The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-06-13
Covering Minor Happens
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for tho
Busy Readcr--A Complete Record
of European Dispatches and Im-
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty PerusaI.

Cuban liberal leaders protested
against the passage of the resolution
federalizing Havana.
Governor Hughes of New Yorl,
vetoed the bill providing for a tive
cent railroad fare.
The general manager of the Sow
! ereign Bank. at Toronto, reported q
shrinkage OF s2,240,000 in the value
OF the institutions assets. attributed
to bad investments by former man.
| ager.
Mayor Schmitz denied on the wit
ness stand that he had ever received
| protection money from the French
restaurants in San Francisco.
President Roosevelt at jamestown
| advocated income and inheritance
taxes and payment to all workmen
| hurt In accidents.
| Harry Orchard under severe
cross-examination gave details of al
legged murders done under orders Of
| Miners Federation heads.
The council of the progressive
party in Toxic called on the govern
ment to compel the United States
government to protect Japanese in
America
It was found that the 100000 in
money and securities carried by three
persons arrested in Naples was the
property of the Friars of Santo Dom
lingo.
When Secretary Wilson, of the De-
partment of Agriculture, was asked
on the witness stand in the cotton
leak" hearing If he did not agree to
suppress certain information he re-
piled:-"1 do not remember"
The Princess Anne Hotel, at vir-
ginia Beach, Va, was burned, with q
reported loss of two lives.
AS a result of Harry Thaw's trial.
a bitter quarrel has appeared in
the Thaw family.
Demanding money she says is due
on losses in the San Francisco fire,
women has threatened the life of
George Crawford, president Of the
West Chester Fire Insurance Com
pany.
Proceedings were taken by a dau-
ghter of E. w. Vanderbilt, of New
York, who married Mrs Pepper, to
have a commission inquire into her
fathers sanity.
Stuyvesant Fish, addressing Col
umbia graduates, said new federal
laws would stop the construction Of
railroads.
With liabilities of $6,500,0OO the
firm of Miliken Brothers, structural
steel manufacturers and construct
ors, of New York went into bank
ruptcy.
Cuban liberals opposed the policy
of liberalization of Havana.
Many persons were killed by tor
nadoes in Illinois, Indiana and Ken
tucky.
Governor Hughes vetoed three
bills increasing patronage In New
York city boroughs.
President Roosevelt took part in
laying the cornerstone of the Mason
&c Temple in Washington.
Mayor Mahool, of Baltimore, ask
ed the Appeal Tax Court to put a
tax OF $1,000 year on bachelors.
More than a thousand persons
were thrown into panic In the Goth
ham Theatre, in Brooklyn, by a shout
OF Fire" during the performance.
Robert l.. Steiner, blind patient
In sanitarium a Corona, l.. l., es-
capped and was found dead near the
institution.
Long Islands Poosepatuck Indians
celebrated their 935th annual feast
In honor of the dead on their reser-
vation.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles G.
Ayres, whose wife has been barred
from the West Point Academy
grounds, made an attack on other
officers which It is believed will lead
to court martial.
DR.. William r. Day, chancellor of
Syracuse University, declared the re-
public was under an autocracy-a
government by commissions.
The young wife of the Rev. j. J.
Hunt preached In a Philadelphia
Methodist Episcopal Church In the
absence of her husband.
Cuban liberals asked Senator Zay-
as and General Gomez to resign as
aspirants for the Presidency In the
interest of party peace.
Open hearth furnaces will be sub
stituted by the Carnegie Company
for the Bessemer process of making
steel rails.
One man was killed and ten in
jured when large automobile crash
ed into a victoria In the Ocean Park
way, Brooklyn N. Y,
FOREIGN NEWS.