The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-08-03
Monday. July 81.

cause a shut down of the mills for several
weeks.
Monday, July 81.
The annual Wagner festival is attract
ing great crowds.
Carl Schurz was made seriously i'll by
ptomaine poisoning.
Two more deaths from the Brooklyn
trolley ears were reported.
Upper Lake, in the Adirondacks, was
visited by destructive fire.
\ Chicago man claims to have invented
an automatic "prospcctor" for the locat
ing of ore mines.
Eddie Bald defeated Arthur A. Zim
merman in Il mile bicycle race on the
Nailsburg track.
Yesterday was remembered throughout
the German empire rs the anniversary
of BismarCk's death.
Two men and boy were drowned in
the Delaware river near Philadelphia by
the capsizing of a boat.
In France two automobiles beat the
Paris-St. Malo express in II race between
those cities, distance of 226 miles.
BY the collapse of a wall of Il new
building at Cendamino, Italy, three work
men We're killed and IL seriously injured.
The u men arrested in Brooklyn on
suspicion of being involved in the elevat-
ed railroad dynamite outrage will bring
suits against the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company for S2lO,0tO damages.
Saturday, July 20.
Lightning twice struck the grand stand
at Princeton.
A rich western merchant lost $1,000 in
- =. u.
General Wood of Santiago, Cuba, re-
ported the yellow fever epidemic over.
A scheme to sell forged bonds was be-
lieved to have been discovered in De-
troit.
New York city was found to be one of
the least affected by typhoid fever of
any in the state.
The Turkish minister at Washington
has arranged to leave for Europe and
may not return.
A Nebraska legislative committee re-
ported former Governor Holcomb guilty
of misappropration of state funds.
Mime. Alorel and her daughter the
missing Alpine tourists, were found at
the bottom of n ravine, the mother being
dead.
At Kiel. Prussia. the harbor masters
cutter was capsized by Il waterspout, and
three of the members of the crew were
drowned.
1t was decided to hold the fifth biennial
convention of the Worlds Woman's
Christian Temperance union in Edin-
burgh on June % 1900.
Friday, July %.
Large copper deposits have been found
in northern California.
General Alger and Mrs. Alger went to
New England for two weeks stay.
Youngstown (O.) iron workers accepted
an advance in wages and ended a strike.
The striking ore handlers at Ashtabula,
o., won their fight and went back to
| work.
Andrew Carnegie offered $4,000 con
ditionally for public library at San
Diego, Cal.
Mrs. William Y. Perot of Baltimore
charged with abducting her daughter
was arrested at Liverpool.
| Il. ii. Howell, the American oarsman
! won the Wingheld silver sculs and the
amateur championship of the Thames
Adolph Luctgert, the Chicago sausage
maker imprisoned for the murder of his
wife, was found dead in his cell at Joliet
Ills.
Thursday, July 27.
| Mrs. Lnngtry's horse Norman won thf
Goodwood plate.
American canned fruit was alleged tc
have caused two deaths at London no
tel.
The government Of Haiti made an eff
fort to reduce the islands S5,00000t
debt.
The 800 molders in Youngstown Co..
foundries had their wages raised 20 cents
per day.
Four incorrigible Ohio convicts have
been put into steel cage in the Colum
bus penitentiary.
Twenty masked men carried off JohI
Doyle, engineer of IA Cripple Greek mine
for no known reason.
Georgia miltiamen reached Bainbridg,
in time to prevent the lynchng of VIII
liams, the negro prisoner.
The Commercial Law league, in session
ut Asbury Park, appointed committe,
to prepare new bankruptcy law.