The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week briefly
and TerseIy Told.

vile, n. Y, was destroyed by lightning
New York city's blind pensioners, to
the number of GT2, were each paid
S49.47.
Secretary Wilson has decided to urge
Congress to establish Appalachian forest
reserves.
Mark Twain has declined to attend the
Missouri statehood celebration, saying
he will be 142 years old in 1917.
The New York appellate division holds
that the antiticket scalping law passed
by the last legislature is unconstitu-
tional.
Tuesday. July 23.
Thirty new school buildings were re-
ported under way In Porto Rico
The sailing of the Shamrock III for
America was postponed until July p.
The mayor Of Santa Paula, Cal, was
shot by a man he had ordered arrested.
TIE Russian wheat crop was estimated
by Mark Lane Express at 5S,0O0,000
quarters.
A prehistoric city has been discovered
on the Navajoe Indian reservation, west
ern Colorado.
English railway unions have been en-
joined from interfering with nonunion
men during strikes.
A Slavic family was burned in Pitts
burg by an explosion Of oil. The mother
and three children are dead.
Daniel Frohman has engaged Kubelik,
the Hungarian violnist, to play in Amer
ica next winter for not less than 500,
900.
Monday. July ~.
Count Tolstoi is reported to be out of
danger.
One little girl was killed and another
manned by Brooklyn trolley cars.
Encouraging reports regarding the
mines in South Africa have been re-
ceived
Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Ter
ry have closed their season at the S4y-
ceum theater, London.
The missionaries Of the American
board will return to north China to re-
sumo work in the early fall.
Moonshiners attacked party of reye-
nue. officers from ambush in Tennessee,
killing one and wounding two.
Dispatches from Siberia say that the
crops, owing to the two months drought,
are almost a total loss Measures have
been taken to avert famine.
A Tarrytown q. " bank, with $40,-
600 in its vaults, was unable to unlock
the door and was forced to borrow mon
cy with which to conduct its business.
Saturday, July 20.
The army transport Rawlins was sold
for 100000,
Two syndicates acquired mines and will
build iron mills in Kentucky.
prise has reached st. Petersburg.
A report came from Paris of a plot to
make Louis Napoleon emperor of France.
Mr.. Rockhill has postponed his de-
parture from peking, owing to q deadlock
in negotiations
The shortage of $4,000 at the San
Francisco mint was found not to be the
result of miscount.
Lord Roseberys EPSON Lad won the
Eclipse stakes of 10000 sovereigns at
Sandown park, England.
Friday, July 10.
Count Tolsto was reported much bet
ter.
England is suffering from heat and
drought
The presence of n volcano under Ha-
waiian waters is suspected.
The case of Mrs. Cordelia Botkin went
to the United States supreme court.
The battleship Maine will be launched
at Cramps shipyard, Philadelphia, on
July 81.
1t was suggested in Washington that
Dewey take a squadron to England for
the coronation.
Kitchener reported that Captain Botha,
son of Philip Botha, has been killed in
| Orange River Colony.
Thursday, July IS.
Heavy rains have caused fatal floods in
Japan.
Lightning did much damage at Middle
town, y. Y.
The town of Marshall, Mo-, was visited
by $4,000 fire.
| The United States training ship Hart
ford reached Stockholm.
! Four persons were killed in an eXplo-
! sion of Swedish powder works.
| Rain fell in parts of Nebraska and
Kansas, but Iowa is still drought strick-
en-.
/ Sumatra eclipse expeditions were pro-
nounced comparatively futile by Profess
/ or Barnard.
~ II uilblu VI tlicu, ~ L OulsuOt u
! field of IS at Interstate park, New York,
breaking 80 targets out of 100.
! A veteran railway engineer ran his
train into Rochester notwithstanding an
accident in which he broke his hip.
American Buys Famous Diamond.
LONDON, July 2O.-The Prince Ed.
ward of York diamond, found in South
Africa in 1894 and weighing 60A carats
a white, perfect stone of astonishing
fire, has been purchased, according to
The Daily Express, of the diamond syn,
dicate, its holder since it was discov.
cred, by the agent of a New York firm