The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-06-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
sstsble Events OF the w-,k Briefly
ChrOptcIcd

The Manchurian convention is said
o have been signed by China and
2ussia.
The Philadelphia cricket team was
,saten by five wickets by Marylebone
layers in London.
A hotel man at Buford, n. D.. was
hot, supposedly by an escaped convict
rom Glasgow, Mont.
Cotton has reached the highest price
or years, and great excitement pre-
vailed on the New York exchange.
Captain Christmas has reached New
orleans from Honduras. He reports
hnt ex-President Arlas is chained to
lhs floor of prison in Tegucigalpa.
Tuesday, June 23.
Shamrock III. now has her racing
pars stepped and will take trial spin
saturday.
For the murder of Maurice Ahearn
francesca Pofa has been arrested near
Sew Rochelle N. Y.
Albert c. Twening, cashier of wreck
d Asbury Park bank, has jumped
;2,0o0 bail in New Jersey.
Wholesale attempted blackmail by
tIdermen has been charged by a Scran.
an Pa.) railway promoter.
No reason has been found for Sand
ord Northrop's suicide in ST. Louis be-
,ond meancholia and business worry.
Coroner Scholer has ordered an au-
opsy on the body of Mrs. Snyder,
Iousekeeper for Councilman FoXhall of
5assaic, n. ].
The trial at Hongkong of the muir
lerers of Chinese reform leader has
hown. it is said, that the Chinese
government bired them.
Charles Frohman has completed ar
rangements for the joint appearance
nder his management of T.. II. Soth-
IN and Julia Marlowe for three con-
,ecutive seasons.
In the chancery court at Richmond,
IA, Judge Grinnan has dissolved the
Injunction restraining the United States
government from taking possession of
he cruiser Galveston.
Elmer Heath, who murdered his
d suicide at Salisbury. Md, was hur-
'iedly removed from the Jail there to
,revent his being lynched.
The royal order for bonnets Mt the
Iolyrood court has thrown the milli
Iery world into small commotiOn.
Fhis fact. combined with Queen Alex
,ndra's well known preference for this
lind of headgear, makes the revival of
he bonnet strong probability.
On the Spokane Falls and Northern,
rear Spokane, Wash, runaway train
f sixty cars loaded with coal without
N engine rushed four miles down
rnde through town, demolishing a
lwelling house, wreCking the Crystal
aundry, killing at least four people, in
uring eight others and piling up a tan
led mass of debris nearly fifty feet
Ugh.
Monday, June 22.
Six naval militiamen were saved
rom a capsized boat in New York har-
lor by the crew of revenue cutter.
Postmaster General Payne has no
hought of resigning because of the
'candal in the post Office department
Work for all the unemployed negroes
Il the south will solve the race prob
en-, says Clark Howell of Atlanta, Ga.
Saratoga's season has opened with
II gambling houses closed and the
question of keeping them so still un-
ettled
BY the explosion of a bomb twenty
,ersons We're injured, seven of them
everely, and the front of building de-
troyed in Chicago.
"Dr. Zollo" a palmist, has been ar
'ested in Elmira, n. Y, on complaint
# a Baltimore woman, who alleges she
vas robbed of $500.
The Rev. DR.. Il. s. Macarthur has
ienounced the policy Of the labor I'M
ons in the building trades strikes in
Iew York as reckless and ruinous.
Sandford Northrop, until recently the
ecretary and general manager of the
american Refrigerator Transit compa-
y, has committed suicide at st. Louis.
Senator Hanna has reiterated his re-
INT statement that he was not and
rould not be a candidate for vice pres
lent and if nominated that he would
.ecline.
Major General Charles Comyn Eyer
IN, who has been in command of the
'unjab frontier force since 1899, has
,een appointed to the command of the
omaliland eXpeditionary force.
Marie Kelas, a young married wo-
nan, drowned herself in the river at
'assaic, n. j. She had been acting
trangely for several days and was be-
eyed to have been temporarily insane.
Lightning struck a hut containing
ZOO pounds of dynamite at the new
.dine now being opened near Seneca
lille, O., killing six men and ihiuring a
core of others besides running the mine
haft and breaking nearly all the win
0ws of Senecavllle a mining town
alf mile from the mine,
saturday, June 20.
The number of harvest hands that
IN bo nno1aI this Vaar N L[ongoa i-