The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-20
WORLD NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happen-
lngs from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Complied and Condensed for the
BWsy ResAer-A Conple<s Record
ef European Dispatches and Ina
portant Events from Evcrywhcrs
Boiled Down for Hasty Pcrusal.

On account OF decrease OF twopr
three millions in the State revenues.
officials fear the necessity OF dipping
Into the surplus to prevent q direct
tax
George NJ. Palmer. democratic
leader in the Assembly N Albany. N.
Y. offered resolution 80 to amend
the constitution that the Governor
should not nll vacancies in the Su-
preme Court.
Enforcement OF the laws against
betting on races in Ohio will close
the Cleveland Driving Park, the
Grand Circuit trotting meeting there
having been abandoned.
John f. Randolph, treasurer OF the
Thomas A. Edison companies. COM
mitted suicide during a sudden attack
Of insanity. The great inventor ar
rived Just In time to prevent the
widow from leaping out of win
dow.
New York is to have the largest
morgue In the world, in accordance
with :. contract which was signed
by the authorities at Bellevue.
Walter Wellman summing up the
result of his political observations
throughout the country for the Chi
cago RecordHerald, declared there Is
strong probability that Secretary
Taft will be nominated for the Presi-
dency on the first ballot at the Ma
tional Republican Convention.
Secretary Root has announced that
henceforth asylum in American CON
sulates will be refused Haytian revo-
lutionists
Ex-Gov. Black has been engaged by
the State Agricultural Association, to
oppose the appeal of the Percy Gray
Racing law.
Railroad conductors in a delegate
convention have censured Governor
Hughes's failure to appoint railroad
man Public Service Commissioner
and resolved to oppose the Governors
Presidential aspirations.
Members of Typographical Union
No. 8, favored entering politics as
means of lettering the condition OF
the organization.
Special cable dispatches state that
the American battleship fleet reached
Valparaiso and was greeted by thous-
ands Of Chilians.
The Wisconsin delegation to the
National Democratic Convention was
Instructed for w. J. Bryan as The
greatest living statesman"
Deputy Fire Chief Charles w.
Kruger, was drowned in a sub-celllr
at No. 215 Canal street. New York,
while leading firemen who were fight
ing blaze.
Four persons are known to have
been killed and scores were injured
by tornado which swept through
Tyler, Texas.
In Carnegie Lyceum, a mass meet
Ing protested against vivisection and
called on John d. Rockefeller to re-
consider the plans for vivisection
plant In New Jersey.
Congressman Leake gives as his
reasons for antagonism to Mr.. Bryan
that the Nebraskan SIS the crucifier
OF Democracy on the cross of social
ism."
Samuel 0ompers appealed to un-
Ions throughout the country for
funds to contest the injunction -e-
Gently granted against the American
Federation Of Labor by Justice
Gould. of the Supreme Court Of the
District OF Columbia.
According to figures given in En-
cheering. says a special London de-
spatch. the cost of q single voyage
OF the Aauretania or the Lusitania
y little short Of 3150,000.