The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-01-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
Chronfc1ed.

Chronic1ed.
Speaker Nixon told the Albany MS.
sembly that he saw no reason why the
legislature should not adjourn by
April 1.
According to reports received at the
official mine office at Essen, Germany,
122,612 men from 1877 coal mines are
out on strike.
Ira A. Sanger. relative of Mrs
George NJ. Pullman of Chicago, has
been slain by Mexican half breed ban.
aits in the mountain wilds of Sinaloa,
Mexico. Robbery was the motive.
Three summer hotels and six cot
tages Of summer residents were burned
at Rockaway Beach, n. Y. causing a
loss of 100000. The hotels destroyed
were the Waldorf, Germana and Co.
lumbian.
Tuesday. Jan. II.
A meeting of miners delegates at
Essen, Germany, has declared a gen.
eral strike.
L. J.. West, an express messenger,
was killed and thirteen persons were
injured in the wreck of Il northbound
Santa Fe train near Derby, Kan.
Alexander Nedzinska, aged nineteen
years, is dead as the result of injuries
received in a prize fight with George
Kubasak in barn at Millmont, near
Reading, Pa.
A fire at the Schwarzschild & Sulz-
t,lo
to the extent of 100000. At different
times twenty-four firemen were over
come by ammonia fumes, smoke and
flames.
Fire originated in the cellar of the
store occupied by the True Betting
company in the Grouse block, corner
Of Broad and John streets. Utica
N. Y, destroying an entire block, en-
failing loss of S150,OOO or more.
Lieutenant Avery, one Philippine
scout and two native employees have
been wounded in action at Dolores riv.
er, Philippine Islands. Private Aus.
tin, hospital corps, was wounded and
nine constabulary were killed in ac-
tion near Maslog, Samar.
Following the surrender to District
Attorney Jerome of the gambling out
fits belonging to Frank Farrell, Dave
Johnson and Frank MacDougal it was
declared by counsel for the gamblers
that Jerome has closed every gambling
house in New York city and that they
will remain closed.
Monday, Jan. 16.
Levi Rouss, better known as "Laza-
rus" has celebrated his birthday at
Passaic, n. j. 1t was his one hun
dredth and fifteenth. he claims.
The government of the Netherlands
has selected the military parade ground
near the Bosch at The Hague as the
site for Andrew Carnegie's palace of
peace.
The robber who was killed while at
tempting to force an entrance into the
home of the Lance brothers, near Mo
naca, Pa, has been identified as Ar
thur S. Harris. aged nineteen years. of
Midway, Pa. He was thought to be Il
respectable student.
Fire that for a time threatened the
destruction of the village of Spartans-
burg. Pa, burned itself out after de-
stroyinS Eastman's millinery store,
Blakesee's general store, Meltzer's
shoe store. DR. Maitland's office and
three dwellings The loss was S35,000
John Samsdell, aged fourteen years,
lies at Trenton IN. j. hospital with
,t, l..
eighteen-year-olS brother William has
been locked up pending an investiga-
ton into the shooting The elder boy
says they were shooting Mt a target
and skylarking when his brother was
accidentally shot.
Saturday. Jan. II.
The president has appointed YES
oasian Warner to be commissioner of
pensions. Mr.. Warner is now men,
Der of congress from Illinois.
The Corn Products company's big
starch plant at Oswego, ~ Y caught
fire, and group of three large build
lngs were destroyed; loss, S250,000.
Hon. Eugene Foss of Boston in an
address to the members of the Empire
club at Toronto, Ont, made a strong
plea for reciprocity between the Unit
ID States and Canada.
Mr.. Powell, the American minister to
Haiti, has informed the government of
Haiti that the United States refuses to
recognize the validity of the sentence
n contumacy to fifteen years Mt hard
abor pronounced by the Haitian court
against Jaeger Huber, an American
citizen, for alleged completely in bond
frauds.
Joseph Chamberlain related at Liver
pool that on one occasion n foreign
monarch said to him. "Of all things
connected with your British history
the one I admire the most is your colo
Gial policy Mr.. Chamberlain replied
10 this Sir, | think you do us too
much honor. We never had a colonial
policy. but somehow or another we
have been allowed to blunder into the
best parts Of the world
Friday, Jan. IL.