The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-23
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
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty PerusaI.

Mexico continued to mass troops
on the frontier of Guatemala.
Dispatches from the State capital
declared that President Roosevelt
would be brought into the present
reappointment fight.
=. An attempt has been made at AL
bany N. Y. to smuggle through .
repeal of law making rents on
leases taxable.
Rudolph Spreckles denied the
charge of Mayor Schmitz that there
were personal or political motives
behind the prosecution of San Fran
cisco officials.
Harlow n. Higinbottom. of Chica-
go, resigned as trustee of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company as a pro-
test, he says. against present insur-
ance conditions.
A committee of Presbyterian Cen
eral Assembly reported against
Church federation with the Anti
Saloon League.
Ten indictments, three for per-
jury and the others for forgery in
the third degree, we're returned
against John X. Hegeman, of New
York, president of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company.
Secretary Root told Yale that the
morals of the nation had improved
and that evidence of this was seen
in the prosecution of railroads, trusts
and land thieves.
Ensign Albert T. Brisbin attempt
ed suicide by shooting on board the
U. S. s. Tacoma.
Governor Hughes looked over the
Senate district lines in the proposed
reapportionment in New York county
and did not find them satisfactory.
Because she had to eat pumpkin
pie three times a day Mrs. j. B. Stet-
son, of San Francisco, sued her
wealthy husband for divorce.
Six months experience in Cuba
has given the American soldiers
there rank as the crack corps in the
service.
Trouble was feared In the streets
of Boise because of the presence of
witnesses for both sides in the Hay
wood case.
With the convalesence of j. A.
Lovejoy, counsel to he Interstate
Commerce Commission, it was an
Inf hn
railroads controlled by James j. Hill
would be pushed vigorously.
f. H. Symington, a prominent
young Chicago business man, was
fatally hurt by falling under his
horse, which he threw to save boys
life.
Frederick A. Burnham's resigna-
tion as president of the Mutual Re-
serve Life Insurance Company has
been asked for by the directors.
A ship load of negroes was brought
from Florida to New York to break
the strike of longshoremen.
w. e. Corey's marriage was de-
nounced by the Rev. Madison C.
Peters as worse than Mormonism.
CASTOR Pearson Phillip fatally
shot Washington cabman in a ho-
tel in the capital.
Presbyterians in General Assem-
bly,, in Columbus, Ohio, are divided
on the temperance question and a
lively fight is expected.
One negro burglar held up the
family of Samuel Wallwort in Phila-
delphia, forced Mr.. Wallwort to
open his safe, spurned the $3.50 in
the cash box, and disappeared.
Rear Admiral George A. Converse
will remain President of the Board
on Naval Construction after his re-
tirement from the active list of the
navy.
Homes for working girls and many
bequests to charity were made in
the will of Armide V. Smith, sister
of Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont
Emilio Belari, teacher of Nine.
Nordica and a relative of the nobility
Of Spain, was killed by falling from
a window.