The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-05-21

mission of the grain duty, but he gives |
them no encouragement.
Stead in the Review of Reviews has |
said that If King Edward does not WIS.,
II America in 1904 the kaiser or the |
car may forestall him.
The steamer Ortegal of the Messa-
geries Martimes line has arrived at
Marseilles with forty-nine men OF the
steamer Guadclquiver, destroyed by
dynamite Off Salonika.
Miss Ellen NJ. Stone has made de.
mand for damages from the Turkish
government on account Of outrages
perpetrated upon her by the brigands
who captured her while in Turkey
Friday, May IL.
The fifth annual horse show has
opened at Baltimore.
! The steamer Victoria. with Nicara-
guam Insurgents aboard, has been cap
tured.
Dry weather prolonged for twenty
eight days, has put up the price of veg
etables.
Inspector McClusky is working per-
sonally on an important clew in the
dynamite bomb mystery.
Magistrate Zeller of New York will
hold for trial all persons arrested for
speeding automobiles.
Crops have suffered from lack of
rain in New York state. The drought
has now lasted four weeks.
A native Hawaiian was beaten to
4, I, 10, a,xl, -
native sorcerer at Honolulu.
The German squadron under Prince
Henry called in at Brest on the way
from Kiel to Spain and Portugal
The memorial arch for the American
missionaries killed in China in 1900
has been dedicated at Oberlln, o.
The strike of the Valparaiso dock Ia
,borers has ended. The damage done
during riots is estimated at 1,0OO,0O0
'pesos.
Mrs. George S. Batcheller of Sarato-
ga wife of Judge Batcheler of the in
ternational tribunal of Egypt, Is dead
at Alexandria.
Rev. r. j. Campbell, pastor of the
FCity temple, London, has joined the
passive resistance movement against
the education bill.
The sultan has warned governors of
provinces in Turkey that they will be
held personally responsible for massa-
cres of Christians.
The committee of the Citizens alli-
ance of Denver has rejected the propo-
sitiop of the labor unions, and a gen.
eral strike is likely.
The Central Passenger association
has refused request from Cleveland
to stop running Sunday excursion
trains from that city.
Captain Senter at Nyack, n. Y, elop-
ed in an automobile with Martha
Fleming, the beautiful daughter of a
Roxbury real estate mar.
Mount Colima, Mexico, continues in
a violent eruption. Rivers of lava
have been pouring from the crater, and
great alarm is felt at Tuxpama.
Bishop Nelson of Georgia favors
= changing the Protestant Episcopal
: church name, saying that the present
title is equivocal, misleading and obso-
lete.
President Roosevelt at the University
of California at Berkeley was honored
: with the degree of doctor of laws,
He afterward visited Oakland and the
Mare Island navy yard.
The city of Jacksonville, Fla, was in
! total darkness two days following the
flood, but the repairs at the electric
Night works were finally completed
The loss from the storm will tota
;S150,000.
Thursday, May ~.
About 1900 emigrants have arrived
at Hamburg on their way TO America.
General James Longstreet, former
Confederate commander, as seriously
i'll in Washington.
The Commonwealth, the biggest bat
tie ship afloat, was launched on the
Clyde for the British navy.
Forest fires have broken ont with re
newed vigor near Saranac lake, st
Regis lake and Lake Duane, in tn,
Adirondacks.
For two hours Lord Mimic, governo
e general of Canada; Lady Mimic ant
hlccH WVlC thc sSuSSto "
! the city of Detroit, Mich.
: Mrs. Banna Newell Barrett, though
to be the oldest resident of Boston
-, celebrated the one hundred and thirt
anniversary of her birth by reception
Every newspaper man in Schenecta
ldy has been subp9naed to appear be
. fore the grand jury and tell what h
knows about the prevalence of vice.
|, Nearly all the restaurants of Denve
!, have been closed by strike of cooks
walters, bakers and butchers. Ii /
feared that the strike may become gen
. ,eral
:. To celebrate the sixty ninth ami
= versary OF the founding of the HON
For the Friendless Miss Helen Goul
!, of New York has presented to the inst
tuition 5000.
Eight buildings on fire at one tim
4 gave the town of Leominster, Mass,
great scare. Property valued at $50
8 900 was destroyed, one life was los
and many fjremen injured.
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