The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-28
Covering Minor Happen"
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for the
Dusy Reader--A Complete Record
Of European Dispatches and Inh-
portant Events from Evcrywbcrs
Gotied Down for Hasty Pernsal.


Treasury to combat money strin-
gency
President Roosevelt will appoint
Senator J. c. S. Blackburn, Of Ken
tucky, member OF the Isthmian
Canal Commission.
BY vote of four to three the
Court Of Appeals acquitted George
w. Perkins, accused of criminality
In connection with a New York Life
contribution to the Republican Ma
tional Committee.
Three passengers were killed and
many hurt when the Chicago express
on the Grand Trunk Railrond
plunged down thirty foot embank-
ment
Il. Fl. Hartman told the Inter-
state Commerce Commission he
ousted Stuyvesant Fish from the
presidency of Illinois Central for
misuse of funds.
Three large appropriation bills
and measure granting service pen
sions to army nurses were rushed
through the Senate.
Major General Frederick D. Grant
explained to President Roosevelt
and Secretary of War Taft that he
had not criticised the, President In
connection with the Japanese dis
pute as reported.
The House voted to give con-
sideration of the Ship Subsidy bill
precedence over all other measures
of general legislation.
Jurors to try Philip and James
Strothers for killing w. F. Bywaters
were quickly obtained and the trial
began in Culpeper, Va.
Mae Wood, who has sued United
States Senator Platt for a divorce,
said she had named sixteen women
?s correspondents,
Mr.. Jerome, District Attorney of
W York City, confronted Evelyn
shit Thaw with documents pur-
rting to show that she had accused
airy Thaw of having throttled and
rashed her and compelled her to
l>c cocaine, besides otherwise
brutally maltreating her
e, II. Hartman, before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, admit
ted that $60,00O,O00 of the Chicago
and Alton Railroad was water.
President Roosevelt visited Gro
ton School and talked to the boys on
fair play in sports.
William j. Bryan, of Nebraska,
and Senator Beveridge, Of Indiana,
engaged in a joint debate on extern
sion of power Of the federal govern
ment
The Senate Judiciary Committee
will decide whether the ousting Of
Insurance Superintendent Kelsey
shall be prompt or long delayed
The record Of the present session
OF Congress showed that few bills
Of public interest had been passed.
Reformers plan State League to
watch and expose bad man and bad
measures In the Legislature in AL
bany, N. Y.
Following his refusal TO pay 5000
to Black Hand" blackmailers the
store of Michael Alonge, In Elizabeth
street, New York City, was wrecked
by bomb.
Cuban liberals were indignant at
decree of the Mayor of Havana for
bidding a proposed cock flghting
demonstration, and the order was
modified at Governor Magoon's
suggestion.
The House passed the Esch bill
regulating hours of labor of railroad
employees, amended to meet Presi-
dent Roosevelt's wishes.
By the will of her mother, Mrs.
Ida Binge. whom she is charged with
killing Mrs, Lottie Wallau, New
York City, is the sole beneficiary
Governor Hughes of N Y. sent to
the Senate a message calling for the
removal of Superintendent of Insur-
ance Kelsey.
By vote OF 28 yeas to AZ nays
the United States Senate rejected the
resolution declaring the seat Of Sena-
tor Reed Smoot vacant.
In seventy-hve minutes the Senate
passed the Naval Appropriation and
River and Harbor bills, aggregatins
100000.
Joaquin Nabuco, Brazilian Am.
bassador to the United States, told
the Liberal Club in Buffalo, NJ Y.
that Pan-Americanism meant pea &C
among the American nations.
President Roosevelt urged tn,
building Of childrens playground
by every city in the country.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, under tn,
fire of District Attorney Jerome'l
cross-examination in the Thaw tria
In New York city was forced to ad
NIT that despite her alleged bite
hatred Of Mr. White she accepted hi
money long after the affair in whicl
she accused him.