The Columbus journal., 1906-02-14
General News


toms of Morocco will be submitted
to the Algerian conference.
Sr. Pauls Methodist church, Ash.
land avenue and Harrison streets, Chi
cago, was destroyed by fire.
Miss Katherine Brinkman died at
Kansas City, the result of inhaiing
smoke from a fire in her nome.
At Los Angeles. CAL. S. Rosenson,
q former resident of Indianapolis, COM
mitted suicide by taking carbolic acid.
The seventh annual convention OF
the Builders Supply Association at
Philadelphia elected Martin Willis, St
Louis. president.
Ten thousand miners of the Buffalo
Rochesterand Pittsburg Coal and
Iron company in Pennsylvania are
still on a strike.
A special from Cleveland. Miss,
says the Bolivar County bank failed to
open its doors. Assets $4,000; liza
bilities, $4,000.
The seventh annual convention OF
the Builders Supply association at
Philadelphia, elected Martin Willis of
st. Louis, president.
Ralph Cadwallader, pitcher in last
years Sioux City, Ia. baseball team
signed as pitcher with the Cleveland
American league team.
The solution of the Venezuelan diff
Guilty, according to authoritative in
formation at Paris will 60 over until
the Moroccan conference.
At Hutchison. Kas., the Texas
Southern railroad. which is in the
hands of a receiver, was sold to east
ern capitalists for $I.5O0,000.
The Illinois supreme court has de-
MED q rehearing in the case of Johann
Hoch, sentenced to be hanged in Chi
cago February %. for wife murder.
General Linevitch reports the exist
ence of 227 cases of Siberian plague in
the Russian army. The total number
Of sick in the hospital is 744 officers
and 1922 mer.
The Stevens block in Worcester,
Mass. was damaged to the extent OF
$4,000 by fire and the losses to occu-
pants of the building bring the total
damage up to 100000.
The internal revenue report for 1905
shows that the business of the Phil
ippine Islands amounted to $195. .0O0.-
600 in gold. The amount of taxes col
lected was $4.O0O,OO0 in gold.
President Richard Sylvester Of the
International Association Of Chiefs Of
Police, has announced that the next
convention of the association will be
held in Hot Springs, Ark, April 9 to
IA.
The Longworth bill appropriating
S., ,OOO, 900 for the purchase OF Amer
ican legations and embassies in for
eign capitals was favorably reported
to the house committee on foreign al
fairs by a subcommittee.
The graves of Charles Dickens and
Sir Henry Irving in Westminster Alb
hey were most lavishly decorated with
flowers in commemoration of their
birthdays. though Irving's anniversary
really falls on February 6.
NJ. Schoracmk, said to be an Aus
tralian nobleman, who had amassed
fortune in Western mines. was killed
at Steubenville, O., by walking from
a fast train on the Wabash railroad
bound form St. Louis to Pittsburg.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
company, has decided to name its ter
minus to be constructed on the Pacific
coast, prince Rupert" in honor OF
the explorer. The name was chosen
from 1900 submitted in competition.
John p. Deavereaux of st. Louis.
former officer and nephew Of Arch
bishop Ryan, died in hospital at
Philadelphia after a long illness. He
was 33 years old and retired from the
army about a year ago because OF
failing health.
e. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe
have written a letter to the Washing
ton Post Offering to contribute $1,000
as a nucleus of a fund for the estab-
lishment of q chair of dramatic art in
the George Washington university,
Washington.
Isaac Syfe, the Syrian Rosebud set
tier who had been charged at Bone
steel with first degree murder in con-
nection with the death of Peter Kay
den. the farmer from Hoskins. Neb.,
who was found dead in a well on the
last of December, has been released
because Of q lack of evidence to con-
vict.
State Senator Reynolds and c. H.
Cornell cattlemen of Valentine, Neb.,
will leave for Washington to present
to President Roosevelt petition from
the small cattlemen of Nebraska ask
ing to cooperate with them in their
efforts to secure law for the leasing
of government land for grazing pur-
poses.
An Official statement tonight denies
the truth of disquieting rumors that
have been in circulation regarding the
health of King Edward.
On the eve of her installation as
mother superior of the convent OF
Notre Dame, Milwaukee, Mother EN-
merentia died at the convent.
The greatest supply of coal in the
history of Chicago is being gathered
in ancipation of the coal miners strike
April 1. Within the next sixty days, If
the preparations that have been made
are carried out it is estimated that
nearly 100000 tons of coal will have
been stored away in Chicago.