The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-03-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Sotnb1c Events of the Week Briefly
md TerscIy Told.

France has decided to have large
exhibit at the st. Louis fair.
Governor Taft was reported as doing
well after an operation in Cincinnati.
More earthquake shocks have oc-
Cured ut Shamaka, in Russian Trans
caucasia.
The Chinese government has protest
ed against the re-enactment by the
United States of the exclusion law.
Tuesdny. March II.
Anxiety is still felt for Cecil Rhodes
by his physicians
A woman and her nine children were
burned to death at Matane Que.
The Eliza Dawson House at yassar.
the gift of John ID. Rockefeller, was
opened.
Federal officials at Knoxville. Tenn.
were accused of violating the civil
service law.
The sons of Damad Mahmud Pasha.
the sultan's brother-in-law. were SEN
fenced by default TO life Imprisonment.
The +. |. Dupont de Nemours & Co.'S
powder plant. five miles west of Keo-
kuk, Ia, was badly damaged by an ex-
plosion. Two men were killed outright,
and third will die.
Monday, March 10.
An outbreak of cholera was announc-
ed from Mecca.
Sealing crews numbering about 5000
men are on Il strike at ST. Johns n. +.
Forty-two of the large wholesale
dealers in paper in New York city have
formed an organization.
Colonel w. T.. Cody, Buffalo Bill"
is getting together company of 5000
Swedes whom he will take to Big Horn
valley, in Wyoming. as colonists.
A three story frame house was NOV
ed from Greenwood to Bennums, in
Delaware, twenty miles, while the
family remained in the building.
Mrs. Mary Johnson of Louisville,
Ky, has just been married for the
sixth time. Two of her husbands are
dead, two more divorced and another is
in prison for bigamy.
saturday, March =.
Fire at Hudson, y. V, caused loss
of $4,000.
The French senate passed the ship
bounty bill.
King Edward laid the foundation for
the new Royal Naval college at Dart
mouth.
The court of appeals upheld the in
dictment against Police Captain Her
llhy of the New York force.
A New York aquarium turtle awoke
and ate fish breakfast after sleeping
foodless. for thirteen months.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker rebuked
King Edward for brewing beer and
violating the English Sunday.
Friday, March :.
Four steamers were fast in the ice
in Newburg bay.
Two fishing schoOners were wrecked
on the New Hampshire coast. No lives
were lost.
The steamer Alexandria, Hamburg
American line, is to convoy the kaisers
new yacht to Hamburg.
Osman Pasha has been condemned to
death. 1t is said the sentence will be
commuted to life Imprisonment.
The Metropolitan Street Railway
company of New York has announced
Il system of pensions for superannuat-
ed employees.
The American liner Waesland collid-
ed with the British steamship Har-
monides and sank off Holyhead, Wales.
Two lives were lost.
One thousand men and boys went on
strike at the Natalie colliery, operated
by the Shamokin (Pa.) Coal company,
because of the bimonthly payment law
not being strictly observed.
Thursday, March q.
Leonard Lewisohn, the "copper"
king" died in London of pneumonia
General Robert II. Carr, who helped
to capture John Brown, died in Balti-
more.
An attempt at revolution in Servia
has failed, and the leader has been
killed.
The barge Cardenas, lost in q storm
last month, has arrived at Newport
News, Va.
A congress of French miners has de-
cided upon general strike for an
eight hour day.
The vault of the First National bank
of Montgomery, Ind, was blown open
nd r,l,la1 Of S1n