The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
sotabIe Events of the Week briefly
ChrpnicIed.

sotabIe Events of the Week briefly
ChronicIcd.
The plant of the Pittsburg Plate
ilass company, at Cincinnati, has been
,urned; loss, $250,00O.
The factory of the Western Basket
md Box Manufacturing company at
San Francisco has been burned; loss,
$4,000.
The will of =. NJ. Arthur, late grand
.hief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, has been filed for probate.
MI the property is left to his wife,
caroline Arthur.
After work OF months American
roops have replaced most of the tele-
raph line destroyed by fire in Tanana
asin, Alaska. Connection from st.
dichael to Seattle is daily expected.
Harry Siple is perhaps fatally burn
d and his wife and ten-year-old son.
Elwood, are dead as the result of
amp explosion in their home in Wash
ngton borough, town on the Susque
hanna river.
A passenger train in the Peoria east.
IN division of the Big Four ran into n
freight train at Laura, o., killing Con
mctor Devlln of indianapolis and
robably fatally injuring the engineer,
ireman and baggage man.
Harry Tubbs, aged ten, accidentally
hot and killed his brother Fred, aged
light, in tussle for the possession Of
30,
yere absent, and Harry, to hide his
Iced, carried the brothers body from
he house to the bushes near by.
The French fishing steamer Marie
vas seized near Sydney by Canadian
ishery cruiser Oh charge of SNUG
ding and also for setting travis within
me mile of Bird Rock. The steamer
sas taken into Il port on the Cape Bre-
IN coast and will be held until in.
tructions are received from Ottawa.
Tuesday, Aug. 4.
Joseph SaXton, last surviving uncle
4 Mrs. Mckinley, is dead at Canton, o.
The negro will be gradually eliminat-
d as part of the enlisted force of the
United States navy.
A mosque, 400 shops and sixty houses
we're burned in the town of Armenak,
dlayet of Adana, Asia Minor.
The lockout of the Builders League
Il Pittsburg is in operation. 1t is eX.
,ected that 24 900 men will be idle.
The list of Cuban patriot soldiers en-
tiled to pay as prepared by General
nnximo Gomez contains $4,000 names.
Attorneys have been engaged to sue
he mayor and city of Scranton, Pa,
Or the recent arrest of Mrs. Carrie Ma
ton.
The members of the Portuguese cabi-
ret and the civil and military officers
we're guests of Rear Admiral Cotton at
uncheon on the Brooklyn at Lisbon.
A private tug was burned at League
sland navy yard, Philadelphia. The
am Katahdin and the old monitor Ja
on were endangered, but saved.
A fierce riot broke out in front of the
Niagara elevator, at Buffalo, and as
esult forty-five Italians are under ar
est and detectives are looking for
nOre.
An automobile owned by Ralph G.
'arrol cut up great didoes while run
ling away without occupants at Green
vich, Conn, and eventually landed in
he sound upside down.
The question has been asked in the
'ouse of commons as to the possibility
I Great Britain's prohibiting Ameri.
an bounty aided sugar in case the
ugar convention bill passes parlia-
nent
No explanation has yet been obtained
f the double tragedy at Northboro,
lass, in which Mrs Sadie Booth and
:. p. Egan We're killed. Both bodies
we're found in G. F. Sawyer's door
ard.
A woman who said she was the wild
w of the late President Barrios of
guatemala, who was shot at Chalchu-
pa several years ago, was locked up
n a New York police station on
,harge of intoxication.
George Hearshy, an invalid, while
uniting near Hartford City, Ind, was
approached by two prowling negroes.
ihey grabbed the boy, seached his
-lothing for money, and, finding none.
ore his clothing from him and mu-
Hated him with knife. They escaped
rrest.
The threatened general strike has
ommenced in several centers, includ-
ng Barcelona, Murcia, Cadiz, Ronda
nd Alcoy, Spain. The general unrest
largely attributed to bad harvests
,ut the immediate motive for the strike
; to re-enforce the demand for the re-
ease of numerous workmen who have
'een thrown into prison for offenses in
onnection with recent strikes.
Monday, Aug. g.
Burglars robbed a Klondike million
ire at Seattle and got only $14 and
wo watches.
Twenty-one persons We're hurt in
ollision on the Panhandle line near
Hartford City, Ind
III. II. Poole of Canton, Mass, was
tabled to death by Italians while driv-
ne a COW from pasture.