The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-07-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Nstsbie Events OF the Week Briefly
ChronicIed.

yoNabIe Events OF the Week Briefly
ChropicIed.
The Ave weeks strike at John Dob
Son's Schuylkill mill has ended.
The death list from the flood at Jean.
sstte, Pa, may not exceed twenty-five.
whitaker Wright, the London pro.
noter. insists on returning to England
% stand trial.
An oiler in Jersey City packing
liant was caught in the machinery and
eceived fatal injuries,
The government crop report shows
he week ending July 6 to be the most
avorable of the season
W. G. T. u. leaders after returning
rom the Geneva convention have de.
lared war upon Apostle Reed Smoot.
James Juvenal of Philadelphia was
efeated by Beresford in his first trial
ceat for the diamond sculls at Henley.
A peonage charge has been made
usainst Florida official who is alleged
o have Ill treated q sixteen year-old
;trl
The court, not Jury, will decide the
ialidity of Millionaire Dunsmuir's will
a suit brought by Edna Wallace
topper.
Tuesday, July 7.
L. A. Moore, secretary of the city Of
Dallas. Tex, was killed by his son.
More than $4,000 teachers have ar
fved in Boston to attend convention.
A cloudburst in Texas has caused a
,ineteen foot rise In the Guadalupe
liver.
An attempt was made to wreck the
colorado Springs power plant with dy-
lamite.
The Venezuelan government has de-
ided to send an exhibit to the st. Louis
xposition.
Sir Thomas Upton has taken num-
er of Ardsley society people on trip
the Erin.
Prince Adalbert Of Germany after
erving at sea for a year will visit the
It. Louis fair.
The kaiser's yacht Meteor was beat
n by the Hamburg at Lubbock, The
mperor was Mrs. Goelet's guest.
Five buildings were destroyed in Os-
ipee, n. n. A stable was saved by
turning house being blown up with
!ynamite.
The United States transport Sumner,
With the Fourth infantry on board. has
,een beached on the Luzon coast. No
casualties.
Captain Willard of the schooner Hell
a Whitten of Gloucester, Mass, has
hot and killed one of his crew named
3atrick Yetman at Cape Broyle.
The japanese are mobilizing their
orces, and it is thought at Tientsin
hat in the event of war with Russia
,vsrything would favor the japanese.
The concentration of Russian, Brit
sh, American and Japanese war ships
the gulf Of Pechili has been declared
parliament to have no special OBJ
ect.
Five hundred Turkish troops have
eft the town of Kilkin to attack a
lrge band Of revolutionists who are
ncamped on an island in Lake ANA
ova.
A pilgrimage to the holy see in which
lergy and laymen from all parts of the
ountry were to take part and which
vas expected to leave New York on the
,ew italian royal mail steamer Lom-
'ardia has been postponed.
DR.. r. B. Parker, who was inspector
n the steamer Mount Vernon, was tax
4 Ill on the voyage up from Port Lii
ION and who was sent with the vessel
the government quarantine station
Ship island, Mass, has died there
rom yellow fever.
Ensign Huessner's sentence of four
ears Imprisonment and degradation
imposed on him at Berlin for killing his
Id friend, Artilleryman Hartman, be-
ause the latter did not salute him
roperly on the ground of the extreme
iouth of the prisoner has been reduced
two years and seven days incarcera-
ion In fortress.
Monday, July 8.
Paul du Chaillu, explorer, left an es-
ate valued at $500.
The first automobile gymkhana was
feature of the fashionable doings in
'aris.
A. NJ. Reed beat w. G. Carnegie in
ne final for the chief cup at the Elk
ranok golf tournament by up and 8
play.
Richard Evelyn Byrd, fourteen years
i'd, has completed journey around
ne world, made alone.
Emperor William and Prince Henry
gere Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt's guests
the North Star.
George Gardner has defeated Jack
loot in twelve rounds for the new
ght heavyweight class championship.
Instead of Sl0,00o,o0O, as originally
stimated, an appraisement filed gives
J,226000 rs the value of the late Dean
Ioffman's estate.
Mauri Maffucci. a youthful Tarry-
avn barber, has won scholarship in
he New York university offered by
Tiss Helen Gould.
In a conflict between Turkish troops
nd Bulgarians near Vodena, forty six