The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-24
WORLD NEWS 0F THE WEEK
Covering Minor Happens
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for the
Busy Reader-A Complete Record
OF European Dispatches and I'M
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Pcrusal.

President Roosevelt declared in
speech in Nashville, Tenn, the trou-
bles in the financial world would not
make him alter his policies In the
slightest.
Cromwell Dixon, fifteen years old,
was cheered by 100000 persons when
he pedalled through the air over st.
Louis in his novel sky bicycle.
Four hundred delegates attended
the conference on trusts of the Nat
icnal Civic Federation in Chicago,
Ill.
representative Gaines, of West
Virginia, declared the people of his
State would not support President
Roosevelt for a third term.
Two women servants in Marble
head, Mass, engaged an attorney to
bring suit against the wife of Rear
Admiral Crowninshield, alleging
slander and assault.
Mr.. Otto Kelsey, New York State
Insurance Superintendent, admitted
on examination that he only recently
learned of stock transactions by the
Mutual and Equitable companies
shown in their reports of last Decem-
ber
Anti-vivisectionists, aroused by
the Rockefeller institute purchase OF
land for farm on which is to be
raised animals for experiments, pro-
posed to make their crusade national.
Every electric car in Yonkers was
idle, the striking motormen and con-
ductors refusing to compromise in
their demands for higher wages
After making nightly trips on
ferryboat between New York and
Hackensack for fifteen days, Mrs. G
G. Freer wrested her child from the
custody of her sister-in-law and was
served with papers in divorce suit.
BY agreement Of both sides, the
Fish-Harriman contest for control of
the Illinois Central Railway was ad-
journed to December 1S.
The Cuban Attorney General Is ex-
pected to show on the trial of the
alleged conspirators that the plot in
cluded assassination of Americans in
Cuba.
Secretary Of State Root expressed
great satisfaction with the results of
The Hague Conference.
Sailors on the battle ship Kansas,
under punishment for driving detec-
tives from the Navy Yard. fear they
cannot give their annual ball in
Philadelphia.
The federal government seized
more than $1,000 worth of cigarettes
belonging to an English branch of
the American Tobacco Company as
test of the Sherman Anti Trust
law.
Charles T. Barney was forced to
resign as president of the Knicker-
booker Trust Company in New York.
Eleven New York Central conduc-
tors and brakemen were arrested on
charges of breaking open freight cars
and stealing merchandise in ship
ment
William ]. Bryan, in an address
before the striking telegraphers, ad-
vocated State and national courts of
arbitration.
While physicians were lauding the
plans of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research. anti-vivisection-
lists were planning to start a fight
against the institutes vivisection
farm in New Jersey.
e. H. Hartman In an interview in
Chicago said he expected the great
est growth in railroads within the
next generation that the world has
ever seen.
Congress will be asked to increase
the pay of officers of the navy, army,
marine corps and revenue cutter ser
vice.
Guatemalan and Salvadorean de-
legates to the Peace Conference in
Washington were received In pri-
vate audience by President Diaz In
Mexico.
Captain Bermer, of the Canadian
government, planted the Dominion
flag on many disputed islands in the
Far North
Theodore P. Shonts asked the
Public Service Commission for as
sistance In having stricter rules
made for street traffic to give street
| cars more room.
The annual meeting of the Illinois
| Central Railroad stockholders in
Chicago adjourned over night with
out advantage to either the Fish or
Hartman forces
Washington dispatches stated that
Notwithstanding the great amount
of repair work the Atlantic feet
would leave for the Pacific ON time.
e. Benjamin Andrews. president
OF the University of Nebraska. ad-
vocated hanging as a punishment for
persons who libel wealthy men.
Seismographs in this country, Can
ada and Cuba record an earthquake