The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-01-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week briefly
Chronicled.

cOuIt cnHrSpS, nOr mas lDr. CHADWICK
oeen arraigned on the charge against
him. Their counsel intimates that the
state will not dare go to trial in the
case.
Excessive indulgence in stimulants
Immediately previous to the date of his
marriage on Dec 10 is said to he the
eause OF Mr. Brode l.. Dukes action
n making Miss Alice Webb his wife.
and the New York district attorneys
ifice is probing the allegations of his
Slatives that he was made the victim
If plot.
1t is charged that the death of George
gan Cleaf, the noted swimmer of the
New York Athletic club, of typhoid
,ever, as well as the deaths of Miss
Nthel Golding, ID. II. Bratton and
Percy Dickey, are traceable to the stag
ant swimming pool Mt the St Louis
air in which the Olympic swimming
ontests We're held.
1t has leaked out at Albany that. at
he request of a committee represent
ng the various anticanal districts of
he state, Elihu Root, former secretary
4 war, and eX-Chief Judge Charles :.
andrews of Syracuse have written an
pinion that the 1000 ton canal law
authorizing the expenditure of $1O1,-
100000 is unconstitutional.
Tuesday, Jan. 10.
Because of the death of his fve-year-
I'D son Francis from the effects of gin
irinking John Garrity, Il teamster has
seen placed under arrest at Hartford,
,onn.
Brazil has finally determined to ele-
sate her legation at Washington to an
embassy and will send her minister at
london, Mr.. Nabuco, as her first ann
8assador to this country.
Miss Mabel Crewe, Pennsylvania
girl and trained nurse with the Jap
lnese army, was captured by Russian
Gossacks Oct. II at Masampho, Korea.
and held as a prisoner of war for six
days.
The Binghamton (N " police have
arrested Edward Ackley, aged four
zen, and Peter Burke aged seventeen,
charged with being members of the
gang of boy bandits who attempted to
shoot Iineman Richard Smith.
The international commission ap-
poihted to inquire into the North sea
accident has resumed its sessions at
he foreign office in Paris. Admirals
son Spaun (Austria) and Doubassoff
Russia, new commissioners, were
resent,
A xrall IraccaI nn,,,,,,it-
ed suicide at New Haven, Conn, by
hooting himself through the head in
secluded spot at the western end of
chapel street. On two notebooks the
iame Of "Daniel Floyd Flanders, Ro-
sette street, city," was found.
Twenty-one ballots in the house of
representatives and thirty-nine in the
enate, together with the presence of
practically all the state Republican
2aders, has failed to break or even
ndent the deadlock organization of the
Delaware legislature at Dover.
Locked up in cells at police headquar-
ers at Jersey City, n. j., are ten Sici-
ans and Italians who the police be-
EVE, are the principal leaders among
bC vi i'idNh llhliu JULIUS
Thich have been terrorizing Italians
New York and neighboring towns
or several years.
Monday, Jan. o.
Twenty-four persons have lost their
ives in the Alps during the recent bliz-
ard. Fourteen of the casualties were
the st. Bernard pass.
A number of Napoleonic relics have
disappeared from the birthplace of
Sapoleon at Ajaccio, Corsica, following
he visit of two Americans, whose
ames have been given to the police.
The outbuildings on the farm of
ieOrge w. Decker north of Elmira,
& Y, with twenty-three cows, other
lock and implements, were destroyed
v fire Decker went into the barn to
ave the cattle and was burned to
eath. The loss is $1,000
While the fire department was fight
ag fire in the barn of George Wilkin-
On at Ashland, Wis, n quantity of
,ynamite exploded in the burning build
Ig, seriously injuring four firemen and
Yo spectators. The firemen had been
earned that there was dynamite in the
uilding, but continued their work.
The home of Charles f. Berner, vice
commodore of the Sea Cliff Yacht club,
t Sea Cliff, n. Y, was almost totally
.estroyed by fire. The origin of the
ire is not known. Mr.. Berner was
awakened by smoke and quickly
troused the other members of the
tousehold, all Of whom escaped safely.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The mail car of the Atlantic Coast
me, which has arrived in Montgomery,
Ala, was robbed about five miles east
4 that city. a large amount of regis
cred mail was secured. The bandit
nade his escape, dropping off the train
as it entered the outskirts Of Mont
.omery. Eugene Hester, the railway
glail clerk, was shot through the hand
saturday, Jan. Z.
The thermometer registered ~ de
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