The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tcrsely Told.

and Tcrse1y Told.
Kingstown, st. Vincent, was shaken
by severe earthquake.
Generals Botha and Delorey started
from Pretoria for Europe.
A hundred Illinois national guards
men were Jailed at Springfield for riot
ing
The fall of pumice stone in Balti-
more during Sundays tornado is
ascribed to volcanic activity.
Cardinal Ledochowski, prefect of the
congregation of the propaganda of the
Roman church, died in Rome.
William Binger, sixty-five years old,
died at his home, near Wesiphalia,
Md, from the effects of a bee sting.
Tuesday, July %.
A Chicago special policeman killed
one alleged robber and captured an.
other
The British treasury decided to grant
aid of E250,O00 to West Indian sugar
planters.
American cotton growers were said
to have offered to buy Lancashire
SEnglan0 spinning mills.
Fifteen persons were drowned in
their houses by a sudden food at Kiev,
Russia, following heavy rain.
Russell Sage had n narrow escape
from death in New York city. He was
dragged fifteen feet by Broadway
car and came near being ground to
pieces under the wheels.
Monday, July FL.
A typhoOn of unusual severity has
caused considerable damage in Hong
kong and vicinity. 1t is estimated that
there were twenty fatalities.
Robert Graham Dun of New York
city left $5,930,79 and bequeathed
paintings worth at least $2OOOOO to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Eighty American pilgrims, under the
leadership of Father Il. ii. Porcile of
Brooklyn, have arrived in Rome and
have applied for an audience with the
pope.
Having been four days adrift at sea
with broken shaft and six days in tow
of the Scholar, the Belgenland of the
American line, from Philadelphia for
Liverpool, arrived in Halifax harbor. d,
Through an old family Bible found
among his effects Charles Hill," who
died in a Los Angeles (Cal) hospital,
leaving $4,000, was identified as
Caleb Charles, who disappeared from
Massachusetts towntwenty years ago.
Saturday, July 10.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt
in Malone, n. Y.
Severe earthquake shocks destroyed
buildings at Bunder Abbas, Persia.
The coronation of King Edward and
Queen Alexandra was officially set for
Aug. 8.
Strikes of boXmakers and bakers
were settled in Chicago and strike of
the lumber teamsters prevented.
Special ambassador Whitelaw Reid
informed the state department that he
will sail from England for New York
July 26.
I Miss Clara Taylor of Ohio, who kid
naped her little niece, was liberated
by the Genoa court, which refused to
grant her eXtradition by the United
States.
Friday, July 1S.
Burglars attacked aBrooklyn woman
with revolvers, robbed the house and
escaped.
The Denver and Rio Grande train
robbers were reported surrounded in
canyon near Pitkin, Colo.
A great fire at Guyaquil, Ecuador,
burned for over ten hours. The losses
are roughly estimated at $2,0O0,00O.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain has
recovered sufficiently to attend the
first cabinet meeting under Balfour's
premiership.
Ladies of Cape Town presented a
purse Of f1,000 to Mrs. Steyn as the
latter sailed for Europe. Ex-President
Steyn is very i'll.
Thursday, July II.
Superintendent Ames of the Mime
apolis police was formally declared
missing.
King Edwards physicians have pro-
nounced him benefited by the transfer
to his yacht.
| Meteor ILL.,, the kaiser's American
built yacht, won Vhe race from Heligo-
land to Dover.
| The constabulary in San Mateo, Ma
Mia province, were attacked and de-
! feated by ladrOnes.
British export of horses and cattle
to South Africa from Port Chalmette
La, is to be resumed
The umpire of a baseball game at
Cannelton, Ind, shot the pitcher after
a dispute over a decision.
Thirty-three men We're killed by
powder explosion in the Daly-West
silver mine Park City, Utah.