The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-10
WORLD NEWS OF
THE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happenings From
All Over the Globe
DOM

The recent large purchase OF STOCK
in the American District Telegraph
Company by the Western Union gave
the latter control of the former The
las, big block of stock bought Is said
to have been the Gould holdings.
In an address to the convention OF
The Master Plumbers Association
Mayor Gaynor of New York limited he
waa not opposed to open saloons on
Sunday.
inca posthumous statement Mr.,
H|1tl tells of promise from Mr. lIar'
ris1n to make him Secretary of the
Trearlry and of n campaign contrDu-
uol OF $150.OO0 in 1SSS.
Vhilandcr c. Knox, Jr.. son of the
Secretary of State. was dismissed
from a school at Providence because
he refused to tell If he had married
young woman of that city; the lat.
ter admitted that they were married
In Vermont on Sunday.
Mr.. & Mrs. David Scherer announce
the engagement of their daughter
Rose. to Samuel p. Moses. prominent
in the New York newspaper circles.
Reception to be at 2O96 Third Ave. on
April 10. 1910.
Despite the assertions of public Off
cials to the contrary, canvasses by
Philadelphia newspapers show that
100000 persons have quit work to aid
the striking car employees.
lrs. Charles w. Morse back from
visit to her husband in the Federal
Prison at Atlanta. told of the progress
of the petition for his pardon and ex-
pressed appreciation of the plea sigr ed
by all the pupils in the high school he
gave his boyhood home.
DR.. Benjamin Ide Wheeler at
tributes high prices here to too many
Intermediates between the wholesaler
ana the consumer.
The Van Norden Magazine has sus-
pended publication. 1t was owned by
Warner NJ. Van Norden. recently rob
bed of S2S,000 by two women near the
Waldorf, New York City.
The Federal Grand Jury investigat.
ing the Beef Trust in Chicago com.
plcted its labors.
WASHINGTON.
The Standard Oil Company filed It's
appeal in the United States Supreme
Court, and several more briefs attack.
ing the corporation tax were present
ed one being by ex-senator Foraker.
President Taft, making public cor.
rcsuOndenCe with Mr.. Moon, author
Of the Administrations injunction bill,
urges its passage.
The rostohlce appropriation bill was
passed by the House
1t was reported from Washington
that the United States might act as
mediator between Peru and Ecuador
If the King of Spain's award was not
accepted.
Clifford Pinchot said that the con-
serNation fight was one between spe.
cial privilege and equal opportunity.
In the House the bill appropriatlng
$5Go,CC0 to purchase embassy build.
ings abroad. was defeated.
FOREIGN.
Over six thousand steerage pas.
sengeys have left Southampton for
America in the last fortnight.
The American Legation at Bogoto,
Colombia, is stoned, according to ca
bic advices.
Use of a corruption fund to control
Parliament is charged to the Japan
ese army by the independent press.
The Toxic press is jubilant at what
it terms Americas failure in her Man
churian plans.
Hundreds Of Socialists were wound
ed IN Berlin by provincial gendarmes
and city police.
The Empress of Russia suffered an.
other nervous breakdown, and her
condition is regarded as serious.