The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-06-04
Condensed DISPATCHES.
nstable Events of the Week Briefly
Ch~cnfcIcd.

Ambassador Joseph II. Choate has
arrived from London.
The famous Ferris wheel was sold at
auction in Chicago to junk dealer for
1880
Three students were fatally injured
at Tifin, o., their carriage being hit by
arailroad train.
The pope suffers much by heat. All
except necessary audiences are forbid
dan by his physician.
Six Butte (Mont) labor union men
have been asked to be the presidents
guests in Washington.
One man was drowned and three res
cued with difficulty by the upsetting of
ayawl Off Whitestone, N. Y.
New York Italians mobbed PAYERS
md attacked the police. The teamsters
threaten to tie up the subway.
An unconfrmed rumor has reached
Paris that the French have taken FL
yuig, Morocco with loss Of sixty men.
The fourth annual tournament of the
Women's Metropolitan Golf association
was started at the Richmond County
N. ~ Country club.
Lady Henry Somerset has been SUI
perseded in the presidency of the Ma
honal British Women's Temperance
association for advocating municipal
ownership of public houses.
Tuesday, June 2.
Alfred Shrubb, at Ilford, England.
ran two miles on grass in ON. lis.
New York subway strikers have Of
fered to return to work at old wages.
The council of Trinity college, Dub
lin, has recommended the admission of
women.
The scientific expedition for survey
If the Bahama islands has sailed from
Baltimore.
The Ardsley murder mystery has TAX
IN sensational turn. Trail may end
ut the club.
The mayor of Erie, Pa, has accepted
designations of policemen who asked
for more pay.
The war department has been doing
Ill that the law permits to aid the
Hood sufferers in the west.
Two students were burned to death
1t Eton college, England, in a fire that
destroyed masters house.
The German antarctic steamer
Gauss, for whose safety alarm had
been felt, has passed Durham.
Lord Curzon's term as viceroy of In
Liza, which expires next September,
will be extended for two years.
Professor John f. Hicks was shot
md killed at Wooster, o., as he was
leaving the house of his fiancee.
Michael Tracy of Brooklyn was
found mangled in Myrtle avenue. He
nay have been hit by trolley car.
The Jewish community in st. Peters
burg has gratefully acknowledged
American help for sufferers at Kishi-
neff
The rebellion in the province of Yum
IAN, south China, is spreading. Two
hundred French subjects are in peril
1T Yunnanfu.
A dazzling meteor flashed over Cats
,ill, N. Y, from west to east. The
)ody of the meteor appeared to be 100
eet in diameter.
The case OF the Northern Securities
'ompany has been advanced by the
United States supreme court and argu-
nent fixed for Dec. IA.
j. Finch, member of the crew of the
schooner Edward Il. Briry, was killed
~ Second Mate Johnson, whom he at
acked after becoming mutinous.
The Mississippi at st. Louis regis
cred twenty-nine feet. The danger
me- is thirty feet. Rain fell on all of
he vast territory drained by the river.
State Entomologist Smith at Tren-
on, N. j., says the drought has dried
Up most of the swamps and pools of
he state and reduced the mosquito
.rop to fully one-half.
The United States supreme court has
lecided that under the war revenue
Jaw the government had the right to
collect inheritance tax upon bequest
o municipal corporation.
About 1,500 pounds of jovite, pow
"rful explosive, caused the death of
hree men by exploding in the screen
ng room of the Explosives Manufac.
uring company at Elmira, N. Y.
Monday, June 1.
Nine. Pati is looking forward keenly
revisiting the United States.
Automobile manufacturers spent
100000 on the Paris-Madrid race.
The Ragged Cavalier won the Empire
tate steeple chase at Gravesend, New
FORK
Yale beat Harvard by a half point
or chief honors in the intercollegiate
championships.
Columbia oarsmen won the senior
light cared shell race In the Harlem
New York; regatta.
Irish opinion is strongly in favor of
he international auto race being run,
he dangers being minimized.
The food condition at Muskogee, I.
l., is very serious. The Arkansas riv-
+ is out of its banks, and the lowlands
re flooded.
Mrs. Kate Taylor, found guilty of
illing her husband in Monticello, N.
=, has been sentenced to die in the