The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
,.,,bIe Events of the Week briefly
nud TcrseIy Told.


s3O,O00,0OO.
Nov. Dr. A. j. i. Bchrends of Brook
Den died of Bright's disease
One hundred and forty lives were lost
in the wreck of the Chinese steamer
Kwung Fut.
rho village of Point Claire, 16 miles
srom Montreal. was almost entirely de
stroycd by fire.
rx.Sccrctary Sherman will leave
washington Friday for Mansfield, o.. to
spend the summer
moyement has been started in the
Western Passenger association to give
sidl war veterans. Union and Confcd-
crate. half fare rates.
President Mckinley will appear on
borscbacl at the Grand Army encamp
mcut in Chicago in August.
The French parliament rcasscmbled.
and the government was interpellated ON
ia policy in the chamber of deputies.
Captain Robley ID. Evans. L. $. ~,
has arrived at the Army and Navy hos
rital at Hot Springs. Ark, suffering from
severe case OF rheumatism.
Tuesday, May ~.
"holy war" is reported to have been
,roclaimcd in Algeria and Morocco.
The Methodist conference failed to
elect on the sixteenth ballot for bishop.
Three persons were injured in riot in
connection with the st. Louis street ear
strike.
The Chinese authorities have decided
to take vigorous measures to suppress
she Boxers"
Severe drought was reported in the
state of Cearn, Brazil No rain has fallen
for ii months.
The Connecticut river was 145 feet
shove the low water mark and overflow
ed in many places.
An embassy has left Abyssinia on its
uny TO Paris. King Menelek. who was
expected, was not able to come.
At Paulding, o., Simon w. Cramcr. an
yy-congressman, accidentally shot and
killed his wife while hunting rats.
Alyices received ut Victoria, Il. c..
state that the ice has broken up on the
Yukon and that steamers are running.
A. q. Stafford, well known Washing
ton attorney, lies speechless in Boise City
as the result of stroke of brain paraly-
sis.
Immense icefelds in Bering sea pre-
vented the steamer Alpha. which sailed
from Vancouver April q, from landing at
Nome.
Eight hundred employees of Dunn &
McCarthy's shoe factory ut Syracuse de-
manded higher wages, and the shops
were closed indefinitely.
Monday, May 81.
King Leopold of Belgium has arrived
in England ON visit.
A % hns E,n
ed in the central hall of the house OF
commons.
William II. Hunt of Montana has been
selected to be secretary of state for the
island of Porto Rico.
French exposition authorities have
granted the request of American athletes
and will not hold games on Sunday.
Cstharne Martin, in Worcester, Mass,
confessed to having set fires in hotels
and boarding houses in many cities.
Daniel Sherwood of Suifern. n. Y,
has just received $50 for nine pearls
which he found in the stomach of a
partridge.
saturday, May 10.
The grand vizier of Morocco died last
Sunday.
The Brazos and Colorado rivers were
reported rising again.
buffalo calf was born in the Central
park menagerie in New York city
Cases of the plague We're reported from
almost every seaport in Australia.
The king of Italy has signed decree
dlSsolving the chamber of deputies.
Two We're killed and seven injured
ihree fatally, by the explosion of II loco
motives boiler at - bois, Ills.
forty'hve famine camps in one division
IN India have been attacked by cholera,
causing an appalling loss of life.
Governor Roosevelt approved the eX-
anption of the state transfer tax ap-
pfalsers from civil service examinations.
The Russian minister informed the Ko-
ran government that Masampho would
Ne The winter headquarters of the cars
heet
The striking st. Louis street car en-
pioyees have called on local labor unions
!" and them by ordering a general SYM
pathetic strike.
Friday, May rs.
Inc pennsylvania railroad will estab-
nsn new branch office in New York.
Inc boiler of Russian torpedo boat
exploded at Cronstadt, killing six per-
sous
ine race question was discussed at the
southern industrial convention at Chatta-
ao0ga.
me British steamer Samantha was
wrecked on the Nova Scotia coast The
crew was saved
ihe son Of the Duke and Duchess of
p rolS was christened Henry William
Frederick Albert
Iii!
N. ~ reIief force has been sent from the
t"NiSh Gold Coast TO Kumassi, which is
''seged by the Ashantis.
TWO hundred students from the Uni.
NSly of Nebraska ON rampage, as.
u''pu the chief of police of Lincoln.
nG California supreme court has de-
rn", ~'pu the bonds of railways and other
si pubic corporations nonassessable
' taxation purposes.
An unknown man shot II of the mas.
TSe'S ana crew of the steamer prins
~ plying between Koping and Stock.
D killing six, and escaped.
Thursday, May II.
a., auli'ral Dewey returned to Washing
from MS western trip.
Warly all st. Louis street car lines be.