The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-05-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Terse1y Told.

Oil was struck in the Aspen tunnel OF
the Union Pacific.
The grand jury at st. Louis returned
II indictments in election cases.
The British bark Highland Forest was
wrecked on the coast of West Australia.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transits Flushing |
avenue depot and 20 cars were destroyed |
by fire.
Lady Sibyl Cufc was married to w. |
Bayard Cutting. Jr., secretary of the |
United States embassy in London.
The German expedition in China has |
withdrawn to its former position, leaving |
only a garrison ut the pass in the great
wall.
Tuesday. April 10.
fax crop parasite was discovered in
North Dakota.
War revenue act up to March 81 has
produced S2S9,504 Ar.
The Japanese are fortifying port on
island of Iesso, opposite Nladvostok.
Beers blew up railroad with intention
of derailing n train carrying Cecil Rhodes.
The United States supreme court de-
cided calls" taxable under the war reve-
nue. law.
Harvard board of overseers decided to
confer degree of LII. ID. upon President
Mckinley.
Officials of the failed Scandinavian
American bank of New Whatcom, Wash,
were arrested.
Emperor Francis Joseph received Rob-
rrt S. Mccormick, new United States
minister to Austria.
Monday. April 20.
Burglars robbed the Office of the Amer
ican Express company in Paris of 10000
francs.
Turkey has ordered a new warship. but
has taken no steps to pay for previous
contracts
-Four persons were cremated in a fire
at Houston, Tex. which destroyed n sta
Bile and three residences.
A dispatch from Amsterdam announced
that Mr.. Kruger would leave for the
United States early in June.
A drill of native mounted troops was
held at San Juan, Porto Rico The sol
diers made good showing.
Fire at Saranac Lake, n. Y, destroyed
mill. four storehouses and 100000 feet
OF lumber. The total loss was S15O,OOO.
The French government expressed its
thanks for the courtesies shown to the Of
iicers and men of the training ship Du-
quay Troun in the United States.
Saturday, April ~.
The shah of Persia is reported worse.
Georgia train robbers secured $3.50
near Macon.
The first title for land for Palisades
park has been secured.
The Boston cup yacht Independence is
10 be launched May TO-
Rear Admiral Evans has reported the
torpedo boat Bailey n splendid success.
General William Ludlow is said to be
dangerously i'll with tuberculosis at Ma
Mia.
The Blaine mansion in Washington has
been sold to the Westinghouse family for
4 Sl50,000.
George II. Bidwell, collector of GUS
toms for New York, has been reappoint-
cd by the president.
The third annual cable chess match
between representatives of American
and British universities is open.
4 The president of the failed Scandina-
yian bank of Whatcom, WASH is said to
have borrowed the entire deposits.
Friday. April 20.
u Girl strikers in Passac attacked the po
lice with umbrellas and fists.
n New York day at the PanAmercar
exposition was fixed for Sept. 6.
George Foster Peabody offered S55,OOt
N for Y. NJ. G. A. buildings in Columbus
N Ga.
The Russian government forbade the
exhibition of Tolstois portrait at Mos
n COW.
n The Methodists have decided to rebuil'
property destroyed during the PekinI
m siege.
IA The Adolph Sutro estate in San Fran
W cisco has decided to pay Mrs KlugeSutr'
M s150,0OO.
M In New York Albert r. Patrick wa'
"a charged with the murder of Millionair,
N Rice The Indictment contains ten counts
W Edwin IL. Conger, United States min
# lister to China, accompanied by his wife
# daughter and Miss Pierce, arrived at Sal
Nj Francisco.
X Thursday, April -.
# A 5-year-old Rochester girl is reported
III kidnapped.
Welsh miners protested against Britisl
M export coal tax
IA The racing mast of Shamrock ii wa
ia successfully stepped.
WI \ British force defeated slave raidin
WI tmirs in northern Nigeria.
M The steamer Ontario put back t
M Queenstown with cargo on fire.
M Minister Conger in an interview defend
|H ed the conduct of missionaries in China.
* The Finnish senate protested agHins
E& paying the expenses of Russian gondal
.4k merle.
' There was more disorder in the Aus
trian reichsrath ut Vienna. The sessio
M was suspended.
M u. NJ. Sawyer of Montclair, n j., wo
M the ocean race to Liverpool to break new
& of sons drowning to invalid mother,
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