The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-07-09
WORLD NEWS OF THE WEEK
Covering Minor Happen-
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for the
Busy Rcader--A Complete Record
OF European Dispatches and I'm.
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Pcrusal.

such a severe storm prevailed at
Lincoln that train service was sus-
pended, stranding ex-Congressman
Bel, Temporary Chairman of the
Denver Convention. AT Mr.. Bryan's
suggestion he started for Denver on
a hand-car.
Llamas, South American stu
dent who eloped with Mrs. William
Smith, of Lafayette. Ind, twice his
age, was arrested on a charge OF
making off with her s12,400. The
money was recovered.
Attorney General Jackson of New
York brought suit to dissolve the
Ice Trust and announced he would
begin an investigation of the Beef
Trust Immediately.
Frederick Giles. foreman in the
press looms Of the Curtis Publishing
Company, of Philadelphia, was taxi
en- into custody by the police as a sus-
pect in connection with the murder
of DR.. William H. Wilson, who died
On June 26, after drinking from a
sent to him through a local express
office.
The Socialist Labor party nominat-
ecd Martin X. Preston, of Nevada. a
convict in prison, for President OF the
United States. and Donald Munro Il
VirginiH for Vice President.
At Stamford, Conn. James Hayes
survived current of 1900 volts.
more than three times the voltage
used on murderers at Sing Sing.
The Central Federated Union pass
ed resolutions demanding federal in
quiry into the raising of prices by the
Beef Trust
Frank H. Hitchcock is to be chair
man of the Republican National
Committee.
Addressing a meeting of the Y. NJ.
c. a. New York City, the Rev Charles
A. Mitchell, president of the Stella
Purity Association. said he had heard
upon good authority that only one
eighth of the marriages in this coun-
try are happy marriages.
Mrs. NJ. A. Dewolf Howe, wife Of
the former Bishop of Pennsylvania.
died at Bristol, r. I.
Dynamite wrecked the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad Viaduct at Buffalo.
Western Radicals began a street.
corner campaign in Denver for an
anti-injunction plank in the Demo-
cratic national platform.
Candidate Taft has practically
cccided that Hitchcock shall be Ma
t!onal Chairman, with Vorys in
charge of the West.
1t is reported apparently on in
side information, that President
Roosevelt is to buy the Union Theo-
logical Seminary site in Ne. York
City. and to build on it or part OF
1t. city mansion.
Justice Gaynor, sustained by JUS
tices Woodward and jerks. in an
opinion reversing conviction for
conducting a Sunday amusement de-
clared that the Christian world out
side of the British Isles has never
tion of a still" Sunday
The Saratoga Association dnnoun-
ced that the Saratoga race meeting
would last for only eleven days this
year instead of twenty-five and that
many of the historic stakes would
be cut in value.
Secretary Root played .oke on
Muldoon. the trainer, and the latter
took four-mile walk that he had
intended Mr.. Root to take.
A movement to organize house
wives and pledge them to boycott
meat .-ujt butchers was 1egun in
New FORK CITY.
Frank Palmer Of Newark. falling
out his own brains
Tren,on has unveiled a monument
to the late John A. Roebling.
FOREIGN.
Twelve thousand men are reported
to have been slain during a series of
battles at Tabriz between the troops
| OF the Shah OF Persia and the revolu-
tionists, says special cable dispatch
| from Teheran.
Senior Arias resigned as Panama s
Secretary of State, and -nembors OF
his party saw in the action a protest
against the interference" of the
United States in the political situa-
ton ....
Mr.. Charles C. Glover OF the
riggs National Bank of Washington.
now in London. says that the new
currency law would prevent any
such busi-ess disturbances as that
| OF last autumn.
Bishop Brent says special Ma
Mia despatch, has left the Philip
pines for nome.
Nile. Shels.novs. who was con-
| ineG in tLe political prison at Kiev,
russ a. was shot and killed by one OF