The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-11-07
Covering Minor Happen-
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for the
Busy Readcr-A Complete Record
OF European Dispatches and Im-
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Perusal.

Federal authorities discovered that
the government is being defrauded of
H,000,000 year through the dis
honesty of Southern dlstillers.
Americas war ship tonnage is now
second to England's, the Navy De-
partment declared, though vessels
contracted for will soon restore
France to second place.
One man was killed and three
received probably fatal wounds in
an election riot in Lexington, Ky.
Charles j. Glidden and Leo Stevens
made a successful balloon fight from
Pittsfield, Mass, landing in Vermont,
eighty miles in direct line distant.
Edward Payson Weston reached
Chatham Four Corners, n Y, at
eight o'clock in the evening, twenty
five miles ahead of his schedule in
long walk.
Special Manila dispatches said
Secretary Taft had conferred with au-
thorities in Manila on the subject of
the islands defence in tine of war.
The love sonnets OF Florence
Brooks led to marriage with John
Theatre.
Pittsfeld, Mass, accused North
Adams Mass, of stealing the balloon
In which c. j. Glidden and Leo
Stevens will make an ascension.
All delegates to the coming Peace
Conference of Central American Re-
publics in Washington have been in
structed to work for harmony.
Sixty business concerns in Pitts
burg, Pa, paid 500 each to an al
legged labor organization to prevent
strikes, and the president of the as
sociation was fined and ordered to
leave the city.
Secretary Taft assisted at the dedi-
cation of Presbyterian Church in
Manila and later dined with Arch
bishop Harty.
The relatives of Walter F. Baker
OF Bagota, N. j., said they believed
he conveyed $35O,0OO estate to
scheming persons before mis- death.
Members of Black Hand band.
are blamed for the murder of an
Italian grocer and his wife in Gar
field, N. j.,
BY ordering out the dynamite
squad" in a test evolution, Chief
Croker led every fireman in Man
haitian and the Bronx to believe that
great disaster had befallen the
lower part Of the city.
General Booth addressed three
large meetings at the New Amster.
dam Theatre in New York.
Cuban agriculturists, political par
ties and newspapers joined in de-
mand on Governor Magoon that the
Cuban Treasury lend them $1,000
600 to harvest the next crop.
The United States Supreme Court
Will, 1t was announced, hear argu-
ment this week on the plea of the
French steamship line for a limita-
ton of its liabilities in the sinking
of the Burgogne.
The Kelsey hearing was closed by
Commissioner Flemming at Albany.
Wind that attained seventy-two
miles an hour wrecked twenty dwell
ings in Galveston, killed one person
and injured a score of others.
Kentucky tobacco growers began
crusade for the pooling of their
crops in order to force up prices.
Secretary Taft will cut short his
visit to the Philippines one week in
order to hasten to Berlin.
Two tramps remained for several
weeks in the country mansion of G
r. Wanamaker, near Philadelphia,
emptying the pantries and wine cell
lar and making off in the owners
clothes.
At meeting of Union Pacific di-
rectors steps were taken toward a
$300. 100000 holding company to
control the roads outside stock in
vestments.
Judge Davis, of the Supreme
Court, signed an interlocutory decree
of divorce in favor of Mrs. Natalie
Schenck Collins against Captain
Charles Glen Collins.
Investigation showed that H. B
Potter, Jr., who died in the Waldorf
Astoria, had not been murdered but
had killed himself.
Posing as a lighting inspector.
young man stole $4,000 worth Of
jewels from the home of Paul Bayne.
a banker In New York.