The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersclr Told

Souhty NNs ~ lulF On uUlleS OF Cltl
zenship.
Chicago building work has beer
greatly delayed by a strike of 500
cement finishers.
The sultan Of Turkey has issued an
trade repeating the stringent measures
against Armenians.
The Pocahontas colieries. near Brom.
well, w. Va, were said to have been
set on fire by strikers.
"A new comet in the constellation of
Perseus has been discovered by Pro.
fessor Perrine at Lick observatory.
Tuesday. Sept. =.
The police at Agram, Austria Hun
gary. charged mob of rioting Croatian
students with drawn swords.
West Virginia troops called TO keen
order in the coal regions helped the
strikers to entice nonunion men from
the mines
Former Governor Hill delivered the
Grafton at Watertown, n. Y. in un-
yelling the twenty-five thousand dollar
statue to the late Roswell u. Flower.
A thirty inch water main burst at
Broadway and Ninety-sixth street.
New York city, causing panic and
flooding the streets and the rapid
transit subway.
Monday, Sept. 1.
Nearly half million dollars in new
gifts to the University of Chicago We're
announced by President Harper
The American line steamer st. Louis
sailed from Southampton for New
York, having on board the remains of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles l.. Fair.
1t was announced that the battlcship
Oregon is expected to sail for Chinese
waters in about two weeks. She re.
Gently came off the drydock and is said
to be in splendid form.
Reports received from Sheridan.
Wyo., said that the great forest fire i'm
Gremont county is still raging. Spe-
cial Land Agent NJ. ID. Camplin. who
took force of fifteen men out to fight
the fire. returned to Butte, Mont. He
declared that the flames were of gi-
gantic proportions and his men could
do little toward checking their prog.
ress. The fire has already burned over
Il territory of forty miles.
Saturday. Aug. 30.
James Doel, England's oldest actor,
died in London.
Eighteen hundred steel workers
struck at Lebanon, Pa.
News was received in Washington
that Colombia will demand satisfaction
from Nicaragua for aid given to Co
lombia rebels. War, however, is not
expected.
y ten million dollar mortgage on the
Bethlehem steel plant was filed with
the Hudson county (N. j. register
1t was announced that by the terms
of settlement the heirs of Mrs. Charles
l.. Fair are to receive more than ST.
100000.
Fire Commissioner Sturgis of New
York city declined to honor Justice
Halls mandamus directing him to re-
instate Chief Croker. The latter nav
ask his punishment for contempt of
court.
Friday. Aug. 20.
Mgr. Guidi was appointed apostolic
delegate to the Philippines. where a
schism in the church is reported.
A London yachting paper said Sir
Thomas Lipton's challenge for the
Americas cup would be sent in Sep
tember.
The Dutch mail steamer PrinZ Alex
ander was sunk by collision in the
strait of Malacca, and twenty-one per-
sons We're drowned.
Montagu Holbein, the Englishman
who started from Cape Girls NeZ.
France, in his third attempt to swim
the English channel, failed to accom-
plish the feat and gave up when only a
mile from Dover.
The Mckinley memorial committee
to arrange for the Mckinley memorial
exercises in Buffalo on Sept. If de-
cided to invite President Roosevelt
Governor Odell and Senator Marcus \.
Hanna to he present.
Thursday. Aug. IS.
Attorney General Knox sailed for
Europe to pass on the Panama canal
title.
Rev. DR.. Thomas Gallaudet, leader
in work for deaf mutes, died in New
York, at eighty years of age
Lucius n. Littauer was nominated by
the Republicans of the Twenty-ffth
New York district for congress.
John Graham was convicted in New
York city of receiving stolen plans of
the torpedo boat Holland, which he Of
fered to sell for $4,000.
The answer of the United States Steel
corporation to the Hodge suit against
the bond conversion plan was filed in
the New Jersey court of chancery.
A mishap to the machinery of the
ferryboat Mauch Chunk in New York
harbor greatly alarmed the 800 passen
gers on the boat, who We're taken off
without accident to any.