The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-15

Lieutenant Colonel Picquart.
1t was reported that Japan had decided
to give back to China all the warships
captured during the late war.
The navy department has been inform
ed Of the safe arrival of the cruiser New
ark ut an island off the coast of Pata-
gona.
A report has been received mt Chcy-
enne, wy, that the Union Pacific rob
bers have been surrounded and are al
most sertain to be captured.
Tuesday, June 13.
Mexico's gold production was estimat-
ed at S12,000,000 this year
Yellow fever was reported unusually
virulent at Vera Cruz. Mexico.
Negroes at Sardis, Miss, lynched a ne
gro for assault on n woman of his own
race.
Rev. William Garden Blaike died at
North Berwick, Scotland, early Sunday
morning.
After lying in catalcptic state for 100
hours Viola NJ Brown, aged 20 years,
died in Philadelphia.
AT Summerville, Pa, Henry Reynolds
of Binghamton, n. Y, shot himself with
revolver, inHicting fatal injuries.
The will of the late Nathaniel Noyes
of Haverhill, Mass, bequeaths $4,000
to four public institutions of Salem.
Crops in Albany, Schenectady, Sarato-
ga and Washington counties were report
ed seriously damaged by the long contin-
ued drought.
The Stella Polare, with the Duke of
Abbruzi, nephew of the king of Italy,
and his polar expedition ON board, start
ed from Chrstiania.
Fire, which started in the lumber
yards of the Ansonia Comm Brass and
Copper company. caused damage esti-
mated at about $4,000, covered by in
surancc.
Monday. June IL.
Three cases of yellow fever at Panama
have proved fatal.
A mammoth street car strike has been
inaugurated in Cleveland.
The Grand Prix of Paris was won by
Perth, with Velasquez second.
Two boys, each 10 years old, were ar
rested in Binghamton for burglary.
Buffalo freight handlers have again
struck. They ask an advance of / cent
an hour.
tornado in the province of Yalladoli1
Spain, destroyed many lives and wreck ed
$50 houses.
The new government torpedo boat
Stringham has been launched at the Will
mngton yards.
In Woonsocket, II. l., a stable was
burned containing 13 horses. The fire
was of incendiary origin.
A general strike of tailors and knee
pants makers began in New York city,
and 4 800 workmen are out.
The yacht Columbia, which is to sail in
the international race in October, has
been successfully launched at Bristol,
II. |.
At West Berlin, Vt Patrick Broughal
was treated to coat of tar and feathers
for alleged intimacy with another mans
wife.
saturday, June 10.
A revolt was reported in Borneo.
Five cases of virulent smallpox have
been discovered in Brooklyn.
Percy Cox, II years old, son of j. 7.
Cox of Wetheld, n. j., hung himself.
-Four military prisoners escaped from
Castle Williams, on Governors island
Twenty-one plague cases and seven
death have been reported at Alexandria.
At Rochester Il monument was unveil-
ed to the memorNtof Frederick Douglass.
Lieutenant Colonel Picquart has been
professionally released from custody at
Paris.
y. j. Cassatt was chosen president of
the Pennsylvania railroad to succeed
Frank Thompson, deceased.
1t was rumored in London that the
United States would be asked to mediate
between Great Britain and the Trans
vaal.
In New York city Roland B. Moineux
was released on $1,000 bali in the Cor
nish assault case and rearrested and sent
back to the Tombs on Il charge of killing
Mrs Adams.
Friday, June o.
About % lives were reported to have
been lost in the Colorado floods.
A special dispatch from Vienna said
the sultan of Turkey was dangerously ill.,
Drcyfus went on board the cruiser
SfaX ready to sail from Cayenne for
Brcst.
Bcllamy Storcr, the new United States
minister to Spain, left San Sebastian for
Madrid.
While General and Mrs. Ballington
Booth were on the Pacific coast thieves
Dloht iHlo thtll III lDHlNlulIy ~ d.
Congressman Il. II. Bland was report
ed much worse, and his physician said
the public should be prepared for the
worst
AT Rochester Allen Scott, aged 20,
veteran of the civil war, was struck and
instantly killed by II Central Hudson pas
senger train.
During dense fog on Long Island
sound the New Haven t1ier Richard
Peck collided with the steamer O. III.
Northam, injuring ten persons.
Thursday, June \.
A wave of intense heat prevailed in
Europe.
Fire in Augusta, Ga, destroyed prop
erty valued at half Il million.
Sixteen deaths We're reported in New
York city because of the intense heat.
Charles Jaeger, baker in New
Haven, aged so years, dropped dead
from the heat.
Graystone, the mansion formerly be-
longing to Samuel j. Tilden, was sold at
public auction.
Nineteen persons We're injured in
railway wreck on the Missouri Pacific
road near Atchison, Kan.