The Columbus journal., 1904-05-18
Brief kilograms

Baltimore.
Secretary Taft has gone for a vaca'
ton of ten days in the Adirondack
mountains.
The, steamer Doric. arriving at San
Francisco from the Orient, brought
$3.50, 900 gold from Japan.
In Peru three days OF national
mourning has been proclaimed in
honor of the late President Candamo.
Governor Herrick has ordered .
court martial in connection with the
recent riots at Springfield, Ohio, at
which time the negro Dickson was
lynched.
The Farmers State bank at Nardin,
Okla, failed. Assets and liabilities
not given. 1t had SIS, 900 in the Cap
ital National bank At Guthrie, which
failed recently.
Mrs. Katherine Bullard, 7S years
old. and sister-in-law of Henry Ward
Beecher, Is dead in Indianapolis, Ind.
She lived In Helena, Mont. for several
years.
With simple services the body OF
Edward L. Wentz, who met death In
the Black mountains of Tennessee.
was buried in Woodland cemetery
near Philadelphia.
The directors of the Bank of North
America of Providence, r. l., voted
to recommend to the stockholders
that the institution be placed in liQui.
datiOn.
George Lincoln Dunlap of Chicago
is dead In Paris. He was 76 years old.
Mr. Dunlap was at one time general
superintendent of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad.
The Canadian department of militia
and defense Is preparing plans for
new Notifications. Some of these
works of defense will be erected
along the American border.
John Brown of Richardson, N. D.. is
under arrest charged with killing his
12-year-old son while in a fit of anger.
The father buried the body immedi
ately. 1t has been exhumed.
The Columbus AerOplane company,
hacked by a number of leading mer-
chants of Columbus, O., incorporated
to construct an airship upon lines de-
signed by George F. Meyer, a local
mechanic.
The government has been officially
notified of the coming visit of a num-
ber of German postal officials, who
will inquire into the workings of the
postal service and other means of
communication.
r. F. YOakum of the St Louis South.
western railway denies the report that
the St Louis. Brownsville & Mexico
railroad company, which is being built
by a syndicate headed by him, has
bought the Rice Belt railroad.
Everett Abbott. former treasurer Of
the American Marine Transportation
company of Boston, who left that city
on March Is, was arrested in San
Francisco on a charge of having EN-.
bezzled from his employers $3.50.
An order was entered at Chicago
remanding to the custody of the New
York officers Captain John J. Healy,
former president of the Alaska ex-
pOration company. Healy is charged
with embezzlement of funds belong
ing to the company.
Captain Peary. the Arctic explorer,
is negotiating at St Johns, N. F.. for
the Eagle to accompany him on an
expedition to the Greenland seas dur
ing the present summer, where he will
arrange for his large polar expedition
next season. Captain Peary cOntem-
plates a sojourn of four years in the
Arctic regions.
Mrs. Robert ]. Burdette of CalifOr-
mia has advised friends in st. Louis
that she will not allow her name to
appear as q candidate for president of
the National Federation of Woman's
clubs, which contenes at St Louis
May II. Mrs. Sarah Clapp Becker of
Denver, Colo, will be q candidate for
the presidency.
The Year Book of the department
Of agriculture will be issued early in
June. 1t will comprise an edition of
100000 copies. of which 10000 are
reserved for the use of senator's, repre-
sentatives and delegates in congress
and the remainder is reserved for
those connected with the work of the
department. 1t is a volume of 72S
pages. illustrated with many lithO-
graphs, half-tones and text figures.
Rear Adimarl Sewell Kennedy, re-
tired, former paymaster general of
the navy. has been selected as treas.
urer of the Panama commission. Rear
Admiral Kennedy was born In Iowa.
Charles Laroussie, defaulting chan.
cellor of the French legation at Mex
leo City, who was recently arrested
At Salina Cruz while preparing to en-
mark for Central America. was sen.
fenced in court last week to two years
and eight months Imprisonment
The grand jury at Akron. Ohio, re-
turned an indictment against Art
Simms, the prize fighter, on the
charge of criminal assault.
One hundred members of the Cali
fornia Press association have left for
st. Louis, where they will spend two
weeks n tne exposition.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison Eaton, q
sister of the late President BENJAMIN
Harrison, died ut North Bend, q sub
urb OF Cincinnati. She Is q grand.
daughter of President William Henry
Harrison. who was a pioneer in this
part of Ohio.
President Roosevelt has approved
the sentence of dismissal from the
army of Lieutenant Frederick w
Mills of the Seventh infantry, who
was court martialed for duplicating
pay accounts. making false Official
statements and refusing to pay his
bills he owed to merchants.