The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tcrsc1y Told,

The lake steamer City of Venice was
sunk in collision off Rondcau, Ont,
and three lives were lost.
The Brynhild won the race for the
kings cup at Cowes, Emperor Will
liam's Meteor finished third.
The Indiana state board of tax COM
mlssionerS has increased the valua.
tions on corporations more than $9,-
100000.
The Standard Oil directors declared
a quarterly dividend of ) per cent. Il
falling off of . per cent from the last
quarterly dividend.
Tuesday, Aug. 3.
The regatta at Cowes was begun
The king saw the start of the yachts.
Texas stockmen are to try the ex-
pertinent of pasturing cattle In Can.
ada.
One man was killed and four were
injured in an accident on the Santa
Fe railroad near Los Angeles, Cal.
Thomas Jansen was killed and -four
others of his family badly shocked by
lightning bolt near Monticello. n. Y.
James Ii. Hyde of New York was
decorated by the French government
with the rosette of officer of Public
Instruction.
An injunction restraining the Cleve.
land council from granting certain
public franchises, including one for
a three cent railroad. was dissolved.
Monday, Aug. 4.
Petroleum was discovered at Rome,
Ga, at Il depth of $50 feet.
Slight anticlerical disturbances oc-
Cured in Paris and other French
cities
King Carol of Roumania has arrived
in Austria and been warmly greeted
by Emperor Francis Joseph.
Thirty naphtha boring platforms at
Romany. Russia. have been destroyed
by fire.
The Centennial Flour mills at Spo-
kane, Wash. with a daily capacity of
200 barrels of flour and 200 barrels of
cereal foods, were destroyed by fire.
saturday. Aug. z.
Colonel Arthur Lynch was commit
ted for trial in England on the charge
of high treason
The ArmoWs of Chicago have Sc
cured an interest in the Hammond
packing companies.
General Jacob III. Smith arrived at
San Francisco from Manila and re-
ceived the order for his retirement.
Willard c. Vanderlip, a prominent
Boston lawyer, in charge of an estate,
confessed to the embezzlement of large
sums.
Two more of the men who robbed a
Wells-Fargo car in Mexican Central
train We're captured and large part
of the money recovered
Friday, Aug.
A dispatch from Vienna reported sew
eral fatalities recently in the Austrian
Alps.
According to ambassador Whites re-
port Germany's exports to the United
States during the last fiscal year in
creased S2,75O,000.
A Paris civil court has condemned
the Echo de Paris, Il Nationalist organ,
to pay Colonel Picquart $4,000 damages
for libel in connection with the Dreyfus
affair.
At Dayton, o., seven men were fear
fully burned by an explosion of nat
ural gas in Il building of the Stoddard
Manufacturing works. Three will prob
ably die.
The Chicago grand jury has indicted
the officials of the village of Harlem
for malfeasance in office and eleven
bookmakers for gambling at the Har-
lem race track.
Thursday, July 81.
Tuesdays hailstorm in North Dakota
destroyed thousands of acres of wheat
The British government has formally
acknowledged the sovereignty of Hon
duras over the Bay islands.
The flood situation in southern Texas
is still very threatening. Hundreds of
acres of cotton are under water.
A big fire ragged at Lourdes, France.
An entire block of houses was burned,
and number of lives were lost.
More than 100000 bushels of wheat
and flour have been shipped to South
Africa this year from the Pacific
northwest
\ Kentucky judge held that heirs of
a man who paid the first insurance
premium, but who was killed before
the policy was delivered, cannot col
lect.
Emperor William has conferred dec
on number of Americans
who took part in entertaining Prince
Henry. a list of presents by the prince
was made public.