The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-30

November II. In fierce battle ut
Tabriz the NatiOnalists were worsted.
Horace J. Ray, aged Is years. COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself at
Philadelphia in the presence OF Is
| year-old Florence Marshall. his school
girl sweetheart. because he had been
forbidden to pay attention to her to
the neglect of his studies.
At West Union. Ia. Walter Whit
beck was convicted Of murder in the
first degree for the killing Of his IA;
Their. Arrow Whitbeck.
jeremiah Lynch, so years old. night
foreman for the Wisconsin Bridge
& Iron Company, was mysteriously
murdered near a new bridge which
the company is erecting in Chicago.
The police lay the crime to labor trou-
bles
Five members of the failed broker
age firm of A. o. Brown & Co. were
arrested in New York on a larceny
charge
The International Fishery congress
decided to meet in Rome, Italy, in
1911.
A large portion of the town of Pasig,
near Manila. was destroyed by fire.
Fire in Cairo, ILL.,, destroyed lum-
Der yard. several houses and other
property, the loss being $l25.000.
An order of Judge r. w. Archibald
of Scranton, Pa, adjudging Harry X.
Thaw in contempt of cOuI:, was filed
in the United States district court at
Pittsburg.
The control of the Washington Life
Insurance Company passed from the
hands of Levi p. Morton, Thomas F.
Ryan and Harry Payne Whitney, to a
Pittsburg syndicate headed by Will
liam c. Baldwin. president of the
Pittsburg Life and Trust Company.
Raymond w. Pullman of the forest
service, who is in Minnesota investi-
eating forest fire conditions for the
government, estimates the loss In that
state at $5.O00.OO0 to $10.000.0O0.
The supreme court of Washington
upheld the state law prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes and cigarette pa
pers.
Declaring her disgust with modern
fashions, Mrs. Lulu Kreitzer, aged 40,
a widow, returned to nature and ap-
peared in the street at Dayton, O.,
nude When the police were summoned
the woman entered her home and ia
tally shot herself.
Forest fires were reported raging In
northern Wisconsin and Upper Micht-
gan which threatened to wipe out sew
eral towns Residents had to fee for
their lives. Foster City, Mich. lum-
Der town across the Wisconsin line OF
Marinette county, was said to have
been destroyed with the loss OF six
lives. though this was not confirmed.
Forest fires were reported to have
destroyed some small settlements In
northern Wisconsin and Michigan and
to be spreading rapidly in the Adfron-
dacks
Heavy rains checked the forest fires
in northern Michigan and Wisconsin.
Justice Gerard in the supreme court
of New York signed the final decree
Of absolute divorce in favor of Elsie
French Vanderbilt from Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt.
The French police have arrested sew
eral dangerous anarchists, who with
others were engaged in celebrating a
plot to assassinate King Alfonso of
Spain when he passed through Bar
ritz on his way to Paris.
Two persons were killed and four
others injured when a passenger train
on the Southern railway ran into an
open switch near Duncan, s. c.
Two heavy earthquake shocks were
felt off the Port of Acapulco, Mexico.
and the steamer Radmes was SO tossed
about that four persons were killed.
A typhoOn of terrific velocity swept
through the central portion of the Phil
ippine group, sweeping part of the
island of Samar. northern Leyte,
Imzon, northern Panay,
Masbate and part of Romblem. Hun
dreds were reported dead.
A st. Louis & San Francisco pas
senger train was derailed near Car
thage. Mo-. and rolled into the ditch.
the engineer and fireman being killed
and 40 passengers injured.
The Denver Coliseum, one of the
city's landmarks. was destroyed by
fire.
President Roosevelt. in reply to Mr..
Bryan's defense Of Gov. Haskell, Wig
orously upheld the charges against the
latter, declaring him unfit to associate
with reputable citizens. Gov Haskell
issued statement defending the
criticised actions and holly attacking
the president.
The United States cruiser Yankee
struck on Spindle Rock, near the
western entrance to Buzzards bay, dur.
ing fog. breaking several holes in
her hull on the port side.
Delegates to the International Fish. |
cry congress were given souvenir |
paintings of the Roosevelt golden
trout. named after the president be- |
cause he prevented its determination. |
Publication was begun in the
Worlds Work" of series OF reminis- |
,ences by John D. Rockefeller, in
which he defends the tactics and
.rade methods of the Standard Oil
Company.
The Asiatic cholera in St. Peters |
burg is spreading among the upper |
classes of society. Deaths are SO
numerous the bodies lie unburied.
The government Of Paraguay un-
sarthed plot against It organized by |
of the negro party. All the