The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-06-04
Covering Minor Happcn-
ingS from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN


huHelo V. DeDb. 6OCldT1St cdnQl-
date fer president. announced that
the Countess Of Warwick would
make speeches In New York in be-
half of the Socialist candidates.
Blind Senator Goro has been en-
couraged to hope that his sight may
be restored by treatment by a Wash
ington oculist.
Ex-senator James X. Jones, who
managed the Bryan campaign Of
1896 and 1900, died in Washington.
Experts have predicted that the
moquito pest will be worse than ever
tn year.
Julius G. Truelson, Jr.. the dis
owned son OF New York parents, in
jail at Vernon, Tex, since March 20
for signing checks with the name OF
Harry "haw's cousin, confessed be-
fore Sheriff Shutter of Laporte. Ind,
that he took his wife to the Guinness
farm to be killed and help bury her
and six others.
Albert Anderson. a spectator at
ball game was struck in the eye
with a batted ball and his skull
crushed in. He died in the Nor
walk Hospital without having gain
ed consciousness.
In sight Of thousands OF persons
in and about Hillside Park. a pleas
ure resort in Bellville, N. j., q few
miles south of Newark, Frederick
l.. Woods, twenty-one years old,
dropped one thousand feet from a
balloon into the Passaic River and
was drowned.
The formation of simple life
paradise" to be located in Mexico
and where the "colonists'' will wear
no clothing and liv. on fruits and
nuts. has been announced.
Commander Robert E Peary
plans to start for the North Pole
from New York harbor on July /.
The fierce Yaqui Indians agreed to
submit to Mexico after a war carried
on for 120 years.
With eight ballot-boxes opened In
the mayoralty vote recount. William
r. Hearst had made net gain Of
sixty-e!ght votes.
The House Committee reported
that the allegations Of newspaper
publishers that there was a combina-
ton Of papermakers to fix prices was
not sustained.
The coffin containing the body of
George Clinton. first Governor of
New York. was viewed by $4,000
persons at the City Hall. New York.
after its arrival from Washington.
Herbert Knox Smith, Commission
er o. Corporations. made public his
report on cotton exchanges and fav-
ored changes in methods OF New
York and New Orleans exchanges.
Gov. johnson Won the admiration
of Alabamans with an address on
American Liberty at the State Uni
versity.
Miss Alice Mackley. a white girl
OF Syracuse, was mar. led to Joseph
Antonio Maceo, mulatto son Of the
Cuban general, Antonio Maceo, and
Cecil Pape, a Scotland Yarx. detec-
tive, was robbed Of his money, 5000.
by al ancient "confidenc. game"
played on hf:n in a Broadway hotel
New York. by three crooks.
Driven mad by the suicide of her
husband. Howard Maxwell, who was
President of the Borough Bank in
Brooklyn. Mrs. Maxwell is now con-
fined In a sanitarium at Easton, Pa.
Five persons were injured when
the automobile Of party of race
goers crashed into a funeral coach at
Long island City.
FOREIGN.
General Sir Redvers Henry Butler,
who had been Ill for some weeks
past, is dead In London.
The Duke Of Abruzzi, agreeing to
think over for year his betrothal
to Miss Elkins, told the Italian royal
family that he would not change his
mind II he had to wait ten years.
An armed attack was made
by Persians on the oficiaI res
idence Of the Russian financial agent
in Teheran. M. Ostrogadsli, who was
dangerously wounded. says d special
cable dispatch from St. Petersburg.
German customs officials made
trouble for American automobiles
at the frontier, says Mr.. William J.
Chalmers. according to a special
cable from London.
A committee of American and
Filipino merchants reported that
million pesos capital is needed for the
establishment of an agricultural
bank Gays special cable despatch
from Manila.
The first automobile race ir Spain
for the Catalonia Cup was won by Sig
nor Guippone In Lion machine. says
a special cable despatch from Ma