The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-01-16
Covering Minor Happer-
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREiEN
Compiled and Condensed for tho
Busy Rcader-A Complete Record
OF European Dispatches and Im-
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Tcrusal.


Janeiro unimportant. resumed the
granting OF shore leave.
The wireless telegraph treaty
| agreed on at the international con-
gress in Berlin in 1905 wouli 1, il was
said, come up for consideration to-
day before the Senate Foreign Rc,a-
tions Committee.
The State Department at wash
ington submitted Japans proposal to
Issue no more passports to coolies TO
Messrs. Straus and Sargent for their
opinion as to its practicability.
In the State Assembly the Wash
ington bill for the reorganization of
the National Guard to conform to
the Dick law was passed.
Friends of Governor Hughes at
Albany, expressed the belief that
Senator Crane would look after Mr..
Hughes candidacy for President in
the New England states.
Colonel Goethals told the House
Committee that the Panama Canal
will cost $3,O00,000.
The Senate Committee decided to
investigate criticisms of the navy
said to have been instlgatei by
certain officers.
A bolt of Kentucky democrats may
defeat Governor Beckham in Sena-
torship fight.
Commanding officers of the Ameri-
to11
received on an official visit to the
Brazilian Minister of Marine at Rio
Janeiro.
The Senate Naval Committee will,
It was announced in Washington. take
up the Hale Navy Bill at once.
Abel f. Blackmar's appointment as
Judge Of the Supreme Court in
Brooklyn, was confirmed IN the State
Senate.
Mr.. Palmer offered a resolution in
the Assembly, declaring II necessary
to change the Armstrong insurance
law because Of big decrease in the
business OF New York States compa-
niles since their enactment.
is expected to make several changes
in the Alirich Currency bill.
Governor Hughes issued a state
ment containing resolution by the
Essex County Fair Association that
county fairs will do their best to ex-
clude race track betting from their
future meets.
Iron and steel mills IN the Pitts
burg districts are resuming and twen-
ty-five thousand men will soon be at
work.
The Republican National commit
tee declared that under the Ohio
law direct primaries for the selection
of delegates to the National Conven-
ton could not b held in the Con-
gressional districts.
Representative Cook issued
statement attacking the administa-
ton in Washington for having brand
ed honorable business men Of Colo
rado as criminals.
Washington dispatches stated that
emissaries Of w. ]. Bryan were re
ported spending much money in his
behalf in the west
Justice John NJ. Harlan denied that
he is a candidate for the Presidential
nomination.
DR.. Walter Wyman, head of the
Marine Hospital Service. declared in
a report made public In Washington
that fees were agents in the spread
of the bubonic plague.
The Carnegie Steel company pur
chased from Lieutenant Cielan Davis,
of the United States navy, an inven
ton for har dening armor plate said
to be superior to the process now In
use.
Nine federal government depart
ments and twenty nine States will, 1t
was announced, take part In the In
ternatioral Congress on tuberculosis.
to be held in Washington in Septem-
ber.
Washington dispatches stated that
the exports of manufactured articles
for 1907 averaged $2,O00,000 a day.
The Senate favors and the House
opposs the Hale Naval bill, Wash
ington reports state.
That there was prospect of q
quarrel with Japan over the immi-
grafton question was denied in
| Washington.
Revised estimates of the cost of
digging the Panama Canal show that
the expense of the great undertaking
will bo 100000
One man is dead and three are
missing in a fire which destroyed the
Parker Building. New York, with a
loss which may reach s2,000,000.
The Governor of the Gold Coast
| Colony is returning from II is coun.
try with a new vaccine to check the
ravages of meningitis IN Africa.
Washington dispatches say the
republican leaders in New England
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