The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-13

| Incident mas created sensation, Tor,
though a convict, the young woman
was gently bred, cultured and accus-
toned to refined surroundings before
her craving for sparkling jewels led
her into the bypaths of crime to prison.
saturday, Aug. y.
A body of Moors entered French ter
ritory, and a fight followed, in which
several were killed on each side.
Michael Sweeney, union workman.
was shot and killed in Chicago by n
foreman whom strike pickets had at:
| tackled.
Wreckage indicating collision be-
| tween steamer and n sailing vessel
was sighted five miles south of Shinne-
cock. y. Y.
An American artist, Miss Kate A.
Carl, will paint the portrait of the
dowager empress Of China in the Pc
king summer palace.
Maurice Runkel who was indicted
with Machcn and McGregor in the post
Office scandal, has surrendered to Com
missioner Shields and given 5000 bail.
A terrific rain and hail storm at Abb
lene, Kan, unroofed scores of barns,
and hundreds of wheat stacks were
scattered over the fields. The hail de-
stroyed much young corn.
Failing from De Kalb avenue car
at the Brooklyn bridge. New York. an
| elderly man died among crowd Of
passengers during the rush hour. He
| pnfnr
owner.
Parsons, Kan. has been visited by n
severe windstorm. The shops of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad
were demolished, and the front of the
Hail Dry Goods company's building
was blown in and six persons were
hurt
At Nelson, Kan, the railroad station
was wrecked and several houses We're
blown from their foundations by a
tornado. j. McMulen, miner. was
killed and George Banks, his wife, his
son and daughter were dangerously
injured.
With two cousins disputing for pos
session of n girl and she hesitating be-
tween them, Magistrate Manner of
Brooklyn decided that Katie Somer-
vile, fourteen years old, should be
sent to her old home in Tyrone, Ire
land where her mother lives.
One man and one child dead, eight
more with serious injuries in the hos
pitfalls, two of whom will probably die,
and dozen others badly cut and
bruised was the work of havoc left in
the wake of a seven ton hook and lad
der truck as it zigzagged and thun-
dered through West Fortieth street,
New York.
Friday, Aug. Z.
Festival hall at the st. Louis fair Is
TO have dome larger than st. Peters
at Rome.
Sheriff L. w. Williamson of De Soto
county, Miss, was shot at fernando in
a pistol duel with rival for office.
The French bark Grande Duchesse
Olga has reached Portland, Ore. from
Antwerp after stormy voyage of over
year.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg has pre-
sented his credentials as German am
bassador to President Roosevelt at
Oyster Bay.
Professor C. r. Henderson at the Uni
versity of Chicago has declared that
the present county Jail system is free
school of crime.
Korea has conceded land at Yongam-
pho, on the Yalu river, to Russia, but
has refused permission to build tele-
graph and telephone lines to that place.
Managers of New York state fairs
have been warned not to permit any
immoral or questionable exhibitions or
practices under penalty of forfeiting
state aid.
Albert Seavis, a negro, one of the con-
victs who escaped from Folsom prison,
has been captured on a train at Au-
burn, Cal. He showed fight and was
shot in both legs.
Thursday, Aug. O.
Whitaker Wright, the promoter, has
been released in London on bail.
Berlin dispatch says 700 persons
were drowned in foods at Chefu, Chi
ma, July 81.
Phil May, the artist and illustrator
Of Punch, the Graphic and other peri
odicals, died at London.
The first moose ever seen in that part
of the state was encountered by two
boys fishing in lake near Leominster,
Mass.
David Shortsleeves, machinist who
had been missing for some days, was
found dead at his home in Saratoga,
n. Y.
The president has designated Lieu
tenant General Young for supreme
command of the army. He will be
made chief of staff.
The young daughter of Henry Lowe
of New York died at Los Angeles, Call
while her father was speeding on a spe-
cial train in an effort to see her alive.
Robert j. Fitzpatrick, employed as Il
laborer at the United States mint at
Philadelphia, was arrested on the