The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-07-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersely Told.

Geronimo. the Indian chief, has be.
come insane.
The Third battalion of the Fifteenth
infantry has started for China.
The Prince of Wales was made mem
Der of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Governor General Wood denied that
the salaries OF Cuban teachers are to be
reduced.
The government rested its case in the
Nicely extradition proceedings before JUS
tice Lacombe.
Six companies Of the Eighth United
States infantry boarded trains at Jersey
City en- route for China.
The Goebel prosecution secured writs
against the secretary of state and adju-
tant general of Kentucky.
The attorney general of New York
will ask Justice Kellogg to vacate the
stay in the case against the ice trust.
Tuesday, July -.
The machinery of Lieutenant Peary's
steamer Windward has broken down.
Archie Lawson, aged 81 years, was
drowned in Chautauqua lake outlet.
Football Captain DAILY of Harvard fail.
ed to pass his West Point examinations.
Testimony against Charles f. w. Nee
ly was taken in the proceedings for his
extradition.
Joseph Mullen was put to death in the
Sing Sing state prison for the murder of
his wife in New York city in 1898.
Adolph Roknitki of Wallngford. Conn.
set fire to his house and then committed
suicide His wife and children barely
escaped.
John Howard Bryant, brother of vii.
liam Cullen Bryant, celebrated the nine
ty-third anniversary of his birth at
Princeton, Ills.
Monday. July 20.
The new Russian cruiser Variag left
Cramps shipyard for an official speed
trial off the New England coast.
AT the meeting of the Christian Mis-.
sionary alliance at Cleveland, o.. $4,000
was subscribed for foreign missions.
Gilbert ii. Lien, brother of the fu.
sionist candidate for governor OF South
Dakota, died suddenly at Sioux Falls.
At Muscatine, Ia, one of the ware
houses of the Huttig Sash and Door com
pany was burned, with loss of $4,000
The remains of about TOO Americans
On lue VI bueHd lSlu
are to be moved from Mexican to Amer
lean soil.
Morris Lurie, aged 6 years, missing
from his home in Punxsutawney, Pa.
has just been found in the custody OF
kidnapers.
Saturday, July FL.
Queen Victoria and her suit arrived a
Osborne.
A massacre of native Christians in Per
sia was reported as impending.
The California wheat crop will fall fa
short of the estimates OF two months ago
The Prince of Wales Diamond Jubile,
won the Eclipse stakes at Sandowr
park.
The Peary relief ship. the Windward
sailed from Cape Breton with all ol
board well.
Miss Bessie Anthony of the Evanston
Golf club won the western woman's gol
championship at Chicago.
Two hundred persons were reporte,
killed or injured by volcanic eruption
from Mount Azuma in Japan.
Friday, July 20.
The first cargo of Pennsylvania sof
! coal ever sent from Philadelphia to Lon
don will leave shortly.
! United States Judge Lacombe decide
a mere indictment was not sufficient TO
the extradition of Neely.
Mr.. William Waldorf Astor expresses
regret in The Pail Mall Gazette for tn
famous paragraph about Sir Archibald
Berkeley Milne.
| A rapid fire gun mounted on an auto
nf
from Fort Sheridan on an experiments
trip to Washington.
President Loubet of France reviewe
the combined Mediterranean and char
mel squadrons, AZ warships in all, in tn
harbor at Cherbourg.
Thursday, July 10.
The Hampton negro conference met o
Newport News.
The total number of applicants for ey
animation for entrance to Princeton thi
summer was TS5.
John A. Black, a prominent Kentuck
banker, testified against Caleb Powers
the Goebel shooting case.
The report of Commissioner of Paten,
! Duell showed a total Of 26,540 patent
granted during the last fiscal year
Intense heat prevailed over the easter
and middle states for the third consec,
tive day. Many prostrations were r.
ported
The pictures of the eclipse by Profe
sor Buckhalter Of Oakland, Cal, ha,
demonstrated the success Of his ne
method of astronomical photography.
The steamer City of Venice and Il
schooner G. X. Jackson collided at IL
entrance TO Buffalo harbor, and the Jacl
son was beached to prevent her sinking