The Columbus journal., 1908-07-22

the Liverpool ponce team weiC vAoAo
ing the rules by wearing specially pre-
pared shoes. made a protest, wnicn
was overruled, and then withdrew.
Canadian and French athletes also
were dissatisfied with the management
of the games.
Martin J. Sheridan Of the IRISH
American Athletic club of New YORK
and Ralph Rose OF the Olympic club
of San Francisco were the star per-
formers in the Olympic games at Lon-
don, winning two gold medals ior
America. Sheridan was first IN tne
discus throwing and Rose was first IN
putting the shot
The third day of the Olympic games
Great Britain won two gold medals
and France and Sweden one EACH
America won second place in . team
race.
American athletes captured two COLO
medals on the second day OF the
Olympic games in London. Jonn ).
Flanagan won the hammer throw
breaking the Olympic record. and NJ.
W. Sheppard won the 1.5OO-meter run.
Mrs. Frank J. Gould's divorce SUIT
was not dismissed, as reported, enorts
of friends to effect reconciliation De-
ing futile.
A freight steamer ran down the
schooner Lilley off Lorain, o., and the
crew of the schooner jumped into the
lake and were saved.
The Atlantic battleship fleet arrived
at Honolulu after a pleasant and un-
eventful voyage.
Mrs. John Dietz, wife of the famous
defender of Cameron dam. near Win
ter. Wis. finished fast of Sc days to
cure appendicitis and according to her
husband she succeeded.
One woman was killed, two were
perhaps MORALLY injured. and nearly
dozen persons were seriously hurt
| when the White Mountain Express. OF
the New York, New Haven 4 Hartford
railroad. was wrecked near Greenwich,
| Conn.
A terrific earthquake occurred In
the Province of Tacna and africa, IN
Chile, the southern part OF Peru ana
Bolivia. Considerable destruction OF
property, but no loss of life, Is re-
ported.
The powder magazine of the North
western improvement company al
Cleelum, Wash, blew up, killing nine
persons.
A dress rehearsal of the pageants
| for the Quebec tercentenary was held
successfully. = SI1AS
Posing for years as a white girl,
Lillian Beatrice Watkins of Chicago.
a negress of great beauty. killed her.
self by firing a bullet into her right
temple because her curse of blood
had left a trail of disaster and death
in its wake.
Fire destroyed upwards Of 40 homes
and business buildings in the little
town of Baltic, O., the loss being
100000.
Mrs. Edith NJ. Teagle. wife OF Wal
ter C.. Teagle of Cleveland. an Official
of the Standard Oil company. shot
and fatally wounded herself at Pasa-
dena, Cal.
A pleasure launch bound from Ma
Mia to Corregidor island carrying
about Is passengers was caught In
typhoon and foundered, Is persons be-
ing drowned.
Count Boni de Castellane filed suit
for such revision of the decree OF d.
vorce obtained against him by his
wife, who was Miss Anna Gould OF
New York, as will give him the GUS
tody of his three children.
Circuit Judge Reynolds of st. Louis
ruled that steam laundries may 60
as far as they like in combining to
maintain prices, as. owing to other
methods of washing clothes, such
, combination would not be in restraint
of trade.
Seven mine workers we're killed and
ten others injured by terrific ex
: plnsion of gas in the Will:amstowr
| lPa.) colliery of the Summit Branch
Mining company. The mine was
wrecked and set on fire.
Republican Chairman Hitchcock
! called a conference of party leaders a
r Colorado Springs, Co.., for the opening
: of the campaign in the west.
BY the burning of one-stOry frame
l building in St. Paul. Mimi, the struc
f ture in which the first volunteer To-
0 tie union armies enlisted in 1861 wa
destroyed.
+ The shriners at ST. Paul elected E.
i Alderman of Marion. Ia, imperia
|, potentate and decided to hold mex
h years conclave in Louisville.
= One man was killed and Is or 8
others were injured, some perhap
f fatally. when a trolley car on tn
: Johnstown pa Passenger Railwa,
j. company, after striking a traction en-
CINE at a crossing a mile from here
e started backwards and went over
r steep embankment.
The Democratic national committe
l. adopted a resolution, dictated b
e Bryan, declaring for publication @
=. campaign contributions, limiting Their
to $4,000 and declaring none woul
S be accepted from corporations.
'. Standing within a few feet of tn
4. SPOT where, a little more than tw
II years ago, he shot and killed his fl
ther-in-law, Dr. James Weddell SimI
a, son, a dentist of New York, was she
h and perhaps MORALLY wounded a
e Northport, n Y. by his mother-in-lav
!. Mrs. BARLEY T. Horner. the woman b
t. made widow.
,r A plot against the car of Russi
lie was discovered at Sosnowice. Russia