The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
CbroricIed.

General Leonard Wood was received
by King Victor Emmanuel
The port of Tetuan. Morocco, is
threatened with an attack by the pre-
tender.
Five British soldiers were sentenced
to death at Pretoria for mutiny in their
barracks on March 2S.
William NJ. Clark was appointed
lieutenant governor of Ontario to sue
ceed Sir Oliver Mowat. deceased
An escaped mulatto convict in Geor.
gia killed one man and mortally
wounded another who tried TO recap.
ture him.
A band of 500 insurgents has been
defeated by Turks near Radovitz. The
new reform judges have been shot by
Albanans at Scutari.
Prince Colonna. mayor of Rome. re-
ceived thousands of kilograms of good
will on the two thousand six hundred
and tifty-sixth anniversary of the city's
founding.
Tuesday. April 81.
Heavy snowstorms prevailed in Ger.
many and Denmark.
Two Rochester firemen were serious
ly hurt by the overturning of a truck.
James w. Long, bank president and
trustee Of Lafayette college, died at
EastOn. Pa
The famine in Kwangs province.
China, was reported to be killing tens
of thousands.
ii. ii. Rogers, the Standard Oil mil.
lionaire, was operated upon in New
York for appendicitis.
The withdrawal of military guards
on railroads in Holland was begun in
the northern and southern provinces
William Dudley Foulke announced
that he would resign as civil service
commissioner to enter Indiana politics.
Eight indictments have been found
ny the Cole county grand jury in tlka
Missouri legislative Doodle investiga-
ton.
The American herring vessels that
have been imprisoned in the ice foes
in Bay of Islands since jan IS have
just escaped from the ice.
The Twenty-third regiment, United
States infantry. 1000 strong, under
command of Colonel J. NJ. Thompson.
left Plattsburg. n. Y, for the Philip.
pines via San Francisco.
1t was announced from Berlin that
Count Won Zeppelin, pauperized. has
his attempt to solve the
aerial navigation problem, in which he
has sunk more than 100000 marks.
OF the forty-three collieries of the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
down owing TO the employees being
locked out by an order of the company.
The transport Sumner, Captain 10th
rope, sailed from San Francisco for a
trip around the world. She goes TO
Honolulu, thence TO Manila, where she
takes on the Fifth regiment. and sails
with them for New York through the
Suez canal.
Transactions that are alleged to con
'titute frauds upon merchants in Lon
Ion, Paris and Frankfurt to the extent
If 100000 were developed as n result
luez. who conducted merchandise |
brokerage business.
Monday, April 20.
The Wisconsin paper makers strike
vas declared off, and the men returned
% work.
Miss Alice Roosevelt delivered the
)rizes to the winners at the Charlotte
" Co. horse show.
Two hundred and Gfty Newfound-
and seal hunters We're blown to sea on
ce foes, but We're rescued
The strike of the structural iron
company has been settled.
Four senators have been indicted by
| Missouri grand jury in connection
With the baking powder trust scandal.
Sir Oliver Mowat, lieutenant govern
" of Ontario, is dead. He was eighty
hree years old. He was premier of
Ontario from 1872 to 1896.
In a battle following an unsuccessful
attempt to rob the First National bank
II Wampum, Pa, one man was killed
md another seriously wounded.
In conflict in Macedonia the revolu-
ionists threw dynamite bombs among
he Turkish troops, seventy of whom
we're killed or wounded.
Bolivian troops under President Pan
10 are advancing on the disputed ter
'itory of Acre, and Brazilian forces
nave been sent to prevent their entry
nto the country.
The lifeless body of John Bohn, a re-
ired saloon keeper, supposed IA poor
nan, was found in his room in the
ilondike hotel at Omaha. A search of
he room revealed $4,000 in railroad,
'ank stock and cash
The protracted strike of the painters
md decorators in Pittsburg was set
led at mass meeting of the brother
lood. The men agreed to accept $40
or days work of eight hours and
'ay their own car fare.
The Rev. DIR, Francis A. Horton, well
,nown in the Presbyterian church and
'astor of Temple Presbyterian church,
'hilauelDlia. Wns stricken with ana |