The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-05-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Brief,
and TerscIy Told

Severe foods were reported in the Tex
as panhandle.
Chicago was selected as the place fol
the Olympian games of 1904.
Russian spies are said to have mapped
the harbor OF Nagasaki. Japan.
Arapahoe Indians in Wyoming threat
en- outbreak, and troops are asked for.
Congressman Glover OF st. Louis
was reported killed in n Colorado food.
Nine hundred cmigrants left Porte
Rico for Hawaii, with 400 more to fol
low.
Rev. DIR. Ernest NJ. Stires of Chicago
accepted a call to st. Thomas church
New Yorl, city.
The Cambridgeport National bank
Cambridge, Mass, was dynamited, prob
ably for robbery.
New York Central stockholders met al
Albany. Acquisition of coal carrying
branches was reported.
Tuesday. May 21.
Many were wounded in st. Petersburg
strike riots.
The funeral of Mrs. Lyman J. Gage
was held in Washington.
The Cuban convention was estimated
to stand II TO IL for the Plat amend.
ment.
The total annual expenditures Of the
Austyo- Hungarian monarchy are about
$7l,500,000.
The total British losses in South AT
rica are reported at 14,97S dead and H..
200 wounded.
The last Italian census shows the pop.
ulation to be 30. .440, ,754, an increase of
100000 since 1881.
Superintendent Mills Of West Point
was ordered to Washington in connection
with the troubles at the Military acad'
emy.
The ship Savona arrived at Monte.
video with the dead bodies of the captain
and four of the crew, who had been kill.
ed by being struck by huge wave which
washed over the vessel.
Monday, May 20.
Extensive damage by floods was re
loorted from northern Texas.
The strikes of agricultural laborers in
Andalusia,. Spain, are assuming alarming
proportions.
The last Italian census shows the popu-
lation to be 32,449, 754, an increase of
100000 since 1881.
The anniversary of the commune was
celebrated by the revolutionary groups in
Paris Several arrests were made.
AT Seattle, Wash, the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Goidsboro broke her starboard
engine eccentric rod during a trial run,
necessitatng the vessels return to her
doas.
Saturday, Mny is.
Severe earthquake shocks were felt in
Ohio and West Virginia.
Edwin f. Uhl, ex-embassador to Ger
many, died at Grand Rapids.
The governor Of Wisconsin signed the
bill putting an export tax on ice.
Kansas City's music festival was so
successful that it may become an annual
event.
John l.. Senple, prominent Camden
attorney, was arrested, charged with
counterfeitng.
General Mascardo the Filipino chief,
with S2s men, surrendered to Captain
O'NeD OF the Twentyffth infantry.
Friday, May II.
Judge .1ehn IF. Gibbons of, Illinois was
reported dying AT Denver.
The governor Of Wisconsin vetoed the
compulsory vaccination bill.
Four carloads of cots and mattresses
from New York have reached jackson.
vile, Fla.
Preparations were. SO id to be complete
for the dedication Of the Buffalo exposi-
tion Monday.
Jacquehn, the French cyclist, defeated
Taylor, the American, il championship
match at Paris.
King Edward has decided that his
birthday should be celebrated on the same
date as that of Queen Victoria.
Thursday, May 10.
The German rneichstag was prorogued
rlntil November.
A bitter Irish ,fiebate TOOK place in the
house of commons-
st. Louis slloons We're ordered closed
between ] and ) II. m.
THE village Of Acerenza, Italy, has bee n
swept by an avalanche.
illegal means have been tax en- to clos
the Pan-American fur on Sundays.
-Four hundred custom shoemakers il
New York struck for higher wages.