The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-08-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

BluS Tor the new san Diego (Cal.) Ii
brary. for which Andrew Carnegie gave
$4,000, exceeded that amount.
The fiancee of X. II. Ferrel, the con.
fessed murderer of Express Messenger
Lane near Columbus, o., visited him in
prison with her father.
Tuesday. Aug. II.
A British h-American union has been or.
ganized in San Francisco.
A Mississippi negro was lynchcd at
Corinth by n mob that took him from
jail.
Three street railway strikers were ar
rested in st. Louis charged with dyna-
hitting.
The fourth Zionist congress opened at
London. Many American delegates were
present.
Honolulus death rate has grown until
quarantine against consumption has
been discussed.
Philippine war veterans gathered in
Denver to form the Society of the Army
of the Philippines.
Three men were killed and four injur-
cd by the explosion of pipe in the New
York Steam company's building.
Major Russell B. Harrsons claim of
SGT for extra pay in the volunteer ar
my was refused by the treasury depart
ment
Two Asbury Park IN. j. hotels allow
ed their men guests to sit in the dining
room at breakfast and lunch yesterday
in shirt waists.
The ameer of Afghanistan has begun
mobilizing forces. and it was reported in
Lahore, India, that he would cross the
Russian frontier
Monday, Aug. IL.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker is reported serious
ly i'll at her summer home in Spring
Lake. n. j.
One boy was killed and several per-
sons injured in a train wreck near st.
Charles. La.
The intense heat prevailing for-a a week
in the United States was broken by
heavy rainstorms.
Twelve people were killed and 40 in.
jured in a railway accident between
Rome and Florence.
A movement is on foot among many in
huential citizens of Chicago to insist on
a new federal census of the city.
Three lines of electric omnbuses in
tended to compete with the street cars
for patronage in all parts of Chicago are
| projected.
AT Norfolk Miss Mary Matthias, a girl
| of Is years, whose home is at Fall Riv
| er, Mass, saved from drowning Frank
Brown. aged 10, Of Birmingham, Ala.
Nine persons in Greater New York lost
| their lives in the terrific storm which
| put an end to the hot weather, and nine
| others were terribly hurt. Five of them,
| it is thought, will die.
saturday. Aug. IL.
The apple crop in western New York
| has been damaged by the hot weather.
Between 5000 and 10000 people were
| reported as facing starvation at Cape
| Nome.
An Italian crank tried to present a big
| brass projcctile to the president at the
| White House.
The Kansas wheat crop this year has
| been officially put at 7S,OS10O0 bushels,
| breaking the record.
Lord Russell of Killowen. chief justice
| of England, died in London after an
| operation for gastric catarrh
| Lieutenant Governor Woodruff was
| brought to the front again as u possible
nominee for governor Of New York.
| Washington Turner jumped from
train near Admission, Ala, with his wife
and child. He had never ridden on a
railway before.
Treasury statistics showed 80 per
| cent increase in Porto Rican trade with
| the United States since the new tariff
act was passed.
| Friday, Aug. 10.
Cape Nome gold to the value of $545,-
600 arrived at Seattle.
President Mckinley has arranged to re-
| turn to Washington next Thursday.
A Texas man was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for leading lynching party.
Severe cases Of yellow fever have been
cured at Vera Cruz, Mexico, by serum.
The English cricket matches set for
Philadelphia next month have been de-
clared off.
The Turkish commandant at Bitlis has
! massacred 200 more Armenian men, wo-
men and children.
Johnny Reiff, the little American jock
ey, won two tirsts and one second out Of
five races at Dublin.
Comptroller Coler refused TO pay bills
of certain experts i'll the Molineux case
because they We're so high.
Thursday, Aug. 8.
The Peruvian cabinet has resigned.
The bursting OF Boston water main
caused $75,0 damage.
King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Hell
enc arrived in Rome.
Evidence accumulated that several ac-
oOmplces aided Humbert's murderer.
The population of Providence increased
3S per cent in ten years, being now 49,
900.
The British parliament adjourned. The
queens speech mentioned both South Al
rica and China.
The court ordered the telegraph compa-
nies to send Chicago board of trade quo
tations to Kansas City firms.
ambassador Choate has been made ar
bitrator between the British and Chinese
governments in the Kow Shing cast.
Judge Lacombe, in the United states
circuit court, rendered decision inii-
eating that he will sign an order for til,
extradition of c. II. w. Neely, accused OF
embezzlng Cuban postal funds.
Hent shrivels Crops.
SALINA. Kan, Aug. 14.-An intense
ly hot wind has been blowing over centra