The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-04-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Brieay
ana TcrseIS Told.


Countess Boni de Castellane gave
birth to a son.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
to Union college.
Queen Wihelmina's illness took
more serious turn.
Governor Odell vetoed in appropria-
ton bills items reaching $372,500.
Mllers at Liverpool advanced the
price of -four i'm response TO the pro.
posal of duty.
Two officers and nine blueiackets
were killed by the bursting of gun on
the British battleship Mars.
Three men were run down and killed
at Langhorne by the Royal Blue line
train on the Reading railroad
France decided TO send representa-
tives to the dedication of the Rocham-
beau monument at Washington May
"a.
Tuesday, April IL.
Governor General Taft is TO return to
the Philippines by way of Rome.
w. X. Vanderbilt's Lalaric won the
Prix du Petit Trianon at St Cloud.
France.
The annual convention of the Nation
al Editorial association opened at Hot
Springs, Ark.
Much damage was done in Berlin and
vicinity by a violent thunderstorm.
Three hundred fires were started.
c. NJ. Dickinson, the United States
consul general, and Mrs. Dickinson left
Constantinople on their way TO the
United States.
Monday, April II.
Snow fell to the depth of six inches
in western Nebraska.
4 total number of 1, 162 immigrants
arrived in New York from European
ports.
Rev. Walter T.. Avery while preach
ing in the Scott Methodist church in
Wilmington, Del, was stricken with
paralysis.
BY the breaking of a gangplank at
West Forty street, New York,
fifteen persons were thrown into the
/ river and narrowly escaped drowning.
The ancient cathedral of Cuenca tow
er at Madrid collapsed after high mass.
large number We're killed outright
and buried in the ruins and scores in
jured by the falling walls.
| Saturday. April IL.
! Wade Hampton, former Confederate
general and United States senator, died
at Columbia, S. c.
A reprieve granted by the governor
of Missouri arrived thirty-five minutes
too late to save murderer.
Suits against New York dentists for
royalties in tooth crowns aggregating
$10,O00,000 have been dropped
Professor Joseph NJ. Miller has con-
fessed to committing the murder Of
Carrie NJ. Jennett in Detroit, Mich.
The Edinburgh university has con-
ferred honorary degrees on President
Schurman of Cornell and Professor
William James of Harvard.
Friday, April II.
Two brutal murders were committed
in the street at Detroit.
Services in memory of Cecil Rhodes
were held in London.
Diplomatic relations between Italy
and Switzerland have been ruptured.
Boer leaders are reported gathering
at Klerksdorp to discuss British peace
terms.
John Whitehead, head of the White
head torpedo factory at Fiume, Hun
gary, died.
A Boston and Albany train ran into
a section gang at Allston and killed
three men.
A prairie fire in Terry county, Tex
has destroyed thousands of dollars
worth of property.
Thursday, April 10.
The production of Australian wheat
is estimated at S,012,T62 bushels.
In the Augusta (Ga.) district 1000C
cotton mill workers were locked out
and every mill closed
Former President Steyn of the
Orange Free State was reported to bt
threatened with total blindness.
General S. B. NJ. Young has arrived
at Washington and was assigned t.
duty as president of the Army Wa
college.
Nearly two feet of snow fell in west
ern Pennsylvania, and at Fairfax, w
Va, depth of thirty-two inches wa
reported.