The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-08-15
Covering Minor Happen-
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled ard Condensed for the
Busy Rcodcr--A Complete Record
Of European Dispatches and I'M
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down Tor EnSty Per.sai.

Many railroad corporations may
Se freed from prosecution by i'm
nunity baths in order chat corpor-
atoms exacting rebates may be pun
iAhed, Washington dispatches said.
Sentence OF death imposed on
Lord" Frederick harrington In Miss
9uri was commuted to improsinment
ior life.
Navy officers at Washington as
7erted that the general average OF
yunnery IN the American navy was
better than In the British.
The next friend" case against
Mrs. Mary Baker C. Eddy was started
IN Concord, n. II.
Army olhcers in Cuba are trying
10 exterminate mosquitoes In an
sffort to check the spread of yellow
fever.
The battle ship Kentucky defeat
I'd q flotilla Of torpedo boats in a
,ham battle off Newport
Unable to dispose Of s23,O00,000
corporation bonds at a sale in New
FORK city officials used them to pay
onpropation debts.
L. II. Hartman ana the Chicago
and Alton Railroad will escape pun
shment for granting rebates to the
Standard Oil Company, because the
guvernment promised immunity in
return for evidence to convict the
standard.
Ten cases of yellow fever are re-
,crted among members of the Hos
Jital Crops Of the army in Cienfue-
JOS, Cuba, and two eases in the city.
OF the s15. 100000 corporate
stock offered for sale by New York
.tty less than $3,O0O,OO0 was dispos-
I'd Of, none of the bids being higher
,han 101.
George NJ Launing, held in New
ark, n. j., as a forger, laid his down.
laIl to political contributions and
gifts to those in need.
The Government is free to attach
che plants Of the Standard OIL Com
sany, but probably viii take no act
ON until the corporations chief at
,orney returns from Europe.
A committee of the American Bar
Association makes scathing report
on State insurance departments and
their methods and recommends new
avs.
Oficial reports of the manoeuvers
Of New York National Guard regi-
nents with the regular coast artil-
lerymen in New York's defences
highly praise the work of the militia.
Officers of the regular army who
inspected the New York State regi-
nents lauded the efficiency of the
men and declared that nearly one
hundred per cent of them would re-
spond to a federal call for aid.
Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
was married at the Hotel Manhattan
to Mrs Nellie Maynard Gardner Of
Syracuse.
The new Swedish Minister praised
America and its prosperity in an In
cerview at Lake George.
Heavy storms In the West did
great damage to crops and fruit.
SIX were reported killed.
Southern Railway officials con-
feffed with the Governor of Alabama
seeking a compromise in the war
against railroads IN that State.
The battle ship Connecticut made
fine showing in her trial at Port
Land. Me. ' '
George W. Delamater, once a pro-
mfnent politician in Pennsylvania,
killed himself in Pittsburg.
Lieutenant Governor Chanler,
speaking at the centennial celebra-
ton In Herkimer, n. Y. warned the
people against hysterical enforcement
OF the laws in attacking the trusts