The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the week Bricny
and TerseIs Told.


steamer Mexico, to tour few months in
this country.
Lloyd Tevis, former president of the
Wclls-Fargo Express company, died ut
/ San Francisco.
Scenes of great disorder marked the
anti-Gocbel Democratic convention at
Bowling Green, Ky.
| The Shamrock left Rothesay bay for
| Grcenock to complete fitting out for her
voyage across the Atlantic.
The various conventions of the peace
conference will remain open to the sigma
lures of the powers until Dec. 81, 1899
General Brooke, 1t was said in Wash
ington, will soon be relieved of his com
mand in Cuba and be succeeded by Gen
eral Wood.
Tuesday, July 20.
Mrs. Catherine Dillon, aged LOG, died
at Bristol. Pa.
Havana's health report for the past
two weeks was the most favorable ever
| known.
Telegraph messenger boys in the down
town district of New York city went on
strike yesterday.
Mrs. Mary Love Lawless, once a sweet
heart of Abraham Lincoln, died in Lex
ington, Ky, aged Sc.
Forty persons were struck by lightning
at Berlin Sunday. Three were killed
and ~ severely injured.
The st. James Gazette deprecated the
talk of war over the Alaskan boundary
indulged in by Canadians.
1t was stated in Washington that one
of Secretary Roots first duties will be
the consideration of plan of government
for Cuba.
Between 5000 and 1000 New York
coatmakcrs quit work on Il demand for n
ten hour work day and an increased
wage scale.
Monday, July "a.
The bubonic plague is spreading in
China.
Fircbugs have burned several farm
buildings near Trenton.
Fire in Chicago destroyed five story
block, entailing loss of S122,OOO.
At the international athletic contests
held in London Saturday the Americans
were defeated by one event.
The two negroes who outraged Mrs.
Ogletree at Bainbridge, Ga, last Thurs
day night have been lynched.
Fourteen thousand people witnessed
the Sunday ball game between the New
I York and St. Louis teams Mt st. Louis.
A Methodist elder and Sunday school
superintendent has been arrested In Mon
roe county, Ky, for running an illicit
dstillery.
, The newsboys of New York city are
: waging war against The Evening World
= and The Evening journal because of a
rise in price. The boycott is general and
. effective.
D Saturday, July 81.
3. The 3 cent fare rule on the Detroit
!, street railways has been abrogated.
! The negroes of Lake Village, Chicot
county, Ark, were reported to have risen
against the whites.
!. The Paris will not be fully repaired be-
= fore next season, and the work of repairs
. will cost 81 100000.
The Lake View car barn of the Big
Consolidated Street railway at Cleveland
/, was wrecked by dynamite.
k Governor Pingree gave out statement
y at Detroit bitterly attacking President
= Mckinley because of his treatment OF
: General Alger.
s. Six Italians were reported to have beei
> lynched by mob at Tallulah, La. On'
q Of them was accused of shooting al
. American physician.
II A company has been organized to buil'
" n wireless telegraph from Lake Bennett
in Alaska, to the Canadian Pacific rail
way in British Columbia.
FL The BLACK Jack" gang of train rob
e bers in Texas has been reorganized, an,
f. an attack on the Southern Pacific expires
" was feared by officials.
4 Friday, July 81.
is There was a slight earthquake shocl
u at Rome.
er Baroness Nathaniel Rothschild die,
suddenly in Paris.
An unprecedentedly warm wave pre-
~ vailed over all England.
% The schooner Samuel Wood, for MOI
"A folk, stranded off Little Egg Harbol
IN n. j.
~ Archbishop Ireland sailed from Queens
ID town for the United States on the Br
O. tannc
,e Japan is reported to have seized Ma
Gus island, fearing the United State
would take II for a cable station.
Heavy rains have caused eXtensiy
Of washouts on the Santa Fe and Denvt
in and Rio Grande railroads in New Me!
IT. leo.
a. James Mccarthy, the magazine write
"A and novelist known as "Fitzmack,' WI
is probably fatally burt by an electric CT
n in Denver.
There was u serious demonstration
Barcelona. A mob paraded the stree
carrying the French tricolor and shoutir
es seditious cries.
OK Thursdny, July 20.
ny Patrick II. Shields Il prominent res
rs dent of Malone, n. Y, died suddenly.
~ The London market was much easie
M -. ON the belief that the Transvaal cris
was over.
Congress Hall hotel at Saratol
was destroyed by fire which did 500
,ly 600 damage.
ces The National museum has secured I
ca celebrated Hudson collection of lndi
Wy basket work.
lii- Emperor William visited Howa
Lhe Gould on the latter's yacht, Niagara,
Molde, Norway.
Mount Etna broke out in eruptit
Violent earthquake shocks accompani
VI the disturbance,