The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-10
Covering Minor Happen
ings from all over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN.
Compiled and Condensed for tho
Busy Readcr--A Complete Record
! Of European Dispatches and I'm"
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Perusa.

Before the Interstate Commerce
Commission Il. p. Ripley, president
OF the Santa Fe, testified that an at
| tempt had been made by the Union
Pacific to obtain control of his road.
Announcement was made in Wash
ington that President Roosevelt will
send another message to the Senate,
with more evidence in the Browns
Vile case.
Village of Montreal. n. c.. wac
transferred by John C. Huyer to the
Presbyterian Synod.
Governor Pardee said California
will deal with the Japanese school
children question as 1t deems best
and that Mr.. Roosevelt does not
understand the situation.
Edwin Gould capitulated to the
HeinzeMorse Thomas interests and
got out of the Mercantile National
Bank.
The idea of an American protec-
torate for Cuba is steadily gaining
strength in the island.
Mr.. John ID. Rockefeller will givc
SO, 900, 900 more to the University Of
Chicago for the purpose of pension
Ing its superannuated professors.
Senator Gearin, of Oregon, advo-
Gated exclusion of Japanese laborers
from the United States.
A fireman caught in burned
building in Roosevelt street, New
York city, Sunday night was found
alive and rescued thirty-six hours
afterwards
Attorney General Jackson began
action in the Supreme Court to force
Mayor Mcclellan OF New York, to
surrender his Office to w. X. Hearst.
Mayor Mcclellan of New York, in
his annual message, reported the
city's debt to be S525,O6O,475 and
its borrowing capacity s65, 10000.
Counsel for Harry Thaw told
Judge Fitzgerald that his client
feared that he could not get fair
trial in New York City, because of
newspaper misrepresentation
Attorney for Mayor Mcclellan Of
New York City, obtained a court
order stopping proceedings in the
quo warranto petition for the re-
count of the votes in the contest
started by w. r. Hearst.
Attorney General Jackson will go
on with quo warranto proceedings in
the recount case, despite the courts g
order.
In his first skirmish over the bal
lots Attorney General Jackson OBJ
tanned possession of some of the
boxes.
Interstate Commerce Commission
hearings in New York in Hartman
merger ended for the present, with
William Rockefeller under subpoena
to give details of big stock purchase
and sale.
George w. Perkins made sworn
answer to the charge against him in
the insursance scandal. declaring
himself to be innocent in all particu-
lars.
Thomas w. Lawson's boom In
Trinity Copper collapsed when the
stock suddenly dropped IA points.
Less opposition to the reforms ad-
vocated by Governor Hughes was no.
ticed In the Legislature at Albany.
President Roosevelt will bring be-
fore Congress the German tariff
question for settlement.
The steamer City of Panama, for
the safety of which fears were felt In
San Francisco, was reported as
sighted of Mazatlan, Mexico, appar.
emily all right.
Railroads and the Interstate Com.
merce Commission are engaged In q
struggle for the mastery under the
new rate regulation law.
More immigrants landed in the
| United States in the last fiscal year
than in any previous year.
Guests at Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F.
| Walsh's masked ball in Washington
| were perturbed when an interloper
| costumed as Mephistopheles, became
so obnoxious that he was asked to
! leave.
| Two visions seen by New Yorb
| lawyer have been taken up by the
Society for Psychical Research II
hope that they may be a clew tc
spirit communication.
Engineers on the Pennsylvania
East River tunnel construct a ma
chine to force artificial rock into the
ground and stop flow of air.
A new church was formed in New
York city which is to include any
body and manage everything from
governments to skating rinks.