven, Conn. Mr.. Bry-
an made 1t an occasion for indicating
The reason why the Democratic party
vas so overwhelmingly defeated in the
last campaign and also stated what
seemed to him signs of promise for a
Democratic victory in the next presi-
Dental campaign.
Tuesday, Jan. "a.
The Countess BuXhoewden formerly
Miss Mcknight of Bordentown, n. j.,
is dead at Nice, France.
York. His son, killed by auto accident
ut Ormond, Fla, will be buried in
Brooklyn.
King Victor Emmanuel has signed O
decree comforting the Grand Gordon of
the Grown of Italy on Whitelaw Reid
of New York.
The congregation of the propaganda
at Rome has selected the Very Rev.
Thomas +. Hickey, vicar general of the
diocese of Rochester, N. Y, as coadju-
tor bishop of that diocese with the
right of succession.
An ice gorge has formed in the north
channel, st. Lawrence river, near Far.
nns Point, N. Y, and the water, set
Ting back, threatens to flood Morris
burg. Efforts are being made to break
the gorge with dynamite.
As the result of run by depositors
following the suicide of Cashier Charles
Fl. Houseman, who shot himself, the
East End Savings bank at Columbus,
o., has been closed by its directors
and placed in the hands of a receiver.
Colonial Secretary Lyttelton has ap-
pointed II. Rider Haggard, the novelist,
a commissioner to inquire into the con-
ditions and character of the agricul-
tural and industrial land settlements
organized in America by the Salvation
Army.
Diamonds and other jewelry to the
value of $4,000 belonging to Mrs. VIII
liam ID. Edey, wife of prominent
member of the New York Stock EX-
change, were stolen from q room in the
Hotel Maryland at Pasadena, Cal.
lanes Doyle, the head bellboy Of the
hotel, has been arrested on suspicion.
Monday, Jan. 23.
There have been three distinct earth
quakes of increasing force, causing
considerable excitement, at Santiago,
Cuba.
Zoltan Doehme, former husband of
Nine. Nordica, has been sued at New
York by a maid formerly in the opera
singers employ for $4,000, alleged to
De her share of $12500O the tenor re-
:eived in settlement of an alienation
iuit.
-Four Americans-Dr r. c. Coy and
:. K. Mackenzie of Chicago, NJ. A. Call
II Toledo, o., and Walter Stublnger of
kowanee, lll.-and a Mexican driver
we're ambushed and killed by Yaqui In
uans four miles east of Cobachi, So
tora, Mexico.
Alexander Dowie of Zion City. Mich,
he prophet apostle" is the victim of
/ stomach trouble which has become
practically chonic MaInutrition is said
o show itself in loss Of weight. and his
tomach Is so weak that much of the
1me it refuses to retain even the most
leGcate foods.
While the performers We're dressing
or the performance of Pucini's opera,
La CiocOnda," at the Metropolitan
opera House New York, and the audi
nee had already begun to gather, Fritz
'asch, a chorus singer, was found dead
'ehind the scenes, having hanged him
elf with Il strap.
Saturday, Jan. III.
Major Jacob Ridgeway Wright.
fNditLg iAlfAt ONllt vi w lIktSDdfTt,
Pa, is dead ut New York from the eff
ects of bullet wound, said to be self
afflicted.
Delegate Randall of Wyoming, who
tharged President Mitchell with having
old out the Colorado miners. has been
Expelled from the United Mine Workers
Il America.
Pinched by lobster on the finger as
Ee wos trying TO put 1t in pot of
boiling water Otto Zimmerman. chef
II Pabsts restaurant, New York, is
&ead as Il result OF blood poisoning.
One Of the reasons urged by New
HeSicO for admission as a state was
1he fact that New Mexico supplied
mere thasl half of thl members OF the
eginont Of rough riders commanded
Iuring tie Spanish war by Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt.
FridGy, Jan. 20.
Justice GaTnor, IN the supreme court,
Sew York, has discharged Erode l..
Duke, the tobacco man, accused of be-
ing mentally Irresponsible