The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-03-26
have failed. with liabllitle. of $1,000,

600.
The city of London presented ia
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain an adj
dress of congratulaton on his South
African mission.
Six persons were killed ana several
injured by the collision in Long Island
sound of the steamers Plymouth and
City of Taunton.
Official returns at Melbourne show
that the Victorian wheat harvest this
season will average only one and n
quarter bushels per acre owing to the
drought.
The president has reapponted Or
w. ID. Crum. colored, collector of Gus
toms at Charleston. s. c., and William
NJ. Byrne United States district attor..
ney for Delaware. Both of these nom.
nations failed of confirmation at the
recent session of the senate.
The Missouri supreme court has
found five large beef packing compa.
nies guilty of maintaining an unlawful
combination to control prices of meat
in the state of Missouri and issued an
order of custer prohibiting them from
doing business in that state and to pay
n fine of $1,000 each and to bear the
costs of the proceedings. The compa.
nies are given thirty days in which TO
pay the fine imposed, and If during
that time they shall accept the judg
ment and pay the fine the custer will
be held in allegiance.
Friday, March 30.
Fiji island Catholics have burned 300
Bibles.
The Delaware legislature adjourned
sine die.
Miss Alice Roosevelt was the guest
of Governor Hunt ut San Juan, Porto
Rico.
More than 80 miners were indicted
at Charleston, w. Va, for resisting a
deputy marshal.
At Pepperell Mass. fire, thought to
have been of incendiary origin. did
100000 damage.
Jewels valued at about $4,000 have
been stolen from the altar of the st.
Stephen cathedral, Vienna.
A bar of gold valued at more than
$4,000 sent by express from the west
to Buffalo has disappeared at Detroit
Ira ID. Sankey. the famous singing
evangelist, who recently lost the sight
of his left eye, has become wholly
blind
Fire that destroyed n large barn near
Ogdcnsburg, n. y, also destroyed 100
cows, II horses, 60 pigs and large
quantity of hay.
The runaway of a string of loaded
coal cars in the Sunshine mine at
South Fork. Pa. caused the death of
three men and the injury of nine
others.
! 1t was reported that Jose Estrada
Palma, student of Columbia univer.
sity and son of the president of the
/ Cuban republic. and Miss Mabel ia.
cobs, student of the New York Nor.
nal college, were privately married on
/ Feb. IL.
President Roosevelt has received an
| invitation engraved on Il plate of solid
gold six inches long and three-quarters
of an inch wide to be the guest of the
Union League club of San Francisco
on the occasion of his visit to that city
on his approaching western trip.
After ratifying the Cuban reciprocity
treaty by vote of 80 to l6 the senate
adjourned sine die. Practically the en-.
tire day was spent behind closed doors
in executive session. Most of the time
was devoted to consideration of the
Cuban treaty. Several speeches were
made in opposition to the treaty and
| one in favor of il.
Thursday, March 10.
The severest blizzard of the winter
was reported in Colorado.
-Four boys We're drowned in the La
chine canal at Montreal.
The British isles were storm swept
and Warwickshire inundated.
Andrew Carnegie offered to pay for q
filtering plant for Cornell university.
The severest snowstorm of the win
ter prevailed in Utah, Colorado and
Wyoming.
King Edward sent Buffalo Bill a dia
mond scarfpin and letter praising the
Wild West show.
| lNO tOuilstS WHY
into Jail in Mexico because their auto
mobile caused panic.
The failure was announced in Londor
of Booty Il Bayliffe. solicitors with liza
bilities of more than $1,00O,000.
Extremely hot weather was reported
in several western states. \ tempera
ture of % degrees was reached.
The report of the anthracite strike
commission was handed to Presiden
Roosevelt, but not made public.
Two engineers were killed in COLI
sion on the Delaware, Lackawanna anC
Western railroad near Washington
y. j.
Five hundred employees of the Buffa
10 Drydock company went on strike
demanding the reinstatement of II un
ion member.
1t was announced from the Adiron
dack lumber region that one-third o
the seasons log "cut' had been left il
the woods by the early "break up"
BY vote of PA to 107 the New
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