The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-08-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

600 in gold from Alaska to Seattle.
A local train on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas was held up near Caney, lot.
The remains of Dowager Empress
Frederick were inferred in the mausoleum
of Friedenskirche, near Potsdam.
james Il. Bedell, sentenced in 1898 to
25 years and months in Sing Sing for
having stolen S296, $50 from New York
law firm, has been pardoned by Governor
Odell.
Helen Potts Hall, who claims the en-
tire estate of the late George Francis
Gilman, the millionaire tea merchant, OBJ
tained from Justice MacLean in the su-
preme court decree of absolute divorce
from her husband, Blakely Hall.
Tuesday, Aug. I3.
Destructive forest fires in Washington
state were reported.
The cup challenger Shamrock, in good
condition, anchored off Stapleton, ". Y.
The Office of the Atlantic Coast Electric
railway at Allenhurst, n. j., was robbed
of $1,000.
A bookkeepor's errors made the George
II. Phillips company appear worse off
than it really was by S134,000.
! Governor Odell sent his private secreta-
! ry for copy of the confession of police
corruption in New York city made by Ed
gar a. Whitney.
Wardman George Bissert was SEN
| fenced in New York city to five years and
six months Imprisonment and fine Of
$1,000. His lawyers secured stay.
Monday, Aug. IL.
| lilly Haynes, one of the best known
hotel proprietors in the east, died at the
United States hotel in Boston.
| The Leak Fur Manufacturing compa-
ny's mill at Gloverville, N. Y, was to-
tally destroyed by fire, causing loss of
| $50, 900; insurance, $4,000.
At Bennettsvile, Ga, Jim Harris, a
negro, was lynched for the murder of
! Captain Amos Carter, captain of a chain
| gang in which Harris was serving.
The steamer Sarah, one of the largest
on the Yukon river, was seized at Daw-
son by the authorities on the charge Of
| bringing in liquor without permit
Alexander Thomas Balantyne, the in
ventor of the icemaking machine and
| the method of increasing the flow of oil
wells by exploding torpedoes in their
depths, died in Cleveland. He was &c
years old.
| The remains of Baron Won Ketteler,
the minister of Germany who was mur-
| dered at Peking at the outbreak of the
| Chinese troubles, were buried In Muen-
ster, Westphalia, after the celebration Of
a requiem mass.
| The gold bars, amounting to $780,
| 600, stolen from the strongroom Of the
Selby Smelling works near San Fran
cisco during last Monday night have been
| located, and most of the precious metal
was recovered. The suspect, Jim Win
| ters, confessed.
Saturday, Aug. 10.
from jail at Topeka.
Prince Albert of Belgium had a narrow
escape from death in a motor accident.
A Southern Pacific train fell through
bridge over Keith Lake bayou, Texas.
France has given Turkey until Aug. 10
to answer note on the Quay company
claims.
Baron Won Ketteler's body has reach
| ed Bremerhaven on the German steamer
Palatia.
Secretary Long has started for Buck
field, Me-, to attend the 'old home week"
exercises.
George II. Phillips, the Chicago grain
operator says his firm will pay its Gus
toners in full.
A delay is reported at Peking due to
the British objection to the commission
to revise the tariff.
The battleships Massachusetts,, Ala
bama and Kearsarge are to be equipped
for wireless telegraphy.
Gianotte, the Paterson On j. anarch-
ist. is reported to have confessed at Rome
his completely in King Humberts assas-
sination.
Friday, Aug. o.
Count von Waldersee has reached
Hamburg.
The Duke of Cornwall has left Port
Louis for Durham.
Vermont day was celebrated at the
| Pan-American exposition.
Followers of Dowie the faith healer,
were mobbed in South Chicago.
American jockeys took four out of the
seven races at the Brighton meeting.
Forty persons were injured in the col
lapse Of a grand stand at Paisley, Scot
land.
Unsuccessful Oklahoma home seekers
have asked that three more reserves
be opened.
Chief Moore has decided to inspect
Yellowstone park, and he may establish
weather station there.
Thursday, Aug. \.
The Constitution was again placed in
commission at Bristol.
The German antarctic expedition is to
sail from Kiel Aug. IL.
The Reading railway shop hands strike
is reported to be practically over.
Encke's comet was rediscovered by
Professor Wilson of Northfield, Minn.
Andrew Carnegie has been invited to
become lord rector of Aberdeen univer-
sity.
The British garrison at Kashmrkar
northwest India, has Zen forced to sur
render arms to Mahsud tribesmen.