The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-08-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerscIy Told,

Senator Hanna has started for his va
cation to be spent near Sault Ste. Marie.
An American locomotive defeated an
English rival in decisive test in ia
maica.
Nome prospectOrs report much dcstitu-
tion there and say that men will starve
if not aided.
The Philadelphia oil explosion Monday
night killed five men. The tanks were
still burning yesterday.
The czar of Russia has accepted Presi-
dent Loubets invitation to witness the
French army maneuvers.
The National Steel Refining company
was incorporated " Delaware as rival
TO the Crucible Steel company.
Three union stonpcuttcrs were arrested
in Chicago. charged with wrecking yards
where independent men worked
Tuesday, Aug. 20.
Bulgaria demands that Turkish troops
be recalled from across her frontier in n
specified time.
The Russian cruiser Nariag. built at
Philadelphia. has sailed from st. Peters
burg for the Pacific.
1t is said that William Ridgeley of Chi
cage is likely to succeed &. q. Dawes as
'OlnptIOllcI ol lue currency.
a Brussels paper says Kruger has re-
iected l.tivatccring proposals. but may use
cursairs under certain conditions.
The Mark Lane Express says the Unit
I'd States has enough wheat surplus to
supply the deficit of northwestern Eu-
rope.
Monday. Aug. 10.
Minister Conger has arrived at Peking
on his return from the United States
General Plaza has been declared elect
ed president of Ecuador. having received
"A majority of $4,000 votes.
The British parliament has boen pro-
rogucd. the kings speech being read to
both houses at Westminster.
Five people were killed and several
badly injured in n collision between n
train and trolley car in Chicago.
Bands of mGrauding Kurds have de-
stroycd II villages in II district of Arme-
mia, killing all the inhabitants save the
young women, who were carried off.
Famine is declared to be imminent in
large part of the best crop growing dis
tricts of Russia owing to insufficient har-
vests.
Stamboul. 2OI12, the great trotting
stallion: the unbeaten champion of every
| show ring and known as the handsomest
show horse in America. fell dead mt the
| Richardson farm ut Goshen, y. Y. He
was owned by Il. II. Hartman.
Albert Nelson Cheney, New York state
| fish culturist, died suddenly ut his home
| in Glens Falls, \. Y, of heart disease.
/ He is survived by one daughter, four sis
! ters and three brothers. His wife died
! from the effects of the explosion of a
| naphtha lamp two years ago.
Saturday, Aug. II.
The widow of Canovas del Castillo has
| died at Madrid
The cruiser Philadelphia reached San
| Francisco from Samoa.
| Former Governor w. j. Stone of Mis-
| souri, was reported seriously i'll.
| Thomas w. Lawson of Boston bought
| the 3-year-old filly Mary Z. Leyburn.
| Former Insurance Superintendent Van
| Cleave of Illinois was arrested at Spring
| field.
Boxer John Dion died from the effects
of knockout in contest at Lowell
| Mass.
| The editor and manager of the London
| Globe apologized to the house of COM
| mons for the article attacking National
| lists.
| Friday, Aug. 10.
| The Oxford-C Cambridge athletes sailed
from Liverpool for Boston.
| Dwight Davis defeated Holcomb Ward
| in tennis singles at Newport.
| Heavy fighting was reported on tn,
| outskirts of Colon and Panama.
Railroad traffic was paralyzed by se-
| we're storms in southern Arizona.
| The sultnn of Turkey pXilpd 10 Arnhin
| IA persons, many of them women.
| NJ. NJ, Beldng of New York was elect
| ed president of the League of American
| Wheelmen at Buffalo.
Boer Commandants Erasmus and Ca
| chet were mortally wounded at Steyns-
| burg in Il fight with the British.
The wreck of a ship supposed to. be the
missing Manchester, from New York for
| Yokohama, was found in Marshall is
| lands, south Pachc.
Thursday, Aug. u.
The postoilice at Cape May, \. j., was
, robbed.
Sir William Laird, the noted Scotch
ironmuster, died mt Glasgow.
The czar conferred on Count Won Wal
| dprsce the highest Russian decoration.
Ward and Davis again won the ma
tional tennis championship in doubles.
II. NJ. Flagler obtained divorce under
the Florida law making insanity ground
for Il decree.
Acting Secretary of War Sanger order
ed the formation of ten companies of
coast artillery
Shanghai reported that Russian SUI
zeranty had been proclaimed at New
,b,rn,,, ,nI ('hinngn laws ulrogutnl a