The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-04-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Events of the Week Briefly
md TerseIy Told.

Owing to the small ice crop Norway
may be drawn on for ice this season.
A telegraph office has been opened by
the Chinese administration in Pekng.
An interoceanic canal company with
$106O0O,0O0 capital was incorporated at
Trenton.
The Carnegie company will expend be.
tween 81. 100000 and 81 10000 in i'm.
proving Conneaut (Ohio) harbor.
The second chamber of the states gen.
eral of Holland approved the information
al arbitration convention of the peace
conference.
Tuesday, April 3.
A British steam launch was captured
by pirates near Hongkong.
The Yukon ice shows indications OF
breaking up unusually early this spring.
East Hill House. the Target student
boarding house in Ithaca, n. Y, was
burned.
1t was reported at Yokohama that 10.
rea had granted Russa's demand for
concession at Masanpho.
Captain Charles d. Sigsbec, U. S. ~,
arrived in St Paul, where he will be
the guest of the city for the rest of the
week.
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beacon stake on Il barren rock in Rich.
ardson's bay, California, and left there
without food or water.
An attempt to destroy the residence of
George Il. Cox, the Republican leader in
Cincinnati, was made by some person
placing on the veranda package of dy-
1amite addressed to Mrs. George b. Cox
Monday. April z.
About 5000 striking machinists in Chi
ago resumed work.
Vermont maple sugar makers report
good flow of sap of excellent quality.
Strikes in many of the building trades
began in New York city and vicinity.
Emanuel Mandel of Trenton, for 1e
years totally blind. has had his eyesight
restored.
The recent heavy floods in Uruguay
hive caused great destruction of cattle
md wheat.
Recent frosts have damaged fruit ano
vegetables in southern and central Mis-.
sissippi and in northern Georgia.
The great machinists' strike. started in
Chicago and expected to spread through.
cut the country has been declared off.
Chicago university succeeded in rails
ing the required 100000 and thus Sc
cures Rockefeler's latest gift of $1,000.
600.
The new scale for bituminous coal
miners went into effect, and $4,000 min.
ers will receive the highest wages in 80
years.
Mrs. Sairs of Boston, after suffering
much pain in her heel, submitted to an
operation. A bone exactly resembling an
incisor tooth was extracted.
Saturday, March 81.
Admiral Farquhar's squadron reached
Pensacola.
Oxford won the field games with Cam
bridge at London.
Archibald Forbes. the we'll known wal
correspondent, died in London.
A man waded out into the river at Nj
;sgara, shot himself and was carried over
he falls.
A syndicate of home and foreign bank
efs has taken the new Dutch state loan
II 100000 kronen.
Six hundred Arabs were killed in a
rattle with the French near the oasis of
lhsalah in northern Africa.
The crew of a Delaware and Hudson
freight train was nearly asphyXiated in a
unnel near Binghamton, n. Y.
Extreme Leftists in the Italian cham.
'er of deputies pelted the president with
paper balls and forced an adjournment
II the session.
Three thousand two hundred and forty
Japanese laborers arrived in this country
ance Jan. l, 1899. Seven thousand more
ave obtained passports.
Friday, March 30.
Lord Curzon said the wheat and cotton
crops loss this year is 100000.
The plague deaths in Calcutta Tuesday
numbered pit and the new cases 157.
The strike of the machinists at Colum.
aus, o., was settled by compromise.
The porte notified the United States
Embassy at Constantinople that the i'm
portation of American pork had been pro
Iibited.
Chicago schoolteachers will examine
he vision of pupils to discover defective
,yesight.
The French foreign Office announced
hat France would not oppose American
acquisition of the Danish West Indies.
The British cruiser Psyche left King.
ton, Jamaica, for Bluefelds, Nicaragua,
protect British subjects at the latter
ilnce.
Sapdh 10 III lht navy anu
.uilitary departments for war with Rus,
ia because of the latter's disregard fol
be treaty.
The funeral of DIR. Isaac NJ Wise was
leld in Cincinnati. Thousands of per.
'ons viewed the remains in the Plum
Sreet temple.
The steamer Dutch Prince will take tc
rotterdam from Philadelphia the first
argo of American bituminous coal ex
,Orted to Holland.
Thursday, March 20.
The seaer Aurora, which arrived at ST.
Eohn's, n. F., narrowly escaped destruc
ion by fire.
The Russian squadron, which recently
allied at Chemulpo, Korea, has arrived
Port Arthur.
Mrs. Frances NJ. Wolcott, at Buffalo
'enied the story that she was robbed of
10000 worth of jewels in Paris.
The foreign embassies at Constantine
lie have collectively protested to the
'orte against increasing the import du
les.
The jury in the trial of Camden report.
rs for publishing report of an alleged
nnfnSSion pf I,li Sbov,- ,UoS 1ia.baroad