The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27
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The sudden death is announced OF
George Il. Strong of Saratoga, n. Y,
manager of the Postal Telegraph com.
pany.
Major Del Mar won the race for trot
ters of the 204 class at the grand cir
cult meeting, Brighton Beach, New
York.
A New York man charged with try.
tng to commit suicide by hanging said
ne was only trying to cure an attack of
cramps.
DR.. Lardy. Swiss minister to Paris
has declined TO serve as arbitrator of
the Venezuelan claims of the allied
powers.
Fire in the building occupied by A. s.
Aloe & Co., optical supplies, North
Broadway, st. Louis, has caused dam
age of S15O,O00.
II. l.. Doherty. II. II. Carleton, f. p
Larned and w. J. Clothier have quail
fed for the semifnals OF Se national
tennis championship.
1t is stated by the master mechanic
of the Interborough Rapid Transit com.
pany that type of fireproof car for the
subway has been found.
Africander beat Heno and Waterboy
in the race for the Saratoga cup at the
/ Saratoga track. making a new record
for one mile and three-quarters. 2:5S.
Wayne MacVeigh in correction of
statement by Premier Balfour said II
had been decided that the English Ian.
guage Is to be used in the Venezuelan
claims cases at The Hague.
In launching the cruiser Pennsylva.
MIA at Philadelphia the United States
navy has put afloat one of the most
powerful fighting machines ever built
Her two sister ships are now in course
of completion.
William A. Eddy has arranged to
! take midair photographs Of the inter
/ national yacht race Mt Sandy Hook
New York, with his giant kites. nine
| feet in diameter. He will be on board
of one of the Merritt-Chapman Wreck
ing company's steamers.
Friday, Aug. Fl.
A Stradivarius violin was discovered
at Strasburg and sold at auction for
! $500.
Several hundred miners in the Amer.
! lean Tanana district of the Klondike
are said TO be on the verge of starva.
ton.
Patrick J. Higgins. a contractor of
Dunkirk, n. Y, was killed and his two
children fatally injured in grade
crossing accident.
/ ppr '
aged siXty-seven, was killed at Eldred
Pa, by being struck by train. His
daughter Belle was fatally injured, dy.
ing later.
Successful experiment has been made
nt Cleveland with telephone device
by which service was had over tele,
graph wires without interfering with
messages.
1t is expected in London that the
ownership of the islands off Borneo in
dispute between Great Britain and the
United States will be submitted to ar.
bitration.
MpundO Akwa, negro from the
Cameroons, calling himself n prince
who has been associating with high of.
fetal society at Kiel and Hamburg, has
been arrested at Hamburg for not pay
ing s1,I50 hotel bill.
The Grand Army of the Republic has
selected Boston as the place in which
the encampment of 1904 will be held
and elected the following officers: Com
mander in chief, General John C. Black
of Illinois; vice commander, Colonel C.
Mason Keene Of California.
Frank C. Cody, negro living on At
lantic avenue, Brooklyn, who has gain
ed considerable notoriety by being the
champion tennis player, by marrying Q
white girl and by jumping from the
Brooklyn bridge, when found floating
beneath the new Williamsburg bridge
said he had jumped from it.
Thursdny, Aug. 20.
Edward j. Karcher, prominent Phil
adelphia merchant, was found dead II
his Chestnut street store.
The Hamburg American line has or
dered from German firm new
steamer for northern and oriental ex
cursions.
III. O. Havemeyer has offered a S50t
cup for the best exhibition Of sugal
beets grown in arid lands to be shown
at the national irrigation congress.
The Italian ambassador at Londol
has received Il dispatch from Rome an
nouncing that an Italian squadron hat
been ordered to Macedonia waters t.
watch events"
The steamer British Princess, from
Antwerp, which has arrived at New
York, has on board 100 stations. twt
gazelles and number of pheasants
pigeons and swans.
The Catamount Hill association a
Coleraine, Mass, has dedicated mon
ument marking the site of the school
house there over which in 1912 wa
raised the first United States flag t,
float over school building in thi
country.
Though fairly auspicious start wa
made, there was no race for the Amer