The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-09-19
Covering Minor Happen-
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for the
Busy Reader-A Complete Record
Of European Dispatches and I'M
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Perusal.

J Oil Company OF New Jersey for use
IN the United States Circuit Court In
st. Louis, was begun in the Federal
Building in New York.
Senator Cullom Of Illinois, declar-
/ ed himself In favor OF Joseph G.
Cannon for the republican Presiden-
! tiai nomination.
The protocol for Central Ameri-
can peace conference, to be held in
Washington in November, was sign
eI by the representatives of the FIVE
republics concerned.
San Francisco appropriated 500
| 900 TO be used during September in
an effort to stamp out the bubonic
/ plague, thirty cases OF which have
broken out in the city.
Thomis r. Patton, grand treasurer
Of the Masonic Grand Lodge OF Penn
-sylyania, left S2,O0O,000 to build
home for the orphans OF Masons.
Four men were killed in an auto
! mobile accident at Colorado Springs.
Climbing pole for his lunch box.
which he had hidden, lineman was
killed by electricity on the New York
Central Railroad.
Five persons bitten by a dog were
sent from Ph.llipsburg, y. j.. to the
Pasteur Institute in Brooklyn.
Reductions of s22.50 in the price
Of cabin tickets were announced by
the International Mercantile Marine
Company.
japanese In Seattle, Wash, have
received pledges from the Chief OF
Police that they will be protected
from any outbreak of rioIng.
w. w. Finley, president of the
Southern Railway, told the Freight
Traffic Association, in session In Chic
ago that the railroads were doing
their best 10 obey the law.
Friends of President Roosevelt de-
clared continuation OF attacks up
on him by financial interests might
force him TO run again for President
Chicago will vote on the adoption
OF proposed charter which will in
crease taxation.
According to a report by the De-
partment OF Sanitation of the 18th
mian Canal Commission, the health
OF the workmen has been greatly i'm
proved.
Attorney General Bonaparte denied
that he Is going to resign.
Evary dipcnu.rollo lofoS. A.
battle ships will be remedied before
the fleet starts for the Pacific.
A newspaper canvass of New Eng
land republicans showed Messrs Taft
and Hughes far In the lead as first
choices for the Presidential nomina-
ton.
Strikers In Pittsburg, chasing a
non-union man who shot one of their
numbers, mistook detective for the
man wanted and hanged him to a
lamp post. but cut him down In
time to save him.
"Shimose," high explosive used
by the Japanese navy in the war with
Russia. has been made a subject of
study by the Navy Department at
Washington.
Mr.. George Wesley Davis Of Butte,
Mont, and three members of the New
York Supreme Court have arrived in
London on their way home from Con-
tinental tours.
That the famous 100000 Kann
collection Of paintings and sculptures
may eventually come to the Metro
politan Museum Of Art is the infer
ence In q statement by the Director
General Of the Berlin Museums, who
says Herr Kann feared the collection
would be broken up or sold to Eng
lish or American buyers.
Labor leaders are preparing to OPP
pose the federal administration on
the ground that Secretary Straus Is
laying plans to assist Asiatic immi-
grafton.
Mrs. Cassie Chadwick was stricken
blind when her son was visiting the
Ohio State Prison.
Charles Gardner, a mine boss at
Pittsburg, Kan, shot and killed two
mine laborers after he and his sister
had been attacked and fatally wound
ed by them.
Rear Admiral John Grimes Walker
U. s. NJ (retired), died suddenly In
York. Me. aged seventy-two years
w. G. Bierd. general manager of
the Panama Railroad, contemplates
resiyning to accept a larger salary In
the United States.
Yellow fever broke out in the Am
erican camp at Cienfuesos and It Is
feared the infection may sweep over
the island.
E, II, Hartman and members of
his hunt club offended farmers of
Loudon county. Virginia, by dining
In separate room at dinner .ten-
dered to the formers.
Spontaneous combustion caused
fire In the coal bunkers Of the battle