The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-16
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ollc INSTITUTION, was burned. LOSS
$4,000.
The Rev. William Henry Milburn,
the venerable blind chaplain of the
United States senate, died in Santa
Barbara Cal.
Three thousand Chicago tanners and
curriers' have returned to work, end.
ing strike of several weeks for rec
ogntion of the union. without success.
Captain Pershing's force has cap.
tured Bacolod, island of Mindanao.
killing 100 Moros and wounding many
others. Three American soldiers were
wounded.
Friday. April 10.
The United States cruiser Cincinnati
and the gunboat Machias have arrived
at Genoa.
The hoof and mouth disease has bro.
ken out afresh in the vicinity of IIavcr-
hill Mass.
One man was shot dead and several
seriously injured in n labor riot in De.
troit Mich.
The Legislature of the island of Jer-
sey has passed bill imposing duty
on tobacco and cigars.
Nine steamships arrived at New
York and brought in their steerages
12,G6S foreigners, all of whom were
landed on Ellis island.
President Roosevelt made an early
start from his headquarters in the Yel-
lowstone park for an extended trip
through certain portions of the reserve.
The funeral of Mrs. Horace Porter
in the American church, Paris, was at
tended by representatives of the
French government, society and for
eign ambassadors.
William Waldorf Astor has pur-
chased Castle Hever, near Seven Oaks,
England. The castle is said to be the
birthplace of Anne Boleyn, one of the
wives Of Henry VIII.
A disastrous explosion occurred on
the battleship Iowa while the vessel
was at target practice in the gulf of
Pensacola, Fla. The forward port
twelve inch gun burst from the prema-
ture explosion of shell. Three men
The position of the United States
government in the suit brought against
the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern railways and individual officials
and directors of those companies was
sustained in a decision handed down in
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals in St Paul, MINI.
Thursday. April o.
The British parliament adjourned for
the Easter holidays.
A universal strike was proclaimed
throughout Holland
King Christian of Denmark celebrat-
ed his eighty-tifth birthday.
A woman and two of her children
were burned to death in Philadelphia
fire.
Half dozen passengers were in
jured in collision of trains at Fulton,
NY.
The Marine hospital service reported
a death in San Francisco from bubonic
plague.
Admiral Schley was the guest of st.
l. dui anu was pIeSellcu 10 tlle Mlnue-
sofa legislature.
The British royal yacht Victoria and
Albert, with King Edward aboard, has
arrived at Gibraltar.
Only six towns of any importance in
Kansas voted in favor of liberal poll
cy toward the saloons.
During a labor riot at Mini Nov
gorod, Russia, thirty persons We're
killed and 100 wounded.
The wholesale drug house of Lord,
Owen & Co., Chicago, failed, with liza
bilities. of nearly 100000.
Professor Ernest A. Eggers, head of
the department of German at the Ohio
State university, committed suicide
The attorney general of California
gave an opinion that the use OF the Bi-
bic in public schools is unconstitution-
al.
L. L. Edsal's three story barn at
Pine Island, N. Y, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Fifty-seven cows per-
ished.
Mrs. Booker II. Washington was
guest of honor at a meeting Of the
State Federation of Women's clubs in
Boston.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the
public library board of Cleveland, O.,
$2oO,OOO for the purpose of erecting
seven branch libraries.
Steamers sailed from London to lay
the remaining sections of the CONNER
cial company's cable from San Fran
cisco to Manila.
General Sir Evelyn Wood, who Is
now in command of the Second army
corps of the British army, has been
promoted to the rank of field marshal.
A terrific cyclone swept over Dor
tions of Arkansas and Alabama More
than score of people We're killed, and
everything in the storms path was
razed to the ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson, formerly vice
president of the United States, lost his
hair and mustache and received pain