The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-03-19

gers were luJuIcu.
August Krauss, the Bcllcfontanc
MOI farmer who killed his wife and
tiN children, died.
Consul Sawtcr, who refused TO take
post at Guayaqull because of yellow
sever there. arrived i'm New York.
The coal operators and miners of the
bitumluous district No in convention
at Altoona, Pa. were dcadloclcd on the
wage scale.
Fred Pray. aged twenty-onc, died at
his home in Sherburne, n. V. from ty-
phoid fever contracted while Il student
ut Cornell university.
The Venezuelan revolutionary forces
under General Ricra and General Juan
pcnaloza, numbering about i,210 men,
have been defeated in Il three days
fight.
by vote of II nays TO II yeas, with
three declining Ia vote and three alb
sent. the Delaware house of represent
ntives defeated local option bill for
The state.
The governor of Natal has proclaimed
the kings pardon for all persons who
ARE awaiting trial for treason or other
ofrenscs committed during or arising
out of the recent war.
The Caribbean squadron, under com
mand of Admiral Coghlan. has been or
dcred to Honduras, where the rrvolu-
ton is assuming serious proportions, to
protect American interests.
The grand jury has returned now in
dictmcnts against Dr. Joseph AlcNun-
der of the Central College of Physi.
clans and Surgeons at Indianapolis and
Rufus Cantrell. the alleged ghoul.
In the senate Mr.. Spo0nCr made an
elaborate reply 20 Mr., Morgan. cspe-
cially defending the validity Of the tide
the Panama Canal company can give
TO the United States. Mr. Depcw also
spoke in favor of ratification.
Friday, March IL.
A lcvec gave way at Red Cloud. Ind,
and children We've rescued In boats.
At Massillon. O.. the 1000 miners of
that district decided TO strike April 1,
Charles VI. Schwab sailed for home
from ChcrDourg ON the Kronprinz VIII
helm.
Five governors of states, all Meth
odiSts. were guests of honor at Il ban
quet in Chicago.
United states customs officials and
Japanese cousuls have united to break
up slave girl traffic.
An Omaha flicr was wrecked on tho
Union Pacific near Gilmore, Ncb. One
killed. several hurt
Townsend u Downcy put 80 men to
work in thcir shipyards ut Shooters
island to replace strikers.
Former Mayor Ames, arrested in
New Hampshire on cmbc2zlcment
charge, decided to return to Mlnncapo-
lis.
DR.. Frederick Muller, assistant to
DR.. Lorenz. the eminent specialist in
rongenital hip disease, has returned to
Chicago.
The Very Rev. George Granville
Bradley, dean of The Order Of the Bath
and lately dean Of Westminster, died
in London in his oightysccond year.
The Townsend Downey SLipbuilding
company, crippled for several days by
IL SlTlkt bl hlllOli 'IllJibl " - mas ~
sumed operations with new set OF
workmen.
II was decided in the senate 10 vote
on the Panama canal treaty on Tues
- day, the 18th inst, and the Cuban reel
) procity treaty was reported by the com
mittee on foreign relations.
At Albany Senator Raines introduced
= the higher license bill, increasing The
liquor tax 30 per cent in every part o.
. New York state. 1t was islmediatcl!
: referred to the excise committee.
The car of Russia has issued Il de
t cree providing for the abolition of thu
. restrictions that have been placed upol
nonorthodoX religious worship, estab
$ fishing considerable measure of sci
government in the towns and promis
ing greater and continued reforms il
the same line.
2 Thursday, March IL.
i The kaiser pardoued Lieutenant vo
Grawert, who killed Dr. Aye in Il duel
q Mad Mollah has lost LOCO men an
maintains authority only by sever
|. measures.
st. Petersburg police have caught tn
4 priests son who robbed the st. Isaa
n cathedral.
@ Secretary of the Navy Moody ha
left Washington for cruise in tn
West Indies,
t, Seven boys were badly injured 10y Il
. explosion of dynamite in Buffalo. A
;, least one will die.
r. The Cuban senate by a vote of 16 to
has ratified the reciprocity treaty wit
70 the United States.
+, After several skimishes the govern
n. mcnt troops have scattered the i
"a drones in Rial province, Philippine |
10 lands.
Three hundred more men at Tow
=, send & Downeys shipyard, at Shoe
=, er's island, n. j., have struck, makil
- $50 out.
~ Tests of the De Forest system
y wireless telegraphy are being made b
=, - tween Forts Hancock and Wadswor
~ y, in New York harbor,