The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.


The shah left England.
The president accepted an invitation
to attend the convention of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen.
General Molineux claimed to have
discovered evidence that will free his
son Roland of the charge of poisoning
Mrs. Kate J. Adams.
NJ. u. Whitman and II. l.. Doherty
won in the tennis singles from Robert
Huntington and Leo Il. Ware respec-
lively Mt Newport.
A special policeman of the Lehigh
Valley Coal company was stabbed
while rescuing his son from a mob of
strikers at Hazleton, Pa.
Attorney General Knox gave in
structions for another attempt to Sc
cure the eXtradition from Canada of
Colonel Gaynor and Captain Greene.
Monday, Aug. ~.
Clarence A. Plank, police Judge of
Springfield, o., committed suicide.
General J. ]. DickinSon, one of the
most notable ex-Confederates, died at
his home in Ocala. Fla, aged eighty
three years.
The new first class battleship Maine
on the Cape Ann trial course made an
average of 1873 knots for four hours of
continuous stCamin&
Dan Patch paced mile in 2:00A at
Readville Mass, beating his own rec
ord half a second, but failing to lower
Star Pointers figure of ;59A
Bobby Walthour defeated Harry
Elkes at Revere Mass. in twenty
five mile motor paced race and estab.
lished new worlds record from the
first to the twenty-fifth mile. The time
for the twenty-five miles was 35m
IL los. The previous record was 35m
10 4-5s.
Saturday. Aug. 23.
Land in South Africa left by Cecil
Rhodes to the Countess of Warwick
was sold for S1,000,000.
Sir Thomas Upton and the sultan of
Morocco met with automobile acci-
dents, but neither was hurt.
The Butler washcry and Dodge col
lery near Wilkesbarre, which have
been operating, were closed by strik-
erS.
The sultan promised Minister Lcish-
man TO comply with demands of the
United States and asked him to resume
visits to the porte.
Mayor Knight of Buffalo suggested
memorial services for Mckinley in all
local churches on the first anniversary
of his death, Sunday, Sept II.
An aged Baltimore woman was
found dead of starvation and her
daughter half crazed by hunger They
were too proud to make their need
known.
Friday. Aug. ~.
-Four whites and eight or ten negroes
We're killed in race riot near Tupelo.
Miss.
What is said to be the largest green
goods capture ever made was effected
in Newark, n. j., by postoifice inspect
ors.
Former Corporal O'Brien, indicted
for perjury before the senate Philip
pine committee, was committed for
trial in Washington.
Twenty-seven mines were in opera
tion in the Kanawha and New River
fields of West Virginia, and the strike
was apparently broken.
Thursday, Aug. II.
ii. L. DOherty defeated Clarence Ho-
bart in the Newport tennis tourpa-
ment.
Three Kentucky murderers made an
unsuccessful attempt to escape from
the Frankfort penitentiary.
1t was reported that j. X. Richards
solicitor general, department of JUS
tice, expected TO resign in autumn to
become Abner McKinley's law part
ner.
Bishop Potter returned home after a
two months vacation in Europe. He
said that he expects Senator Hanna
the coal strike.
Generals Botha, De Wet and Della
rey. accompanied by DR.. Leyds and
Messrs. Fischer, Vessels, Wolmarans,
Reitz and others, arrived at Utrecht,
Holland, from The Hague to visit for
with him on the South African situa-
tion.
Wednesday, Aug. 20.
Generals Botha, De Wet and Della
rey We're warmly received at Rotter-
dam and The Hague.
President Castro expelled from Ven
ezuela the wife and children of for
mer Prime Minister Rodriguez.
Five people, two women and three
children, We're burned to death in an
east side fire in New York city.
Fire Chief Croker of New York city
was relieved from duty by Commits
sloner Sturgis. Croker said there was
no ground for his suspension.
Coal road presidents held long con-
ference in New York city. 1t was re-
ported that they would order a whole
sale attempt to break the strike.
II. f. and IL. L. Doherty, the Eng
lish tennis pair. defeated Collins and
Waidner of Chicago in the first cham
Dlonship round at Newport, 3 sets to 2.