The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-08-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tcrsety Told.


in 80 mile trial race.
A Harvard athlete won the 100 yard
dash at Barrow. England.
ambassador Choatc has left London
for three weeks tour i'm Scotland.
1t was stated that the Filipinos demand
S1,0O0,000 for release of Spanish prison.
ers.
A tunnel on the Georgia division of the
Southern railway was blown up by dyna'
mite.
Russian students to the number of CO..
600 have struck and refuse to attend
lectures.
Andrew Carnegie has promiad to give
a free library costing $4,000 to the town
of Kcighlcy, Yorkshire.
In Philadelphia two sisters, Annie and
Mary Crozier, aged respectively 80 and
IS years, were found dead in their home.
u. :. Pope. proprietor of "A confection-
cry store in Fremont. Ncb., was shot and
fatally wounded by his former partner
T.. jerome. Five shots were fired.
Tuesday, Aug. d.
A fall of rain in western India improv
cd conditions there.
1t was denied at Berlin that Japan had
taken Wake island.
Three deaths from yellow fever were
reported from Santiago.
The Mexican army began active hostili.
ties against the warning Yaqui Indians.
Admiral Dewey arranged to sail from
Naples to Leghorn on Saturday or Mon.
day next.
Harry Uough, n bank cashier of Do
yer, y. H., was arrested, charged with
embezzlement.
The British and Canadian garrisons at
Victoria, Il. c., were reported about to
be greatly increased.
The British steamer Winthorpe, which
struck a rock off the Spanish coast, was
reported total wreck.
The yacht Shamrock was sighted Fri.
day night. in tow of the steam yacht
Erin, off the Irish coast.
All the troops were ordered to be NOV.
ed from Cleveland. the street railway
strike having quieted down.
Monday, Aug. z.
Seventeen persons were killed and 73
injured by a railway collision in the sub
urbs of Paris.
Leonard Gould of Chicago dropped
dead on hotel piazza at Block island
Rhode Island.
Herr Vonderlasa, the German diplo'
matist and celebrated chess player, is
dead in Berlin.
Mrs. Benjamin Grosscup, mother OF
Judge p. S. Grosscup, died ut Ashland
O., aged rs years.
The American Canoe association is
holding its twentieth annual encampmen,
I'll, hn G.
Davis Dalton, n well known swimming
instructor, who had been stopping at Fal
Rockaway, was drowned at Hog island
near Rockaway.
A meeting Of prominent Hebrews has
been held in Berlin to discuss the plar
proposed By American Hebrews to buy
the island Of Cyprus, in the Mediterrane
an, for Jewish e6lonization.
Saturday, Aug. 3.
A Pennsylvania man, in an insane fit
killed his three children and himself.
Six steamers took big cargoes Of grair
from Delaware river ports for Europe.
j. w. Dryborough, an English poll
| player, died from an accident at Rugby.
Charles A. F. Autenrieth, Philadel
| phia retired banker, committed suicide b.
shooting himself.
Minister Aspiroz of Mexico discredte'
| the report of South American allianc
against the United States.
! Only four houses were left standing il
| Carrabelle, Fla, after Tuesdays storm
Thirteen vessels are ashore.
! Reports from the Yaqui Indian out
break in Sonora, Mexico, made it eviden
that the situation was serious.
Fifteen Griffin faction men, we'll arm
ed, rode to the trial of Clay count
(Ky.) friend charged with murder.
Robert Lowe of Brooklyn, whose leg
were amputated by Ballston Termihl
railway train, died at Saratoga hospital.
First Lieutenant Wesley Z. Bryd,
Ninth regiment, n. G., n. Y, was dii
missed from the national guard by coul
martial in Albany.
Friday, Aug. 4.
Belgiums new cabinet has been pra
tically completed.
No new cases Of yellow fever were r,
ported at Hampton, Va.
A third body was found in the Err
train wreck near Lackawaxen, Pa.
twenty-five hundred coal miners in Il
Pennsylvania anthracite district struck.
The Canadian senate passed bill
pay share Of the cost of the Pacific c.
BILE.
A Cuban general accused Cuban of
GERS of taking money unjustly from sc
diers.
A. A. Hansen Of Minneapolis broke Il
1000 mile record, his time being 02 hou
and A minutes.
: The British ambassador at WashingtC
, has taken the title of Lord Pauncefot
, He will retire next spring.
The work of clearing away the wrec
age and repairing the damage of the to
nado in Elizabeth, n. j., was begun.
, Thursday, Aug. 3.
Destructive storms were reported
Japan and China.
Z Oscar T.. Rice and John Kennedy, mt
e derers, We're executed at Auburn prison
= Emperor Williams yacht Meteor be
$ the Britannia and others again ut Cow,
t General Rufus K. Dawes, father
Comptroller Dawes, died at Marietta,
Wind and hail were said to have dal