The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-05-28
loudburst caused great damage to their

10 French influence.
Korea insisted on the Russians re-
.rossing the Yalu river.
A tornado at Clay Center, Kan, killed
:wo girls and injured others.
The first hanging in Porto Rico will
be that of Pedro Dinz, convicted Of
murder at political riot.
The Seaboard Air Line railway shops,
offices and warehouse at Portsmouth,
Va, We're destroyed by fire.
Dennis Kilbride, recently released
from prison. was elected to parliament
from South Kildare, Ireland.
One section of Montana has been eat
en up by grasshoppers, while another
was under three feet of snow.
Three students were hurt in bicy-
Gle race at the New England intcrcol
legiate games at Worcester, Mass.
The Dalmatians have petitioned EN-
peror Francis Joseph to intervene and
prevent further bloodshed in Croatia.
Samuel II. McElroy has died sud
denly in Brooklyn. Two weeks ago he
received a sharp shock on a trolley car.
The Chicago Jewish massacre relief
committee has cahled $4,000 to Kishi-
neff as the first installment of Chca-
go's contribution.
Ambassador Mccormick in an inter-
view in London, says that the Russian
government has no desire TO shut
Manchuria to American trade.
The permanent treaty was signed Mt
the office of the secretary of state in
Havana by Secretary of State Zado
md United States Minister Squiers.
NJ. Santos-Dumont is preparing at
Paris balloon which is fifty-siX meters
in length and has speed of eighty
llilometers Tor fifty-seven niles an
hour.
General Greene says he does not
want n dry Sunday in Greater New
York; but, the state excise commission
or having called his attention to the
, law, he proposes to have it enforced.
Thirty members of Company c of
Lexington, thirty members of the Shell
byville company and forty members of
the Louisville battery, with one Cat
ling gun, were on duty in Jackson, Ky,
during the investigation of the Marcum
assassination.
Friday. May 22.
| The crew deserted the burning coal
laden steamer Pfohl in Lake Huron.
The California fruit cannerics need
5000 more laborers than are available.
1t is proposed TO deport Bulgarians
/ from Macedonia to Anatolia, Asia Mi
/ nor.
/ The British Columbia government
has given away by mistake 4S0 square
miles of timber lands.
Jews in Kishinelf and other parts of
Bessarabia fear further outrage at the
hands of the Russian populace.
The revolt in Croatia is spreading to
/ every part of the titular kingdom and
! threatens to extend to Dalmatia.
! Philip Blagden's family discredit the
report that the missing bank clerk en-
| listed in the New York marine corps.
A big red auto touring car exploded
on Third avenue, New York. About
thirty of the bystanders were injured.
The Presbyterian general assembly
| at Los Angeles, Cal, has been opened,
with the Rev. DR.. Henry Van Dyke as
moderator.
A tornado swept over Ashland, Kan,
laying waste the town and Il large por-
ton of the country. 1t is reported that
two persons were fatally injured.
An order from Ottawa has been re-
ceived by the Canadian customs Off
autoists to enter Canada without pay
ing duty on their motor cars.
The new cup yacht Reliance inflicted
a defeat upon the former cup defender
Columbia, leading her over the finish
line of a twenty-five mile course off
Glen Cove by fourteen minutes and
forty-three seconds, official time.
The drought in Porto Rico has been
broken by copious rains, which were
preceded by fierce electrical storms and
slight earthshocks. The crops suffered
severely and their ruin was narrowly
averted. The hot spell was the most
severe on record there
| secretary hay mas presented 10 the
British government the claims of the
heirs of the late Charles Brown, an
American civil engineer, for land
grants in South Africa valued at So,
600, 600, of which, they contend, he was
wrongfully deprived by President Kru
ger of the Boer republic prior to the
war.
Thursday, May Fl.
The abandoned town of Montana City
Mont, has been burned.
Cuba's independence (he first ami
versary of the Cuban republic) was
celebrated at Havana.
John w. Gates has been ordered 10y
London doctor to stop work, as an ole
ailment threatens him.
Professor Gore of Washington has
been named commissioner for Siam a
the st. Louis exposition.
A man was caught placing ties on thu
railway track near Mansfield, Mass.
and the Colonial express had narrow