The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12
WORLD NEWS 0F THE WEEK
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 Perusnl.

Boiled Down for Hasty Perusal.
President Roosevelt received the
Congress of Mothers and. address,
Ing the delegates. declared that the
mother Is the "one supreme asset of
national life."
band of Might Riders" was am
pushed and one of the marauders
killed and two wounded in Tennes-
see.
Governor Charles f. Hughes made
three speeches in Boston, urging
temperate treatment of the railroad
regulation by the people of the coun-
try.
A wireless despatch showed that
Evans's fleet was 500 miles from
Magdalena Bay, making better time
than was supposed, and would reach
reach the bay Thursday Another
wireless despatch was picked UP at
Pensacola, Fla.
Senator Bailey in a set speech on
financial legislation equally blamed
and commended President Roosevelt.
| Representative Lilley told the Sub
marine Investigating Committee
that he is being shadowed by detec-
tives.
Charged with having obtained
10000 rubles through fraud in st.
Petersburg, Mrs. Olga Stein was ar
rested at the Hotel Shoreham, New
York. and committed to the Tombs
to await the result of extradition
proceedings begun by the Russian
authorities.
Secretary Metcalf declared in a
letter to the Senate Naval Committee
that recent criticisms of American
battleships were inapplicable to
those of modern construction.
Naval militia organizations of the
Atlantic Coast States have been in
vited to take part in the manoeuvres
of the auxiliary naval vessels.
DR.. G. Stanley Hall, president of
Clark University, in an address de-
livered at the New York Y. M. G. A.
said all men should marry because
two could live as cheaply as one
The surgeon of the Nebraska State
Penitentiary reported that scores Of
inmates have become slaves of the
morphine habit through the whole
sale smuggling of the drug into the
prison.
G. d. Alvandros accused woman
he supposed to be his wife, her act
ual husband and her mother of a
murderous assault on him in Pater-
son, y. j.
The Court of Appeals decided that
the ballot boxes containing the votes
cast In the Hearst-McClellan New
York Mayoralty election in 1905 can
be opened, provided 1t Is shown that
they have not been tampered with
since the election.
New York women of wealth, head
ed by Miss Morgan and Mrs. ]. Bor-
den Hartman, organized an auxil-
iary to the National Civic Federation
to investigate the condition of work.
ers.
Charles w. Morse's check for $50
was returned by the bank to which it
% ASSShsCd, Win thC CAPiohdliOH
that the offlcials were afraid to cash
It.
When fire was discovered in Public
School No. 1855. New York, 2100 chill
dren Instantly obeyed the fire drill
call and quickly marched to the
street.
Arthur Bonnet. an eighteen-year-
old boy of Philadelphia has con-
fessed to starting eleven fres be-
cause he wanted to see the engines
run.
The Senate has ratified an arbi-
tration treaty between the United
States and Switzerland.
FOREIGN.
A special despatch from Teheran
announces that the Shah has given
the Assembly three days more in
which to hunt down his wouldbe as
sassins, at the expiration OF which
time. II no steps are taken, he him
self will find the culprits and pun
ish them.
The Brltish Government refused to
lay before Parliament the personal
letter from Emperor William to the
First Lord of the Admiralty, as de-
manded by the Times.
Nine. Ann Gould, accompanied by
her children, will sail on the Kron-
prinz Wilhelm from Cherbourg for
New York. She expects to remain in
America for two months.
Japan, it is announced in a special
despatch from Canton, Is mooting
the occupation of Macao, unless the
Chinese comply fully with their de-
mands regarding the Tatsu Maru.
A special despatch from Lisbon
describes a meeting of republicans
at which 1t was announced that they
would exact full liberty at all costs.