The Columbus journal., 1908-03-18

~AA
the Fall River line steamer Provi-
dence prevented a catastrophe when
fire broke out while the vessel was
In Long Island sound.
Eighteen persons have been killed
by an avalanche In the Dukhtarmfnsk.
Siberia, district.
Five hundred people were pofsone1
at a social given by the women OF the
English Lutheran church, Upper San
dusky, O., by eating chicken and waf-
fles.
Shareholders petitioned directors OF
the Union Pacific to make Hartman
give up $4O.O zoo. 900 alleged to have
been lost through his stock specuIa-
tons.
In the Lilley probe Congressman
Hohson testified that he was ap-
~proached by a lobbyist of the subma-
rine boat interests who claimed influ-
ence with Speaker Cannon.
Rev. Conrad Jaeger, aged 81 years.
pastor of the First Evangelical Luther-
an church of Racine. Wis.,. and one OF
the foremost Lutherans in Wisconsin,
is dead.
Theron Illick. aged %, son OF J. L.
nlick. prominent Burlington. Ia. attor'
ney. was drowned by the O~verturnlng
of a sail boat.
In Indianapolis. Ind, the national
convention of the United Mine Work
ers of America went into session to
agree upon a course of action Tor a
wage scale.
John G. Jenkins. the Brooklyn. n.
Y, banker who with three sons was
indicted as a result of the banking In
vestigation. died of paralysis.
The candidacy of William H. TAFT
for president of the United States was
Endorsed by the Republican state n
vention of Nebraska at Omaha. Neb.
The steamer Mauretania established
a new transatlantic record by beating
her v best previous eastward.
A Denver, Col. jury sentenced Gull
scope Ala to death for the murder OF
Father Leo Heinrichs.
An important conference was held
at the White House In Washington re-
specting amendments to the Sherman
antitrust Law.
While hunting ducks on Reservation
lake. a few miles southwest Of Sioux
City. Ia. Luther E. Peterson was in
stantly killed by the explosion OF his
own gun
Nine. Anna Gould, who sailed for
New York from Paris, booked her pas
sage under the name of Miller.
John BURY. a well-known electrical
engineer and inventor Of the BURY
printing telegraph system. died at his
home on Staten Island.
The American 5attleship feet under
command of Rear Admiral RObley d.
Evans steamed into Magdalena bay
and dropped anchor.
The cruiser Yankton. that went to
Indefatigable island in search OF Frel
Jeffs. an American seaman, said to be
marooned there, returned to Acapulco.
1t failed to find Jehs.
Mayor Markbreit of Cincinnati, who
said women were not capable OF run
ming autos and that the only ma
chimes women ought to run are sew
ing machines" is now sorry he said 1t.
The women bombarded him with pro-
tests until he took it back.
1t is reported in London that the
regalia stolen from Dublin castle has
been found in a pawnshOp and re-
covered.
The yachts of George Gould. VIII
liam Leeds and three of the Wander
bilts were offered for sale in New
York.
Nat c. Goodwin writes that after his
three weeks engagement in Chicago
he will quit the stage and 60 into the
mining business in Nevada.
An investigation by the department
of commerce and labor into the whole
system of grain dealing ON boards of
trade is expected as the result of a
resolution to that effect introduced in
congress.
An unidentified man was found at
Inlay. New. entangled in a barbed-
wire fence. He was still alive, al
though naked, and with his head part
ly severed from his body. Mystery
surrounds the affair.
Oscar f. Gaustad of Colburn, Wis.
found his lost son. apparently dead.
under a tree. After carrying the lad
several miles home and working over
him warmth came to the body and the
lad revived. He had fallen from the
tree and become unconscious.
President Roosevelt has directed
Herbert Knox Smith Of the bureau of
corporations to investigate the meth
DDS of stock trading with q view to
furnishing the basis of possible future
legislation regulating such practices.
Details of alleged frauds, in the
Louisiana Democratic primary cleo
ton were placed before the Demo-
cratic state central committee.
John B. Lindsey, at Macarthur. O..
was acquitted of the charge of having
attempted to bride Prosecuting A.
torney Miller.
Methods of meeting competition and
gaining the oil trade of a locality were
testified to in the Standard Oil custer
suit at Cleveland, o.
Coroner Burke rendered his de-
cision in the Collinwood CO., school
fire. Conditions existing are blamed.
but no fault is charged to any one.
The Kansas conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Topeka.
Kan, exOnerated DR.. J. T. Mcfarland
of heretical charges.
One of the buildings of the San
Francisco and county almShQuSe was