The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
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Congressman Wachter of Baltimore
was badly bitten by a mad deg.
Two persons were drowned by the
capsizing of yacht in a squall at Chi
cago.
james Mcbride, in an attempt to
commit suicide, lcaped from the Brook
lyn bridge and may live.
A memorial service for the late Lord
Paunccfote was held at Chapel Royal
st. James palace London.
Senator Thomas c. Platt quietly cci-
ebratcd his siXty-ninth birthday ana
declined to be interviewed.
American shippers quoted to Johan-
nesburg merchants a rate of $3.50 per
ton for freight from New York to Ma
tal against $3.50 from England.
Tuesday, July 10.
Mont Pelee in eruption drove out the
inhabitants of Morne Rouge and other
villages.
Plans are ready for Liptons Sham
rock IIs. to challenge for the Americas
cup in 1903.
The cruiser Brooklyn, with the re-
mains of the late ambassador Paunce-
fote, reached Southampton.
The Reading company coal washery
near Shamolin was started up with
fifty imported men.
The emperor of Korea has accepted
the invitation for his country to par
ticipate in the st. Louis exposition.
Monday, July II.
In Kwangsi province, China. cholera
was reported to have killed over 1900
persons.
Tho engagement of Bishop Henry c.
Potter of New York to Mrs. Alfred
Corning Clark was announced.
Fire at Salisbury Beach, Mass. de-
stroyed two summer hotels and num-
Der of cottages and business places.
ENcise Commissioner Cullinan an
nounced that there were 5000 licensed
hotels in New York state. OF this num-
Der $500 are in Greater New York
]. Plcrpont Morgan has bought and
presented to the Jardin des Plantes
museum in Paris the collection of pre-
cious stones formed by George f..
Kunz of New York for the Buffalo ex-
hibition.
Saturday, July IL.
Three shocks of earthquake were
felt on the island of st. Vincent Tues
day.
President Loubet of France signed
the bill approving the Brussels sugar
convention.
The S50O,000 given by congress to
the Buffalo exposition will be distrib-
uted pro rata to claimants for $640,000,
but not to stockholders.
General Thomas NJ. Anderson con-
tradicted Admiral Dewey and declared
that the fighting with the Spanish be-
fore Manila surrendered was bona fide.
Friday. July II.
Five firemen were killed in Toronto
by. the collapse of a wall of burning
building.
1t is estimated that the total number
killed on the Boer side during the re-
cent war was 300.
! Il. S. Kelley. oxford. won the Dia-
mond Sculls at Henley, and Third
Trinity, Cambridge, won the Grand
| Challenge cup.
A large portion of the residence Sec
ton of nes Moines is flooded. Great
damage is reported in other parts of
Iowa and in Nebraska.
| Colonel Nathaniel Mckay, the mil
| lionaire hotel man of Washington,
dropped dead at Atlantic City, n. j.,
while on his honeymoon.
At Macon, Ga, b. Aycock, manager
of.the Dublin mill of the Southern Oil
company, and his wife We're drowned.
They had been married but two
months.
Thursday, July 10.
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain recovered
sufficiently from an accident to leave
the hospital in London.
Titus, the New York oarsman, and
the Argonauts of Toronto were beaten
in the Henley regatta.
Rivers in Iowa are overflowing, do
ing much damage to crops and ham,
pering railroad traffic.
A new geyser near Salina Cruz, 18TH
mus of Tehuantepec, has formed since
the recent severe earthquakes.
A crazy man attempted to see Mrs
Mckinley at her Canton home to tell
of the alleged plot that led to the as.
sassination of her husband.
Lieutenant Edwin A. Hickman of
the First cavalry was ordered by Gen
eral Chaffee at Manila to be court mar
tailed on charges made in the Garden
er inquiry.