The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-01-09
Covering Minor Happens
ings from all Over
the Globe.
AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for the
Busy Reader-A Complete Record
Of European Dispatches and In,-
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Perusnl.

TnOusanQS or persons ATTENDED the
unveiling OF the monument to the
Bennington dead at Point Iona, Cal.
Representative Gill introduced
resolution in the House calling for all
documents relating to Roar Admiral
Brownson's resignation.
Democrats, It was announced at Al
bany, will make tight In the state
Senate, against A. Il. Blackmar, nom
mated by Governor Hughes for the
Supreme Court Bench.
The United States Supreme Court
declared the Employers Liability
law unconstitutional.
The Senate Committee on Finance
agreed on a currency bill to be intro
duced by Mr.. Aldrich.
Speaker Wadsworth's announce
ments Of Assembly committees and
chairmanships, ;aused some surprise.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, in the annual report to Congress
predicts a complete triumph for the
new railway rate law.
President Roosevelt recommended
to Congress that census appointees
be compelled to undergo civil service
examination.
Fourteen thousand men on board
the sixteen battleships bound for the
Pacific, engaged in Christmas trollcs
and games at Port OF Spain, Trinidad.
Another case OF cerebro-spinal
meningitis was successfully treated
with the newly discovered serum at
John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
Albany dispatches state that Gov
ernor Hughes will not seek a renom-
ination for Governor.
Anti-vivisection law advocates be-
gan work in Albany to pass the bill
defeated IN the last Legislature.
Secretary of War Taft In his an
nual report, urged that the pay in the
army be increased to stop wholesale
desertions.
Figures furnish ,d by the Bureau
Of Statistics show an increase in
trade with Germany under the new
tariff agreement.
Senator Foraker, in an interview
In Cincinnati, declared that he would
not abide by the programme of the
Taft forces for primaries IN Ohio.
Charles H Young, president of the
New York city Republican Club, ex-
planned at Albany, plans for obtain
ing charters for the Hughes League
in twenty or more state of the I'm
ion.
Rear Admiral Brownson in his let
ter resigning as chief of the Bureau
Of Navigation, declared the Presi-
dents exhibition Of lack VI confidence
In his subordinate destroyed the lat
ter's usefulness.
Governor Hughes was reported de-
termined to put through his recon-
mendation against race track betting,
even at the expense of other schemes.
Washington dispatches state that
the reason DR.. Stokes was not or
dered to command the Relief is that
there is no money available to put
the ship into commission.
Seven persons were injured in
pitched battles between the police
and sympathizers with striking street
railway employees at Muncie, Ind.
Fresh outbreaks of anti-Japanese
feeling at Vancouver are causing
grave international concern over the
immigration problem.
Personal property returns made
by wealthy residents of Philadelphia
show a decrease of $25,000,00 as
compared with those of last year.
The American torpedo fiotilla ar
rived at Para, Brazil, delayed one
day by heavy seas,
Mr.. Taft's campaign managers, be-
lieving that Secretary Cortelyou will
hold the balance of power at the Re-
publican National Convention, take
steps to bring about peace.
Jere Knode Cooke, who, with Flo
retta Whaley and their baby, Is De-
ing sheltered by a friend in SEN
iuhNioScb htOisii GU lC NOulI IOlull
East and face his'accusers.
Notices were posted in many Pitts
burg mills. calling employees back to
work early in the new year.
Thirty men were entombed oy an
explosion OF coal damp in coal mine
at Carthage, New Mexico.
The State Legislature opened It's
131st session In Albany.
The Mount Royal with 3S6 passen-
gers on board, which left London
for st. John, n. b., on December Z,
is missing, and is believed to have
sunk.
Members of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science
In Chicago, announced plan for
forming a national bureau of health
by action of Congress.
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