The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
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Notable Events of the Week Briefly
Cbropi picIcd.
Admiral Dewey has started on a trip
to inspect the north Atlantic squadron.
The San francisco mint has packed
100000 pesos for shipment TO the Phil
ippines.
The Russian war minister has start
ed for Manchuria ostensibly on a tour
Of inspection.
The japan leather factory of Hugh
Smith Mt Newark, n. j., was gutted by
fire, causing a loss of about $4,000.
The boilers of the French steamer
Guadalquiver blew up ut Salonka.
Several of the engineers were badly in
jured.
The Anchor line steamer Calabria,
Naples for New York. was towed into
The port of Algiers, having lost her pro-
peller.
The Venezuelan government has is
sued decree fixing the rights and du-
ties of foreigners which is regarded as
drastic and eXasperating.
Colonel Mills has reported to Secre-
tary Root that General Baldwin did not
speak sightingly of negro soldiers. The
Denver interview was bogus.
The appellate court in Paris has con-
firmed the sentence on Baron Henri de
Rothschild of five days Imprisonment
for driving an automobile too fast.
Il. II. Hartman has purchased new
steamships for the Pacific Mail. The
plan is to complete the Central Pacific
and dispose of the Southern Pacific's
surplus.
Tuesday, April IS.
The output of gold this year in the
Klondike is estimated at $15,000,000.
The Dunn and Buxton blocks in Rut-
land, VT, were burned; loss, 100000.
One was killed and eleven were hurt
by collision of street cars in st.
| Louis.
The eleventh successive celebration
of Grants birthday was held in Ga
lena, Ill.
Fire almost totally destroyed the
| Montana club building. entailing loss
! of 100000
Eleven persons were killed and twen-
ty-five injured in a collision on the Mis-
souri, Pacific near Buffalo, Kan.
The New York and New England
Steamship company, capital $3,000,000,
was Incorporated at Trenton, n. J.
Five men We're badly burned by
molten metal as the result of the eX-
plosion of furnace ut Marietta, Pa.
| TIt1s i'm ln mi f,t
circuit court at Kansas City temporari-
| ly enjoined eight railroads from dis
eliminating against small shippers.
King Edward arrived in Rome and
was met by King Victor Emmanuel.
! The two sovereigns embraced, while
the band played God Save the King"
President Loubet arrived Mt Tunis.
He was received by the hey and was
given tremendous ovation by the
French, Mussulman and Hebrew popu-
! lation.
Andrew Carnegie has contributed
! $4,000 toward the amount needed for
! the erection of Emerson hall, the new
! philosophical building at Harvard uni
versity.
The extended report of Lieutenant
General Nelson A. Miles concerning
his observations in the Philippines was
made public by the war department.
/ 1t is dated Feb. 10, 1908.
The creditors of the American Bicy-
Gle company were ordered by the Unit
, ed States court at Trenton. n. j., to
accept the offer of S3500,O00 from the
creditors reorganization committee.
General Vasquez landed in Cuba,
/ and he and his party proceeded to the
! city of Santiago. The gunboat Presi-
! dente, In which the refugees reached
! Cuba, will be returned to the provi-
sional government of Santo Domingo.
Regarding Manchurian affairs the
Russian foreign Office says: "There is
nothing directed in any manner against
the interests of the other powers or
their commerce. Others enjoy the same
rights of commerce in the interior as
we."
Monday, April 27.
Holland has accepted IA gift from An
drew Carnegie of 81 100000 for peace
tribunal hall.
The cruiser Colorado was launched
at Philadelphia in the presence of a
distinguished gathering.
Nj. Chartran, a celebrated French art
ist, has painted Il portrait of President
Roosevelt for the Paris salon.
The body of Adolphe Openhym of
William Openhym & Sons, silk mer-
chants. was found in the Harlem river
at New York city.
Hugh j. Cannon, the Mormon mis-
sionary, appeals to Emperor William
for permission for the Mormons to re-
main in Germany.
Mr.. Charles Page Bryan, the new
United States minister to Portugal,
was received in special audience by
King Carlos at Lisbon.
The yacht Reliance was taken out for
another spin mt Bristol, r. l., and on
the whole she proved a stiff and power
ful craft. She was very fast in beating
and reaching