The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-08-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
Norabie Events of the Week Drieh,
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A death from bubonic plague in Glas
gov caused the practical quarantininl
of ten families.
San Francisco's population was an
nounced as 3i2.7i2 n gain of 14.G4 pei
cent in ten years.
Ten square miles of forest reserve in
the San Gabriel reservation, California
have been burned.
Michael Guida, the alleged anarchist
who came over as II stowaway, will be
sent back to Italy.
Net earnings of the American Steel and
Wire company for six months were said
TO exceed S6,000,000.
An anarchist was arrested at Carrara
Italy, charged with plotting to kill King
Victor Emmanuel III.
Noted lawyers have been retained in
Boston to secure supreme court ruling
Dn southern state laws practically dis
franchising negroes.
Tuesday, Aug. ~.
The steamship Ohio brought S2,000,00O
in Klondkc gold to Seattle.
State troops have left Akron. o., there
being no further trouble there.
The population of Denver, as announc.
ed by the census bureau, was 133, ,SJ9
against 106,713 in 1890.
John Sesson shot and seriously wound
ed a. IL. Strdiron in the Nendomc hotel.
New York city. Season then shot him
If and died few minutes later.
y mob at Gilman, Ills, fired at tho
house of a woman who resisted arrest,
and two men were killed and several
persons wounded, among the latter the
woman herself. Later the mob tried tJ
kill her in the city hall.
Monday. Aug. ~.
The new battleship Alabama made
unusually fast time from New York Ia
Boston.
Intense heat and fierce electric storms
prevailed in many localities in eastern
and middle states.
A plague of mosquitoes invaded Noun,
Vernon, n. Y, City Island and other
places along the sound.
\ Philadelphia syndicate offers to pur.
chase the entire caulifower crop of Long
Island at the rate of 81 a barrel.
Archie McEachern, the Canadian
wheelman, defeated j. Il. jacobson in IA
match pursuit race at the Nailsburs
board track.
saturday. Aug. 20.
Many deeds of lawlessness were re-
ported from Cape Nome.
The will of the late Coils =. Hunt
ington has been filed for probate.
The department of agriculture has is.
sued bulletin treating the subject of
mosquitoes.
ubo noSton;co danortnnnt hoe onnoipt
ed a committee of experts to investigate
pneumatic tube service.
Sockalexis. the noted Indian baseball!
player, was sentenced to 30 days in Jail
at Holyoke, Mass, for vagrancy.
The population of indianapolis. as just
made public by the census bureau, is
1G9, l64 and that of Rochester 162, ,435.
Lord Roberts confined the death sem
tence of Lieutenant Cordua, the Pre-
toria officer who had planned to kidnap
him.
An exhibition of Hereford and Short
horn cattle, with $4,000 in prizes, has
been arranged for Kansas City next
month.
Friday, Aug. -.
About 10000 Italians paraded in New
York city in memory of the late King
Humbert.
William NJ. Johnson was sworn in at
Washington as first assistant postmas-
ter general
The population of Omaha has decreas-
ed $4,000 since the 1890 census, being
now 102,555.
Joseph B. Noble, a veteran Mormon,
was buried at Bountiful Utah, mourned
by 30 children.
The government has chartered three
new transports for the Philippines ut
Seattle, Wash.
Governor Roosevelt will give a public
hearing In the case of District Attorney
Gardiner at Albany on Sept |.
Thursday, Aug. 23.
Carl Smith, an American sculptor, died
at Copenhagen.
A new coal and oil field of $500 acres
has been discovered in Oregon.
Fire destroyed the Maryland Tele-
phone Construction company's plant in
Baltimore.
Captain Slocum, United States military
attache at Lisbon, has been ordered to
st. Petersburg.
A photograph was made complete by
artificial light at Put-In-Bay, o., in 5
minutes "a seconds.
Philadelphia's population by the new
census was put at 1,293,697, gain OF
23.67 per cent over that Of 1890.
A Swift BattIeship.