The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-06-04
WORLD NEWS 0F THE MEEK
Covering Minor Happen
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOMIE AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for tho
Busy Roader-A Complete Record
Of European Dispatches and I'M
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hnsty Pcrusal.


Mrs Alfred @. Vanderbilt received
an interlocutory decree of divorce
with custody of the ony child, a son.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Vanderbilt were
left free to remarry.
The Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals in New York
City, ordered two big automobiles
to be used in aiding to rid the city OF
stray dogs.
Every resident OF the State Of
Maine will be asked to answer the
question whether prohibition really
prohibits and the answers are to be
tabulated.
In accordance with his wish Frank
Merritt was inoculated with tubercu-
losis bacilli by DR.. c. G. Carroll who
believes he can cure the subject Of
the experiment by means of the Ro-
entgen ray.
Mrs. w. II. Eaton, widow of the
New York letter carrier who was
drowned saving the lives Of two
boys, was granted an annuity of $500
and $25 a month for her children
from the Carnegie fund.
Nahum Bachelor, formerly Gov
ernor CT New Hampshire, praised the
successful campaign against the
wholesale slaughter Of cattle by the
tubercuin tests.
Secretary Taft can get the Empire
States seventy-eight votes In con-
vention after the first ballot, men,
bers Of the Taft Association Of New
York declare.
Suggestions by DR.. Homer Wake
field have resulted in a movement
for the establishment OF a new lab
oratory Of research with the object of
abolishing vivisection.
Joseph J. Howard, millionaire.
was struck by lightning on the Glen
Echo Club golf links at St. Louis,
Mo-, and instantly killed.
The House passed the Mccall Cam
paign Publicity bill with Crump-
packers modified force bill as
rider, the latter provoking solid
Democratic opposition.
Gov. johnson commenting on the
news from Washington declared that
q force bill would lose Taft the nom
ination.
Senator Foraker urged tho 10,-
100000 negroes of the country to
agitate among Republican candidates
for national Office for support of the
bill to reinstate the Brownsville SOL
diers.
Albert Kendall, barber Of New
field, N. j.. discovered In a secret
drawer Of an old desk railroad bonds
of an apparent value of $175,O00
and deed for a large farm, the
property Of his dead father. He and
his Two sisters for years had a hard
struggle with poverty.
William Bartlett, alias Gold
Tooth Billy" confessed here that he
and Theodore Whitmore, accused OF
numbering his wife in a swamp at
Harrison. N. j.. committed more
than one hundred burgaries.
An attempt was made to blow up
the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford's new $750,000 brids. at Bay
chester.
Declaring Gov. Hughes Is In the
Presidential race to the finish, Sec
retary Humphrey moved the head
quarters of the National Hughes
League to Chicago.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Con-
vention refused to instruct Its dele
gates-at-large and omitted all men,
tion Of Bryan in its platform. Mis-
souri,, Michigan and South Carolina,
instructed for Bryan.
The Republican party was given
verbal trouncing by Senator Rob-
ert L. Taylor, or "Fiddling Bob" as
he Is known in Tennessee. In the
course of his maiden speech In the
Senate. He sustained his reputation
as a humorist.
FOREIGN.
The British Government has re-
ceived from Washington an invita-
tion to attend the Information Tuber-
culosis Conference to be held In
Washington next September.
/ A Dutch schooner arrived at Cur
acao from Puerto Cabello. where II
had been feared that the bubonic
plague had made its appearance. The
captain Of the schooner declared the
sanitary conditions there were good.
Japan is making desperate but fruit
less efforts to stop the Chinese boy
colt, says a special cable despatch
from Toxic.
Six OF the tnrong of suffragists
who raised disturbance in front of
the British Premier's residence In