The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
ChrOuiCted.


found in barrel on East Eleventh
street, New York.
A score were hurt at Rome On. "
fire. The Washington theater was de-
stroyed; loss, S150,000.
The head Office of Wells, Fargo &
Co. is TO be removed from San Fran
cisco TO New York next month.
Fire at West End, La, a summer re-
sort on Lake Ponchartrain, destroyed a
hotel and many pleasure boats.
A scow was capsized in the Delaware
river near Marcus Hook and four men
asleep in the cabin were drowned.
The Chicago election commissioners
were arrested for defying an injunction
in the Lorimer-Durborrow contest
The American squadron. consisting
of the war vessels Cincinnati, Chicago
and Machias, left Genoa for Vile
franche, southern France.
Tuesday, April II.
Buffalo Bill was hurt at Manchester,
England
= King Edward has sailed from Glib
ratar for Malta
The international agricultural con-
gress has opened at Rome.
A Lake Shore grain elevator at Chi
cago was burned; loss, 100000.
Master Archie Roosevelt, who has
the measles, was reported doing well.
Sir Oliver Mowat lieutenant govern
or of Ontaria, broke his thigh in a fall.
A landslide blocked the Union Pa
cifc near the Aspen tunnel, Wyoming.
Bitter cold was reported in England,
with heavy snow in parts of the coun-
try,
Prince Ching has been appointed Chi.
nese grand secretary in succession to
Iung Lu. deceased.
I General +. *. Baldwin has succeed
ed General Funston in charge of the
department of the Colorado.
The Newfield Brick works, four
miles south of Ithaca, n. Y. were com
pletely demolished by landslide.
General and copious rains have
! fallen in southern Russia and have
checked the long continued drought.
Dispatches from Melilla, Morocco,
lildl tut lllSuTSbIll NlOOIS
had captured the fortress of Frajana
Former Congressman Abner Taylor
of Chicago died in Washington. aged
seventy-four years. Mr.. Taylor was a
native of Maine.
The governor of Pennsylvania signed
the bill prohibiting athletic exhibitions
of longer duration than twelve hours
in each calendar day.
Five men were killed and two Sc
verely burned by gas explosion in
mine n of the Kansas and Texas Coal
company at Carbon, |. II.
Monday. April ii.
A terrific thunderstorm did heavy
I damage at Pittsburg.
Logan, De Witt and Piatt counties,
ILL.,, were visited by violent tornado.
The antistrike bills as passed by the
Dutch parliament were at once signed
by Queen Wilhelmina.
Colonel j. L. MacGowan, the veteran
editor in chief of the Chattanooga
CTenn.) Times is dead
Masked highwaymen held up a Chi
cago trolley car and robbed the in
mates of 5000 and some jewelry.
The dam of the Boney reservoir, near
Olathe, Colo. gave way, causing dam
age estimated at from $4,000 to $780,
600.
Robert p. Hughes was followed by
large number of changes in important
army commands.
George Vaughan, a farm laborer,
found $1,000 in ten and twenty dollar
bills in the base of a hollow tree near
Knoxville, Tenn.
The stage running between Nevada
City and brownsville, Cal, was held
up by lone highwayman and the
Wells-Fargo box taken.
1t was reported that the forces of
President Zelaya had recaptured Fort
San Carlos and that the rebellion in
Nicaragua was practically at an end
Four persons were killed, two fatal.
ly hurt and several others slightly in
jured in a head on collision on the In
tercolonial railway near Halifax, n. S.
| William Valance, the famous light
ming calculator, who could do any sum
In mathematical calculation mentally
and with but an instant's hesitation,
died in Trenton, n. j.
The postoftice department has Or
dered all promotions in the New York
Office held up pending the result of the
investigation into the existence of an
alleged promotion pool"
Saturday, April II.
Colorado and Southern railroad men
/ get wage advance.
| Extraordinarily severe weather pre-
vailed in many districts of Austria.
French troops were reported pouring
into Kwangsi province from Assam.
The new cup defender Reliance was
launched successfully at Bristol, r. l..
British sailors are reported to have
begun piratical cruise in the gulf of
Mexico.
Yung Lu, the comptroller of finance