The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-06-11
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Ninety thousand children, members
of Brooklyn Sunday schools, marched
in their annual parade.
Harry Emmons was killed at Lardo,
Ida, by his partner, II. NJ. st. Cyr, a
well known mining engineer.
Author Isbell of New Rochelle, n. Y,
was arrested In Connecticut on a
charge of stealing an automobile.
The rendering plant of the Connect
cut Abattoir and Oil corporation, near
Bridgeport, was destroyed by fire.
The big Hamburg-Amerlcan liner
Deutschland, which went ashore In
New York harbor, has been foated.
w. J. Idclman, deputy United States
collector, was arrested at Eagle City,
Alaska, on a charge of embezzlement.
Miss f. f. Osgood won the Massa-
chusetts championship in the Boston
Women's Golf association tournament.
A jury at Norwich, Conn, has found
William II. Galivan not guilty of MUIR
der in taking the life of jeremiah
Shumway.
An agent representing a Japanese
syndicate is negotiating for the intro
duction of 100000 Japanese laborers
for the Transvaal diamond mines.
The muck" famous for producing
potatoes. was ablaze along the valley
from Fort Edward to Whitehall ~ V,
n distance of fifteen or twenty miles.
The jury in the case of Lulu Miller
Youngs Mt Rochester. y. Y, charged
with the murder of Florence MacFar-
lane. brought in verdict of not guilty.
The dead in the Topeka food now
number seventy-eight. A boatman re-
ported that seven bodies had been
found near the north end of Harrison
street.
The governor of Cape Colony has
told parliament he hopes soon TO relax
remaining restrictions on liberty as
result of the policy of peace and recon-
ciliation.
Mariners of westward bound vessels
arriving at New York had eager ques-
tions to ask about the great field of
smoke caused by forest fires which
they had encountered when 600 miles
out Mt sea. They found patches so
thick rs to make it necessary to slow
down the engines to half speed.
The atmosphere in the locality of
Geneva, n. Y, was filed with smoke
and atoms of ashes, evidently the re-
suit of the great forest fires in north
ern New York,
Friday, June 3.
Danger of war between Japan and
Russia over Manchuria is apparently
increasing.
English polo players have abandoned
their proposed visit to the United
States this year.
1t is officially announced that King
Edward and Queen Alexandra will Wis
it Ireland in July.
The French Academy has given a re-
ception to Edmond Rostand, author of
"Cyrano de Bergerac."
Ten thousand children are reported
sold in exchange for food by starving
people in Kwangsi China.
Sentences Of most of Transvaal Beers
the war have been remitted.
The German emperor and the czar Of
Russia will visit Vienna simultaneous
ly at the beginning of September.
Extensive forest fires are burning in
all parts of Nova Scotia, and hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of tim
Der is being destroyed.
Miss Laura Biggar, the New York ao.
tress, has been sued for 100000 dam
ages for alienation of her husbands
affections by Mrs. Charles c. Hen
drick.
Water Commissioner Monroe of New
York has explained the water supply
situation and asks for caution in the
use of water while the drought con-
tinues.
The Hamburg-American steamship
Deutschland stuck fast on mud bank
in New York harbor and was hauled
off, and she put to sea after delay of
twenty-four hours.
Smoke and ashes from forest fires in
New York and neighboring states has
obsNuIeu tht sun as lHOuRH ny SOlll6
heavy yellowish mist for three days,
and pungent odor of burning wood
permeates the air.
The Building Trades Employers as
sociation of New York has submitted
to all the unions in the building trades
proposition for arbitration which
provides for a court of appeals on ev-
cry question involved.
Thursday, June 4.
The village of Briggs Corner, N. b.,
was destroyed by fire.
The state pawnbroking establish
ment at Naples has been burned; loss,
50, 100000
For forty-elght consecutive days no
rain has fallen in and about Platts-
burg, n. Y.
A fire destroyed twenty eight houses
in the suburbs of the city of Hull, op-
posite Ottawa.
A large portion of the business sec
tion Of North Emporia (Belfeld) was
entirely destroyed by fire.
One passenger was fatally and 9th"
ers severely injured in wreck on the
Rock Island road near Alta, Ill.
The death list from Mondays torna-