The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-09-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TcrseIy Told.

Jersey.
The yacht Columbia took trial spin
from Bristol, Il. l., to Newport, showing
good speed.
Sloane and Martin. the American jock
cys, were very successful at race meet
ings in England.
Frank Pugh, grandson of the late John
Stephenson, car builder. committed sui
eide at New Rochelle. \. Y.
Daniel Franklin, former sheriff of
Delaware county. y. Y. died rs the re-
suit of surgical operation.
Prince and Princess Hohenlohe-La
genburg narrowly escaped death in II
railway collision at Perth, Scotland.
Oakes A. Ames, senio: member of the
well known Massachusetts, family, died
at North Easton, Mass, aged 20 years.
General Il. A. Alger has been an
nounced as one of those who will well
come the Kansas troops returning from
Manila
Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Secretary and Mrs. Gage left Wash
ington for a trip to Arizona
A serious break occurred in the Forest
port feeder to the Erie canal.
The first general rain in northern Tex
as since June % fell Sunday.
A cigar syndicate has been formed at
Tampa. Fla, with a capital of S25.O00,-
900.
The presidents dinner for Admiral
Dewey Mt the White House has been set
for Oct. 3.
The new battleship Kearsarge was
hoated into the drydock at the Brooklyn
navy yard.
From July l, 1898, to June so. 1899,
246.S45 immigrants arrived at the New
York barge office.
Subscriptions deposited in the National
Bank of North America for Porto Rican
sufferers reached S46,533.90.
Arizona and New Mexico officials de-
clared they would not follow California
In the proposition to quarantine consump.
tives.
Monday. Sept. Is.
The season at Concy Island, y. l., has
closed.
The Cleveland strikers voted unani-
mously to continue the strike.
i lockout at 80 Dundee Scotland mills
throws $4,000 men out of employment.
Many fishermen were drowned during
the recent storms off the Newfoundland
coast.
Harry Jacobs. II years old, was drown
&c in Dog river, at Montpelier, VT, while
bathing.
Six hundred men are idle as the result
of strike in the sawmills near Jackson
vile. Fla.
1hc union carpenters of Birmingham
Ala, have struck for nine hour day and
minimum wages of 81.
At Newburg. \. V, Charles A Me-
Closkcy died of lockjaw after the admin
istration of antitetanic serum.
The city public library, church and
several printing establishments in Lin
: coin, Neb., have been burned ut a loss o
ever 100000.
saturday. Sept. 10.
The Indian council at Smla passed tn,
new currency bill.
Fifty-nine cases of typhoid fever wer,
reported at Madrid.
Rear Admiral SIMPSONS squadron lef
Philadelphia for New York.
An old Alaska prospector has reached
Seattle who cannot tell his name o
home.
The New York state workingmen's fed
Grafton elected NJ. +. Murphy presidcn
at Albany.
Il. X. Banning, a Hawaiian capitalist
lost in San Francisco a valise containin
over 100000.
1t was reported that the German mis-
! sion ut Shangtung, China, had been ann
hilated by Chinese
!, Another Mexican guard near Mace
A. T., was killed during the trouble wit
U American cowboys.
Governor Tyler of Virginia refused
interfere with the execution of Noah FIJI
ley for highway robbery.
Edward Snow, II years old, was hel
: for trial nj Barnstable. Mass, on charg
OF numbering James +. Whittemore {
Yarmouth, Mass.
: Friday, Sept. 15.
~ A French colony of 800 families wi
o Dcatr on farms near Clay City, Ills.
. Bishop Doane of Albany was robbed
d Boston of 500 and valuable papers.
Miners arriving at Seattle from AlasI
declared the Cape Nome goldhelds to
very rich
al The natives of Paongan, Tibet, ha'
Il driven out of the province number
y British missionaries.
The president Unexpectedly summDn'
II Philippine Commissioners Worcester NJ
~ Dcnby home from Manila.
~ The Missouri, Kansas and Texas IN
road has taken S35, 900 of capital stock
the st. Louis Worlds fair.
Application was made by editors ',f Il
in Hobokcn Republican for the arrest
al Mayor Pagan Of that city for alleg
is criminal libel.
cr Thursdny, Sept. II.
nd Floods were reported in upper Austri
he Fifteen house painters have struck
IT. Philadelphia.
The civic federation, in Chicago, beg
its conference on trusts.
on II. Christie, charged with defrnudi
eli English kloldikers, was arrested ut ID,
st aid Canada.
0f a pet parrot turned on the gas in
FL room in Washington, asphyXiaing NJ
Die Alice Knott.
a Toledo shipbuilding company l.
planned 90 launch soon II second
ocean going steamship.
yu' Lord Ernest Hamilton son Of
,,'e Duke of Aberdeen, has ronched Vance
~ yer B C., en- route 20 the KlOndikc.
~, The City Of Mexico has arranged cl