The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Brieay
and TerseIy Told

Admiral Dewey sailed from Horgkone |
for Singapore.
Heavy rain and wind storms were re- |
ported from Michigan.
The White Pass railway will he com
pleted to Lake Bennett by July 1.
Three men were killed by a cave in al
the Berlinsvile Pn.) slate quarry.
The text of the agreement between
Spain and Germany for the cesson of is.
lands was read in the reichstag.
Secretary Gage said the present ship.
ments of gold to Europe would have nc
unfavorablc effect on the treasury.
When the tomb of Lunalilo, the Bare.
foot King Of Hawaii" was opened al
Honolulu, the casket was found empty.
President Mckinley will attend the
laying of the cornerstone of the new post.
office building Mt Milwaukee in Octo.
Der.
Robert Wallace, member of the Brit
ish parliament, who was stricken while
speaking on the grant to General Kitche-
ner of Khartum died.
Tuesday, June q.
Congressman X. p. Bland was report
ed very i'll at Lebanon, Mo-
Kitchener grant of f39,3J1.
Three of the Union Pacific train rob
bers have been captured near Casper
Wy.
General Carlos Ezeta, ex-president Of
Salvador, was reported dangerously i'll at
Oakland, Cal.
There were conflicts between crowds
and the military at a Nationalist demon
stration at Belfast.
Augustin DAILY, who has been i'll in
London, has completely recovered and
has gone to Paris.
Frank Thomson, president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad company, died at his
home at derion, Pa.
General Adrian Root died in Buffalo,
aged G6 years. General Root served
throughout the civil war.
A cyclone has devastated northern
Morocco. The river Orc burst its banks,
and several villages were swept away.
Oxford and Cambridge have received
cable from Yale and Harvard accepting
the challenge for an international con-
test.
A dispatch from Admiral Kautz, re-
| ceived by way Of San Francisco, said he
expected to arrive at the latter city
about June %.
Monday, June s.
The sale of the A. II. Stewart mansion
on Fifth avenue New York city, was re.
| ported.
A tornado swept through Iowa. In
| the vicinity of Kellogg much damage
was done.
Advices from Kingston, Jamaica, re-
| port As distinct shocks of earthquake in
| five hours.
| w. G. Stiles, well known ship timber
manufacturer, committed suicide at
| Warren, o. Ill health was the cause.
Calvin Bensing, % years Of age, of
| Lebanon, Pa, was drowned in the canal
yesterday at Princeton, n. j., while
bathing.
Senator Hanna intends to sail next
| Saturday for the south Of France, where
he will undergo a course of treatment
for rheumatism.
Philip Henry Savage, clerk of the
| board of trustees of the Boston Public
| library, died at the Massachusetts Gen
| eral hospital from appendicitis.
| At Yonkers John Flanagan, world:
champion hammer thrower, won new
fame by throwing hammer 164 feet II
inches and making new record.
Saturday, June 3.
A sharp shock of earthquake was fel
in San Francisco.
Robert Cox, member of the British
parliament for South Edinburgh, is dead
1t was reported in Paris that Du Pat.
de Clam had attempted to commit sui
eide in prison.
The property decided to Stanford uni
versity by Mrs. Stanford was said t.
have been worth S3S,000,000.
The Idaho supreme court has denie,
the petition of the imprisoned Coeu
| d'Alene miners for writ of habeas cor
pus.
| Embassador Choate conferred wit
Lord Salisbury at the foreign Office II
London relative to the Alaska boundr
dispute.
Twelve japanese spies were repOrte
10 have been arrested by Russians on tn
Lao Tung peninsula and executed with
out trial.
The Christian negroes of Knoxville OF
served fast day. Prayers were offere
for freedom from mob violence and tn
lessening of crime.
Union Pacific train No. l was held u
at Wilcox, Wy. The express car wa
blown open with dynamite and the COL
tents of the safe taken.
Friday, June z.
\ cable from London announced tn
death OF John Smart, the landscap
painter.
Counsel FOR Nine. Dreyfus resume
his argument before the court Of casst
tion at Paris.
The West Indian trade reciprocity de
exation will leave Jamaica for the Uni
|, ed States on Tuesday.
The United States court mt Boston ma
, decided that nonresident corporations al
I liable for the debts of corporation.
The Ohio delegation in the house
I representatives has decided to suppol
General Henderson of Iowa for speake
One man was killed and two were 81
riously although not fatally injured b
the falling of scaffold at FLUSHING
= n. Y.
D A drydock was prepared for the crul
; er Brooklyn at the navy yard. Diyel
l found the bottom of the vessel straine
: for a distance of 40 feet.
' ...ln 90 tho polirp force