The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-31
Covering Minor Happen
ings from all over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN.
Compiled and Condensed for the
Busy Resdcr-A Complete Record
Of Duropean Dispatches and Im'
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Perusal

| DTet T1hItc . uduBnleI, MTs. Jco-
samy II. Steele. is in Portland, Me-,
Almshouse, trying to revise and sell
the manuscript OF one OF her fathers
stories.
| Fire in the Baldwin Locomotive
Works. Philadelphia, caused $1,000
900 loss
| Arrearage OF franchise taxes
amounting to s325,000 were paid to
the city by the Long Island Railroad
| Company.
District Attorney Kenney declared
there was sufficient evidence for all
| Indictment in the Townsend murder
| case.
Adjutant General Henry accepted
the resignation of Captain Louis
| Wendell, First Battery, and dismissed
the court of inquiry previously or
| dered "by command of the Cover
| nor"
Methods and policy Of the Stan
| dard OIL Company were vigorously
| assailed in the Interstate Commerce
Commissions report to Congress.
Encouraging results have been OBJ
| tanned at the lepers' settlement in
Hawaii by the use Of extract of eu-
| calyptus in treating leprosy.
Messrs. Birdsall Hinslow and Will
son, members OF the House Commit
tee on Merchant Marine, refuse to
sign any report on ship subsidy.
New Jersey Legislators decided to
listen to Senator Dryden's plea for
reelection at a conference to be held
| Monday.
Minority members of the House
| Committee on Merchant Marine are
| at odds over the report to be SUBJ
mitted on the Ship Subsidy bill.
The argument in the proceedings
against Attorney General Jackson
for contempt of Court was heard at
Albany, N. Y.
Americans sailors gave great SER
vice in driving off thieves in wrecked
Kingston, declared resident, replying
to Governor Swettenham.
Washington reported a rumor that
Rear Admiral Evans would retire
from active service in the navy.
Senator Dryden asked for a meet
Ing OF New Jerseys Republican
legislators in order that, he may ad-
dress them and try to overcome any
objections there may be to re-elect-
ing him to the Senate.
Threatened trouble over the May
orally OF Santiago de las Vegas.
Cuba, has been settled by Governor
Nunez, who ordered the Office turned
over to Mayor Pinar.
DR.. Charles Wilmot Townsend,
| we'll known physician of Staten ISL
and, was shot by a masked man
while In bed In his home at four
o'clock In the morning.
George Burnham. Jr., former vice
president of the Mutual Reserve
Life Insurance Company, began his
term of imprisonment in Sing Sing.
President Roosevelt's birthplace,
No. 2S East Twentieth street. New
York city, was sold for 100000.
Kingston reported that Governor
Swettenham. fearing disease among
the earthquake refugees, would clear
| s"S POI A. oho Shol Inc uOHSieSS
would resist.
| Radical changes In the postal
laws hitting at Sunday supplements
OF newspapers were proposed by q
Washington commission.
The naval programme is to be
taken up by the House. when there
will be . lineup between those fav-
oring more war ships and those fav-
oring disarmament.
New. York State Lunacy Commis-
sion reports total of 5.761 new
cases OF insanity last year, slight in
crease over the previous year.
Two more shocks were felt at
Kingston, Jamaica. which levelled
buildings. Aid arrived there from
Americans at Panama
Advices from London declared
that Governor Swettenham's career
at Kingston was probably ended
The House Committee on Naval
Affairs voted in favor OF authorizing
a second big gun battleship of
10000 tons.
State Engineer, pleading great In
crease in work In his Office. seeks to
have several new assistants who
shall be exempt from civil service.
Mr.. Roosevelt changes his mind
about sending a car shortage mes
sage 10 Congress Just now. and will
wait to see II the Interstate Com
merce Commission cannot find q
remedy.
Because they could not marry. a
seventeen year old schoolboy of New
York city, and his sixteen year old
sweetheart kept suicide pact.