The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-08-05
GENERAL NEWS.


by a cavein in a coal mine at Crow S
Nest Pass, B. c. Twenty-one Of them
were rescued, having been kept alive
by leaking compressed air pipes.
Grand Army men in Ohio started
movement to raise money by popular
subscription to build big United
States battleship.
Fire at Philadelphia destroyed the
Hamburg-America line pier and a
great quantity of merchandise, the
loss being about 100000.
Mrs. Ralph Harris of Kansas City,
Mo-, and her five-year-old son were
drowned at WallOOn lake, Michigan.
David Lamasuey. a dealer In fine
horses, who travelled extensively but
had no permanent home, committed
suicide by the hari-kiri method at
Burlington, la. tie was temporarily
deranged by the heat.
w. b. Whitwell. who kept a country
store in Ripley county, Missouri. was
shot and killed while resisting arrest
as q deserter.
Bolivar, said to be the biggest ele'
plant ever in captivity. died in his
prison house at the geological gardens
I'm Philadelphia
The Hotel Roberval on Lake St
John, Canada, was destroyed by fire,
all the guests escaping.
A demurrer by the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad company
10 hn kNrNvNOhf
against 1t by the United States gov
eminent, was filed in the United States
district court at Boston.
The mining town Of Stafford. w
Va, was wrecked by the explosion Of
100 kegs of powder.
Carl Burton. p years old, a recent
graduate of the University of Chi
cago, and heir to property worth
5000. 900 In Aurora, was fatally in
jured in an automobile crash in Chi
cagO.
Three masked men held up ant
robbed an elevated ticket agent II
Chicago.
Leonard Hendricks Of CranstOn. X
l.. killed himself and his two LITTLE
daughters by means of gas.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pau
freight house at Chillicothe. Mo-. va
wrecked by robbers. who blew opel
the safe and escaped with 500.
After an all-day conference of tn
leading government prosecuting ON
GERS and Frank b. Kellogg of Minneso
ia. 1t was announced by Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte at Lenox. Mass. tina
every effort would be made to secur
a revision of the recent decision ant
opinion of the United States circui
court of appeals in the case of tn
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
William Oliver. a young aeronaut O
Mason, Mich. was killed while maxim
a parachute drop at Hague park, nea
Jackson, Mich.
James S. Sherman. Republican vice
presidential candidate. announced tina
he would be succeeded as chairman Q
the congressional campaign commit
tee by Representative William B. Nj
Kinley of Illinois.
Peter Sendak of Cleveland, O., she
and killed his wife and himself.
In the presence of the Sheik VI Il
lam, the head of the hierarchy in Tu
KEY, the sultan of Turkey took tn
oath of allegiance to the constitutio
on the Koran.
Tad" Smith. a negro boy accused {
assaulting q white girl. was burned I
death by a mob at Greenville, Tex.
Andrew Haag, prominent resider
of Cullom. ILL.,. was shot and killed b
his 21-year-old son. Albert Haag, 70
lowing family quarrel.
A band of men attacked the Offic
of the cashier at the railroad static
in Tiraspol, Russia, and got away wit
$4,000.
A gasoline launch was sunk at Pitt
Surg, Pa, by waves from a coal DO;
and three steel workers were browne
The packet steamer Neva, owned
the Green Packet company of Cinci
natl, burned to the waters edge
Buffalo, w. Va. The crew swa
ashore.