The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-07-25
Covering Minor Happen.
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for tiie
Busy Reader--A Complete Record
of European Dispatches and linz
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Perusai.

Arrests Of prominent Corean
statesmen and military officers in
Seoul followed the discovery of a
conspiracy to take the retired En-
porer to a safe place and nullify his
abdication.
Failure of the Japanese squadron
to reach Brest was ascribed to a de-
sire to avoid possible clash between
American and Japanese sailors.
Governor Johnson, of Minnesota.
decided to make a personal visit to
the iron mines near Duluth. where
the strike situation is so serious that
he may have to order out State troops
Mr.. Richardson. Haywood's s lawyer
in his closing argument to the jury
painted Harry Orchard as a human
monster with red hands seeking an
others life.
One soldier was killed and three
injured by premature explosion In
a six-inch gun during mimic battle
at Fort Bradford.
The Manhattan State Hospital New
York for the Insane, on Ward's 8 Is
land. was reported overcrowded for
the first time In Its history.
Representatives of the Eastern
railroads will meet In New York for
a discussion of the plan to establish
uniform rate of two cents a mile
for passenger traffic.
One man was killed and six were
injured by the final blast In the Penn
sylvania's Thirty-third street tunnel
bore, New York.
With a toy cannon Walter, the
fourteen-year-old son of Robert NJ.
Jones, of New York, routed five bur-
glars who were trying to steal his
fathers launch at Thousand Islands.
Wajor Eugene Coffin, paymaster,
U. S. A, was infected by handling
paper money for troops in the Philip
pines and his arm was amputated.
Mark Twain. bearing the literary
degree conferred on him by Oxford.
arrived on the Minnetonka.
Jesse ID. Frost assumed the ward
enship of Sing Sing prison with the
idea that many reforms would have
to be effected, and that the system,
alleged to have been honeycombed
with graft, would have to be chang
ed.
John Wilson, a negro, took poss-
ession of the entire estate left by
I've n Nplv I,-t tr1y
aged society woman, in Walnford, n.
j., under a deed executed by her.
William J. Bryan declared govern
ment ownership should not be an
issue in 1908.
A verdict of acquital was ordered
in the case of Judge James B. Har-
gis. who has been on trial in the
Kentucky feud cases, finally freeing
him.
Mrs. +. H. Briggs. of Pittsburg,
Pa. affected a merger of important
Nevada mines, and will take charge
of their financial affairs.
Three bureau chiefs in the Navy
Department will visit and inspect
many yards and stations on the Pa
cific coast.
Surgeons reported to q retiring
board that Lieutenant Colonel Char
les G. Ayres. U. s. A.. Is physically
unfit for service, and Colonel Ayres
in bitter speech declared q square
deal" was denied him.
Commissioner Bingham OF New
York declared that the present wave
of crime including the attacks ON
women and children. is directly the
result OF lax immigration laws.
Consular reports received by the
State Department show Japanese
efforts to control the entire trade OF
Manchuria.
Homer B. Hubert. In an interview.
declared the japanese rule in Corea
was running the country and that she
would get complete control unless
checked by the Powers.