The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-04-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Drien
md TcrseIy Told.

Another blizzard was raging in Colo
RADIO and Wyoming.
The battleship Maine is to be launched
at Philadelphia May 30.
A site for royal residence in Ireland
is said to have been acquired.
New York capitalists are to build 8
new theater in San Francisco.
Methodist ministers at the New Yorl
east conference declared women are un
fit to act in legislative matters.
Prince Louis Napoleon was married tc
Grand Duchess Helena, daughter OF the
Russian Grand Duke Vladimir.
Tuesday, April 10.
The first boat of the season passed tn,
strait of Mackinac.
A student at the University Of Michi
gan has the bubonic plague.
The president received a petition from
Porto Ricans asking for relief.
A gift Of $4,000 TO Amherst college en-
dowment fund was announced.
The United States proposed to the pow
ers to fix the total Chinese indemnity al
f40,00O,0OO.
The engagement of Adjutant Genera
Corbin to Miss Edyth Patten of Wash
ington was formally announced.
Twelve new cardinals were created
among them Archbishop Martinelli, pa
pal delegate in the United States.
The United States supreme court de
clared unconstitutional the section of the
war revenue law taxing export bills oi
ladng.
Monday. April 10.
Japan is to propose the determination
of rats as propagators of disease.
The transport Thomas reached Sar
Francisco with volunteers returning from
Manila.
The gold bars stolen from the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosses specie room were
found on the steamer.
Thefts of -four from a government
warehouse by commissary sergeants and
others were testified to at Manila.
The cashier of the Farmers Nationa
bank of Vergennes, VT, was accused oil
misappropriating funds estimated at $50,
600.
Officials of the Central Railroad OF
New Jersey came to an agreement with
its engine drivers and firemen by which
the threatened strike was averted.
Mrs. j. Fletcher Shera. wife of bank.
rupt New York stockbroker, has been
sued by firm of dressmakers for "a, 706
alleged TO be due for gowns she bought
during year and a half.
Saturday. April 13.
Five thousand men were reported kill.
ed in battle between rival Arabian chiefs
The st. Petersburg press suggests an
alliance between Russia, France and
Italy.
The report is confirmed that the Brit.
ish war office is to buy no more foreign
bred beef.
1t is reported at East Liverpool, O.,
that the 10000 potters of the country
may strike.
General j. c. McCook, United States
consul for the Klondike, is reported dead
from pneumonia.
One person was killed and several
wounded in fight near Lilly, Pa, be-
tween band of gypsies and a posse.
An editor and director of a Havana
paper have been sentenced to imprison.
ment for melting trouble among dock
laborers.
Friday, April 12.
A blizzard is raging in Colorado and
Wyoming.
Turkey has raised loan to pay the
Cramps and the Krupps.
The president has appointed consuls
to Marseilles, Coburg and Zittau.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland
has issued orders to close the gambling
houses and dives.
Ten thousand deaths from the plague
have occurred in Canton, China, during
the past six weeks.
Emperor William has unveiled the
equestrian statue erected in Potsdam in
honor of Emperor William l.
Thursday, April IL.
lie Steele, the Paris Dreyfusite paper
failed.
A mob attacked the monastery of Para
mos, near Oporto, Portugal.
Insurgent funds to the amount OF $40,
600 were captured near Manila.
Nearly all the children in Lathrop Me
mortal home, Albany, are i'll with the
smallpox.
General William Booth, head of tn,
Salvation Army, celebrated his seventy
second birthday.
The Chinese minister at st. Petersburg
was reported fatally injured by beini
thrown down stairs after insulting th'
Russian foreign minister.