The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-08-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Potable Events of the Week briefly
and Tersely Told.


falo has been dedicated.
The British ship Discovery has sailed
from Cowes for the antarctic.
The British minister at Peking has
declined to sign the settlement protocol.
A bill to further restrict immigration
Is to be presented to congress next ses-
sion.
The weather bureau reported early
corn ruined, but late sown decidedly i'm
proved.
The steamer Gera, with Count Won
Waldersee ON board, has arrived off
Helgoland.
Scores of medals and honorable men
tions were conferred by an art jury at
the Pan-American exposition.
American shipyards on both coasts and
the great lakes were declared to have or
ders ahead for year or more.
Wednesday, Aug. q.
The summer theater at Rchfeld
Springs was burned.
A strong wind prevented the attempt of
Santos Dumont to sail his flying machine.
4 daughter of Governor Jones of Ala
bama was killed by a street car at Mont
gomery.
Andrew Carnegie is to give San Juan,
Porto Rico, library. The city appropri-
ated $4,000 year
The British naval maneuvers were sud
denly terminated. Their theoretic out
come is To leave England undefended.
Benjamin Pugh was put to death in
Sing Sing prison for numbering John Tie
gen, waiter in Brooklyn restaurant.
! 1t was reported at Louisville that New
/ York men have formed Il S2,0O0,OO0 com
| pany to develop asphalt lands in Ken
I lucky.
Monday, Aug. >.
At Burke, \. V, fire has destroyed
| Everett Bros store and David Everetts 5
! dwelling house: loss, $25,O00.
At Elmira the big tannery owned by
| William r. Shelley of New York was
burned to the ground. Loss, $4,000.
The next eucharist congress. composed
of every parish priest in the United
States, has been called to assemble in st.
| Louis on Oct. 10.
| Ninety per cent of the horses in Chica-
| 90 are now suffering from influenza. The
disease is proving fatal in from 3 to .
cases in every 100.
Fire broke ont in the top of the Grand
, Trunk railways elevator at Chicago at
Fifty-hrst street and Central avenue.
! Damage estimated at $4,000 was caused
before the flames were brought under
| control.
The Mexican Lloyd Trading and
| Transport company has obtained con-
cession from the federal government to
run a line of steamers from Baltimore
and other American ports to Mexican
gulf ports. making two complete monthly
round trips. The steamers are permitted
to do both foreign and coasting trade.
Saturday, Aug. 3.
Manti, Utah, was damaged by flood.
American jockeys won races at Good
! wood meeting, England.
A British torpedo boat was sunk off the
island of Alderney.
The Chicago health board seized milk
treated with formaln.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua advo,
Gated the Monroe doctrine.
The Venezuela government reported de-
feat of rebels at San Cristobal.
New corundum mines found in this
country are reported to be under develop
ment.
A committee of G. A. r. men asked
President Mckinley to attend the Ceve
land encampment next month
The attendance at the Pan-Americar
exposition for the first three months, end
ing July 81, is put at 2,I24,OOO.
Friday, Aug. 2.
\ Boer commando entered Portuguese
territory at Guanetz.
la tod ho tx--Ef
niversary of its admission into the Union
a London authority declared war to b,
less fatal with modern weapons than be
fore.
ambassador Cambou made complimen
tary allusion in Paris to President Nc
Kinley.
The steamer Charles d. Lane, Nome t.
Seattle, has been wrecked. Passenger.
; and crew were saved,
Seven men suspected of being concern
ed in the Baltimore and Ohio train rob
berry near Chicago were arrested.
Thursday. Aug. L.
Fourteen conspirators against the sui
1 tan of Turkey We're eXiled.
! The British antarctic ship Discover
: left the Thames for the Soent.
The Midway at the Pan-American ex
position is to be closed Sundays.
Vice President Roosevelt stopped i
, Chicago en- route to Colorado Springs.
{ \ treaty with Denmark is said to b
e under way in Washington for the pul
D chase of the Danish West Indies.
= Albanians We're said to be in desperat
straits because of Turkish outrages Fol
eign ministers protested to Turkey.