The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-08-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briehy
md TcrseIy Told.

Notable Events OF the Week Briehy
and Tcrsely Told.
Five hundred returning Christian En-
heavorers sailed for New York from
Southampton on the Aller.
The population of Minneapolis was
given out by the census bureau as 2oz,-
us; of st. Paul as 163,632
An unsuccessful attempt was made at
Carthagena, Spain. to drown lou chil-
hren in a floating bathhouse.
The son of Sir Edwin Arnold was or
lered extradited to England from San
Francisco to answer charges.
A fund Of $500 has been raised in Port
land. Or. to ransom Arthur Nenville, an
American prisoner, from Filipinos.
NJ. ID. Whitman defeated w. a. Larn-
ed in the championship tennis match at
Newport, thus retaining the trophy.
A large tract of land in the northern
Adirondack region has been bought by
New Yorkers, possibly the Rocsefellers.
Tuesday, Aug. ~.
Governor General Wood of Cuba rode
100 miles in 20 hours across the island.
A severe earthquake was reported from
Dawson City, Skaguay and Alaskan
points.
A Minnesota farmer near Arlington
killed his wife and three children, burn
ed his barn and fled.
The president has decided to give out
his letter of acceptance from Canton
about month hence.
Cuban customs receipts for the first
half Of 1900 were over SS,OO9,GOO, far
more than in 1899 for the same period.
Three masked burglars entered the
house Of r. L. Fosburg nt Pittsheld.
Mass, killing the latter's daughter and
woundng his son.
The Canadian authorities have agreed
TO act in harmony with the United States
in keeping out undesirable immigrants
destined for this country.
Monday. Aug. 20.
The surrender of the main body Of the
Colombian revolutionary army was an
nOunced.
The official count of the twelfth CEN
sus makes the population of Greater
| New York 3,413,202.
South Water street merchants report
| that more than $4,000 frogs were sold
| Saturday in Chicago.
The American tennis championship was
retained in this country by the defeat
| OF Gore the English champion, at New
| port. r. !.
Caleb Powers, ex-secretary of state in
| Kentucky. was found guilty of compiled
~ in the murder Of William Goebel and
was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Heat and typhoid fever are making
ravages in Baltimore. The fever epi-
demic is largely due to bad drinking wa.
ter, which in turn is the result of the
dry, hot weather.
| Saturday, Aug. 1S.
| Old Home week was celebrated in Con-
cord, \. ii.
| One man was killed and three injured
in a Chicago fire.
| Incendiaries tried to burn and loot the
village of Smthtield, Ills.
| Forest fires were reported raging in
| several parts of Colorado.
Seven cases of smallpox have developed
in Erie, Pa, all of a light nature
| Japan has placed heavy orders in San
Francisco for salmon to feed its army.
Three men were drowned from the
yacht st. Francois in the st. Lawrence
river near Tadousac.
| Poison was found in the stomach of
Edward p. Herrick, the aged Chicago
merchant who died suddenly last week.
A Chicago wallpaper man committed
suicide in order that his wife and chill
dren might receive his $1,000 insurance.
Two prisoners, who had been chained
together, jumped through a car window
from moving train near Otis, Ind, and
escaped.
| Friday, Aug. II.
Fire at the Berwind colliery, Dubois
Pa, caused damage of 100000.
Russell Sage gave his annual picnic tC
1000 poor children of Poughkeepsie
n. Y.
Six hundred prospectors returned from
Cape Nome with stories of destitutioI
and illness there.
Sir William M. Conway, the British
explorer, has reached Lima, Peru, el
route to the Andes.
Two Kentucky train robbers were sen
fenced, one to four, the other to tel
years Imprisonment.
Henry Youtsey, indicted in the Goebe
case, has been taken i'll at Georgetown
KY, on the eve of his trial.
Three persons We're killed by an explo
sion of natural gas in a Chicago house
and three are reported missing.
| MlCuuel DruIlul Oh OsWeSO, N. l., wa
reported dead. Later he appeared an,
threatened to sue the newspapers.
The French government is reported t
be looking for English ships to brin
100000 tons of coal from Norfolk t
French ports.
Thursday, Aug. 10.
Floods in japan have drowned 20
people.
| |
The president and Mrs. Mckinley lef
Canton for Washington.
The Panama revolution was reporte
to have ended by July 20.
The West India fruit steamer Bermu
da sank at her dock in Philadelphia.
Seven persons We're killed and man
injured in a train collision at Piersor
Mich.
Two 9-year-old boys have been arrest
ed at Victor, Colo, charged with wreck
ing trains.
Ex-senator Ingalls,, reported dying a
Las Vegas, n. NJ, has expressed wis
to return to Atchison,
{ A design has been accepted for
= monument in Spencer county, Ind, owe
4 the grave Of Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
4 Sand island one Of tha Midway prout