The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-07-02
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 Perusai.

tic Congress, to be held in London in
September.
Mrs. NJ. A. Dewolf Howe. wife OF
the former Bishop of Pennsylvania,
died at Bristol, r. I.
Dynamite wrecked the Lehigh VAL
ley Railroad Viaduct at Buffalo.
Western Radicals began a street.
corner campaign in Denver for an
anti-injunction plank in the Demo-
cratic national platform.
Candidate Taft has practically
decided that Hitchcock shall be Ma
tional Chairman, with Vorys in
charge of the West.
1t is reported apparently on in
side information, that President
Roosevelt is to buy the Union Theo-
logical Seminary site in Ne, York
City, and to build on it or part of
1t, city mansion.
Justice Gaynor, sustained by JUS
tices Woodward and Jenks. in an
opinion reversing a conviction for
conducting a Sunday amusement de-
clared that the Christian world out
side of the British Isles has never
entertained the Old Testament no
tion of still" Sunday
The Saratoga Association announ-
ced that the Saratoga race meeting
would last for only eleven days this
year instead of twenty-five and that
m Af hn iytn IT t,1.
be cut in value.
Secretary Root played a Joke on
Muldoon, the trainer, and the latter
took a four-mile walk that he had
intended Mr.. Root to take.
A movement to organize house
wives and pledge them to boycott
meat trust butchers was begun in
New York City.
Frank Palmer of Newark, failing
in an attempt to kill his wife, blew
out his own brains
Trenton has unveiled a monument
to the late John A. Roebling.
Martin w. Littleton was picked
to lead the wal on the Bryan plat
form and also was put forward as
candidate for Vice President.
Harry Thaw was returned to
Poughkeepsie from White Plains,
the hearing into his sanity being
postponed to July 13.
Dealers said the recent enormous
advance in meat prices is due to the
desire of the Beef Trust to control
the countrys retail trade in that
product.
Brother Casimir, high in the Or
der of st. Francis and principal OF
st. AIMS school, Brooklyn, was de-
capitated by trolley car of the
Flatbush and Brighton Beach line,
mar Prospect Park Sunday after
noon.
The Central Federated Union
sent letter to secretary Taft re-
questing that the War Department
cease employing enlisted men on
work which it is said should be
done by union men under union con-
ditions.
Robert Ohnmeiss, the young as
sistant treasurer CT the Marine Trust
Company, of Atlantic City, has con-
fessed to taking $4,000 of the
banks money for speculation. He
is under arrest.
Prominent men in many cities
favored the erection of a national
monument in memory of Grover
Cleveland.
Vermont Democrats unanimously
voted Grover Cleveland the greatest
| statesman since Washington, and,
1913 to 81. refused to instruct for
| Bryan.
FOREIGN.
Mr.. Charles C.. Glover of the
| Riggs National Bank of Washington,
now in London, says that the new
| currency law would prevent any
such business disturbances as that
of last autumn.
| Mr. Wilbur Wright, who Is in Par
is, announced that he will be ready
soon to make public trials OF his
| o'iopiuht, pays q optIidl tdDlC.
Bishop Brent says a SPECIAL Ma
nila despatch, has left the Philip
| pines for home.
Mile. Shers.nova, who was con-
fined in the political prison at Kiev,
Russia, was shot and killed by one OF
the prison sentinels, who discovered
her signalling with a mirror to some
of her co-prisoners.
Gen, Firmin, the leader of the
last unsuccessful revolution in Haiti
has arrived at Havre.
1t is lntimated according to a
special London despatch, that Great
Britain may buy the battleships now
building for Brazil II England, and
which, 1t is alleged were intended
for Jalan.
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