The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-09
Covering Minor happen-
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for the
Busy Reader--A Complete Record
Of European Dispatches and linz
portnnt Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Perusai.

In the streets of San Francisco.
Both Senator Raines and Speaker
Wadsworth declared themselves firm
ly against the present removal"
clause in the Public Utilities bill and
will fight the Governor of New York
on II.
Six occupants of boarding house
In San Francisco were shot by an In
sane man.
The Lake, a submarine boat, made
a maximum speed of 7.73 knots run
ming awash in the tests at Newport.
Cuban dispatches announced the
recovery of President Palma from u
serious attack of liver trouble.
Announcement was made in Pitts
burg that Mrs William Thaw had
mortgaged Lyndhurst for 100000
to help pay expenses of her son y
trial.
Insurance companies declared that
Mrs. Ella II. Shumaker, of Pittsburg,
who is sueing for $4,000, the am
cunt of policies on Alvin p. Shu-
makers life, was never legally wed
to Shumaker.
Harold S. Jones, sixteen years old.
shot himself in Philadelphia after
turning highwayman and shooting at
a policeman whom he thought he had
killed.
Two nephews. George Gront Ma
te principal heirs to the great for
tune left by James Henry Smith.
whose will was made public.
Representative of more than
twenty steamship lines in New York
decided to resist the longshoremen's
wage demands indefinitely.
Delaware and Hudon directors
plan to issue SIS, 100000 convertible
bonds and authorize stock increase.
London markets continued stag
nant and extravagant rumors were
the only diversion.
Miss Margaret Curtis and Miss
Harriet Curtis both survived the first
round in the women's British golf
championship at Newcastle, county
Down.
Five hundred women took part In
the opening championship play Of the
Women's Whist League In the Wal
dorfAstoria. New York.
II is believed in Washington that
the dispute between Mexico and Guat-
emala, while acute. will not lead to
hostilities.
Senators who voted for Otto Kel-
sey are coming over to Governor
Hughes and assuring him OF their
support of the Public Utilities bill.
Counsel for william D. Haywood,
accused of the murder of Governor
Steunenberg of Idaho, asked the
court In Boise to direct the State of
furnish a bill OF particulars before
going to trial.
tuberculosis In children and sour
ces of infection We're discussed by the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention Of tuberculosis in
ash'nk ton, d. G.
ment of the submarine boat trials at
Newport.
Secretary of War Taft denied that
the Jamaican government had been
asked to pay for supplies sent by tho
United States for the Kingston earth
quake sufferers.
1t is alleged. by Chicago trust
company that men known as Stand
ard oil people had conspired to
wreck the Corn Products Company.
Wh-key rectifiers protested against
Attorney General Bonapartes ruling
barring the label "whiskey" on any
but straight goods"
Relatives of Mrs. De Massey, slayer
OF Gustave Simon, wealthy New
York City manufacturer, declared
that she was no baroness, but Just
plain Della Benoit. of Worcester,
Mass.
Fifty thousand socialists and labor
men In demonstration in New York
City to express sympathy with
Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone de-
nounced President Roosevelt.
Secretary Taft, with the approval
OF President Roosevelt, refused the
demand of Panama Canal steam
shovel men for higher wages.
1t was declared by an expert steel
rail maker in Pittsburg that the pro-
cess of making railroad rails left
every one defective when finished.
Steps were taken to prosecute
those involved in the Pennsylvania
State Capitol scandal, where, 1t is
estimated, $3.500,000 profits were
made out of a S5,55G,7S5 contract.
John Mitchell, president of the
United Mine Workers, declared in
favor of compulsory publicity OF all
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