The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-07-11
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 I'm"
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Easty Perusel.

Toxic dispatches declared the voy-
age of Director lshii to this country
was caused by dissatisfaction with
the work of Ambassador Aoh.
British papers generally declared
the Americans are taking the course
of prudence in sending battle ships
to the Pacific.
Mr.. Rockefeller said that a man
who could hold the championship in
golf was capable of obtaining any
position in life.
DR.. Walter Bensel took charge of
the Street Cleaning Department In
New York and said he would reor-
gsnize 1t.
The armored cruisers Tennessee
and Washington are to proceed to
the Pacific ahead of the battle ships
of the Atlantic fleet.
Reports that the United States is
negotiating to obtain a naval station
in Magdalena Bay were denied by
Genor Maniscal Minister of Foreign
Affairs.
A Paris editor sees shadow of
war in the transfer Of the American
9eet to the Pacific.
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller celebrated
his sixty-eighth birthday by watching
The Olympic Cup golf tournament at
Cleveland.
Judge Lands, in Chicago, announ-
ced that he would pronounce sentence
against the Standard Oil Company
on August 3.
Washington received official news
that President Zelaya. of Nicaragua,
was fitting out gunhoats to convey
troops to invade Salvador.
william B. Ellison was removed
as Corporation Counsel and Alfred
]. Talley as Civil Service Commiss-
'oner, and Macdonough Craven re-
signed as Street Cleaning Commiss-
'oner Of New York City.
Judge Mccall denied Howard
Gould's application TO have stricken
from the record certain matter In
MS wife's suit for separation.
Washington diplomats and naval
officers pronounce the transfer of
battle ships to the Pacific the most
important diplomatic move since the
Spanish-Amercan war.
Local.
Betrayed by woman-a casual
acquaintance-Chester B. Runyan,
who looted the Windsor Trust Com
pany, New York City was arrested
with $54,410 in his case.
Richard F.. Carman of New York
City overpowered and beat a maniac
who, armed with a shotgun. had
threatened to destroy the family OF
the society leader and horseman.
International law authorities in
the United States declare the concen-
tration of battle ships in the Pacific
is a purely domestic matter, with
which other nations have nothing to
do
Many editors from different parts
OF the country upheld the plan of
sending battle ship feet to the Pa
cifc.
Great preparations for possible
war with Nicaragua are being made
| by the Guatemalans.
Rear Admiral Evans will command
| the big battle ship fleet bound for
| the Pacific as the President wishes
him to continue in sea service.
Proposals were made by naval Off
cials in Washington that the United
States would acquire land for a great
naval station at Magdalena Bay,
| Lower California.
One man was killed and others
badly hurt when a break in a cable
sent two cars plunging to the bot
tom of the inclined railway In Mag
ara Falls.
Chester B. Runyan, taunted by his
woman companion, forgiven by his
wife. was locked in the New York
Tombs while the police made a vain