The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-07-30

church. New York. died at Gastein, |
Austria, from peritonitis.
Claude O'Brien and Earl Whitney,
both mere boys. were hanged in Lex
ington, Ky, for the murder of A. b,
Chinn,
Katie Miller Of Trenton, \. j.. dress.
ed as man made an attempt to beat
her way to Kansas with her husband,
Walter Miller In order that they might
get work in the harvest fields.
Oliver T. Sherwood, the missing cash
Ter of the Southport Comm National
bank. who is charged with embezzing
the funds of that institution. has been
trrested at Panama, Colombia.
Mrs. Anna Bailey and Mrs. Mary
Woods were shot from ambush about a
mile from Lake City, Colo, when re-
turning from Lake Shore. Mrs. Bailey
is mortally wounded, and Mrs. Woods
is in n serious condition.
Japan has decided to observe the
plan of waiting and watching Russia
advocated by Great Britain. In the
meantime she will urge China to carry
out the assurances given to the United
States respecting Manchuria and will
eudeavor to obtain the opening Of addi-
tional perts.
President Roosevelt has returned to
Sycamore Hill from Sayville. He left
Lotos lake, the country home Of his
uncle. Robert G.. Roosevelt, at o'clock
| in the morning, accompanied by his
eldest son, Theodore junior, and his
two 'nephews, for the return ride an
horseback. Their "trip, thirty-five miles,
consumed seven and half hours.
Friday, July ~.
"A match race between Shamrock l.
ana Columbia has been arranged.
rhe Soufriere volcano on the island
of St Vincent has been agitated since
Dly 10.
The safe in THE post office at May
willie. n. Y. was blown open by bur-
aslars and thousands of stamps stolen.
Three longshoremen formed living
,chain at New York and rescued two
men who had fallen into the East
river
Diplomatic circles in Constantinople
believe the situation in Macedonia Will
lead to fresh demands by the powers
upon Turkey.
The Teamsters' union in Chicago has
abandoned its sympathetic strike
against tale Kellogg Switchboard and
Supply company.
Low water i'm the Yukon Us causing
anxiety 10 steamboat men at Dawson.
Many claims in the Klondike have
closed down for lack of water.
The United States fish commission
steamer, with DR.. Jordan and other
scientists aboard, has reached Skaguay
and reports valuable discoveries.
Adolph Ehman, n Chicago manufac-
turer who was guarding some nonun-
ion woTkmen, has shot and seriously
wounded union man who jeered at
him.
A government launch was wrecked in
the fog on the rocks at Biddeford, Me.
Lieutenant Stevens and seven members
of the Portland naval reserves were
rescued by life savers.
Charles Jackson, the negro charged
with the murder of Charles w. Rox-
bury In New York on the night of July
10, hns been indicted by the grand ju-
ry for murder in the first degree.
The probable result of the visit to
London of the French senators and
deputies representing the internation-
al arbitration group will lie the forma-
ton of q Franco-British arbitration
agreement Independent OF The Hague
court
The body of Edwin Hollis Low,
chairman of the regatta committee of
the Atlantic Yacht club, who was
drowned from his knockabout in
Gravesend bay during race last Sat
urday afternoon, has been washed
ashore at Fort Wadsworth, N. Y.
Thursday, July 23.
Lord Curzon will avail himself of the
option to retain the Indian yiceroyshir
for another two years.
Turkish state officials have received
but one months salary since March,
the treasury being empty.
Whaler Vega, in which Nordenskjold
made the northeast passage, was crush
ed in the ice and foundered.
In fight over a game of cards al
Opekieka, w. Va, negro killed one
companion, fatally wounded another
and severely hurt two.
Joseph w. Cummin, who wrecked the
Cornwall State bank by the defalca
ton of $4,000, was held for the grand
jury at Cornwall, n. Y.
Advices in Paris say that the financei
of Colombia are in wretched state
Business is paralyZed and prices Of
necessaries of life prohibitory.
Because his son Charles, aged six
, teen, refused to get up when called
William Lizard shot and killed the boy
as he lay in bed at Knoxville, Ia.
J A terrific tornado has visited Pater
: son, N. j. During the storm, whicl
lasted about three minutes, four mel