The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-04-02
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 I'm.
portant Events from Everywhere
Boilcd Down for Hasty Perusal.

but would put a prohibitive duty on
coffee and forbid the importation of
asphalt to bring the country to terms.
Cattle growers of Delaware county
n. Y. have prepared a monster petit
tion to be laid before the Legislature
| protesting against the wholesale de-
struction OF cattle under the Bovine
tuberculosis law.
1t Is said that Erie Railroad direc-
tors have expressed the opinion that
a receivership was the only way out
| of the roads financial embarrassment.
Herman Robinson, who denounced
"parlor socialists" has been invited
TO the White House by the President.
! President Roosevelt has recommend
ed to Secretary Metcalf that no off,
! Ger of the grade OF lieutenant COM
mander be allowed voluntarily to re-
tire from the navy.
While at target practice in Magda.
lena Bay the muzzle of six-inch gun
on the battleship Missouri. was
| blown off. No one was injured.
The torpedo boat Blakely waa
rammed and almost sent to the bot
tom by runaway torpedo which she
had fired on the target range off Pen.
Bacola. Fla.
In warning "windbag', agitators tc
cease stirring up discomfort Police
/ Commissioner Bingham of New YORK
4 City, declared his intention of run,
Z ming IN WI oil ha sDaIgb f,,,v ~
Gated in the Union Square bomi
| plot.
The Rev. Frank c. Brown of Row.
atom, Conn, who wrote love-letteri
to pretty Sunday-school teacher
admitted the truth of the chargei
against him and was unfrocked.
Fifty men headed by State Mine In
spector Ellie. Of Wyoming, were kill.
ed by an explosion in a mine at Han.
ha, Wyo., when they sought to res
, cue any possible survivors of twenty
men entombed By an earlier explo.
sion.
Samuel Gompers has issued an
appeal to labor urging the HOLDING
of mass meetings to protest against
recent court decisions.
William ]. Bryan has 145 of the
LAG delegates thus far elected to the
Democratic National Convention.
Alexander Berkman, the Anarch.
tst leader. defended anarchy as
gospel of perfect peace" and de-
MED all knowledge of the Union
Square bomb thrower.
Father Peter Chang, Chinese
| priest, conducted high mass in tho
Church of Our Lady of Grace, at
Hoboken.
George J. Gouli's opposition to the
marriage Of his sister and Prince do
Sagen was said to be SO decided that
no ceremony was expected In Ameri.
ca, although friends Of Nine. Anna
Gould predicted she would return ID
France and we'd the Prince there.
Meyer R. Bimberg. who was
known all over the United States al
BIN. the Button Man." and an ex.
| pert builder Of theatres. was found
dead In bed In New York City.
Rear Admiral Evans reported that
from observations made during the
Pacific cruise. the armor belt on the
battleships is too low.
The receiver who took possession
| OF the private bank Of Pasauale Patti.
IN New York City. found that the
fugitive banker had looted the place.
all except one cent.
The Union Pacific directors re-
fused to sue e. H. Hartman, H. H.
Rogers and James Stillman for &%0.-
100000.
FOREIGN.
According to a special Madrid de-
spatch, an English detective who has
been assisting the Barcelona police
In discovering the authors of the ter
rorist campaign there, has exposed
the whole anarchist plot and will
soon make sensational disclosures in
the foreign press.
A special despatch from Manila
announces that three thousand Chi
nese residents of Manila. are held at
Amboy on account of the prevalence
Of trachoma among them. The mat
ter is being investigated by the di-
rection of the Philippines Board of
Health.
| A special cable despatch from
Paris quotes DR.. Hill as declaring If
his holding the post to Germany was
a question of money he would prefer
to remain at home.
The Duke of Abruzzi on arriving
at Liverpool. says despatch from
that city declined to make any state
ment regarding his reported engage
ment to Miss Elkins.
Henry Farman. It Is reported from
Berlin, escaped serious injury while
maneouvring in his aeroplane at Issy.
les-Moulineaux.