The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-03
WORLD news OF THE MEEK
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 aud Im-
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty PcrusaI.

President Roosevelt's renomina-
tion was demanded by the Governors
of four Western States interviewed
at Keogug, Iowa,
/ Havanas courts indicted seven
men for conspiring for a revolt in
Cuba.
With an aim to obtain better har-
mony of State and federal courts, q
memorial to Congress was authorized
by the Attorneys General in conven-
tion at st. Louis.
Mr.. Moffett, president of the
Standard OH Company of Indiana,
told the special Grand Jury of re-
batting charges he made in a pam
phlet
The Bishop of London admitted
that he and Assistant Attorney Cen
eral Cooley defeated the President
and Secretary Garfield in tennis
game at the White House last week.
There came to light the story of a
well born Engllshman, who, desper-
aAN III inns bibs hNhiulluNh F'N1VpN
from his wife on threat of death for
himself and his two sons
Mrs. Aurel Batonyi, who was for
merly Mrs. Burke-Roche, filed suit
for divorce, and the papers were
served on Mr. Batonyi
Frank Il Xavier, a Yonkers edi-
tor, testified in District Attorney
Jerome's suit against him for al
legged libel
Acting on the petition of its Off
GERS, Judge Lacombe extended the
receivership of the New York City
Railway to include the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company.
Nellie Quinn, a nurse in the City
Hospital. was slain In a room on the
upper east side, and the police ac-
cused a plumber employed by the
city of the crime.
Grief over accidentally killing his
! pet dog was responsible for the
suicide of Albert Schauer, a we'll to-
do boss cabinet maker living at
No. 5S Sutton street, Williamsburg.
A gust of wind swept Carl Jensen
} an ironworker, from the Blackwell
Island bridge, which he is helping
to build, but he grabbed a girder and
saved himself.
Governor Magoon was told that
! Spaniards in Cuba were anxious for
the right to become citizens of the
| United States.
An attorney for Mr.. Moffett, head
| of the Standard Oil Company of Ind
| lana, asserted that he would prove
his statement that other concerns
were just as guilty of rebating as
! the Standard.
1t was announced that the Demo
| cratic New York State Committee
refused to make nominations for the
Court of Appeals judgeships.
Names of contributors to District
Attorney Jerome's campaign fund
were told in his libel suit against a
Yonkers editor, in which he testified.
Discussion of the question OF sell
ing the Philippines was continued
in many interviews from many parts
of the country.
Bishop Ingram. of London, laid the
cornerstone Of the new Episcopal
Cathedral in Washington and the
President delivered an address.
Although menaced by four dan
gers-conspiracy, strike. yellow few
er and bandit uprisings-a Havana
paper said the Cuban situation was
| not serious.
Miss Gertrude Beeks, who examin-
ed conditions among Panama Canal
employees for Secretary Taft, report
ed many changes necessary for the
welfare and comfort of the workers.
DR.. Rowland and wife will, it waS
announced. be placed on trial at
Raleigh, N c., to-day on a charge
of having poisoned and murdered
| Charles r. Strange, first husband OF
Mrs. Rowland.
Arrangements were completed for
the dedication to-day of the Mckinley
monument at Canton.
Rioters tried to break up a meet
| Ing Ol the feueTdllOH Ol lldlldu DO
cieties in Cooper Union, New York.
Senator Thomas c. Platt said that
Governor Hughes is master politi-
clan" building up machine and
may gain the Presidency.
Messrs. william Rockefeller and
John ID. Archibold were accepted In
Chicago as sureties on the two bonds
of the Standard Oil Company of Ind
lana, aggregating $6,OOO,OO0.
Attorney General Jackson was re-
Quested by the State Controller to
bring suit against the Mercantile
Trust Company, of New York, for al
lowing an executor of the Russell
Sage estate to have access to the
Sage strong box without the presence
of State officials.
Mr. Edgar r. Bracket, as counsel
for the Saratoga Gas Company, at.