The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-03-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events OF the Week Brieny
Chropiptcd.

shire. England.
A severe blizzard ragged in the west
ern part of Michigan.
Senator Hanna's daughter Ruth is i'll
at Thomasville, Ga, with typhoid fe-
yer.
Thirty-two coal barges were sunk at
Pittsburg by rise in the Monongahela
river.
The strike situation was reported
close.
Fourteen were killed and forty
wounded in the riot at Port of Spain,
Trinidad.
whitley" Sullivan was put to death
in Dannemora prison for murder of
Cobleskill bank watchman.
Four commercial travellers and two
negroes were drowned from an over
turned skff in the Arkansas flooded
district.
Tuesday, March -.
Earthquake shocks were felt in north
ern Italy and south Bavaria.
Six men were killed by an explosion
of gas in coal mine near Athens. Ill.
Destructive floods were reported
along the Mohawk river in central New
York.
Secretary Root has bought $50 acre
farm near the Root homestead at Clin.
ton. n. Y.
Christian college, at Canton, Mo-, be.
longing to the Disciples church, was
destroyed by fire.
At Oshkosh. Wis, woman died from
the effects of yawning for three days
without interruption.
The Morris canal bill was killed in
committee at Trenton, n. j. The
amended pollution bill may pass.
\ hungry mountain bear and two
half grown cubs ate up the dinners OF
Il score of worllmen ut Catskill, n. Y.
The town of Surigao island of Min
danao, was captured by ladrones, who
killed constabulary inspector and
several others.
Assistant Treasurer Hamilton Fish
assumed Office in the New York sub
treasury. and the work of counting
$2S5, 100000 of government money be-
gan.
James II. Mailer, the largest man in
Chicago if not in the United States, is
dead He weighed 4S0 pounds. al
though his height was only 8 feet 10
inches.
The British home Office announced
the release next year of Mrs. Florence
Maybrick, the American woman sen
fenced to life Imprisonment for the
murder of her husband
The executive council of the United
Textile Workers of America decided to
give its unqualified Endorsement to the
request of the operatives in the cotton
mills in Lowell and other New Eng
land towns to enforce their demand for
an increase of 10 per cent in wages.
Monday, March 23.
A heavy snowstorm prevailed in Mis-
souri,
Fires in Philadelphia caused loss of
$4,000
Two of the students injured in the
rioting at Budapest have died.
Peace has been signed between the
Uruguayan government and the rebels.
Three members of the Colombian
cabinet, including the premier, have
resigned.
Five men were drowned in the Della
ware river by n collision between a
tug and n steamship.
President Castro of Venezuela has
resigned, handing over his Office to the
president of congress.
| The Very Rev. Frederick William
/ Farrar, dean of Canterbury since 1895,
died in his seventy second year.
| The eruption of La Soufriere, which
| began Saturday, continued with in
| creased activity during the night and
became very violent
Arthur Scramling, freshman at Cor
| nell university. died at his home near
! Oneonta, \. Y, of typhoid fever con.
! tracted mt Ithaca.
! President Palma summoned an extra
session of the Cuban congress to ratify
the amended reciprocity treaty with
the United States.
An antipool room bill, amended so as
to prohibit betting on horse races even
at the tracks where the races are run
has passed the Texas senate and been
| signed by the governor.
The Venezuelan congress by a unani
nous vote declined to accept President
Castros resignation handed in at the
opening session and passed resolution
requesting him to reconsider his deci
sion.
The American side of Niagara nearly
ran dry, and for the first time in fifty
five years people were able TO wall
about in the river bed. This eXtraordi
nary condition was due to an ice jan
which formed in the shallow places VI
the river.
Saturday, March Fl.
The temperature was below zero IL
Wyoming.
Three noted crooks were caught afte
a hard fight in Chicago street car.
The Nova Scotia coal mine in Yves
Virginia was reported to be on fire.
An insane man shot four men anC
was killed himself near Lebanon, Ky.