The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-06-25

The state department of the G.. A. r.
favors having Memorial day on Sun
day to prevent It from being mere
day Of holiday sports.
The Chinese foreign office in reply to
a demand from Japan for opening OF
the ports of Mukden and Taitungchou,
says circumstances are not favorable.
Lord Grey of the British South AZ
rica company has expressed regret at
Booker T. Washington's inability to go
to South Africa and make report on
natives.
The last link of the Commercial Pa
cific cable will be laid between San
Francisco and Manila and the United
States will have direct communication
with its Philippine possessions by the
30th of June.
Molly Paterson, n colored maid has
admitted having stolen $4,000 worth Of
jewelry from her mistress, Mrs. James
McCulum of New York. The plunder
was found secreted behind a panel in
her bedroom.
Twenty chorus girls Of the "Pousse
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(O.) theater were seized with cramps
during the performance and were COM
PEELED to call for medical service owing
to poisoned food.
Friday, June 10.
Russia is said to be making hostile
moves in Tibet as well as in Manchuria
and Korea.
DR.. Lapponi, the pope's physician,
states that the pontiff is wonderfully
well for a man of nlnety-four.
The Allan line steamer Norwegian,
after being five days on the rocks at
Cod Roy. n. r., has been foated.
A great review of troops will be held
at Aldershot July and will be attend
ed by President Loubet of France.
Lieutenant Hamilton Foley Fifth
cavalry, will be tried by court martial
at Manila for embezzlement and on
other charges.
An unidentified negro tainted on the
platform of an East New York elevated
station, fell in front of locomotive
and was killed.
The San Diego (Cal) Union has an
nounced that L. S. Grant is a candidate
for the Republican nomination for the
vice presidency next year.
Bob Fitzsimmons, the pugilist. will
marry Miss Julia Clifford. one of the
singers in "When Johnny Comes
Marching Home" at Chicago.
The Niagara Falls (N. " police au-
thorities prevented Martha Wagenfuh-
rer from making her proposed trip
through the rapids in a barrel.
Theodore Cross, mine promoter,
charged with fraud in a S3,500,000 min
ing deal in which his commissions are
declared to have been 100000, has
been arrested in Chicago.
Postmaster Derousse of Camden, n.
j. who disappeared has been found at
the home of friend in Baltimore in "a
bad physical and mental condition"
His books are in muddled condition.
Dr. John Wilson of Poughkeepsie has
removed n bullet that had been in his
head for five years. He felt a soreness
in his throat, and he removed the bull
let with forceps. 1t had entered the
head at the left of the nose while he
was examining rifle.
William Hardee, the condemned mur.
derer, who, with three other prisoners,
escaped from the city Jail at Glasgow,
Mont, after killing one guard and beat
ing two others almost to death, has
been shot and killed in the Bad Lands
after Il desperate battle with n posse.
Thursday, June Is.
The Catskill Creek House, a summer
hotel at South Cairo, n. Y, has been
destroyed by fire.
William Doane of New York was
fatally hurt by being thrown from an
auto in Hackensack, n. j.
Captain S. f. Mott of Glens Falls,
n. Y, was knocked senseless at Camp
Odell by a kick of a horse that had
thrown Lieutenant Colonel Charles H.
Denike.
Militia was called out at Dubuque,
Ia, to suppress rioting that followed
an attempt to run street cars with nom
union men.
Kroushevan, the notorious Jew batter
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gan in Kishneti, was STABBED in the
neck by Jew and seriously hurt at
st. Petersburg.
William A. Keating was knocked out
of bunk on his yacht and into the
river at New York by a tug striking
his boat and careening it, Harbor po-
lice rescued him.
James r. Metcalf, for many years
superintendent of the money order sys-
TEN of the post office department at
Washington, has been removed from
office by the postmaster general as the
result of an alleged indiscretion.
The unbeaten yacht Reliance has
met with her first mishap Two min
utes after the start for thirty mile
race the topmast of the latest Here
shoff boat was carried away about ten
feet from the masthead, practically
! putting her out of the race.
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