The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

| anu Iersefy Iotu.
Ten New England college men left for
Manila to teach Filipinos.
Thousands of Epworth league excur-
sionists reached San Francisco.
Reeves Bros. boiler works at Alliance,
o., were burned; loss, 100000.
Fifteen negroes were killed in a fight
with Mexicans near Liberty, N. NJ.
The Gardner Motor works. New Or
leans, were destroyed by fire; loss, about
| $150,OOO.
Good rains in Nebraska, Kansas and
| Missouri and Iowa may save part of the
| corn crop.
| Ida and Edith Yeoand, English actress
| es out of employment, committed suicide
in London.
| General Corbin reached Manila in p
days. record time, from San Francisco, on
the transport Hancock.
A train on the Vera Cruz and Pacific
railroad was attacked at TERRA Blanca
! Mexico, and seven men on it killed.
Tuesday. July 10.
Miners from Cape Nome, Alaska. have
! reached Seattle with $4,000.
| Heat and drought have threatened n
large part of Russia with famine.
Over 100 striking machinists have re-
turned to work at Wilmington Del.
Shamrock ii defeated Shamrock 1 on
the Clyde in the final race of the trial
series
ambassador White has decided to re-
turn to America in September, perhaps
to stay.
General Leonard Wood, i'll with ty-
phoid fever at Havana, is reported out
of danger.
The German steamship Tanis. Ham
burg for Montevideo, has been reported
lost, but the passengers saved.
Monday. July I5.
The steamer Erik has left North sgd
ney on her voyage to the frozen north.
Charles Nordhoff sailor, author and
newspaper writer, is dead in San Fran.
cisco.
AT Siegen, in Prussian Westphalia,
90 pound barrel of gunpowder exploded,
killing four persons.
Forest fires are raging along the south
ern side of Miramchi. Nelson and Gle
nelg parishes, in Canada.
AT Enid, O. r., four blocks of bust
ness houses on the public square were
destroyed in less than three hours by fire.
that 30S, 800 men shall be recruited for
the Russian army and navy during the
present year
AT Springfield, o., Professor Zeno fell
1,500 feet from balloon and lived. Not
even bone was broken. He made n
parachute descension, but the parachute
refused to open.
Saturday, July 13.
Andrew Carnegie has given 100000
for a library at Leadville, Colo.
One of four masked burglars at York
vile, Pa, was shot dead il a hotel
The family tree of former President
Ezeta of Salvador was sold at auction in
Oakland, Cal.
The Washington grand jury indicted
Mrs. Bonine for the alleged murder of
Census Clerk Ayres.
The corn crop in Kansas and Missouri
was said to be threatened by drought,
and prices rose violently at Chicago.
Schaeffer, the American amateur swim
ming champion, has announced that he is
going abroad to meet European experts.
Friday, July IL.
Storms have destroyed the crops in
Valladolid, Spain.
There is no break in the strike of rail-
road men at Reading, Pa.
Many cases of sunstroke and heat pros
trations have occurred in London.
A man was fined $50 at Ansonia, Conn,
for crying "Scab!" at nonunion workmen.
Five workmen were sereverly hurt by
the breaking of plate glass at Kokomo,
Ind.
The run on the United Banking and
Savings company of Cleveland still con-
tinues.
Judge Smith of the Ohio supreme court
has granted an injunction against ticket
scalpers.
John II. Hinsey has resigned from the
Knights of Pythias board Of control He
will probably be prosecuted criminally.
Thursday, July II.
Oilcloth companies have formed COM
bination.
Shamrock ii won from Shamrock on
the Clyde.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000 to
Alameda, Cal. for n library.
A deficit of S225, ,267 in the accounts Of
the Knights of Pythias was announced.
The National Educational association
at Detroit discussed elementary teaching.
Martial law has been proclaimed in Se-
vile, Spain, because of turbulence of
striking workmcn.
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