The Columbus journal., 1908-03-18
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Complete Review of Happenings OF
Greatest Interest from All Parts OF
the cIobe-Latest Home and For
.eign Items.
John II. SandersOn. contractor;
William r. Snyder. former auditor
general; W. l.. Mathues. former state
treasurer. and James II. Shumaker,
were found guilty Of capitol graft at
Harrisburg. Pa.
Admiral Evans battleship feet,
after leaving San Francisco, will visit
Hawaii, Samoa, Melbourne and
Sydney, Australia. the Philippines n
return to New York by way Of the
Suez canal.
The entire business section of the
city of big Timber. Mont, was wiped
out by fire. The loss was $4OO. OO0.
Three bandits held up and robbed
a bank at TyrO. Kan, securing $500.
after which they fed towards the Okla
hOma line.
Denying the charge of insanity and
praying for dismissal of the suit.
Harry X. Thaw. through his counsel
at New York. made answer TO Evelyn
Nesbit Tha~'s divorce suit.
Executive encrOachment upon legis-
lative power was the subject of a STIR
ring speech in the senate by Senator
Bacon Of Georgia.
A socialist demonstration in favor
of universal suffrage developed at
Budapest. There were three hours Of
serious rioting, the socialists using re-
v~Olvers.
Banker John r. Walsh was denied a
new trial by Judge A. Il. Anderson in
the federal court at Chicago and was
sentenced to five years in the govern
ment prison at Fort LeavenwOrth on
the charge of misapplying funds.
The naval militia bill was reported
favOrably to the house by Chairman
FOss Of the naval affairs committee.
Edward kelleher of st. Louis was
found guilty for the second time of
murder in the first degree for killing
st. Louis Tommy" Sullivan. a pugilist,
three years ago.
Carrying the largest appropriation
in all its history-S222. 1876. 3S2-the
post Office appropriation bill passed
the house. having been under discus
sion II days.
Fire in the plant Of the Columbia
Conserve company at Indianapolis,
Ind. caused a loss of $125.O0o.
A Springfield. ILL.,. jury Friday &C
Quilted James Roberts. % years old.
OF the charge of numbering his en-
plOyer. Franklin ILarkin.
Rev. J. T. Orr. for so years a
preacher in Illinois, was found dead
i'm bed in Sidell. iii.
Existence of an organized campaign
in Chicago to clear the name Of Laz-
arus Averbuch from the faint of assas-
sin was revealed. 1t became known
that a secret fund Of $780, 900 had
been raised.
David Fratt of Billings. Mont. for
mer president Of the state board of
stock commissioners. and a wealthy
cattle man. pleaded guilty to the ille-
gal fencing of 1860 acres Of public
land.
The German torpedo boat IS 12"
was run into and sunk by an unknown
steamer at the mouth of the River
Elbe.
A report widely circulated that the
school attached to St. Peters church
at MckeespOrt. Pa. would be blown
up caused Is per cent. of the pupils to
remain away.
Hugh Hollis. a treasury department
clerk, who came to Washington from
Louisville, KY, shot and killed his
wife.
An attempt made by five criminals
under sentence of death to escape
from the Orel (Russia) Jail resulted in
seven men losing their lives.
Tribute to the business ability of
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay has been
paid by the board of trade of Roslyn.
L. l.. in unanimously electing her to
membership.
A deputatiOn of lumbermen from
northern Ontario asked the Ontario
government to remove the embargo
against the export of tan bark to the
United States.
John Browns Anticipated wagon in
which he made many pilgrimages dur
ing his crusade against slavery was
destroyed by fire at Iowa City, la.
Notices were posted in the mills of
he AmOskeag Manufacturing COM
pany. Manchester, n. H.. announcing
a wage reduction averaging ten per
cent.
A fierce forest fire ragged in the
vicinity Of Tomahawk, n. C. -Four
men of the community. n white and
three negroes. burned to death.
One hundred masked night riders"
rode into Birmingham. Ky, shot six
negroes. one of them fatally, and
whipped five others.
Several thousand unemployed men
Of PHILADELPHIA will receive employ
ment O public works. in all probable
ity in about a month. by the passage
of the SO. 200, 900 loan.
After an eiSht-day visit. the Ameri-
can torpedo lotilla sailed from Lima.
Peru. for Panama.
Prince Ludwig Meneiik Of Abyssiaia
has been expelled from Germany as
an undesirable foreigner.
Testimony was adduced before the