The Columbus journal., 1908-12-16

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Baptist, come to save the world" an
armed fanatic, wrought up to high
pitch of maniacai fury, terrorized
Edgewater. N. ]. He appeared sud
denly Oh the main street. waving a big
revolver, held up the proprietors Of
I several stores, exchanged many shots
with a hastily formed posse and al
last was wounded when the police and
a mob Of citizens ran him down.
The lumber interests represented by
the Weyerhaeusers.O 'Brien & Cook Of
St. Paul and Duluth and Edward Hines
| of Chicago are in Duluth working on
| the formation of lumber trust which
will control practically all the pine In
North America. -s.
A woman leaped with her little son
from the window of a burning garage
in Chicago and both were SO badly
hurt they died in a few minutes.
A force of 200 men, which landed
from the Haytian gunboat. took with
out resistance the town of Gonaives,
Hayti, and established authority there
in the name of Gen. Simon.
Frank Cassini of st. Louis fatally
shot his wife and himself.
The SpringpOrt (Mich.) State Saw
ings bank, with deposits of about $780,
900, was closed by Banking Commits
sioner Zimmerman while an examine
ton is made of its affairs.
Eleven buildings in the village Of
Patton, Ia, were destroyed by fire.
The Peninsular & Oriental Steamship
Company will begin next year to i'm
port hogs from China into Great
Britain. af
John R. Hegeman, president Of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, was freed by the New York ap-
pellate court in a decision that, II 1t
stands, will serve to quash all indict-
ments now outstanding against insur-
ance officials.
Louis Pratt, the religious fanatic,
and Officer Mullane, wounded in the
street battle in Kansas City. died.
James Sharp, the leader of the band
of fanatics, was arrested.
I.aboring under the delusiOn that he
had been marked as a victim of the
'.Rlack Hand" Thomas Fitzpatrick.
aged Sc, shot and killed himself near
Gaines, Mich.
After a brief argument with
crowd of negroes in a saloon in Mem
phis, William Latura. white saloon
keeper, shot and killed three of the
negroes and wounded others, one
MORALLY.
DR.. A. 8. Pitts, a prominent physi-
clan of Hazlehurst, Miss, was shot
and killed by Dr.. Thomas Birdsong. q
dentist .-
Three men held up an east-bound
Great Northern train near Hillyard.
Wash. and robbed the mail car. They
missed $4,000 in the express car.
J. p. Garroty, accused of attacking
two little girls near Willow River,
Mimi, was saved from a mob by be-
ing spirited out of town.
DR.. G. E. Barnes. veterinary sur
geoI, was burned to death in a fire
that destroyed his house at Wood
vile, o.
The various copper properties Of
Phelps. Dodge & Co.. the output of
which has been as high as 0,000. 900
pounds q year, are to be merged into |
a neVh corporation, capitalized at |
$50, OOO,00O ....
Representative George L. Lilley,
of Connecticut, has I
been served with subpoena to an
swer the complaint that in the recent
he, himself or through q
financial agent, violated the corrupt
practices act.
Two bunco men worked the time
honored satchel substitution game at
and got $7,105 from r. F.
Cargell, an aged cattle dealer from
Clyde, N. D.
The board of regents of the Univer.
sity of Minnesota decided that men,
bers of the faculty must retire on
the age of IS years.
More than a score of persons were
injured, five of them seriously, and
100 more were thrown into q panic
when a bomb was hurled into the air
shaft of a tenement house at 800 East
Sixty-third street, New York.
w. H. Crowninshield, aged 40 years.
If Boston, Mass. said to be a nephew
If Rear Admiral Crowninshield. was
'un down and killed by a railway
rain in Cleveland. o.
The police of Kansas City and q
rand of religious fanatics headed by
[ohn Sharp, who styles himself
Adam God" engaged in a fierce re-
'Olver street battle Over 100 shots
we're exchanged, one patrolman and q
title girl being killed, Sharp and two
ulcers fatally wounded and two
'ther officers slightly hurt.
F. D. Hirschberg of st. Louis, a mil
ionaire merchant and prominent
was shot and killed in his
louse. 1t was not known whether it
vas a case of suicide, murder or &C
ident.
Probably fatal injuries were sus-
aimed in an automobile accident near
Washington by Senior Don Juan Bar
los, minister of foreign affairs of
who is here on a special
mission. His companions. DR.. Luis
Ierrarte, Guatemalan minister to the
United States, and Gen. John Drum
nond. a wealthy planter in South
were painfully hurt
Miss Helen Chaffee. daughter of
lieut.. Gen. and Mrs. Adna r. Chaflee,
vas welded at Los Angeles to Lieut..
ohm Hastings Howard, U. s. A.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Can.