The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-09-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week briefly
and Tersely Told.

FIHnC1SCO.
Congressman J. A. Tawney Of Mime
sofa was struck in the leg by a golf ball
and badly hurt.
The employees of the Standard Chain
company at York, Pa, have struck for a
new wage scale.
a convention of the National Associa-
ton of Stationary Engineers met at
Rochester, n. Y.
A semiofiicial organ Of the Venezuela
government has declared that the time
for reprisals on Colombia has arrived.
Moses Harvey, the renowned historian
and scientist and the discoverer of the fa-
nous devilfsh now in the Smithsonian
institution, Washington, died in New
foundand.
Tuesday, sept. 3.
This years catch of Alaska seals is re-
ported small
Governor Odell began tour of inspec-
tion of the Erie canal
The British plan to move the Beers in
recommendation camps to the coast
1t was denied that Rear Admiral Samp-
son. who is ut Burk Haven, n. H., is in
feeble health.
A revolution is threatened in Persia on
account of discomfort with the new loan
negotiations with Russia.
The Danish ministry decided to accept
the offer of the United States for Den
marks West India islands.
Miss Marie Josephine Eastwick OF
Philadelphia was arrested in England for
forging a railroad certificate.
The ST. Lawrence Yacht club has ac-
repted the challenge of the Bridgeport
Yacht club for the Seawanhaka cup.
Monday, Sept. z.
The New York state comptroller has
received S260.O00 from trust companies
under the operation of the new tax law.
John +. Madden's Yankee. at 4 to in
the betting. won the classic Futurity Mt
Shcepshead Bay, fhe richest event of the
American turf.
A Pittsburg syndicate has just sue
cceded in effecting a combination of 96
per cent of the laundry manufacturing
plants Of the United States.
A black leopard imported from India
n few weeks ago escaped from its cage
at a menagerie In Chicago and injured
four persons before ii was captured.
The transport Sheridan has sailed for
Manila with a large passenger list and
army supplies. Brigadier General Fred
Grant was among the passengers, many
of whom were schoolteachers.
Two large oil tanks near Olean, n. Y,
were struck by lightning and destroyed.
One Of them, owned by the Standard Oil
company, had a capacity of $4,000 bar
res and was nearly full of oil. The to-
tai loss is about $4,000
Saturday, Aug. 81.
Missouri posses are still searching for
the negro murderer OF Miss Henderson.
Arizona ranchers in San Pedro valley |
decided to resist eviction from land |
grant.
The pope celebrated the erection of a |
cross near his birthplace by writing Latin |
verse. |
Over 15,6G0,000 acres of public lands |
were disposed of last year for nearly $5- |
600 900.
Vice President Roosevelt spent the day |
at Springfield, Ills, with Governor Yates |
and Senator Cullom.
Peter NJ. Sullivan, disbarred lawyer |
of North Tonawanda, n. Y, accuses the |
judges of conspiracy.
An impromptu visit of French War |
Minister Andre to the training ship Hart
ford ut La Rochelle evoked pleasant
speeches.
Friday, Aug. 80.
Ex-Governor Charles A. Busiel OF New
Hampshire died at Lacona.
A Lake George steamer, the Ticonder-
oga, was burned at her dock.
Strikers at Rankin, Pa, returned to
work at the company's terms.
a receiver for ex-Captain Oberlin NJ.
Carers property was appointed at
Springfield, Ills
Tho false rnof hn ~ |
chambers at Washington fell, narrowly
missing tourists.
Bogus gold dust and nuggets have been
shipped to the Klondike to be sold there
as the product of mines.
The negro who killed Miss Henderson
at Columbus Mo-, was believed to have
been found in a mine pit.
Thursday, Aug. 20.
The Pan-American exposition attend
ance reached 7S,463.
Two persons were injured in a train
wreck near New Haven.
The Vacuum Oil works at Rochester
was partly burned, with heavy loss.
The annual reunion of the Smith fami-
ly was held on n farm near Peapack,
N j.
The caterpillar plague is abating in
New York city. No serious damage was
done in Central park.
United States Customs Collector Hoey
of Nogales, A. T., was rearrested on more
Chinese smuggling charges.
a. III. Bescher, former chairman of the
Reading railway strikers. was arrested
on the charge of embezzlement.
New York JniIs 0vercrowded.