The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-02-17
WORLD NEWS OF
THE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happenings From.
All Over the Globe
DOM MEsTic.

DOMESTIC.
Ex-President Roosevelt Will return
to the United States on or about June
10 and plans are under way to make
his reception the greatest in history.
officers of the Excayators' Union of
New York City assumed warlike atti-
tude in calling $4,000 men on general
strike.
Mrs. Q. II. p. Belmont. who is tour
ing New York State in behalf of wom-
an suffrage. declared in an interview
at Elmira that women are bound to
vote at an early day.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Chanler in
troduced In the Assembly at Albany a
resolution providing for more
searching investigation Cf legislative
corruption.
Eighty thousand dozen eggs have
been received in New York City from
French, German and Austrian hens
for the market here
Mr. James r. Keene. financier ad-
mits before the Federal Commission
er. Thomas Alexander, that he man.
aged the Columbus and Hooking Coal
and Iron pool. o
The Rev. DR.. William Carter de-
clares that New York is a graveyard
for ministers, and they avoid rather
than seek New York pulpits.
Leaders in the business and finan-
cial world in interviews expressed ap'
proval of President Taft's Lincoln
Day dinner speech.
That Colonel Swope died from
strychnine administered at the In
stance of DR.. B. C. Hyde is the YER
dict of the Coroner's Jury, Kansas
City, Mo-, which declined to pass on
the question of intent.
Employers threatened the greatest
labor war in the history Of New York
city IL the building trades vote a SYM
pathetic strike in aid of the steamfit-
ters.
Fire at the Brighton stockyards, at
Boston, caused damage of half a mil
lion dollars.
Judge Swayze, of the New Jersey
Supreme Court. delivered a special
charge to the Hudson county Grand
Jury, which is investigating the cost
Of living.
WASHINGTON.
Attorney General Wickersham in
statement declares that the new fed
eral incorporation bill is seemingly
being misrepresented in order to
arouse prejudice against ii.
AS result of President Taft's
speech in New York his legislative
programme is halted in Congress.
A deficiency appropriation Of $307,-
900 to replace medical and hospital
supplies destroyed by fire at the army
medical supply depot in New York
City on February last, was recon-
mended to Congress to-day by Secre-
tary Of War Dickinson.
L. r. CLAWS testified again in the
Ballinger-Pinchot inquiry, telling on
cross-examination why he considered
the Secretary of the Interior unfit to
hold his Office.
After nearly half a century in the
Treasury Department, Thomas Glenn
Jones, seventy-siX years old, died at
Washington. He came here from
Ohio to be an accountant in the loan
and currency division in 1861.
Captain B. S. Osbon attacks Mr..
Robert Z. Peary as selfish egotist"
and says his promotion to the grade
of rear admiral would be a blot upon
Congress.
The annual report of the United
States Civil Service Commission was
made public at Washington; it show
ed notable improvements in the ad.
ministration of the service.
Representative Perkins, of Roches-
ter, went to hospital in Washington
for rest and medical observation.
President Taft will probably come
to New York at the time of Mr. Roose.
velt's return on June 10 and speak at
a banquet.
The House Committee on Naval AZ
fairs practically decides against Sec.
retary Meyers navy reorganization
plan, but may favor transfer of funds
so the system may be tried for year
without burdensome "red tape"
FOREIGN.
DR.. Charcot gives details of his
Antarctic expedition and discovery of
new lands, in special cable despatch
from Punta Arenas.
The Japanese fear passage of the
Hayes exclusion bill in retaliation for
the naturalization plan, say special ad-
vices from Pelin.
Winston Spencer Churchill gets the
post of Home Secretary in the new
British Cabinet.
The German Emperor deprecates
the use of force in the demonstration
by the socialists and hopes for salts
flying amendments In the Prussian bal
lot law.
Capt, Seenz. executloner of Cannon
and Groce. was killed in Managua by
Nicaraguan soldier.
A dispatch from Valdivo, Chill, said