The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-05-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and TcrseIy Told.


and TcrseIy Told.
Wlheminas condition showed steady
Improvement.
American jockeys won the chief races
at Newmarket.
A French fishing fleet was caught in
gale in the North sea, and many lives
were lost.
Three thousand plssterers went on
strike in New York, and the situation
in the building trades is serious.
Diplomatic relations between Austria
and Mexico were resumed for the first
time since their rupture in 1867.
The Danish fokething approved the
cession of the West Indies to the Unit
ed States, subject to the plebiscite.
Tuesday, April 20.
An explosion of an engine on the
Lackawanna road near Dover, n. j.,
killed two men.
1t is estimated that between 10000
and $4,000 sheep were killed by last
weeks storm in Wyoming.
The United Copper company. with an
authorized capital of SS0000,000, was
incorporated at Trenton, n. J.
The lord chief justice of England de
cded against the Protestant alliance
in its efforts for the expulsion of
Jesuits.
Monday, April 2S.
Five men of the Chcagos crew were
arrested at Venice for causing dis
turbance in st. Marks square.
The Hotel Dorian, near South Nor
walk, Conn, a well known summer
hostelry, was completely destroyed by
fire.
The great Singer strike, which has
been on at South Bend, Ind, for ten
weeks, is ended, the Singer company
gaining a victory.
The president has virtually decided
to appoint II. G. Squiers, now secreta-
ry of legation at Peking, as the first
United States minister to Cuba.
Saturday, April 20.
A New York policeman found two
pearls valued at S4O0 in an oyster.
Good rains in the northwestern states
have relieved fear for the safety Of
crops.
Chinese imperial troops on the way
to relieve Manning defeated large reb-
ell force.
Bulletins about Queen Wilhelmina
were vague and indicated that her con-
dition is serious.
! Fifty persons We're injured in an ac-
cident on the Great Eastern railway
/ in London suburb.
Friday, April 70.
A recurrence of high temperature
! has revived anxiety about Queen Will
helmna.
| The Venezuelan government forces
under General Castillo have been de-
feated and he killed.
Soaking rains have occurred through
eastern and central Kansas, where
drought had prevailed.
| A French sailor was arrested at Tou-
Ion, charged with plotting to blow up
the battleship Charles Martel.
The Western Iron and Steel compa-
ny, with capital of $15,000,000, was
incorporated at Phenix, Ariz.
Thursday, April 24.
The lord mayor of Dublin refused an
invitation to King Edwards corona
ton.
New orleans was selected as the next
meeting place of the ex-Confederate
veterans.
The Danish landsthing adopted re-
port deferring ratification of the treaty
for the sale of the islands.
Experts have decided on figure s
course for the airships in competition
for the st. Louis fair prize of 100000.
The Wisconsin supreme court decid-
ed that such privileges as street rail
way franchises cannot be granted to in.
dividuals.
At Kenton, o., the Champion Iron
Fence works burned, entailing loss of
from 500, 900 to $250,0O0 and throwing
300 men out of work.
About 400 members of various WON
ems clubs left by special trains from
New York, Philadelphia, Boston and
Buffalo to attend the meeting of the
Federation Of Women's Clubs at Los
Angeles, Cal.