The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-07-23

of that section by the mountaineers.
-Four convicts. all third termers,"
named Peter James. John Comins, John
Elliott and Edward Kennedy, have es-
capped from Clinton prison at Dame.
mora, n. Y.
On the eve of marketing the great
wheat crop of Kansas a serious car
famine exists. 1t is impossible for the
railroads to get enough cars into the
state to prevent car famine.
A fierce gale from the northeast
struck the fleet of the New York Yacht
club, Mt anchor in New London harbor,
Conn, and as the 200 yachts were
crowded close together collisions were
| frequent, and considerable damage was
done to the feet of pleasure craft
or the Marine and Field clubs head
quarters, Seagate, n. Y, Edwin Hollis
Low, the well known steamship and
tourist agent, was drowned The trag-
edy occurred with the entire flotilla OF
the Atlantic Yacht club about, of which
lIr. Low was prominent member.
Friday, July IT.
Twelve have been killed by an ex-
plosion in coal mine at Comox, Il. G.
Lee Brown. the negro who caused the
Evansville riot, is thought to be dying
in Jail.
Twelve employees of the Wallace cir.
Gus were injured in train wreck at
Shelbyville, III.
+. s. Kelley of oxford has defeated
A. III. Cloutte for the amateur sculling
championship of England.
One-sixth of the business portion of
San Luis Obispo, Cal, was burned
loss more than 100000.
Governor John l.. Bates made the
passage from Boston to East Boston
through the new tunnel under the har-
bor
Alfred A. Knapp, self confessed
stranger of women, was convicted Of
murder in the first degree at Hamil-
ton, o.
Ten were injured. three of them Sc
riously in the wreck of the Colorado
limited on the Missouri Pacific near
Kansas City.
After forty mile leeward and wind
ward race off Sandy Hook lightship
Shamrock III. led Shamrock l. to the
finish line by 6m. 30s.
The state department at Washington
has received assurances from the Chi
nese government that it will shortly
open several ports to the worlds trade.
The government of Venezuela has
paid to the representatives of the al
lied powers the last installments of in
IDENTITIES agreed upon in the peace
protocol
The Chicago city council has granted
to the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph
company Il franchise to build tunnels
for transmission of parcels and mer-
chandise as well as for telephone busi-
ness.
The state department at Washington
has received reply from Russia stat
ing that it neither would receive nor
consider the matter of the Jewish petit
ton on the subject of the Kishinelf in
cident.
With blue sky for chapel, an arbor
of trees for an altar and the waters Of
Lake Ontario for background, Fritz
Sage Darrow and May Goodall married
themselves on the beach at White City,
Windsor Beach, n. Y. They are ardent
theosophists.
The citizens of Peruville, n. Y, ad-
.ministered coat of tar and feathers
to Theodore Underwood, who a year
ago was tried in Ithaca, n. Y, for the
murder of j. Il. Teeter. 1t is reported
that Underwood drove his wife and
children out of their home.
Thursday, July 10.
The sixth international convention of
the Epworth league has been opened
at Detroit, Mich.
Several We're killed and many in
jured in railway accident near Liv-
erpeol, England.
Emperor William has conferred med
ais upon John S. Sargent and Edwin
A. Abby, American artists.
Three were seriously injured and a
dozen slightly hurt in n collision of ex-
press trains at Clinton, Mass.
Claus Spreckels sugar magnate, was
sued by his daughter for the possession
of a $400, 900 block in Honolulu.
A trolley car was held up at Portland,
Ore, by seven highwaymen, who
robbed forty passengers and shot one
Of them.
DR.. Walter p. Kountz of Pittsburg
was sentenced to five years in the pen
itentiary for killing John Il. Walsh, a
contractor.
William ThScker, a white man under
a life sentence for murder, was taken
from Jail at Femingsburg, KY, by a
mob and hanged.
MN. Archie Switzer died at Carthage,
n. Y, from tetanus resulting from a
Fourth of July accident. She toyed
with toy pistol.
George Motion, colored contractor,
shot Eplralm Matthews, colored, in a
street affray in Steelton, Pa and the
latter died two hours afterward
Professor s. p. Langley's house boat,
containing his new $4,000 air ship, has