The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events OF the week Briefly
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King Oscar of Sweden has resumed
the reins of government.
Nine children were bitten by sup
poscdly mad dog on New York city
streets.
The Russian consul Mt Uskub, Euro
pean Turkey, has confirmed the reports
of the spread of revolutionary activity.
Two were killed and sixteen hurt in
collision on tie Naugatuck branch of
the New Haven road at Waterbury.
Conn.
young Corbett" Knocked out Terry
McGovern in the eleventh round of
what was to have been twenty round
contest at San Francisco.
Tuesday, march n.
Il. $. Sicver's famous filly Scepter
was sold for f25,O00.
The seven great cotton mills at Low
ell, Mass are shut down.
Cotton mills at Newmarket, n. H.,
are closed on account of u dispute
with weavers.
William Blakes illustrations to the
Book of job brought $4,000 at auc-
ton in London
The people of Jerusalem were panic
strillen by a severe earthquake shock
Little damage was done.
Frederick Boscovitz, said to be the
last living pupil of Chopin, died at
Denver, aged sixty-seven.
John Wanamaker sold the rights and
title of Everybody's Magazine to n
stock company in New York.
The transport Sheridan sailed for
Manila with the Thirteenth cavalry
and the Eighteenth infantry.
Heavy damage ashore and atioat was
wrought by storm which has ragged
along the south Atlantic coast.
General William IL. Jackson, II noted
Confederate cavalry leader during the
civil war. died at Belle Mead, Tenn.
Nearly 10000 persons joined in Lon
dons welcome to General Booth, COM
mander in chief of the salvation Army
The presidents of Guatemala and Sal
vador met on the high sea and ar
ranged the differences between the two
republics.
Junius Il. Clay. one of the largest
land owners in Kentucky and IA son of
Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay, was accidentally
shot and killed by his wife while they
were at target practice.
Former Governor John -. Long. who
for nearly three months has been in Il
i,G is, t, NJ
of doors. taking short walks in the
vicinity of the hospital
Monday, March 30.
The body of General Hector Macdon-
aid was buried in Dean cemetery, Ed
inburgh.
The French senate rejected the pro-
posed measure for state monopoly of
petroleum.
The United States squadron, consist
ing of the Chicago, Cincinnati and Ma
chias, arrived at Leghorn, Italy.
Professional safe blowers broke into
a grocery store ut Springfield, Mass
They obtained 81 200 and escaped.
Mrs Roosevelt and her children went
on board the presidents yacht, the
Mayhower, to take weeks cruise.
Two lions escaped in Pittsfeld,
Mass, from the BOstock show. One
was shot, and the other was captured.
Herman Bowman Esber, twenty-five
years old, of Chicago, a student at
Yale university, killed himself in New
York.
Robert NJ. Baker of Worcester and
John b. Kenerson of RoXbury, Mass.
both freshmen in Dartmouth college,
were drowned.
Rioting at Batum and Bahu, in the
oil districts oS Russia, was suppressed
by the troops. The vice governor of the
district was injured in the trouble.
William V. Mexican, who for nearly
thirty years was editor in chief of the
Public Ledger, died at his home in
Philadelphia at the age of eighty-thpee
years.
1t was predicted that Is per cent of
the cattle and sheep on the eastern
Oregon ranges would be dead of star
vation before the new grass crop
comes.
A New York laborer who began
laughing last Wednesday and laughed
his way through every ward in Roose-
welt hospital was transferred to Belle
vue hospital, still laughing.
Frederick S. Rowe and his brother,
Edward f., aged respectively eleven
and nine years, were run down and
killed by shifting engine of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad at Locust
Point, Md.
Canada is to have another transconti-
mental railway. Its terminal will be at
Quebec in the east and Port Simpson.
b. c., in the west. The road will short
en- the distance between England and
China 700 miles.
Saturday, March 2S.
The German consul at Caracas, Ven
ezuela, accidentally killed himself
VIII Dorsey, colored, was hanged at
birmingham, Ala, for highway rob-
berry.
A number of passengers were hurt