The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
HstabIe Events of the Week Brieny
ChrcDic1ed.

Ing well.
W. f. Murphy, chief clerk in office of
surveyor general Of Arizona, has been
removed on charge of receiving double
fees.
Two women who were trying to
climb the Yankee Hill glacier near
Alice, Col, fell and narrowly escaped
death.
Marion Priesthood has been arrested
by United States officers at Troy, Ala,
for holding two white men in peonage.
Last link of telegraph line connect
ing Seattle and St Michaels has been
finished, thus completing the govern
ment's Alaskan land system.
Or. Salazar, I'm charge of American
bospital at Tampico, Mex, while dying
of yellow fever wrote his own death
certificate.
Crown sheet Of locomotive on Lake
Shore railroad blew out near Girard,
Pa, throwing three men from cab and
fatally injuring two Of them.
Expert testifies that liability OF over
100000 was concealed in Whitaker
Wright's books and later transferred
10 other companies and that the Lon
don and Globe company dealt in shares
that had never been issued.
Tuesday, Aug. 25.
4 A. s. Mermod of St Louis died sud
denl in Paris.
The widow of Victor Marie Derans-
tc NJ nrl q
at the age of ia.
y. The German government has remov-
, ed the prohibition on the export of
arms and ammunition to China.
Joseph Murphy, one of the convicts
who escaped from prison at Folsom,
Cal, was recaptured at Reno, New.
: The roundhouse and machine shop Of
; the Santa Fe railroad at Beaumont,
Tex, have been burned; loss, 100000.
Jews in England are divided as to
, the advisability of accepting the offer
Of the British government of tract in
East Africa for colonization by Jews.
The Berlin marriage brokers who
have sued Count Larisch- -Monnich, hus-
band of Miss Satterlee of Titusville,
Pa, for $4,000 are now charged with
swindling.
President Palma has designated Sc
nor Quesada, Cuban minister at Wash
ington, and Senor Tamallo, Cuban con-
sui at st. Louis, as commissioners to
the ST. Louis exposition.
Charles A. Mccarthy, vice president
Of the Atlanta Cornice and Roofing
company of Atlanta, Ga. was found
dead in the bottom of the elevator shaft
of the Winter & Loeb company in
Montgomery, Ala.
The fifty foot cabin launch Junior,
owned by DR.. Holmes of New York,
was destroyed by the explosion of a
gasoline stove at the Lozier Motor COM
pany's dock in Plattsburg, N. Y. Cap
tain Anderson, commander Of the
yacht was badly hurt.
Fire broke out in four story build
ing, the two lower floors of which were
occupied by firm named Goldberg
and the upper floors as residential flats,
at Budapest, Hungary. There were 200
work people in the building, and it is
estimated that at least thirty of them
we're burned to death.
Monday, Aug. "a.
Menotti Garibaldi the eldest son of
the Italian patriot, is dead at Rome.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and his cous-
N. George Roosevelt, are at Deadwood,
). D., on hunting trip.
General Frederick ID. Grant in his
annual report makes plea for the re-
establishment of the canteen for the
army.
Miss Bessie Anthony beat Miss John
ME Carpenter by up and to play in
final for chief cup at the women's golf
tournament at Onwentsia.
Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria
opposes the production of "Parsifal" in
America, saying it would be unjusti
fed in view of Wagners wishes.
Charles Mason, alias Thomas Dorson
who robbed the home of p. Tecumsel
Sherman, has been recognized as one
If the most notorious burglars in this
country.
The Cayman islands have been devas
ated by hurricane. Many houses a
Georgetown, village near the west
md of Grand Cayman island, were de
molished,
John Foley, pioneer reformer, who
1rought the famous injunction sui
which ended in the rout of the "Tweed
sing," is dead at New York after lin
;ering illness.
Francis Wilson, known on the stage
IS Francis Sedgwick, has returned
rom Europe with his little son, whom
ne obtained from his wife after three
nonths' chase
Il. NJ. Jones shot and killed his di
-orced wife and probably fatally
wounded her mother, Mrs. Parmenter
1t Honolulu. Jealousy is assigned as
he cause of the shooting.
Joseph l.. Coughlin of Norwich
'onn., aged twenty-five, committed sui
ide by cutting his throat at his home
while at his prayers. He had been act
ng queerly and is supposed to have