The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-06
WORLD NEWS q TIE WEEK
Covering Minor Happens
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled md Condensed for the
Busy Reader--A Complete Record
of European Dispatches and Inn
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Pcrusal.

boieu DOWN. Ior nasty Pcrusal.
Earthquake shocks were plainly
felt In Newburypert, Mass, reports
from different places telling of three
distinct shocks.
Because they have been ordered to
use smokeless powder, miners in ten
mines Of the Pittsburg Coal Com
pany In the Lougogheny Valley have
Struck. Possibly three thousand are
affected.
Judge Putnam in the United States
Circuit Court at Bath, Me-, appointed
receivers for three Morse steamship
lines.
Members OF Congress have express
ed the opinion that commission to
plan a revision Of the thrift is not
esded.
Fourteen f1remen were caught in q
crash of three floors and carried with
the debris into the basement during
a stubborn fire In the building at
Nos. 43 and As Worth street. New
York. Two of them were not seen
after the crash and are believed to
be dead in the basement. The others
were carried out by their fellows,
some Of them seriously injured
| The first train fully equipped for
carrying passengers over the Key
West extension left Miami station
with six coaches and Mr. Henry NJ.
Flagler's private car. The trip be-
ing an official one, n0 tickets were
sold. This road cuts the time to
Cuba ten hours.
Death from shock, caused by
seeing three little boys drown in the
Hudson River" was the verdict of
physicians who were called to investi-
gate the strange death of Mrs. Clauj-
Inc Abry, at Nyack, N. Y.
Operations have been resumed at
the car shops OF the New York Cen
trail at West Albany, 1900 of the
$500 men returning to work.
The Navy Department has decided
| to send four submarine boats to Ma
Mia to strengthen the defences of the
.. Philippines.
Shore leave was granted seventy
| five men from each vessel of the
American fleet at Punta Arenas. \
The United States Supreme Court
| has decided that boycotts by labor
unions violate the Sherman Anti
Trust law.
Timothy L. Woodruff and others In
| the New York State Republican or
ganization, have planned to crowd
Governor Odell out Of the Hughes
campaign.
Captain Bartlett has reported to
the Navy Department that a stick Of
dynamite had been found in the coal
bunkers of the battleship Ohio at
Trinidad.
| William H. Boocock, Reformed
Church clergyman of Bayonne, N. j.,
says the present forms Of preaching
the gospel are hundreds OF years be-
hind the times.
Legislators In Albany. N. Y. con-
ceded the passage of the anti-race
track betting bill.
In his report on conditions in the
New York State Department Of Iusur-
ance Mathew c. Fleming said the De-
partment required thorough reor-
gaization to be efficient.
Greater familiarity with the provis-
ions Of the Aldrich bill brings now
and influential support to the meas
ure.
The Secretary Of the Interior In his
annual report said there was a grow
ing popular demand for economy Of
the nations resources.
| Twelve germ infected rabbits being
used by st. Louis physician in medi-
cal experiments were stolen, causing
residents to fear a spread Of disease.
Two alienists sent by his mother
visited Harry X. Ttaw on his frst
day In the asylum in Matteawan. and
the prisoner said ne probably would
be released within week.
Investigations b.. the Herald reveal
the existence of an extortionate an
thracite coal monopoly in complete
control Of the New York market.
Registering as Mrs. 8. A. Wilcox.
of Castleton, VT, middle aged won.
an was found lead "A the Hotel Chef
sea. New York, victim of drugs.
FOREIGN.
In his summing up in the final ses-
sion of the Stoessel court martial In
st. Petersburg the Judge Advocate
demanded that the death penalty be
imposed upon Generals Stoessel
Fock and Reiss.
The suit for notification Of her
marriage brought by the Countess
of Yarmouth against the Earl will
not be defended. The earl has agreed
not to interpose any objection to the
Countess's demand. 80 she will gel
a divorce by default.
| tits reported from Madrid tina,
| KfHU Carlos carried life insurance to