The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-09-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the week Briehy
and .Tcrsely Told.

and .Tcrsely Told.
ported at Glasgow.
The Iron Mountain shops at Barins
Cross, Ark. were burned.
Marble Falls and Kingsland. Tex" wert
reported in great danger from floods.
Two men were sent to Jail for two
months at Atlantic City for sealping rail
road tickets.
Fire about Occidental, Cal, covered
$50 square miles and did damage to the
amount of 81 100000.
A storm that ragged for two days al
Nome destroyed property valued at 5000,
900. Many lives were probably lost.
Tuesday, Sept. 25.
The first trolley excursion party from
Boston to New York has started.
DIR. Alfred Stille of the University of
Pennsylvania died in Philadelphia.
The battleship Kentucky has arrived
at the Brooklyn navy yard ON her way
TO China.
A Santa Fe engine crashed through q
wharf at Point Richmond, Cal. One life
was lost.
A northeaster has destroyed Grand
Portal, one of the famous pictured rocks
on Lake Superior.
1t was announced that the Prince OF
Wales had engaged Tod" Sloane to
ride his horses in 1901.
Ii was said at the war department
that no fear is felt of an outbreak of
yellow fever among troops in Cuba.
Richard II. Croxton, bookkeeper OF the
Finley Rubber Tire company, Atlanta,
was arrested on n charge of taking con
fidential information to Il rival concern.
At Frankfort, Ky, rebuttal testimony
for the defense closed in the trial of
James Howard, charged with being a
principal in the shooting of Governor
Goebel.
Monday. Sept. ~.
The foods in India were reported to be
slowly subsiding
The business portion of Omer, Mich.
was destroyed by fire.
One hundred cases OF yellow fever were
reported under treatment in Havana.
A cloudburst in Neuces valley, Texas,
caused great damage, and several lives
were lost
Sousa and his band, just returned from
Europe received an enthusiastic welcome
at the Metropolitan Opera House in New
York.
Single handed masked robbcr held up
n west bound passenger train on the
Northern Pacific and succeeded in getting
away with about $500 in cash, several
watches and quantity of jewelry. The
robbery occurred after the train left
Athol, Ida.
Saturday. Sent, o.
Marcus DAILY is reported much improv.
ed in health.
The st. Louis presbytery voted 80 to !
against creed revision.
The steamers War Eagle and Carrie,
have been burned at St. Louis.
Another death from the plague and
another new case have been reported at
Glasgow.
Chicago clergymen will appeal to Gov.
ernor Stone of Pennsylvania to inter.
cede in the strike.
Lord Roberts has reported that the
majority Of the Beers still in the field
are fighting under compulsion.
Ebenezer s. Mason, president of the
Bank of New York, died of heart disease
at his home in New York city.
Disorders have broken out at Sun-tai,
near Canton. Several villages have been
destroyed and others besieged.
BY mutual agreement the dual divorce
proceedings OF Pugilist kid" Mccoy
and his wife have been abandoned.
Land seekers have crowded to Brew.
ster, Wash, to locate in the Colville In.
dian reservation, which will be opened
Oct. 10.
Friday, Sept. Fl.
General A. A. McClernand died at
Springfield, Ills.
Thirty-five miners have been killed in
an explosion at Dux, Bohemia.
Lord Roberts reports that nothing is
left of the Boer army but marauding
bands.
1t is announced in Boston that ex-Gov-
ernor Wolcott has declined the embassa-
dorship to Italy.
1t is estimated that 10000 troops will
winter In Peking, the German force be-
ing the largest.
Clara Barton wires to the Red Cross
society to urge more contributions 70,
Galveston sufferers.
Johann Bauer has been arrested in
New York city for the murder of his
father in Bavaria in 1896.
Dr. Mcdonald of New York has been
suspended for turning out dying con-
snmptive from Blackwell's Island.
Harry Vardon, former British golf
champion, was II down to best bali of
Low and Hutchinson at end of play ON
Morris County club links.
In the absence of Governor Wells Of
Utah, Republican, the acting governor.
who Is Democrat, appointed o. w.
Powers United States senator.
Mary McGuigan, IL years old, of New
York city, says her father threw her
mother out of the window during n omar.
rel. Mrs. McGuigan was killed.
Thursday, Sept. 20.
A heavy frost has visited the lake conn.
ties Of New York state.
The Metropolitan temple of London
mas been reopened by Rev. Thomas Spur
geon.
The first importation of American coal
reached Port Said on the British steam
or Lorle.
Ex-President Kruger will not sail from
Lourenco Marques on the steamer Har.