The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-08-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
| hotnbIc Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersc1y Told.


Many presidential appointments were
announced at Washington.
A band of 40 masked miners attacked
an Alaskan camp on Glacier creek.
j. Y. Merriman, Afrikander bund lead.
er, was arrested on his Cape Town farm.
Lord Miner reached Cape Town and
said the South African policy will be
strictly enforced.
Philippine customs receipts for the first
FIVE months OF 1901 show a large in
crease over 1900 and 1899.
Judge Hazel of the United States cir
! cult court has denied an application of
the Lackawanna road for an injunction
against spectators because the road be-
! longs to a combine.
Tuesday, Aug. ~.
A tUmp enticed away an 11-year-old
| boy from Mendon, N. Y.
A Chicago policeman shot fatally the
son of Rev. Mr.. Lindskog, alleging self
| defense.
| Haffen, the big monkey in the New
| York Geological park, was operated on
for toothache.
A special train on the Baltimore and
! Ohio railway was wrecked near Barnes
vile, o., and the engineer was killed.
Mcssrs. Whipple and Adams made a
new automobile record of 15h. lin. run
ming time to Boston from New York.
Announcement was made of the engage
ment Of John y. Rockefeller, Jr., to Miss
Abby Aldrich the senator's daughter.
New York State Superintendent of
Public Works Partridge appointed J.
! Winslow Meade of Rochester as deputy
superintendent of public works at sala-
ry of $4,000.
Monday, Aug. 20.
Phelps Il. Hoyt won the western golf
championship at Chicago.
Chester w. Knox, Harvard student,
is charged with using the mails for
fraudulent schemes.
Two sailors of the fishing schooner
Niagara reached Gloucester, Mass, aft
er being four days adrift in n small dory.
The Columbia won the final race Of the
90 footers off Oyster Bay, n. Y, the
Constitution withdrawing on the second
round because of fog.
The state prosecutor of pleas at Tren-
ton has decided to investigate the charges
of abuse. crime and fraud at the State
Hospital For the Insane.
w. NJ. V. Hoffman was struck by
while driving his coach at Tuxedo Park,
n. Y, and may lose his eyesight.
BY wireless telegraphy the Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse, in port at New York,
Kept in touch with the. outgoing steam
ship Lucania from Liberty island to
Sandy Hook, and many messages were
transmitted.
Saturday, Aug. ~.
c., ,;g -hu1 N
ed to have made good catches.
Six Chinese students from Canton were
admitted to California for further educa-
ton.
Three oarsmen who tried to row across
Lake Michigan barely escaped with their
lives.
The treasury department reports large
increase in Philippine import and export
trade.
The United States gunboat Machias, on
her way to Colon, has arrived at King
ston, Jamaica.
grand jury at Wetumpka, Ala. sent
to jail three bailiffs who refused to testify
about lynching.
The steamer Roanoke, with S1,60O,0OO
gold dust, reached Port Townshend,
Wash, from Nome, Alaska.
United States Judge Noyes of Nome,
Alaska, reached Seattle and will explain
in court his connection with peculiar min
ing cases.
The body of the late Chilean minister,
Mora Vicuna, who died in Buffalo, was
placed in a vault at Washington with
many honors.
The American Bar association, in ses-
sion at Denver, voted to hold universal
congress of lawyers at the St. Louis ex
position In 1903.
Friday, Aug. 23.
The steamer Oregon brought to Seattle
100000 in gold from Nome, Alaska.
Negro leaders at Chicago condemned
the mob outrages at Pierce City, Mo.
Samuel Strong of Cripple Creek, Colo,
n millionaire mine owner, was shot and
killed.
The tornado over Anardarko, o. r.,
killed several persons and caused heavy
damage.
A band Of Chicago gypsies were arrest
ed on the charge of kidnapping but were
afterward released.
The missing link in the telephone cir
euit between the Atlantic and Pacific is
likely to be constructed soon.
The College of Heraldry company Of
New York city was incorporated at Al
bany to supply coats of arms.
Captain Schley, Twenty-third infantry,
informs the war department that the in
terview credited to him on his fathers in
quiry court was fraudulent.
Thursday, Aug. -.
The Colombian gunboat La Popa was
reported sunk off Savaniln.
The government supply boat Elfrida
went ashore near Montauk, n. Y, in
fog.
II is reported that Gompers will call
convention of labor union officials to aid
the steel strikers.
President Wetmore of New York ad-
dressed the American Bar association at
Denver onstate laws.
A head on railway collision occurred
near Prentice, Ills, killing five trainmen
The passengers escaped.
Secretary Hay made a short visit to the
president at Canton, but the trip was not
deemed DartiCuarly significant