The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events OF the Week briefly
Chrouicled.


Gibraltar.
Villabiian church in Madrid was
damaged by dynamite bombs.
Two were killed and several hurt by
the explosion of locomotive at Van
vert, O.
The French minister of war has ac-
ccptcd the proposition for now in
quiry in the Dreyfus case.
King Alexander has suspended the
constitution of Servia, retired the coun-
cilors of state and senators and dis
solved the skuphtina.
The daughter of the lord mayor of
London was married in the Mansion
House, London. 1t is said to be the
first wedding in that historical build
ing.
The net earnings of the United
States Steel corporation for the first
quarter of the calendar year were
$24,G56 1876. a decrease of $2,059,321 as
compared with last year.
Testimony to the effect that Charles
l.. Fair died before his wife was given
in New York by two witnesses from
Paris before eX-Justice KcCncr. as ref
cree, in the suit instt uted by Mrs.
Fairs mother and her relatives to re-
cover the estates of the Fairs.
Tuesday, April :.
The Massachusetts legislature direct
ed the arbitration board to report on
the Lowell strike by April 30
The New York state senate passed
Il bill designating Columbus discovery
day, Oct. II, rs Il public holiday.
1t was reported that Alhanians had
massacred the Christian inhabitants Of
Okhrida. where an outbreak of Bulga-
rians was recently reported.
An agreement to arbtratc all differ
enccs which may arise during the next
two years was signed 10y the carpen-
ters' union of Providence, II. /.
\ general strike was declared in Hol-
land Of all labor employed in trans
portation 10y land and water in n pro
test against proposed antistrike laws.
Mrs. Horace Porter. wife of General
Porter, the United states ambassador
to France. died suddenly in Paris of
congestion of the lungs following Il
chill.
Charles Crossman, an inmate of Clin-
ton prison, at Dannemora. y. Y, com
mittcd suicide in the dark cell by
strangllng himself with the cord of a
slop bucket
Judge Lurton at Cincinnati refused
the injunction asked for by the Kccne
f,,4, .
terests from voting the Union Pacific
holdings at the Southern Pacific com
ppny's election.
1t was announced that the Mace
DOMAIN revolutionary committee in
tends to proclaim general insurrec-
ton in the European provinces of Tur-
key about April 20.
The Cuban congress reassembled and
will probably continue in session for
three months on account of the necess-
ty for the enactment of many laws be-
fore all the departments of the govern
ment get thoroughly under way.
At Colorado Springs it was an
nounced that the Stratton will contest
had been settled. young Stratton agree
ing to accept $3J0,O00 in cash. The bal
ance of the mine owners estate of S15.-
100000 will go to build home for the
poor.
President Roosevelt was received
with great enthusiasm by vast con
course of the people of Fargo, ~ D.,
and vicinity. Before leaving for James
town and Bismarck he delivered an
address on "The Philippines and the
Army"
Monday, April q.
Cotton prices have reached the high
est point of the season.
Miss Alice Roosevelt returned to
Washington from her Porto Rican trip.
America won the cable chess match
with Great Britain by the score of 51a
games to Az.
William f. Cody ('Buffalo Bill') has
concluded successful three months
engagement at the Olympia, London
by the drop in the price of coffee in
New York the Lewisohn syndicate, so
called, is reported to have lost $5,0O0,-
COO.
A grain elevator at South Chicago
owned by the Nickel Plate railroad
was destroyed by fire at loss of $I0,-
600.
The German emperor concluded his
visit to the Danish court and sailed on
the imperial yacht HohenZollern for
Kiel.
Six outlaws of the Bert Casey gang
in Oklahoma, supposed to have robbed
the Leger bank at Guthrie of $4,000,
We're surprised and taken without trou-
BILE.
The immense storage house of the
Birmingham Fertilizer company in
East Birmingham, Ala, was complete
ly destroyed by fire, the loss being esti-
mated at $225,000.
President Roosevelt was the guest OF
Sioux Falls over Sunday. His special
train arrived in that city about
o'clock a. IN. on Sunday and left Mon
day morning shortly after o o'clock.
Major Sharp's flying column has re
turned to Damot, Somallland, after q
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