The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-06

river at Ogdensburg. n. Y. and instant
ly killed by an incoming Central train.
While bathing in the Waikiki river
near Johnson's, n. Y, Lewis Scuppcr,
twenty-four years old and his brother
Samuel, twenty-eight. of New York,
were attacked with cramps, swept into
the stiff current and drowned.
saturday, Aug. 4.
Great excitement in the Klondike re-
gion over the reported discovery of
rich placer gold fields near head wa
ters of the Stlkine river.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain has
denied that he favors taxation of raw
cotton imported into Great Britain
from foreign countries.
Robert Lee, the negro who caused
the riot at Evansville, Ind, by shoot
ing Policeman Massey, has died in
! prison at Jeifersonville.
In good, strong breeze at Montreal
the Thorella, the defender OF the Sea-
wanhaka cup, ran away from the Ko-
lutoo, the American challenger.
A successful test has been made of a
new system of wireless telegraphy.
| Messages sent from room In Chi
cago house were received on whale
! back out in the lake.
Russia is said to have sent several
| hundred cossacis into Tibet asserting
| she has China's permission The Chi
nese government has denied that such
permission was given.
Four engines played on the ruins OF
| the Jarvis & Co. tobacco sheds and
| Carey asbcstus plant fire, Jersey City,
! n. j.. before it was subdued The loss
is estimated at Sl50000.
A fast mail on the Chesapeake and
! Ohio railroad was held up in the out
| skirts of Clifton Forge, Va, by II mob
of 200 armed men who wanted to take
! a couple of negroes from the train and
! lynch them.
The astronomers at the Yale observa-
tory have just made photographs of
Borellis comet which show that the
comet has three tails instead of the two
shown by previous observations. There
are faint indications also of the pres.
ence of fourth tail.
Over hundred people were preclpi-
| tated into the Willamette river at Port
land, ore. Thousands of people had
| congregated on the Morrison street
| bridge to watch Clarence Lutz, an arm
| less man, swim the Willamette river.
| The bridge, an old wooden one, gave
way.
Friday, July 81.
! A Buffalo policeman was shot and
fatally wounded by hoy he was about
to arrest.
A rich deposit of carbonate of iron
has been found on an island in the
Aleutian chain.
A trolley car jumped the track near
Anderson, Ind, and one was killed and
seventeen injured
A story of intoxicated trout has re-
united John Franklin and his sister,
who were separated forty years ago.
! Doctors in a San Francisco hospital
have cured case Of lockjaw by drill
ing a hole in the patients skull and in
| jecting antitoxin.
Charles Frink, well known farmer
of the town of Knox, lies at the point
vi bNdiii' l'ipDhpiN ibtbily W u
stroke of lightning while haying. The
lightning tore off all his clothing.
1t is certain that at least nineteen
persons are dead as the result of the
explosion at the United States Car
fridge company's plant at Lowell, Mass.
The police are inclined to think that
the number will be increased by two
or three.
Mrs. Helen l.. Martin and Mrs. r. A.
Stevens, sisters, who resided at East
Grafton, n. H., We're suffocated and
their bodies burned to crisp in the
fire which destroyed the Seaview
House, summer hotel at Old Or
chard, Me-
After having been afire for four
hours, the hull of the Italian bark An
! geli Maria, laden with case oil, slowly
burned to the waters edge as she lay
with her nose pushed ashore near Mari
ner's Harbor, Staten Island sound,
New Jersey.
| A. b. Youngson, grand chief engineer
| of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, is dead of Bright's disease at
the City hospital, Meadvile, Pa. He
succeeded u. NJ. Arthur, who died sud-
denly at Winnipeg, Man, as grand
chief on the 18th of July last.
Thursday, July 30.
| The headless body of a well dressed
unknown man was found in the Boston
and Maine yards at Rotterdam, n. Y.
The British steamer Ruperra was
sunk by the cruiser Melampus off the
Lizard, in the English channel. Her
crew was saved.
Harmon T, Coates, who was arrested
in Richmond, Va, for intoxica ton, says
he murdered Louis Hull of Spring VAL
ley, n. " last year.
Parker Dodd, jeweler of Newark,
| n. j., was thrown from horse near
Eatontown, n. j., and received inju-
ries that will probably prove fatal.
Frank Miller, an electrician employed
1tT lan \ s..l,t