The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
ustab1e Events of the Week Briefly
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discharged employee.
Employers association Of Chicago In.
vors increase of wages of workingmen
In view of higher cost of living.
Wealthy widow of sixty-five left
Lawrence, Mass, July 27 for San
francisco, but has been lost en- route.
William Decker, farmer, was shot
dsad by an unknown man in the high
way near his home at Pulvers Corners,
NJ
Charles II. Boland, schoolboy OF
Nerwich, Conn, committed suicide
through fear of punishment for disc.
hedience.
Experiment of firing live shell at a
nyret Of a warship was made by the
French at Brest. Turret was struck
end shell rebounded.
The irrigation commission Of India
proposes to spend S150,000,oO0 in twen-
d years in protective works and to
land 100000 annually for private ir-
hgation works.
Tuesday, Aug. 1S.
Ten were injured, four seriously, In
rush to escape from burning trolley
car at Buffalo.
Seven tourists were killed while at.
nmpting to climb the Aiguilles Crises
behind Mont Blanc.
Two Austriane were shot and fatally
wounded near Steubenville, o., by two
negroes who sought to rob them.
The body of four-year-old Alphonse
weimes of Detroit, Mich, was found
terribly mutilated in vacant lot.
The convention Of the order Of Scot
tish Clans of the United States and
Canada has begun at Cleveland, o.
Boating party of eight children was
capsized near Zurich station. Giles
county, Va, and five girls drowned.
The river near Monastir, Macedonia,
d full of the mutilated bodies Of WON
Tn and children massacred by Bashi-
Oazouks.
A man named Shirtleff shot Mrs.
Schofield and then shot himself at New
Britain, Conn. Both are dead. No cause
assigned.
Korea fears occupation by japan as
4 check to Russia. The situation is re-
yarded as serious owing to active Rus
,o-Japanese rivalry.
The Hamburg American Steamship
company will establish line from Port
stilwell to China in connection with
the Orient and Wabash railroads.
The Norwegian steamer Salvatore di
Giogio, which was driven ashore in
Annotata bay, Jamaica, during the
hurricane, has been hauled Off badly
damaged.
D. Roach accidentally shot and killed
Ills brother, ]. o. Roach, at Ellen, I. T.,
while firing at Tom Lanham, cattle
nan. Roach sought to kill Lanham be-
,ause Lanham had criticised a sermon
Il Roach's father, who is preacher.
Miss Catherine Grathwol died on the
mountain trail of heart failure close to
he summit of the Santa Ynez range,
,ear Santa Barbara, Cal. Frederick
1ueders, a prominent young artist, vol
inteered to go to the summit. He
missed the trail and, overcome by anx-
ETY., became raving maniac.
The pope has apparently recovered
lis health and is giving numerous audi
noes. Pallium imposed upon Arch
bishop Harry by Cardinal Macchi.
Sultan Deseen, leader of Lanao
uoros, has treated with insult small
american force that made him friend
visit, and has replied defantly to
,emand for redress.
Monday, Aug. IT.
The Nordenskjold relief expedition
has sailed from Sweden on the Frithjof
G. Endicott Allen of Brooklyn has
5een awakened after sleeping forty
.wo days.
Rev. J. j. Harty Of st. Louis, in
Rome, has been consecrated archbish-
p Of Manila.
A cable dispatch from Paris says NJ.
,ules Verne is quite Ill and in danger
f losing his eyesight
W. l.. Petit assistant cashier of the
'irst National bank, has committed
'uicide at Fort Wayne, Ind.
M. ]. Cornely, at Paris, predicts that
4. Combes will be found at his post on
he reassembling of the French cham
,ers.
James ii. Farrell and Fred Leclair,
he self confessed assallants of Isaac
!, Seeley. the New York manufacturer
we're captured at Providence, X. I.
Announcement has been made that
oseph Pulitzer Of New York has given
100000 to Columbia university to
ound and endow a school Of journal
SIN.
Wheeler H. Peckham has had sever
| sensational disputes with Vice Chan
ellor Pitney In the course of the Uni
-ersal Tobacco company's fight against
receivership.
The Ottoman government has con
'luded negotiations with the KrupT
forks for the supply of thirty-two bat
cries of quick firing artillery, each
consisting of six guns.
The odor of escaping gas led to the
discovery of the dead bodies of mar
nd woman in n room of the Adams
Iouse at New Haven, Conn. A gas jet
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