The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-07-16

Cured during light In Darbys saloon.
Negroes have been ordered from the
Sour Lake oilfelds of Texas in con-
sequence of the shooting Of a railway
brakeman by black man. The camps
of the negroes were fired upon by
mob.
The board Of pardons sat at Sea Girt
and has paroled Thomas G.. Barker
who was sentenced to five years from
Hudson county in 1901 for shooting
Rev. John Kellar of Arlington with in
tent to kill.
Danny Maher, the American Jockey,
had serious motor car accident near
Caterham, Surrey, England. He was
thrown out of an automobile, fractur-
ing the base of his skull and sustaining
other injuries.
The new pier Of the Scandinavian
American line at the foot of Seven
teenth street, Hoboken, n. Y, was de-
stroyed by fire, and for the second time
in three years the line is temporarily
without pier.
King Edward to President Roosevelt:
L
ing Admiral Cotton and the captains of
his squadron and have just proposed
your health with every feeling OF cor
diality and friendship"
The Russian ambassador in London
| has refused to receive and forward to
the czar a petition asking the Russian
government to make representations to
Washington respecting the outrages on
negroes in the United States.
Friday, July 10.
A severe earthquake was felt at Cape
! Town.
Leander has won the Grand Chal-
| lenge cup at the Henley regatta.
The Georgia militia was called out
! 10 save a white man from lynching.
I A Baltimore man shot his wife in
mistake for burglar and said he was
dreaming.
| Cardinal Gibbons has sailed for
! France. He will not go to Rome un-
less the pope dies.
The mills of the Altna Powder works
at Valparaiso Ind, have blown up,
much damage resulting.
The conference in London discussed
the coordination of education through
out the British empire.
Thousands of women and children
had a days outing as guests of Colonel
"Abe" Gruber at New York.
| There were six deaths from heat in
New York, six in Brooklyn and fully
/ two score of prostrations Friday.
German official experiments 90 to
support Koch's view that animal tuber.
culosis does not cause the human dis
ease.
| Admiral Beresford paid hearty
| tribute TO President Roosevelt at lunch
con of the Pilgrims club in London for
! the American naval officers.
Two boys have died at st. Eliza
beth's hospital, Chicago, of lockjaw as
the result of injuries received in play
ing with Fourth of July explosives.
Elmer McGibney, twenty-one, from
Pittsburg, was drowned in Gull lake
while swimming. McGibney was an
employee of the Pittsburg and Lake
! Erie railroad.
An express train on the Pennsylva-
mia road struck II wagon containing a
picnic party of ten people at Red Bank,
east of Cincinnati, killing four and in
| juring the others.
The presence of an irritant poison,
| probably aconite, has been discovered
in the small section of intestine taken
| from the body of Colonel William j.
Best of New York
The Puget sound steamer Laconner
has been destroyed by fire in Burroughs
bay. The vessel was bringing 1900
barrels of lime and 129 barrels of
salt salmon from San Juan island.
The schooner John s. Preston, just ar
rived at Gloucester, Mass, reports
meeting immense schools of mackerel
extending over twenty-five miles, off
Block island. The fish were 80 thick,
the crew says, that It was impossible
to catch any great quantity at a time.
Thursday, July o.
General James Longstreet is danger
ously i'll at Gainesville, Ga.
Serious disorders are reported in
Greece over the currant monopoly.
Eighteen entombed miners were res
cued from a colliery near Shamokin,
Pa.
Thomas McCune of New York was
killed by an Erie train at jamestown,
| n. Y.
General Cassius NJ. Clay was pro-
nounced by jury at Richmond, KY, to
be of unsound mind.
! An Iowa man at Davis City has
killed Il fellow card player with his fist
over poker debt of 30 cents.
Successful experiments have been
made with n steerable balloon at
Nantes-sur-Seine, France.
Arthur Winship the ffteen-year-old
! son of Frank Winship of Glens Falls,
n. Y, was drowned at Glen lake while
! swimming.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has
promised Austria and Russia that no