The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
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 Im-
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Perusal.

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their divorce suit with charges OF
forgery and bribery.
Secretary Taft's promise to ask for
100000 appropriation for war bal
looms aroused military experts to
predict the construction of an aerial
fleet.
The leading newspapers of Cuba
unanimously praise Governor Ma
goon for his response to the appeals
of the agricultural interests.
Otto Kelsey, Superintendent of In
surance, was again on the witness
stand in the investigation of his de-
partment being conducted at Albany.
Wall street reaped the benefits Of
the Clearing House loan certificate
plan and few calls came from cities
that have also adopted the scheme.
June was named as the approxi-
mate date of the next international
balloon race, which will be started
at Berlin, Germany.
Appropriation amounting to s11,-
S25,000 were voted for by the Board
of Aldermen.
Three United States army officers.
members of a commission that at
tended military manoeuvers in Eu-
rope, returned to New York.
S. ]. Small, deposed president of
the Telegraphers' National Union,
was hissed out of the meeting room
of the local strikers.
DR.. Houghton announced that
hereafter secret marriages would be
frowned upon at the Little Church
Around the Corner
President Roosevelt requested Sen
ator Bourne, of Oregon, in emphatic
terms to cease his third term pro-
paganda In the West.
Secretary Taft cabled to the War
Department that the entire system
of Philippine defences must be re-
vised
Editorial comments of leading AM
erican newspapers show widely vary
ing opinions of President Roosevelt's
relations to the financial situation.
The Buck Stove and Range Com
pany o' st. Louis applied to the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme Court for
temporary injunction against the
boycott instituted by the American
Federation of Labor.
Members of the Agrarian League
refused to accept a government sal
ary for service on the new Agricul-
tural Commission in Cuba.
DR.. Walter r. Gillette, once vice
president of the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, was sentenced to
serve six months in the penitentiary
for perjury in New York.
At the International Aeronautical
Congress, which opened here, Gen
eral James announced that the
United States Army is planning for a
fleet of air ships. ...
Fredelick L. Eldridge, vice presi-
dent of the Knickerbocker Trust
Company, is gravely i'll with nervous
breakdown and a fractured leg.
Charles H. Rogers was convicted
of murder In the first degree for
causing the death of Frederick r.
Olney, near Middletown. n. Y.
Browns Station and Ashokan, in
the Adirondacks, will be destroyed
by building New York's water sys-
TEN.
Mrs. Samuel w. Peck, wife of
wealthy wholesale clothing merchant,
and who is being sued for divorce,
was for two years owner of racing
stable.
the gold and specie reserves of the
financial institution of the United
States
Briquette as a fuel for navy use
was tested by the torpedo boat Bid
die off Hampton Roads.
James Reddick, chairman of the
Republican County Committee. in
Chicago, ILL.,, was killed In an auto
mobile accident.
Western dispatches said that In
dian lands in the West were being
filled by settlers from Iowa, Neb-
raska and South Dakota.
Cardinal Gibbons, in letter to
the secretary of the coming Internat-
ional Congress on Tuberculosis in
Washington. expressed the belief that
science would succeed in stamping
out consumption.
Through efforts to obtain the re-
lease of oliver G. Perry 1t was learn
cd that the notorious train robber
has refused for four years to eat any
food.
When Argyle Maclay, member Of
the Christian Scientists. lay dying Of
pneumonia. in New York, a physician
was called, but he arrived only a
short time before the patients death.
The international balloon cup raca
ended with the German balloon Pom
nern the winner, L'Isle de France
sc cOnd and the DusseldOrf third