The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-05-21
WORLD NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happens
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN

of European Dispatches and I'M
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Perusni.
William X. Marsh, q rich inventor
OF Flatbush, n. Y, put his business
affairs in order, when he was told
by his physicians that he was dying
Of hydrophoba.
Representative Hobson, after
conference with the President, came
out enthusiastically for two thirty
thousand-ton battleships In the next
Naval Appropriation bill.
The Republican party was given
a verbal trouncing by Senator Rob-
ert l.. Taylor, or "Flddling Bob" as
he Is known in Tennessee, In the
course of his maiden speech in the
Senate. He sustained his reputation
as a humorst.
Dynamiting has been resorted to
In the Cleveland street car strike.
One car was practically wrecked and
another lifted from the tracks.
Two thousand steel cars have been
ordered by the New York Central
Railroad for its Pittsburg and Lake
Erie Division.
Captain Samuel Samues, who
commanded the famous clipper ship
the Dreadnought, and who sailed the
Henrietta in the transatlantic yacht
race of 1866. died in his Brooklyn
home.
Addressing a New Thought meet
ing in New York, Mrs. Caroline Foot
marsh said she had thrown away a
lot of useless furniture and pictures
and advised her hearers to rid their
homes of superfluous articles.
1t is announced that the thirteenth
annual convention of the National
Association of Manufacturers will
be the most important In its history,
because of the efforts to obtain tar
iff-reform legislation.
r. G. Auld said he would soon
publish book entitled "The Soul of
Society,"" in which he tells the secret
OF discovering your true soulmate.
thus enabling you to avoid the d.
vorce court.
j. Byard Collins in Christ Presby-
, terian Church. New York, delivered
a socialistic address in which he said
that John D. Rockefeller, Andrew
Carnege and others are ready to
turn their property and their money
over to the state.
A prominent paper manufacturer
declares the Congressional tariff in
vestigation has shown the good faith
of the trade and predicts the retreat
OF complaining publishers.
At mass meeting Of the unem-
| ployed 1t was voted to appoint COM
mittee to enlist the aid of John d.
Rockefeller.
Washington dispatches estimated
that W. ]. Bryan's strength in the
Denver Convention would probably
reach 500 delegates.
j. H. Conkling died In Middle
town, Conn, of blood poisoning as
result of the suicidal act Of pour
ing hot lead into his ear months be-
fore.
Representatives of eighty-five col
leges and universities attended the
dedication ceremonies of the new
buildings of the College of the City
of New York.
The House of Representatives
passed the Vreeland Currency bill by
| a vote OF 1874 to 145
The United States District Court
dismissed the petition of one of the
negro soldiers discharged at Browns
Vile, Tex, holding that President
Roosevelt had ample authority for
giving him his discharge.
A three-year-old italian boy who
was kidnapped and held forty-three
days for $4,000 ransom, was mys-
teriously deserted In a hallway In
New York City.
Grover Cleveland was too Ill to
reply to a message of sympathy from
the conference of Governors.
The conservation conference ad-
journed sine die and the Cover
nors laid a foundation for an organ
ization of their own.
Robert W. Fullerton, son of St.
Louis merchant, was arrested in
Seattle on charges made by a New
York girl.
Martin Van Buren,, namesake and
favorlte nephew of President Van
Buren,, died in penury at Albany.
7 Arin
against great army and navy.
FOREIGN.
The British Government has re-
| celVed from Washington an invita-