The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-05-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
sssahle Event. of the Week Briefly
ChrorfcIed.

.onflict in st. Tammany parish, La.
Negotiations for the settlement Of the
aundry strike in Chicago have been
,roken off.
Russia has announced at Peking that
III Manchuria is open to foreigners
Without passports.
Widespread ruin in Guatemala has
',een caused by the eruption Of the
anita Maria volcano.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
,eld a great court reception in Holy
ood palace, Edinburgh.
The erroneous report of the death of
Joaquin Miller came originally from
lutte, Mont. The poet has not been i'll.
As the result of recent British mill
ary operations 100000 square miles of
erritory were added to northern Nj
,eria.
Shamrock III. was taken to Greenock
0 be fitted with her ocean rig. In trial
he again showed her superiority over
ihamrock |.
Tuesday, May IL.
Panama will quarantine all vessels
,oming from Peru.
1t is reported that Minister of War
Indre has decided to reopen the Drey-
tus case.
The laying of the new German At
antic cable was begun at Borkum is
md, North sea.
A blazing oil barge in the East river,
Il 1nv. hn- -hnr
re. One man is missing.
Three sisters of Colonel j. r. Shafer
superintendent of the Panama rail-
Dad, have died of fever at Colon.
The body of Mrs. Augusta Harper
.ynde, who disappeared April %, was
ound in the North river, New York.
An unidentified young woman was
filed in front of 355 Broadway, New
tork, by case of goods falling on
.er.
The loss by Sundays fire at Ottawa
estimated at 100000. Its origin is
,ot now believed to have been incen-
iary.
The strike of longshoremen which
vas inaugurated last fall and which
nas tied up trade at Montreal has been
ettled.
The building tie up in New York is
luilders won't purchase from union.
zed yards.
Rear Admiral Cotton says that q
visit of the American European squad
on to Kiel has not been definitely de-
ided upon.
A team of golf players from the OK
ord and Cambridge Golting society
viii come to the United States to make
| tour of American links.
1t is reported that the Panama Cana
,ompany has offered the Colombian
government $12,00O,O00 of the sum i
. to receive from the United States.
The Vera Cruz, bound from the Cape
'erde islands to New Bedford, Mass.
With 433 Portuguese immigrants was
.yrecked at Ocracoke inlet, North Caro-
ma.
1t was announced in the house O
,ommons that negotiations are pro
eeding for a parcels post service be
,ween Great Britain and the Unitet
-,tates.
Fourteen attractive girls arrayed il
off costumes and with knapsacks OIL
heir backs tramped through Westches
er, n. Y, on their return to semina
y in Connecticut.
President Roosevelt has rendered t
gr. Frederick w. Hollis of New Yorl
ne position of umpire in the settlemen
the claims of Germany and Ital.
gainst Venezuela.
Monday, May II.
Callao and Pisco, Peru, have bee
,.ficially declared infected with the br
onic plague.
Albert Roberts, cashier of the gov
rnment ice plant at Manila, has bee
rrested on the charge of embezzlt
lent His accounts have been foun
be $4,000 short.
1t was the intention to have the pres
lent review the troops stationed 8
ort Monterey, Cal, but he decline
do so on Sunday.
The outlook in the Adirondacks fC
,out fishing this spring is better tina
has been for many years.
The capture of Curtis Jett, charge
18th the assassination of j. b. Ma
I'm in Jackson, Ky, was accomplish
| without blOodshed.
The Bulgarian revolutionlsts a
'mpted to commit at Monastir the n
rchstic outrages analogous to tho'
,erpetrated at Salonika.
News has reached here from Tetua
Iorocco, that the tribesmen have su
cred defeat at the hands Of the so
rnment troops.
An attempt was made to blow l
he Cunarder Umbria with an intern
lachine
One of the iercest and most dana
lg forest fires in the history of Il
llegheny mountains has been ragI
)ove Dunlo, Pa.
saturday, May o.
Fire has done $4,000 damage at CT
arvile, Tenn,
Shamrock III. went out alone
'ourock to stretch her sails.
- III.