The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-06-11
Covering Minor Happen
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for slo
Busy Rcader--A Complete Record
of European Dispatches and Im-
portaHt Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Pcrusnl.

! IL mas Deen announcer by the Chi
cago packers that because of a
shortage of cattle and of canned
meats, the price of beef and of
canned meats will be increased"
state Chairman Woodruff, Con-
gressmen sherman and Fassett and
Secretary Cortelyou are named as as
! Iirants for the Republican Vice
Presidential nomination as soon as
Gov. Hughes is out of the running
for the first place on the ticket
w. J. Bryan said the Commoner re-
ceived none of Thomas f. Ryan's
money in 1904.
A woman's heart was laid bare by
Brooklyn surgeons after she was
thought to be dead and she was
| restored to life.
George GavUgavitch was taken
| from the site of the new reservoir
near Peekskill to York, Pa, charged
with having murdered man there
and four others in Austria.
John Eiseman Camp, No. 70,
Sons of Veterans, sent a fiower-laden
canvass boat to sea as memorial
to Union sailors who lost their lives
on the ocean during the civil war.
Court proceedings threatened an
exposure of the deal by which
post-ofce site was sold the Govern
ment in Pittsburs at an exorbtant
price and in which a government Of
fn ha i,,,r
Representative public men will
present a memorial asking for
plank in the Republican platform
Affirming confidence in the judiciary.
The National Association of Groc-
ers in session at Atlantic City, were
told that President Roosevelt had or
dered that all civil-service employees
must pay their grocers' bills or lose
their jobs.
After he had successfully conceal
ed a shortage in his accounts for
five years, Charles T. Muir. paying
teller of the New York Corn Ex-
change Bank, shot himself .ust as
several depositors lined up H. front
OF the receiving telier's. window with
books that would reveal his wrong
doing.
Detroit has been selected as the
rlace of the meeting of the Interna-
tion Locomotive Engineers for the
year 1910.
The Maryland Democratic State
Convention did not instruct for Bry-
an and twelve of the sixteen dele
gates are against him
Col. Church, the biographer of
Gen. U. S. Grant, defended him from
the charge that he was a hard drink
er.
Nero, lion which has killed three
men, escaped from it's cage during a
circus performance in Greenwich,
Conn, and caused a panic amons
hundreds of women and children.
John d, Rockefeller and Cardinal
Logue met at Tarrytown, n. Y,
chatted for ten minutes, and then
had their pictures taken in a group
with Biahop Browne.
The District of Columbia Court of
Appeals, decided that whiskey and
neutral spirits are not like sub
stances, and must be differentiated
under the law. =.
To avert any danger of the intro
duction of the plague into Cuba
from Venezuela Governor Magoon
has closed nearly all ports against
m wit hot
General Stewart L. Woodford said
the name of Governor Hughes will
be presented to the Chicago conyen-
tion no matter what may occur po-
litically between now and the day
of the Convention.
That Senator Platt paid his wife
$4,000 cash and agreed to give her
$4,000 a year for five years was
brought out in a suit brought
against the Senator by Mrs. Platt's
former counsel to cover money ad-
vanced to pay some of her debts.
FOREIGN.
At the Brooklands, London, track
Fel!ce Nazaro, the Italian driver, ma !e
d worlds automobile record Of 120
miles an hour over a distance OF
az miles,
The Russian Emperor greeted
King Edward on the arrival of the
British monarch at Reval.
Mile. Feodorovna, the woman who
made an unsuccessful attempt to as-
sassinate Gen. Bib.koff, Governor Of
Voronzehm, on May was hanged
here.
The National Board of Sanitation
~ Havana recommended to make
the port OF Mariel, where .here Is
quarantine station, the only Cuban
port of entry for vessels from Vene-
zuela