The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-05
WORLD NEWS OF THE MEEK
Covering Minor Happens
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN

Of European Dispatches and I'M
portant Events from Everywhere
boiied Down for Hasty Ferwsal.
Examination Of the New York City
Railways report for 1906 showed q
statement OF 100000 worth of ma
terisi purchased and S2,65S worth OF
actual construction.
Four naval officers testified In the
Senate hearing on recent naval criti-
cisms and defended navy sunnery
ana construction.
Anarchist agitation reveals the
fact that the police have been In
formed OF alleged plots against tho
lives OF Archbishop Farley and other
prominent New York men.
Rumor in London said that the
Duchess Of Marlborough had be-
come q socialist.
An unidentified man dropped
from Brooklyn Bridge and was
drowned.
Commander william 8. Sims,
before the Senate Naval Committee,
criticised the methods OF the navy
and limited at a scandal in the ser
vice.
Congressman Lilley in an address
declared the Washington newspaper
correspondents ranked in ability with
the strongest members of Congress.
The report Of the President Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad for 1907
showed considerable decrease in
earnings, and this condition contin-
ued for January Of this year.
1t was announced that 5000 Erie
Railroad employees would go on
/ strike Il a cut we're made in their
wages.
The milk trust formally announ-
ced its return to the price OF eight
cents a qdart.
James II. oliver, a wealthy plow
manufacturer, died at south Bend,
Ind.
Eastern interests have urged Con-
press to provide adequate protection
for the Atlantic coast In the absence
OF the battleships.
! The cashier OF the Canada Bank
I OF Commerce at Winnepeg, con-
fronted by masked robbers, returned
their fire and injured both In a run
ming fight.
william Klinger, eighty-one. kill
ed himself with gas. because he COM
| planned that the weather was 30 bad
he coud not take his favorite walk
In city park.
Roselle, N. j.. was shut up tight
| under the blue laws Of 1874. Ice
cream shops and cigar shops were
closed and peanut venders barred.
A father rescued two drowning
boys from Pompton River, N. j.,
found they were his own boys, and
tainted.
Charles W. Morse began efforts to
re-establish himself as q financial
power by means Of q plan for the
payment by the stockholders Of the
depositors' claims against tho Ma
tfonal Bank Of North America.
The Aldrtch Emergency Currency
bill Is steadily gaining support
among democratic Senators and in
the House OF Representatives.
WI Tins-fans. new Chinese Min
lister to the United states. arrived
at San Franeisco on his way to WASH
ington.
| Now Hanpshirs authorities bent
oil efforts to obtain the extradition
from France Of Paul Roy. charged
with killing ceores A. Carkins.
The American Society for the al
vanosmsnt Of Aviation. will sive
prizes for the sxccessful navigation
Of the air In Aging machines.
Washington dispatches state that
forty-ave warships Will take part in
the review at San Francisco, when
Rear Admiral Evans arrives there.
| Editor Abbey, Of the Ulster
6Quaredealer. obtained a permanent
Injunction against citizens OF Kings
ton. N. y. who tried TO suppress his
papeT.
| Fo1tnAuNs
Queen Victoria. Is is announced
in special despatch from Madrid,
Is again In a delicate state of health.
1t Is announced In a special de-
spatch from Pekin that the Chinese
have decided to release the seized
Japanese schooner Tatsu Maru.
An avalanche killed thirteen per-
sons and injured fifteen others in the
village of Noppen Stein, near Berne.
| Switzerland.
A despatch from Allenstein, East
Prussia, states that Capt. Won Goe-
ben, who killed Major Won Schoen-
beck, fellow officer, committed sui
eide by opening an artery in his
neck. He was to be tried soon by
court-martial.