The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-05-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Satsble Events of the Week Briefly
Ch-cnicIcd,

King Alfonso of Spain has inherited
H,5O0,000 under the will of his grand
iather, King Francis.
The British government will assist
N relieving the men and officers of the
antarctic steamer Discovery.
Two men who were arrested in Chi
.ago are believed TO have stolen thou
sands of letters from mail boxes.
Employers predict the early end Of
the building strike on the ground that
he men are tired of the struggle.
Governor Bates of Massachusetts
Ias signed the requistion papers for
he extradtion of Moody Merrill from
New York.
Joseph Becker, a Swiss socialist, was
arrested at Walla Walla, Wash, on
charge Of having threatened President
Roosevelt's life.
Urgent domestic questions have pre-
vented the Australian parliament from
consideration of preferential trade
with Great Britain.
The Peruvian gunboat Loreto was
sunk near the Scilly islands. The
rev was saved by a French vessel and
landed at Plymouth
The United States secret service will
investigate the system of peonage in
Alabama by which negroes are virtual
" reduced to slavery.
The dealers of San Francisco have
protested against the award of the con
tract to supply sugar for the Indian
service to New York firm.
Tuesday, May 20.
A famine is causing many deaths in
Kwangsi province, China.
Russia is reported to be sending large
,uns to Newchwang via Transsiberian
lrailway.
A striker was shot in the Bronx, New
York, by Il nonunion man who refused
20 be intimidated.
Mrs. Potter Palmer pronounces the
story of her engagement to the Prince
If Monaco as absurd.
Eugene Garfield pleaded not guilty to
IN Indictment charging him with keep
ing gambling house in New York city.
Mrs. Cunning 5. Bedford has admit
ed in London that the child she
,almed off on her husband is not her
own.
John Uefferan. coachman for Max L.
Sand, who was shot on Sunday night
near the Ardsley (N. " club, has since
lied.
Killing frosts prevailed at Warrens-
ourg and other points in the Adiron-
lacks. Growing vegetation was seri-
ously damaged.
BY forbidding continuance of the ia
tai auto racing the French and Spanish
governments have won the applause of
press and public.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain says
he British government is not support
ng the movement of South African
nine owners to import Chinese labor.
David Barrie, Lipton's former repre-
sentative, has made a bet of $1,000 on
shamrock III. against $1,000 from q
New York Yacht club member on the
cup defender.
Russian accounts say that the evac-
uation of southern Manchuria has been
followed by an increasing display of in
aolence by disorderly tribes, who have
reated a reign of terror
While Sir Thomas Lipton is very con-
ldent of winning the Americas cup, he
wants it understood that he does not
egard it by any means as a certainty.
The sport of the thing" said the baro-
net, "lies in the very uncertainty of it"
The ST. George society of Baltimore
dedicated its private burial grounds in
Druid Ridge cemetery. Edwin Bennett
presented to the society handsome
granite shaft, which was unveiled and
dedicated to the memory of Queen Vic
toria.
Monday, May 20.
An Anglo-American club has been
founded in Vienna.
Sir Thomas Lipton's fleet will leave
sor America next Thursday.
Mr.. Foxhall Keenes selection to take
oart in the automobile cup race is wek
romed in England.
Five persons were badly injured and
many were shaken up in trolley acci-
lent at Paterson, N. j.
Several clubs in London, according to
special cable dispatch, have put linn
is on bridge whist playing.
Members of the Brotherhood of Car
,enters out on strike, have acknowl-
dyed defeat by applying for work as
Individuals.
A fire that is estimated to have
caused a loss of upward of $1,000, 600
occurred at the Front Street Ware
housing plant in Philadelphia.
Garabed l<entooni, an Armenian, was
murdered and his body was mutlated
~ unknown assassns in his room on
East Thirtieth street New York.
A thunderstorm, accompanied by a
high wind, struck Pittsburg Sunday
afternoon and besides killing one man
lid considerable property damage.
Albert Spauldlng, the fourteen-year-
Old son of Mr.. j, Walter Spauldng OF
New York, has obtained a diploma as
Professor of the violin at Bologna.
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