The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events OF the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

and Ter-eIy Told.
The main building of the Mississippi
Female college ut Meridian was
burned.
The czar ordered the construction of
n railroad in Finland to employ starv-
ing people.
Lord Roberts has accepted condition
| ally the invitation of New York Pil.
grims to dinner next fall.
The national encampment of the G.
A. X. will be held in San Francisco
during the week beginning Aug. II.
A shed and sixty seven street cars of
the St Louis and Suburban Railway
company were burned; loss, 100000.
/ The Arkansas Legislature has passed
bill to bar from the state all CONNER
| cial companies that have entered into
any combination.
| Tuesday. Feb. ~.
Dynamite killed four people at Rock
! wood Pa.
( King Edward has held his first levee
of the season at Buckingham palace.
! A railroad train struck carriage
near Joliet, ILL.,, killing two and fatally
woundng two others
| \ cablegram from Honolulu states
that the recent earthquakes raised the
| level of Guam six inches.
| The sale to the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road company of fourteen Beaver line
steamers was completed in London.
Premier de Sell of Hungary has
/ taken measures to stop the wholesale
emigration of young girls to America.
The ST. Louis and San lrancisco's
fast train Meteor was ditched near
| Dixon. Mo. one person was killed and
| five hurt.
Monday, Feb. 81.
A thousand of Rome's poor popula-
ton were feasted by Pope Leo.
The Hotel Deveaux in Toledo was de.
stroyed by fire. The guests escaped un-
harmed.
The village of Poutovitsi, Russia, has
been destroyed by fire, and twelve per-
sons perished.
Mary Kohland, aged eleven years,
met a horrible death by being burned
alive in a coke oven at Connellsville,
Pa.
Three white children, aged four
| negro were drowned at Tallahassee,
| Fla.
Maude Come, the Irish Joan of
Arc" was married 10 Major Mcbride of
the Irish brigade in Paris.
Saturday, Feb. Fl.
A new wage schedule was issued by
the Wabash.
A fire at Houghton, Mich, caused a
loss of SlS0,00O.
Rev. Arthur Temple Lyttleton, bishep
of Southampton, died at Petersfield,
England.
A negro desperate who barricaded
himself in a house at New Orleans and
defied arrest was killed by the police.
Two members of the freshman class
were expelled from Princeton for vio-
lating honor system in examinations.
:. gift Of $35O,OO0 to the Columbia
Teachers college in New York city
from Mrs. Frederick +. Thompson was
announced.
Friday, Feb. 20.
| ItSulItb rem
tions with Venezuela.
small jug of Fulham ware sold in
London for $1,000.
Two bandits held up Los Angeles
trolley car and robbed thirty-two pas
sengers.
Two Of the crew were burned to
death in a fire on fishing schooner at
Boston wharf.
A duel was fought at Budapest be-
tween the minister of national defense
and a deputy as the result Of dispute
in the Hungarian chamber.
Thursday, Feb. 10.
Two were killed and 500, 900 damage
done in an early morning fire in Port
Huron, Mich.
Prince Komatsu, envoy Of Japan at
the coronation of King Edward, died
at Yokohama.
Two men confessed at st. Johns, N.
b., to casting away schooner to de-
fraud Lloyd's Of $4,000 insurance.
General Davis approved the finding
of the court martial acquitting Major
Glenn, but disapproved the majors or
ders to kill guides.
A Scotch shipbuildlng company has
been ordered to pay Spain 1887 800 for
failure to deliver four torpedo boat de-
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