The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-10
Covering Minor Happen-
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for the
Busy Rcadcr--A Complete Record
of European Dispatches and Inn
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Perusal.

waterways convention declared
there was never any danger of COLI
sion between the Presidents boat
and the vessel chartered by the Pitts
burg men.
Arrangements to take the gate re-
ceipts of the jamestown Exposition
to repay the balance of the govern
ment loan were begun by the Treas
ury Department.
Effort was made by Augustus
Hartje, of Pittsburg, to have the
Hartte divorce case reopened in Phil
adelphia, on the ground that new
and sensational evidence had been
discovered.
American strike breakers landed
at Havana as tourists" and Cuban
labor leaders made charges In court
against immigration authorities for
permitting the men to go ashore.
Secretary of State Root attended
several functions in the City Of Mex
leo.
The Massachusetts Ballot Law
both democratic State tickets nomin-
ated at Springfield.
Heated argument arose at the
Protestant Episcopal Convention, In
Richmond, Va, over a question Of
changing the name of the Church.
Fourteen million dollars in taxes
were paid in New York on the first
day on which payment could be
made, establishing a new record.
District Attorney Jerome made an
attack on what he believes to be
Tammany Halls plan to put hack
politicians" on the Bench.
Answering the governments suit
in which the appointment of receiv-
ers was asked for, the American
Tobacco Company and It's allied cor
porations declare they have stimu-
lated competition rather than crush
ed 1t.
More revelations on the working
of the Galena Signal Oil Company
were made public at the Standard
Oil investigation.
Colonel David e. Austen testified
before the Wainwright Commission
that the whole coast artillery Is not
large enough to man the fortifica-
tions of New York In case Of war.
Formation of a new political or
ganization, the American party, to
fight the spread of Mormonism has
been begun in the West.
Discussion of the third term ques-
tion brought out the belief that
President Roosevelt could not con-
troll the candidate chosen by the re-
publicans.
Virginia members Of Congress de-
clared the United States should get
rid Of the Philippines by granting
the island independence.
Hindus driven out of Bellingham
and other Puget Sound ports are
secretly returning to Washington
cities, but few find work to do.
Pittsburg dispatches reported the
Jones & Laughlin interests about to
enter the steel rail making business
in opposition to the United States
Steel Corporation.
Important developments are ex-
pected in the suit of the Buck Stave
and Range Company to restrain the
American Federation of Labor from
boycotting Its products, which is to
be tried in Washington, D. c.
DR.. and Mrs. Rowland were ac-
quilted at Raleigh, N. c., of
charge of having murdered Mrs.
Rowland's first husband.
Thousands of persons in the open
air heard the Bishop of London
speak from the portico of the Capt
tol at Richmond.
Cornell University's expedition to
Asia Minor reported several new dis
coveries regarding the ancient peo
pie Of that country.
Major Henry B. Hersey, chief in
spector of the Weather Bureau, ad
vocated the establishing of war
balloon department by the govern
ment.
William F. Coxford, a gun dealer,
was killed and his wife seriously in
jured in runaway on Riverside
Drive, New York.
Experiments are to be made in
the Cornell University Medical School
to find the germ of distemper among
dogs and whether human beings are
susceptible to 1t.
That the President has no idea OF
bossism In connection with the Taft
candidacy was announced In des-
patches from st. Louis.
The Bishop of London delivered
sermon against "The New Theology"
at the Protestant Episcopal Conven-
tion in Richmond. Va.
Mrs. Katherine Dargatz and her
nine year old adopted son were found
murdered In barn near Albany, N.
Y, and her husband was arrested.
Only one American steamship com