The Columbus journal., 1908-11-04

President Roosevelt has agreed T.
recommend to congress in his n0xt
message the passage Of law to con
serve the public health, similar to the
one proposed by the American Medi.
cal association.
A mob Of about 30 men attacked
the Roane county jail. Kingston,
Tenn. and killed George Cook, held
on the charge Of numbering John
King, . ferryman at Southwest Point.
e. A. 8. Blake. q contractor con.
victed Of attempting to bribe John n
Kelly to qualify on the Jury to Try
Abraham Ruef and vote for Ruefs &C
quittal, made . full confession in
court at San Francisco. duplicating
Ruefs counsel.
The body of q murdered man was
found in . sack at Lapham's Lane.
Mich.
Eight battleships comprising the
second squadron of the American At
lantic feet, under command Of Rear
Admiral William H. Emory. arrived at
Annoy, China.
Fire broke out in the History Neave
building at Race and Fourth streets.
Cincinnati, and in the panic that en-
sued about twenty persons were In
jured.
Two squadrons of cavalry and a
l.-S rro,- o,Aorod n, uowo3i 40 an a6.
dition to the garrison there.
Rather than face the charge of hav-
ing stolen money from her employers.
Mary LAWN, 50 years old, a domestic
employed in the home Of Charles and
John Cusick of Chicago, saturated her
clothing with kerosene and burned her
self to death.
Wreckage picked up in the North
sea confirms the fears that the steamer
Yarmouth foundered while crossing
from the Hook of Holland to Harwict.
Her crew of Is men was lost.
The Farmers Society of Equity was
organized at Indianapolis, Ind, at a
of representatives from q
of states.
The executive council Of the Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
union decided to hold it's 1909 session
at Omaha, Neb.
Reports from TampicO, Mexico, show
that over so lives have been lost in
the oil fields as result of the poison
Gus gases emitting from the big hole
in the ground caused by the recent
fire.
A dispatch from Smyrna says that
the Young Turks, believing that tho
sultan has a secret understanding with
Tewfik Pasha, the foreign minister,
have decided to dethrone him and re-
place him by his third son.
The Chicago-Duluth limited, north
bound, on the Northwestern road, left
the track at Kempton, Wis. A num-
Der of passengers and several train
men were injured.
The Barcelona municipality has Of
fered a prize of $1,000 for the best
poster design for advertising Barcelona
as a winter resort, and the mayor of
the city has especially invited the
competition of American artists.
With Gov. Curtis Guild. Jr.. making
an eloquent plea for religious tolera-
ton in Its broadcast and kindest sense,
which brought thousands Of Catholics
to their feet in wild applause. and
prominent Catholics delivering ad-
dresses. the opening day of the five
days observance of the centennial an
niversary of the founding of the do
cese of Boston came to a close. The
day opened with a pontifical mass In
the Holy Cross cathedral, celebrated
by the papal delegate to the United
States, Most Rev. Diomede Falconio.
Tennessee militia were sent to the
vicinity of Obion with orders to shoot
on sight any masked men discovered.
At Camp Memo it wa believed the
and many Members of the
night riders were among those ar
rested. Confessions were obtained
from several prisoners.
Two suffragettes created q scene in
The house of commons by claiming
to the grille of the ladies'
gallery and shouting for votes.
Rev. DR.. NJ. w. Stryker. president Of
Hamilton college, was dangerously in
jured in a runaway accident.
Alfred H. Curtis. former president
IF the National Bank of North Amer
ca, testified that Charles w. Morse
was to blame for the illegal banking
of which they are both
Erick Els was decapitated at the
American Steel & Wire Company mills
1t Cleveland, o., by a red-hot wire
which coiled about his neck.
Mrs. ]. I. Petrie of New York was
robbed of $1,700 worth of jewelry on
l San Francisco street car.
Ted Burton, under arrest at Reel
DOT Lake, Tenn, confessed that infor-
nation he gave led to the murder Of
Capt Quentin Rankin and implicated
many persons in the night rider out
ages there.
A. H. Curtis. co.defendant with
w. Morse. the New York
inancier accused Of violating the IA
ional banking laws. took the stand
n his own defense. promising to re-
real everything.
Edward Cook & Co., soap-makers.
obtained a libel judgment Of $115. 900
lgainst certain English newspapers
,wned by Lord Northcliffe. which
:harged that the company was at