The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-09-26
Covering Minor Happens
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for the
Busy Rcadcr--A Complete Record
of European Dispatches and Inn
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Pcrusal.

mala ana honduras were denied Dy
Central American diplomats In Wash
ington.
j. T. Harahan. president of the
Illinois Central, made q statement re-
plying to the criticism Of the roads
management by Stuyvesant Fish.
Bids opened for coalng the Allan
tic fleet on its Pacific cruise showed
that foreign bottoms and American
coal were lowest in price.
Representative Hepburn declared
himself in favor of more rigid laws
regarding the issues of stock by cor
porations,
Mrs. Bertha Mund strangled her
three children in Buffalo because she
feared they would become crazy.
Representatives of sixteen nation
alities met In Boston at the biennial
session of the Congress of Religious
Liberals.
Judge Lacombe, IN the United
States Circuit Court, appointed Ad-
rian II. Joline and Douglas Robinson
Railway Company.
Expert accountants IN the employ
of the Public Service Commission
were put at work on the books of
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Com
pany and the Metropolitan Securities
Company.
James Bartlett Hammond admit
cd in testimony at an investigation
as to his sanity that he had "lunatic
spells"
Commodore 4. C. Benedict sent
| out a party in a launch which rescu-
ed ten men from a disabled boat In
Long Island Sound after an eleventh
had drowned.
Three branches Of the American
Bankers Association, whose conven-
ton opens In Atlantic City, held sess-
ions, and among the speakers was
Charles Emory Smith.
Federal Investigators have been
unable to find any trace OF books to
show that the old trust wss handed
over to the Standard OIL Company Of
New Jersey without liquidation.
Four persons were injured and
trafTlc was blocked for an hour in the
| evening rush as a result Of collision
| OF Brooklyn Bridge trains.
Navy Department officials are dis
cusslng the problem of finding work
for fifteen thousand men in Atlantic
coast navy yards after the battle
ship fleet goes to the Pacific.
A novel feature Of Secretary Roots
visit to Mexicao will be trip to
Lake Xochimlio, where he will be
met by Aztec Indians.
The National Congress OF Christ
ian Churches was opened in Boston,
with many prominent persons in at
tendance.
| The battle ship Kansas defeated
the Georgia in a four hundred mile
race from Cape Cod to the Delaware
Breakwater.
Senator Borah. Of Idaho, was plao-
ed on trial for conspiracy to defraud
the government in the land cases.
By an order Of the Federal Court
at st. Paul the State of Minnesota
was enjoined from enforcing It's COM
modify rate law pending a decision
on appeal.
The City Council Of Kingston,
Jamaica, adopted a resolution aimed
at Chinese immigration. asking the
government to exclude undesirable
foreigners
Professor Todd, of Amherst Col
lege, made experiments In the Andes
at an altitude of $4,000 feet to see
what effect light air pressure has on
life.
Sir Wilfrid Laurler, Premier OF
Canada, denied the request of the
Dominion Trades and Labor Congress
to take steps to abrogate the treaty
with Japan,
In general poll of republicans
in all States Governor Hughes, o!
New York, was chosen to be the
choice for the Presidential nomina
tion In case Secretary Taft Is beaten
In the convention.
1t was declared by a member Of
Congress In Washington that Japar
could take the Philippines in day
| Newspaper publishers suggested
remedies for the advance in the price
Of white paper, including raising O
subscriptions and advertising.
Announcement was made tina
there will be an early meeting II
Washington Of the trustees havinl
in hand the raising of fund for es
tablish!ng a national peace tribunal
Close scrutiny of stock sales o
public service companies was pro
vided IN the rules of practice OF tn
, State Commission In the Second Dis
, trict
Many subsidiary concerns of ta
Standard OIL Company In Westerl
: Pennsylvania were declared to hay
been omitted In the New York hear
ing by the compapy's officials In eeti