The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-08-01
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for tho
Busy Reader-A Complete Record
OF European Dispatches and Im-
portant Events from Everywhcrc
Boiled Down for Hnsty Perusai.


Before the Interstate Commerce
Commission the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Roalroad alleged d
creamery trust" in the Middle West.
Suit against the Powder Trust for
violation of the Sherman act was
brought by the government in Will
mington. Del.
Judge Wood. in Boise, Idaho, rc-
fused to accept bail for George A.
Pettibone. accused of the murder Of
Governor Frank Steunenberg.
Mexico has been asked by the
United States to help In preventing
the smuggling of japanese laborers
across her bord ers.
Washington dispatches told Of
an accident on the cruiser Colorado,
in which the muzzle OF an eight inch
gun was blown Off.
The new dry dock in the League
Island Navy Yard will be tested by
the docking Of the big battle ship
kearsarge.
Tom" Nadine, = coachman. nam
ed as correspondent In the Hartje
divorce case was arrested In Pitts
burg, Pa, on Augustus Hartje's COM
plaint of larceny.
Father Levont Martogessian, ar
rested in New York on a charge Of
being leader of blackmail band was
held In $25, 900, the contention being
made that he may have to face a
more serious charge, for which thers
Is no bail.
Involving a loss of $2,00O,OO0 the
Long Branch Hotel. Long Branch
l.. l., was destroyed by fire. Many
persons being injured escaping from
the flames.
According to the Navy Depart
ment, the explosion ON the battle
ship Georgia was not caused by in
ferior powder, as was charged oy
Robert S. Waddell. E.
Earle Irven, of indianapolis, was
drowned at Colon after having res
cued several other Americans caught
by the undertow while bathing.
Bands Of bandits in Santiago Pro-
vince are regarded by Cuban news
papers as proof of the existance Of
conspiracy to bring about an up
rising.
Senator Otto G.. Foelker, Of Brook
lyn, obtained a court order temporar-
lily restraining Secretary of State
Whalen from issuing notices for an
election of State Senators next fall
Senator Foraker replied to Sena-
tor Tillman's criticisms on the pass
ing of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments.
The scout cruiser Salem was laun-
ched at Quincy. Mass.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton refused to treat with the Dock
Workers Union in Duluth, and the
latter voted to continue the strike.
twenty-five news laws in the in
terest of labor were passed by tho
last Legislature, says the quarterly
report Of the State Labor Commiss-
Toner.
Three members Of the Explorers
Club reached the summit Of Mount
Olympus. in the State Of Washington.
for the hrst time.
Trying to rescue a servant who
had been killed by prussic acid. Rob.
ert T. Gerstle. his wife and son and
three servants were overcome by the
fumes OF the acid which had been
put into their Arverne, L. I. home to
expel ants.
The N. Y. State Assembly defied
Governor Hughes message asking
direct nominations law by defeating
the bill. SO to II.
Armed conflict between the State
and federal authorities over the rate
law situation at Asheville. N. c.,
seemed nearer than ever. as both
sides OF the controversy continued
aggressive.
In a referees report. confirmed In
the Supreme Court. 1t is shown that
william c. Whitney left an estate
valued at almost S25.000.o00.
Frank Snyder. Z "trusty." escaped
from the Tombs. New York City By
means Of a rope thrown to him from
outside the prison wall.
Representatives OF the Eastern
railroads met in the ONCE of the
Erie in New York city and discussed
passenger trafiic rates. -
DR.. John Ward. medical director
Of the New Jersey State Hospital for
the Insane. told an investigat-
Ing committee - patient had
been beaten 70 severely that he died
and that the Board Of Managers had
suppressed the case and allowed ths
guilty attendants to escape.