The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-02-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Nstabie Events of the Week Briefly
ChrOuiCIeJ.


Walter l.. Cohen, a negro, will be re-
appointed as register of the land Office
at New Orleans.
Mamie Rayburn, a singer, at Cincin-
natl. rushed out Of her dressing room,
ler clothing afame and ran screaming
through the theater. The girl was
burned from head to foot and is dying
IN hospital.
At meetings of boards of directors of
Vanderbilt lines held in New York w.
II. Newman, president of the New
FORK Central, was elected president of
he Michigan Central and also Of the
cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and st.
Louis.
Senator Daniel A. Campbell, Repub-
ican leader in the Illinois senate was
truck in the face by former Senator
dley in the upper room Much excite
nent followed, and two of Senator
'ampbells colleagues. Mueller and
srown, and the sergeant at arms eject
ID Riley from the chamber and after
ward arrested him.
Tuesday, Jan. ~.
The jury in the Hotaling case at
3inghamton. n. Y. has returned a YER
lict of manslaughter in the second de-
rec.
Commodore Il. C. Benedict of the
yew York Yacht club and his guests
ave reached New York, having com
rleted a pleasure trip of 10000 miles
IN the Amazon river.
The supreme court of the United
jtates has decided against the packers
"a the case of the United States versus
jwift & Co., known as the beef trust
ase charging conspiracy.
w. V. DAILY. a mining engineer and
aine owner, just arrived from Minas
2rietas, Mexico, says that the Yaqui
utbreak in Mexico is serious. There
ne probably 300 Yaquis out, divided
alto some fifteen bands.
Workmen are trying to discover the
ause of n mysterious fire I'm the tun-
,el which is being built under the
East river, New York. from the Bat
cry TO Brooklyn. For twenty-four
iours smoke has poured from the great
ube.
Golden Kimball general secretary of
the first council of seventy and prom
,nent Mormon. in speech at Logan,
Utah, is reported to have strongly de-
ended polygamy and predicted that
engress would be unable to stop the
ractice
Monday, Jan. 30.
Frank Croker of New York, who died
t 0rmond, Fla, as n result of an au-
9moblle accident, has left an estate
upward of 100000.
Two children, aged four years and a
seek respectively, were burned to
cath in a house at Wanakena, N. Y,
n the Cranberry Lake railroad.
Negro troops from Georgia will not
e allowed to attend the Inauguration
{ President Roosevelt on March 4.
Governor Terrell will not grant permis-
ion to the colored troops to leave the
tate.
President Roosevelt has directed at
sntion through letters to Secretaries
aft and Morton to the desrability of
acouraging by ju jitsu methods and
y every means possible the physical
evelopment of cadets at the Military
nd Naval academies.
A story of thirteen days of suffering
tan open boat and a rescue just when
annibalism had been decided on was
Id by one of three OF the thirteen sur
ivors of the wrecked steam dredge
exas, who arrived at New York on
ne Cunard liner Etruria.
AlonZo ]. Whiteman, one of the most
AsOurceful and dangerous criminals
yer known to the police in this coun-
y, has been recaptured in the home of
is mother in Dansville, n. Y. White
ans latest exploit was his leap from
fast train to escape from custody.
Saturday, Jan. %.
During fire in veterinary hospital
Baltimore William b. Wilmer, vet
an of the civil war, was burned to
cath.
In the trial at Lexington, Ky, of
lillian BrittOn for the murder of
imes Cockrell in Breathltt county the
lry has returned verdict of guilty,
King the punishment at life imprison-
tent.
Boston has rumor that Thomas w.
awson purposes to go to New York
nd lay before District Attorney Je-
me certain evidence which will, he
9pes, result in the indictment of GER
in persons who, he AYERS, have con-
9ired to compass his financial ruin.
At Turks island, Bahamas, n confer
ace has been held by Dominican eX-
es, healed by General Deschamps,
1rmer vice president of Santo Domin-
D, at which it wars resolved to make n
ational protest against the protocol
igned at Santo Domingo by the Do
ainican and the American govern
gents
Friday, Jan. IT.
Four men were killed by an accident
It Durham Furnace, Pa. when Il local
Gain was derailed