The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
uotnbIe Events of the Week Briefly
aud TerseIy Told.

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A heavy snowstorm was reported from
l,cipsc and Chemntz, Germany.
The Rochester school bill. which was |
fraudulcntly amended, was declared null |
The Methodist general conference n, |,
Chicago declared in favor of negro |
bishop.
Two fremen at Somervillc. n. j.. were
badly burned by gasoline from an ex-
plodcd tank.
Terrible distress was reported in the !
famine districts of India despite the Law |
ish distribution of funds.
A small fire which broke out in the
Chateau d Eau caused intense excitement
on the Paris exposition grounds.
Argument in the franchise tax case be
fore the appellate division of the supreme
court was adjourned to the June term.
Tuesday, May 10.
The University of Cambridge conferred
the degree of doctor of laws ON the king
Of Sweden and Norway.
Philadelphia Republicans announced
that they had raised the 100000 pledged
for the national convention.
Secretary Chamberlain introduced in
the house of commons Il bill to make
Australia federal commonwealth.
Hot weather prevailed in New York
and vicinity, the thermometer in some
cases registering az high as 81 degrees.
Rev. Il. Il. Patton made "a sensational
attack on churches and preachers from
the stage Of Burt's Opera House at To.
ledo.
A suit against the sugar trust at Trcn.
ton charged it with restraining trade H.
legally in an attempt to force the Ar
buckle company to combine with it.
Charles III. Cole, former president of
the Globe National bank of Boston, was
sentenced to eight years in jail for mis-
appropriation of funds.
Monday, May IL.
A coal mine explosion at Toms Creek,
Va. killed six men.
1hirty-four schooners returning TO Vic.
toria. b. c.. have secured $1,000 seal.
skins.
Three shiploads of arms from Germa.
ny were reported at Hongkong for the
Filipino junta.
A fire in Fukin, Japan, has destroyed
1000 houses and many temples at an es.
tmated loss of $2,50O,000.
Several American Roman Catholic prel
ates are in Rome in connection with the
creation of a second American cardinal.
Large gold shipments from the United
States and from Russia have eased the
stringency in the London money market.
The American pavilion at the Paris ex
position was formally turned over to the
exposition authorities, great throngs OF
Americans witnessing the ceremonies.
saturday, May IL.
The third drawing room of the season
was held by the queen at Buckingham
palace.
The Tennessee Democrats renominated
Governor McMillin and declared for Bry.
an and the Chicago platform.
Major General Brooke relieved General
Merritt at Governors island, i'll charge
of the department of the east.
1t is reported at Constantinople that
the Turkish minister in Washington has
given the American government assur'
ances of the settlement of its claims.
A threatening dispatch to the empress
dowager of China from the Poh Wong
Wei in America was stopped by the Brit
ish embassy, in whose care it was sent.
Friday, May II.
Much damage by frosts was reported
The eruption of Nesuvius is reported
practically over.
The queen arrived in London to at
tend today's drawing room.
Citizens of Rochester will give Gen
eral Otis a banquet on his return home.
Advances have been made in transpa
cfc passenger rates to take effect Jun'
l5
The British colonial Office has no con
hrmation of the reported fall of ku
massi.
francesca Abbatta was hanged a
Camden, n. j., for the murder of GebarC
de Fec.
Three prisoners escaped from the New
York state reformatory ut Elmira Wed
nesday night
1t is estimated that the cotton crol
Of the United States will be greater thar
last year by 10 per cent.
cabinet crisis is expected to follow
the demonstrations against the Spanisl
governments taxation schemes.
Two hundred and seventy-fve Lehigl
valley car repairers struck at Buffalo II
sympathy with the men already out.
The temperature in New York cit.
Wednesday was ) degrees lower thai
any previous record made for the sam
date in May.
Thursday, May 10.
Lightning set fire to loaded trolle
car ON the Passaic Hoboken line.
Fifty large postolices showed an az
gregate increase in receipts during Apr
Of S250,000.
The cable car service up Mount We
suyius has been suspended in consequence
Of the eruption.
The conference for the discussion O
race problems in the south opened Il
montgomery, Ala.
The British ship Sierra Nevada wa
wrecked near Melbourne, and % live
were believed to have been lost.
Admiral Hichborn reported that wor
on the battleships Kearsarge and KeI
Wcky was practically completed.
Serious demonstrations against tn
governments financial policy were r.
ported from Spain, and the ministry wa
said to be greatly alarmed.
Jefries stiII Champion.
NEW YORK, May 15.-In the tastes