The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
totabIe Events of the Week Brien,
and TcrseIy Told.


An expert discovered a shortage OF
hore than $4,000 in the county treas.
Try of York, Pa.
Four men were killed, one mortally
wounded and several hurt in feud
fight in the Indian Territory.
The clothing store of Louis Saks.
Birmingham, Ala, was burned loss,
S240,000; insurance, $4,000.
-Four officials of the Vienna Laender
bank have been suspended as sequel
to the recent defalcation of S1,15O,OO0
The Count and Countess de Castries
young lady friend and an engineer
were thrown from the counts motor
car near Limerey. France The en-
gineer was killed, and the other mem.
bers of the party were seriously in.
5ured.
Tuesday. Sept. %.
In New York city Thomas ]. Sharkey
was held for the killing of Nicholas
Fish.
M. David, the well known Paris
stockbroker was shot and killed by an
artist.
Governor Odell appointed Miss Grace
Gillette of New York a visitor to the
Manhattan State hospital.
The British steamer Nithsdale re.
ported foundered in the Indian ocean.
arrived at Colombo, Ceylon.
The French government decided to
reduce the sugar taxation in the new
budget to the amount of $S00O,0O0.
Articles of incorporation of the Buff
falo and Susquehanna Railway compa-
ny, capital $10,000,000, We're filed at
Albany.
The grand jury of Suffolk county
took up the inquiry into the case Of
Louis Disbrow, accused of numbering
Clarence Foster and Sarah Lawrence.
Monday, Sept. 20.
Heavy rain has eXtinguished the for
est fires in southern Wyoming and
northern Colorado.
DR.. Thomas l.. Diedrick, who was
with Peary in his arctic explorations,
arrived in New York.
Mgr Guidi, apostolic delegate to the
Philippines, was consecrated with sol
Rev. DIR. Francis l.. Patton. who re-
signed the presidency of Princeton uni
versity last June, has accepted the
presidency of Princeton Theological
seminary.
Saturday, Sept. 20.
The centenary of the birth OF Louis
Kossuth was celebrated throughout
, Hungary.
Two aeronauts were killed by drop
ping two miles from an exploding bal
loon at Stockholm.
Two We're killed and forty-two in
jured in wreck on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad near Chillicothe, o.
Seven blooded horses valued at S11,-
/ 600 were burned in the stable of Rob
ert ]. Walsh Of Greenwich, Conn.
The arctic steamer Fran. with the
Sverdrup expedition on board, has
reached Norway on her way home.
Friday, Sept. 10.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
in San Francisco. No damage was
done.
The cZar entertained the shah at a
state banquet and exchanged cordial
toasts with him.
Forces of the Haitian provisional
government under General Nord were
severely defeated at Limbe.
A movement was begun in Chicago
for another attempt to free Mrs. Flor
ence Maybrick from prison in Eng
land.
The London Missionary society's
schooner Southern Cross was reported
wrecked on the island Of Tahiti. No
loss of life.
Thursday, Sept. Is.
Violent earthquakes were reported in
the eastern portion of Turkestan.
President Castro of Venezuela re-
treated from Ocumare before the ad-
vance of the revolutionists. The posi-
tion of the government is critical.
The state mineralogist of California
says that the public lands, with big
deposits of gold, are being taken up by
spectators pretending to be settlers.
The handsome monument which the
New York Thirtyfourth Regimental
Volunteer association had erected on
the Antietam battlefield was dedicated
on the fortieth anniversary of the bat
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