The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
Covering Minor Happen
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for tho
Busy Reader---A Complete Record
of European Dispatches and Inn
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hnsty Perusni.

with State leaders againse the Gov
ernor of New York.
1t was asserted in Columbus that
Senator Dick had deserted Senator
Foraker and Joined forces with Sec
retary Taft's friends.
The State Senate passed the New
York City Women Teachers Salary
bill over Mayor McClellans veto by
vote of thirty-seven to nine.
The leader of the striking cigar
makers In Cuba declared the men
would not yield their demand for
payment in American gold.
Censure was passed by a coroner's
jury upon all persons who neglected
to provide medical attendance for
Mrs. Corinne Mcbride. who died
under Christian Science treatment
from pneumonia.
Archbishop Ryan and 130 bishops
took part in the dedication of st.
Patricks Roman Catholic Cathedral,
at Harrisburg, Pa.
Two men were fatally injured at
Newbern, n. c., when one of them
fired a pitol shot at a railroad tool
house causing ton Of dynamite to
explode, blowing the house to frag-
ments.
Republican Assemblymen indorsed
in caucus Governor Hughes Public
Utilities bill, and the Rules Comm
ittee decided to report the bill g.v-
Ing the Governor power to iavesti-
gate all State departments.
Governor Hughes of New York
took steps to require all future pow
er concerns using natural resources
OF the State to pay an annual tax
of seventy-five cents for each horse
power dveloped.
The United States Supreme Court
hald that the eight hour law of 1892
is constitutional but does not apply
to laborers and mechanics employed
on dredges, who are held to be sea-
men.
The designer and captain Of the
submarine boat Octopus exhibited In
Newport. r. l., a new jacket de-
signed to enable men to escape If the
craft becomes disabled when sub
merged.
The 300th anniversary of the land.
ing of the first English settlers at
jamestown was celebrated at the
jamestown Exposition.
Physicians at Worcester, Mass, re-
ported the case Of a man self-hypno-
tized two weeks ago whom they can
not arouse.
The United States Supreme Court
decided that Kansas cannot now pre-
vent citizens of Colorado from using
the waters of the Arkansas River
for irrigation.
The City of Cleveland, a steam
boat nearly ready for delivery, was
destroyed by mysterious fire at
Detroit, Mich.
Defective equipment was given by
a Coroner's jury in San Luis Obispo,
Cal, as the cause of tho wreck of
the Shriners' train on the Southern
Pacific.
Galusha A. Grow, before his death,
told how $4,000 had been extorted
from him on charge he denounced
as false.
The State informally outlined it's
case against w. d. Haywood, and
counsel stated 1t expected to prove a
wholesale system of murders planned
by the Western Federation of Miners.
Japan's military and naval visitors
In Washington declared President
Roosevelt's democratic personality
had impressed them more that any
thing else in this country.
Authorities at Dover, Del, were
puzzled by the finding OF note in a
bottle, near where little Horace Mar
WINS body was discovered, contain
Ing four names and dated six days
subsequent to the boys disappear
ance.
II. Clay Pierce was before the Fed
eral Circuit Court at St. Louis. on a
writ of habeas corpus, which, 1t was
announced, will be passed on next
Wednesday.
Work was begun on the one mill
ion dollar drainage tunnel to be con-
structed at Cripple Creek. at depth
of 1880 feet.
Blame for the loss of life in rail-
road travel was placed, directly and
officially on imperfect rails, and, con-
sequently, the rapacity of trusts and
their methods.
Benjamin b. Odell. Jr., amazed the
Republican State Committee by de-
claring for Governor Hughes for
President and leader in fact of his
party in the State.
Governor Hughes at a dinner in
Brooklyn set at rest all ideas that re-
lations between himself and the Pre-
sident were strained.
Desertions from the ranks of the
striking longshoremen in New York
led the steamship companies to be-
lieve the backbone of the strike had