The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersely Told.

Shamrock ii made good showing
against Shamrock | on the Clyde
Knoxville coal companies received an
order for 100,00 tons to be sent to Ven.
ice
Sixty street laborers were taken to
Rochester from New York to break the
strike.
Il. B. Baldwin, arctic explorer, reached
Tromso, Norway, whence he will start
north.
Cattlemen asked Secretary Hitchcock
for delay in opening of the Oklahoma
reservation.
1t was announced that Prince Chris
tian and Prince and Princess Charles of
Denmark will visit America next spring.
Tuesday, July %.
The steel strike has been declared prac-
tically settled.
Fire destroyed is buildings at Cole
brooke, n. H.; loss, S150,000.
Three hundred lives have been lost in
landslides in Lung-keng. China.
A slight fire at the Glasgow exposition
at one time threatened much damage.
Minister of Finance Jackman of New
foundland is reported to have resigned.
Klondike miners who left Dawson
June 20 brought 100000 in gold to Seat
tie
Three Paterson IN. j. boys tried to
wreck an Erie express by putting rocks
on the track.
Thomas G. Barker, convicted for shoot
ing Rev. John Keller. has begun his five
years sentence in Trenton prison.
Monday. July =.
Prince Won Hohenlohe former imperial
chancellor of Germany, died at Ragatz,
aged 50.
Police in several towns of Massachu-
sets and Connecticut have suppressed an
Irish publication for reprinting Il cartoon
of the American flag.
In the bicycle competitions. for the
worlds championships at Berlin the 100
kilometer amateur championship race
was won by Robl of Munich in 9S 1-10
minutes.
The United States cruiser Newark,
Captain h. II. McCalla commanding, has
completed what is declared to be a rec
ord trip for a man-ofwar from Hong
kong to New York. The time was 46h
days.
1t was announced at The Hague that
Mr.. Kruger had definitely abandoned his
American visit on account of travelling
fatigues as well as the clearly expressed
attitude of. strict neutrality of the Unit
ed States.
saturday. July @.
The St. Louis mills at Carlinvile, Ills,
We're burned; loss, 100000.
Shamrock l beat Shamrock II in
three mile turn to windward.
Salvadors minister at Washington has
started for home for his health.
The Ontario authorities have decided
to stop Sunday excursions by water.
Three Italians stabbed two people to
death near Wheeling and injured four
others.
1t is announced that Queen Wilhel-
mina's accouchement is expected about
Christmas.
An eastern syndicate has begun the
acquisition of San Francisco light and
power plants.
An Englishman named Howard was
found in command of the Filipino insur-
gents in Mlindoro.
3 The Argentina congress has declared
Buenos Ayres in state of siege, and
messages thereto are censored.
President and Mrs. Mckinley arrived
at their former home at Canton, o., where
they will spend the heated term.
Friday, July 3.
General Baden-Powell is indisposed and
will return to England.
NJ. Laferriere, ex-governor of Algeria,
was found dead in bed.
The trial of Lord Russell on charge of
bigamy has been postponed until Aug. 6.
The 14-year-old daughter of Philip Ford
of North Germantown, ;. Y, was burned
to death by using kerosene to start a
kitchen fire.
The torrential rainstorm at Simferopol
a town in the Crimea 81 miles northeast
of Sevastopol, washed away all the
bridges on the Salghir river.
Through the efforts of the Atchison
railroad nearly 100000 acres of arid land
in the Arkansas valley, Colorado, have
been reclaimed and will be devoted to
sugar beet culture.
Thursday, July 4.
There is no truth in the report that
Nictorien Sardou is i'll.
The Boer invaders looted the Winter
berg hotel at Blinkwater.
Nj. II. l.. Wilson, United States minis
ter to Chile, has arrived at Valparaiso.
General Wood, who has been suffering
at Havana from malarial fever, is recov-
ering.
Count Won Bulow is now at Berlin to
facilitate the Russo-German commercial
treaty.
At the official trial of the torpedo boat
Biddle she averaged 2S.6 knots in a two
hours run.
All European countries are about to es-
tablish plague quarantine against Con-
stantinople.
Several were wounded in riots at Bu-
enos Ayres because of the bill for the
debt unitication.
Frederick Kellar, n farmer, and his
horse were killed on the Watertown and
Ogdensburg railroad near Utica.
Albanian and Turkish troops are again
pillaging and outraging in the Seryian
villages Of Sandjak and Novi-Bazar.