The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-03-12

DR. Norman GCtman, president of the
Oneonta, Cooperstown and Richfield
Springs railway. died in Richfield
Springs, n. V. aged seventy-two years.
Fire at Fair Haven, Wash, destroyed
the plant of the Belingham Lumber
and Shingle company and scorched the
Northern Pacific depot and several cars
standing on the tracks.
Cornell university students living in
or near New York have been invited to
attend Columbia university during
their enforced absence from Ithaca.
About twenty-five have already ac-
cepted.
Friday, March q.
The Canadian Pacific strike at Van
couver, B. c., is reported more serious.
Leading Baptist church members in
Atlanta, Ga, came to blows in church
fight.
Emperor William has sent copies of
his letter on the origin of the Bible to
chaplains in the navy.
Seven fishermen caught In the break
up of the ice in Green bay, Mich,
were given up as lost.
Turkey has ordered reservists to Join
their regiments and is negotiating in
Germany for smokeless powder.
Trustees of Barnard college. the wo-
mems department of Columbia univer-
sity, announced Il gift of $1,000
The British admiralty has decided to
establish new naval station at st.
Margarcts Hope, on the Firth of Forth.
John Week, young American who
was recently appointed TO the Naval
academy from Wisconsin, was muir
dered in Mexico.
Elder Uriah Smith. for iifty-fivc
years continuously the editor of the
Adventist Review and Herald. died ut
Battle Creek. Mich.
4 movement was begun to remove
TO the United States and Canada mcm-
bers of French religious orders under
the ban of the new law
Bob Fitzsimmons received and ac-
cepted philadelphia Jack" OBrien's
challenge to fight for the middle
weight championship of the world.
James Stettaucr. prominent club
man and tinancier of Chicago, died in
Denver of blood poisoning, resulting
from scratch inflicted while shaving
There was a marked decrease in the
number of new typhoid fever cases in
Ithaca. n. Y. and the general situa-
ton was reported very much i'm
proved.
a general strike against the Amcri-
can Bridge company was called by
the executive board of the Intcrnation
al Association of Bridge and Structur-
al Ironworkers. This general order in.
wolves thousands of men in all sec
tons.
The mystery surrounding the strange
disappearance four years ago of .Io-
seph Trimborne, a wealthy brewer of
Montana. who, it was thought. met
with foul play, has been cleared up
by the discovery that he is alive in
Tasmania, Australia.
In obedience to the presidents call
the senate of the Fifty-cighth congress
convened in extraordinary session at
II o'clock noon. An immense crowd
witnessed the interesting ceremony.
The oath was administered to ten
new senators, although one, Mr. Cor
man, had previously served eighteen
years in the senate. The new senators
sworn in are: Fulton (Ore,), German
MD, Hepburn Gda.). Hopkins Qll),
Latimer Is. c., Long Qian), McCreary
KyJ, Newlands (Nev), Overman
IN. O. and Smoot (Utah).
Thursday, March 3.
The worst blizzard of the winter
ragged in Montana.
Farmers received 10 cents Il pound
for cotton at Montgomery, Ala.
DR.. Rafael Zaldivar, former presi-
dent of Salvador, died at Paris.
Rebellion in China reported growing
Imperial troops have been defeated in
Kwangsi.
Herbert Prim, paying teller of the
National Exchange bank, Lockport
n. Y, committed suicide.
Miss Alice Roosevelt and Miss Root
who have been visiting in New Orleans
during the past two weeks, left fol
Washington.
Western Pacific Railway company
was Incorporated AT SAN fruuclScu
with $50,O00,000 capital to build road
from that city to Salt Lake City.
Thousands of animals were reported
to have perished on the western plains
during the recent severe weather, the
snow being so deep that the grass is
beyond the reach of the animals.
Colonel Michael G. Murphy, long q
prominent Tammany politician, former
police commissioner, former president
of the board of health and civil wal
veteran, died in New York of hear
disease.
1t was reported from Chicago tha
the beef trust had decided to stand by
its demurrer to the allegations made
against it by the federal government
when the cases against the combined
packers were begun several months
ago and will appeal from the decision
overruling it,
The Fifty-seventh congress of th'
United States came to an end at noon
A remarkable demonstration in honol
of tha ratirinp sneaker David r. Hen