The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of The Week Brief,
and TerscIy Told.

f1re destroyed ~ houses III n SuDufD OF
Quebec.
Cecil Rhodes was warmly welcomed on
his arrival at Cape Town.
Miss Clara Barton of the Red Cross
reached New York from Havana.
Horatio Alger, the well known writer
of stories for boys died at Natick, Mass.
Several fircmen were seriously injured
at the burning of Grace hotel, Milwau-
kee.
A consignment of rare fish from Ber-
muda was received at the New York
aquarium.
Tod Sloane, the American jockey, has
been suspended for insubordination from
July Is to Aug. 5.
Three trainmen were killed and three
seriously injured in wreck on the Nor
folk and Western railroad at Havcrhill,
o.
The steamer Roanoke has arrived at
Seattle from st. Michaers with about
500 passengers and gold dust estimated
at S2,0000 900.
The Paris Matin has published state
ment by Comte Ferdinand Walsin Es-
terhazy saying that he wrote the border
eau by order of Colonel Sandherr.
Tuesday, July IL.
The yellow fever situation at Santiago,
Cuba, continues TO improve.
The anniversary of the surrender of
Santiago was observed in Havana.
Six robbers held up New York Belt
line car and stole jewelry from passen-
gers.
The war department. has chartered the
steamer Siam to carry 300 cavalry horses
to Manila.
NJ. Mallet-Prevost entertained the
members of the Venezuela arbitration
tribunal at dinner in Paris.
Burglars blew open the safe in hotel
office ut Demarest, N. j., and carried
away 500 worth of plunder.
A serious collision between trains of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
fort railroad occurred at New Haven.
Fires at Fort Dutaiesne were believed
to have been caused by White river
Utes, who wish to destroy the cavalry
equipment Of the soldiers.
1t was reported at Victoria, b. c., that
| the steamers Roanoke and Garonne
would bring to Seattle and San Fran
cisco $7,OOO,O0O In Klondike gold.
Monday, July II.
A mob lynched a murderer at Gaines
| vile. Ga.
American tin plate has advanced from
| $3S1 to $4.3I per box.
A French squadron. consisting of 20
ships. has arrived at Barcelona.
The salaries Of 800 employees of the
New York postoffice have been raised.
| Fourteen tons of spoiled fruit were or
dered destroyed in Sir Thomas LiptOn's
Jam factory In London.
Fifteen Austrian miners have been
seized in Iowa and will be dcported for
violating the alien labor law.
The salvors of the steamer Paris will
get $375.OOO for the job. Their expenses
are said to have been about $4,000.
A bronze tablet has been unveiled at
Tarrytown, n. Y, to commemorate the
action at that place during the Revolu-
tion.
The automobile which started on a
transcontinental trip from New York city
Thursday was laid up for repairs at
Hudson, N. Y. Saturday.
Saturday, July IL.
General John b. Clapp died in Hart
ford, Conn.
Robert Harper of Minneapolis cele-
brated his one hundredth birthday.
The annual convention of New York
State Bankers association opened at AL
exandria Bay, n. Y.
The president announced more appoint
ments of captains and first and second
leutenants in the volunteer army.
-Four bombs were exploded in BarcelO-
ma, Spain. No serious damage was done,
but great excitement was caused.
Lockjaw claimed its twenty-fifth vic
tim as result of Independence day acci-
dents in and about New York city.
Mrs. Mary Austin Ingerson, aged 66
years, one of the most prominent women
of Saratoga county, n. Y, died suddenly
at her Ballston Spa home.
Friday, July IA.
Lady Salisbury, who had a slight at
tack of paralysis, is better.
The internal revenue officials will rec
ommend important changes in the war
revenue act.
Strikers at Bridgeton, N. j., stormed a
train and captured party Of nonunion
glass blowers.
The handsome stables of Hon. w. c.
Whitney at Roslyn, N. Y, have been de-
stroyed by fire.
Mr.. and Mrs. John ID. Davis have
started from New York city in an auto
mobile on trip to San Francisco.
The Klondike exhibit at the Paris ex
position next year will include four tons
of virgin gold, valued at $2,000,00O.
During an experiment with field CUR
at Sandy Hook, n j., two men were in
jured by the explosion of a Hotchkis'
shell.
Five-year-old Karl Boermer, who ar
rived at New York on the steamer Fries
land, was declared to be a confirmed
drunkard.
A serious crash between two trains oI
the Central Railroad of New Jersey a
Elizabethport was averted by the promp
, action of the switch tender.
, The Spanish cabinet has accepted tn
offer of the queen regent to assist tn
finances of the country by giving up an
other 100000 pesetas from the civi
list.
= Thursday, July 13.
: The Olympia, with Admiral Dewey OF
\ board, arrived at Suez.
t A heavy hailstorm damaged crops i