The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23
to have promised large sum TO endow
q university at Plttsbnrp.

to take severe measures against Alba.
mans who still refuse to accept pro-
posed reforms.
The steamer Syracuse from Rio ia.
neiro was held at the port of New
York because of two deaths from yell
low fever aboard.
The pretender Of Morocco is march
ing from Taxa on Fez. The sultan is
vainly attempting to obtain recruits
among the Kabyle.
Advices from the revolutionary com
mittee in the Balkans state that prep
nratons for an insurrection are ready
and that the whole of Macedonia will
rise.
The special mission sent by the sui
tan to pacify the Albanans is prac-
tically imprisoned at Ipek, Albania.
where ii is surrounded by several hun.
dred Albanians
The United States armored cruiser
West Virginia, the first of six new ad-
ditions to the navy, has been success
fully launched at the yards of the
Newport News Shipbuilding company.
The challenger Shamrock Ill. was
dismasted in the roadstead at Wey-
mouth by squall striking her so sud
denly that the yacht lay wrecked and
helpless before those on board of her
realized what had happened Fortu-
nately most Of the gear fell clear of the
deck as otherwise the disaster must
have been multiplied tenfold Seaman
Collier was knocked overheard and
drowned, and several persons were
bruised or otherwise injured. Sir
Thomas Upton had narrow escape
Friday, April II.
President Loubet witnessed maneu.
vers Of 10000 troops near Algiers.
The Russian Grand Duke Alexis was
reported i'll with nephritis and ordered
to go abroad.
General Davis reported to the war
department seven deaths from cholera
in the Philippines.
A decree has been issued by the Rus.
sian government increasing the powers
of the governor general of Finland.
Two persons were killed outright and
one fatally hurt in train wreck on
the l.. and y. road near Castleberry,
Ala.
President Roosevelt came into Fort
Yellowstone, appearing in splendid con
ditiOn and enthusiastic over the good
time he had had
The demands of the Bridgeport
Conn trolley employees for an in
crease of pay and recognition of the
union was refused.
There are ready for shipment to the
Philippine Islands 100000 pesos.
which were coined at the Philadelphia
mint in the last twenty-five working
days.
At New London, Conn, the launch
ing of the Minnesota, the largest pas
senger vessel ever built in an Ameri-
can Shipyard, was successfully accom-
plished.
Every -four mill in Minneapolis. |
Mimi. and practically all of the mer- |
chant spring wheat mills in Minneso- !
tn and the northwest have shut down !
entirely.
seph b. Nandergrift of Wellsburg, w. |
Va, were destroyed by fire. entailing |
IA loss of $4,000. Thirteen of his blood |
ed horses were burned.
Major General r. Baden Powell, the
hero of Mafeking," recently appoint |
ed chief of cavalry of the English ar
my, is on visit to the United States |
to study American cavalry tactics and |
BY Il unanimous vote the Irish ma
Lional convention which met in Dublin |
accepted in principle the Irish land
bill introduced in the house of COM
mons by Mr., Wyndham. chief secreta-
~ for Ireland.
DIR. Adolf Lorenz has removed the
cast from the leg of Lolita Armour.
-he young daughter of j. Ogden Ar
nour, upon whom he operated for con-
genital dislocation of the hip last Oc-
-obcr. The limb was found to be in
perfect condition. and the patient was
lble to walk around the house without
my difficulty.
Thursday, April 10.
Mrs. Susannah Knause died in Balti-
more, aged 101 years.
A revolt against Marquis Ito and the
Moderate party has occurred at To-
Syo.
y terrific gale on Long Island sound
lrove vessels into near by ports for
safety.
The Northern Pacific trouble has
Ieen settled. The men get wage in
,rease.
Rabbi Gustav Gottheil died at his
nome in New York city, aged seventy
liz years.
y mob of strikers boarded a steamer
It Cleveland and badly injured three
lonunion firemen.
The Hawaiian legislature has passed
IN act giving TO counties management
If their own affairs.
a negro killed at Shreveport, La, by
| mob for murder of young woman
las been found innocent of the crime.
Ill