The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the week briefly
md TerselN Told.

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week briefly
md Tersely Told.
Many English pig iron furnaces are
running full time to meet American
orders.
The Dutch states general was
opened at The Hague by Queen VIII
helmina.
Adjutant General Alexander c. oil.
phant of New Jersey has died of
paralysis.
Cholera on the transport Sherman
caused the death of sailor. Other
enlisted men are afflicted.
United states Senator Thomas T.
Bard was reported to be dangerously
i'll with pneumonia at Los Angeles.
Cal.
From 800 to 1000 Catholic converts
are said to have been murdered by
Boxers in the Chinese province of
Szechucn.
Tuesday. sept. Ie.
Married women have been barred ms
teachers in public schools at Salt Lake
City.
Nine vessels of the French cod fleet
foundered in the North sea, and fifty
fishermen were drowned
A band of marauding Yaquis were
attacked by Mexican farmers near To-
natal and six Of them killed.
Three large steel turret steamships
from Glasgow, Scotland, passed up the
st. Lawrence river to engage in the
grain and ore trade on the lakes.
A treasury warrant for S39.SO9 was
forwarded to Mrs. Ida s. Mckinley.
widow of the late president, for salary
which would have been due him on
July 1, 1902.
Monday, Sept. 10.
Secretary Shaw decided to release
S4000,OOO of United States treasury
holdings to relieve the stringency in
currency.
The damage to the warship Brooklyn
during the recent maneuvers is esti-
mated mt $4,000. She will be laid up
for three months.
An English mail train 205 miles from
Madras dashed over n bridge which
had been undermined by floods. Fifty
passengers were drowned.
Unusually cold weather was reported
in Kentucky. west Tennessee. Missis-
sippi and Arkansas. and frosts oc-
Cured at several points in the south.
President Diaz has laid the corner
stone of the new general postofIice
building. The building is in the new
business center of the City Of Mexico.
saturday. Sept. IL.
Charles Il. Andrews. former chief
justice of Connecticut, died at Litch-
field.
\ jury at the Old Bailey 0ondon)
court acquitted the Prince of Braganza
of Il criminal charge
a three-month-old baby, alive and
healthy. was found in an ash can by a
New York policeman.
Frank Holmes of Birmingham tried
to swim the English channel, but
abandoned the attempt after being in
the water two hours.
Two hundred men and women were
thrown out of work by the burning of
the Eastlake Wooden companys lar
gest mill at Bridgeport. Conn.
Friday. Sept. IL.
The b. IL. Gladding company of
Providence, II. l., dry goods, failed; liza
bilities. $4,000.
Experts estimated the damage done
to the Kent England hop growers by
a storm of rain and hail at fully $780,
600.
The battleship Wisconsin and the
cruiser Cincinnati were ordered to look
after American interests on the 18TH
mus of Panama.
Marconi says he has solved the prob
lem of sending wireless messages more
than 1.500 miles and predicts that such
communication will soon be established
between Europe and America.
The Boer generals Botha, De Wet
and Delarey, accompanied by Messrs.
Wolmarans, Vessels and Reitz, ar
rived in Amsterdam from The Hague
and were given hearty welcome.
Thursday. Sept. II.
The cash vault of the Bank of
France was robbed of S44.0O in gold.
A number of cases having strong
symptoms of yellow fever have been
reported at PaZos Bordel, in Spain.
President Roosevelt has disapproved
the findings of the court martial that
tried Captain James A. Ryan at Ma
Mia.
The viceroys of the Kwangtung and
Kwangsi provinces of China have been
driven from office by hostility 81 the
palace eunuchs.
Major William ID. wilkins, a we'll
known accountant of Pittsburg was
shot and almost instantly killed while
trying to wrest Il revolver from his
wife.