The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-31
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Brieny
and Terse1y Told.

Notable Events of the Week BrieHy
and Terse1y Told.
Joseph Chamberlain visited the house
of commons for the first time since his
accident.
The third rail electrical equipment
for the Park avenue tunnel. New York.
is practically assured
The battleship Illinois. put in dry
dock at Chatham, England, was found
TO be considerably damaged
The Doherty brothers of England
easily defeated Ware and Hallowell in
doubles at the Longwood tennis tour
nament.
Colonel Arthur Lynch, accused Of
high treason. was remanded in the
London police court. Two Americans
testified against him.
Harry De Windt arriving at Seattle.
Wash, en- route to this city from Paris
by land declared Il railway practically
connecting Asia and North America
feasible.
Tuesday, July 20.
Rioting has taken place I'm Venice
and Padua over the recent communal
elections
The damage by Saturdays cloudburst
in Steuben county, y. Y, is estimated
at S2j00O0.
The claim of over $4,000 by May
Yohe against Lord Francis Hope has
not been sustained.
The Mississippi river commission has
reported estimates for the improve
mcnts in 1901 of S2.j60.OOO.
Repprts Of the serious illness of 10
seph Chamberlain, England's colonial
secretary, are pronounced untrue
II. l.. Doherty. champion of England,
defeated II. II. Hackett of New York
city in the Longwood tennis tourna-
ment.
Monday. July IS.
-Four negroes lynched a negro horse
stealer near Shreveport. La.
DR.. Charles X. Adams, formerly
president of Wisconsin university
died at Redlands. Cal.
At Cairo. Egypt, fifty-two new cases
of cholera and thirty-eight deaths
from the disease were reported.
Two men were killed and two others
seriously burned by an explosion of
gas in the coal mines near McCurtain,
l. 7.
The attempt of five men to wreck a
trolley near Rochester. y. V. resulted
in rear end collision in which seven
persons Were seriously hurt.
SATURDAY, ,JuIy DC
William ]. Bryan addressed 5000
people in Rockland, Me.
Heavy storms in Pennsylvania
caused much damage to crops.
Daily earthquakes have occurred in
Bundu-Abbas. Persia, since July o.
A severe typhoon swept over the is
land of Luzon between the thirteen
and eighteenth parallels.
A Denver express on the Rock Island
railroad was wrecked near Omaha,
with the loss of two lives.
Forty persons, a number of them
prominent, Were poisoned by drinking
lemonade at Maryville, Tenn. Many
will die.
Friday. July %.
Two negroes We're lynched in Phi
lippe, w. Va,
Four French officers were killed by
a premature explosion of Il mine
Three American robbers secured
$4,000 from a Mexican Central rail
way train near Bermijilo.
Wyoming ranchers have turned loose
$4,000 sheep. and the militia may be
called to suppress trouble.
The japanese government formally
claimed Marcos island. said to have
been discovered by Captain Rosehill
Hard coal was advanced to IS ton.
Miners say the operators have vast
quantities of coal in sight and are un-
necessarily pushing up prices.
Thursday. July "a.
Chicago terminal for proposed wire
less telegraph system was chosen.
The war department reported good
progress on the new army post build
ing in Manila.
Another $4,000 has been sent from
the Illinois district United Mine Work
ers for anthracite strikers.
More riots occurred in Paris. with
several arrests, over the governments
treatment of religious orders.
The United States transport Sumner
reached San Francisco from Manila.
with Il hundred army officers and their
families.
Goddard Cannot Live.