The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-06-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week briefly
and TerscIy Told.


Advices from India stated that the
famine situation was worse.
Cambridge university conferred the de.
gree of LII. ID. on ambassador Choate.
Charles Hitchcock, Jr., 1903, of New
York city won the golf championship at
Yale
Senator Davis Of Minnesota made the
address of alumni day at the University
IF Pennsylvania.
A Great Northern east bound train was
wrecked at Summit, Mon, and score of
passengers injured
The experts who examined the Ha-
yana treasury reported to General Wood
that its condition was excellent.
Returned Alaska miners deposited
S2OOOOO in gold dust at the United
States assay Office in Seattle. Wash.
Fears were expressed at Dutch Har-
bor, Alaska, for the safety of the steam
or Alpha, which left May . for Cape
Nome.
The San Francisco board of health is
preparing to raise the quarantine of Chi
natown, no case of plague having been
reported for a fortnight
Tuesday, June IL.
Soaking rains are needed to insure an
average spring wheat crop.
The government allowed the 200 i'm
migrants aboard the tramp steamship
Gran Antilla to land.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey went from
Detroit to Grand Rapids, where they
were given n rousing welcome
Fire destroyed the grain building of
George G. Ketchum q Co.. New York
city, causing loss of $4,000.
Eight bronze howitzers have been
stolen from the Chickamauga National
park, presumably by metal thieves.
The department of agriculture esti-
mates the total area planted in cotton at
25,5oS,OOO acres, an increase of 2,036,-
900, or ST per cent over last year.
Monday, June II.
! Americans and Englishmen are to erect
SI,OOO,OOO pulp mill at Grand Falls,
n. B.
Over 100000 people have already
passed the turnstiles of the Paris expo
/ sition.
The Pittsburg printers strike, started
in December last, has been officially de
clared off.
Bernard Morris, caretaker of the
lawns in Prospect park. Brooklyn, cele-
brated his one hundred and eighth birth
day anniversary.
n bill prohibiting the manufacture or
sale Of intoxicating liquors in Prince Ed
ward Island has just been passed by the
legislature of that province.
I Two negroes were hanged, shot and
burned by II mob in Mississippi, another
was hanged in Louisiana for suggesting
opposition to the whites, and fourth
was shot
Saturday, June o.
The New York committee of 100 cabled
/ $4,000 to India for the famine sufferers.
a Cairo dispatch says that 1000 addi-
| tional British troops are needed in Egypt.
The German reichstag agreed to raise
the stamp duty to pay for the increase in
| the navy.
| A slight fire in the London residence of
| United States ambassador Choate was
easily extingushcd.
! Henry Wellesley, third Duke of Wei
lington, died at Strathfeldsaye House,
Mortimer, Berkshire.
w. j. Bryan has 456 instructed dele
| gates of the 492 already elected to the
Kansas City convention.
Friday, June 8.
| The state commerce commission held
| its closing session at Syracuse.
Six additional companies of deputies
were sworn in to aid st. Louis police.
Mail advices stated that Il rebellion
against the British in Borneo had broken
| out.
Children to the number of 10000
marched in the annual parade of Jersey
| City Sunday schools.
Major General o. o. Howard was
| elected president OF the Congregational
| Home Missionary society.
The factory and stock of the Virginia
| and North Carolina Wheel company,
near Richmond, We're burned.
The executive committee of the Gold
| Democrats has been called to meet in In
| dianapolis July 20 to arrange for putting
| an independent ticket In the field
Thursday, June Z.
The Sixty-ninth and Twenty-second
camps.
Plans are completed for the Inaugural
| ton of Governor Dole of Hawaii ON
June A.
Mr.. John II. Starin gave an excursion
TO $1,000 veteran soldiers and sailors and
their friends.
Inc Olu nOIneSteau OF tne FTelnSnuy-
sen family at Somerville, N. j.. was de-
stroyed by fire.
Complete returns show that the Re
publican candidate for mayor of Port
land Or, is elected by 1,073 plurality.
Medals have been awarded at the Paris
exposition to james Mcneil Whistler
and John Singer Sargent, the American
painters.
The old building at East Haddam,
Conn, in which Nathan Hale taught
school was dedicated as memorial to
the martyr.
The state commerce convention met at
Syracuse. Gustav ii. Schwab made an
address on canals and New York's for
egn commerce.
Prominent negroes Mt meeting in
Philadelphia decided to organize ma
tional negro party and put negro presi-
dental ticket in the field.