The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-12-02

Herds Of cattle injected yith foo
and mouth disease. we're found on Nv
farms near Detroit. Mich, and after I
conference between Secretary Wilson
and other onicials the state was quar-
antined.
More cattle infected with aphthou'
! fever were found near Detroit and
quarantine against that state was es
tablished by Illinois and Canada.
The department Of agriculture or
dered quarantine against the entire
state OF Maryland SO far as cattle and
sheep, etc, are concerned, on account
| of the appearance of foot and mouth
| disease.
Prominent Frenchmen are involved
in a great scandal resulting from the
Steinheil case. and the truth about
President Faure's death may become
known. Nine. Steinheil was arrested
as q result of her confession that ever
since her painter husband and Nine
Japy were murdered May 81 she has
known who the murderer was and that
she had been enacting a farce in her
attempts to help the police find the as.
sassin whom she wished to shield.
The census bureau says the divorce
rate in America Is higher than In any
other country, at least one marriage to
IL terminating in divorce.
Protestant pastors throughout the
Kansas and Missouri zinc mining dis
trict offered Thanksgiving day prayers
for a higher tariff on zinc ore.
Under circumstances puzzling to the
police, Salvatore BaldOna, q wealthy
Italian grocer of Philadelphia, was
found murdered on a sidewalk near
his home in Chestnut Hill Baldona
recently received a number of threat
ening letters demanding money.
AS the result of a quarrel over q
cock fight at Pocahontas. Va, Frank
Butt of Bromwell. w. Va, was shot
and fatally wounded; Judge Owen, po-
lice justice of Pocahontas was shot
through the lungs and Lee Carter of
POcahontas received bullet wound.
Official denial was made in Hayti Of
the report that Minister of the Interior
Leconte was killed by the rebels.
Peter Cunningham and wife of Pa
terson were asphyxiated by gas from
a leaky main, three children were
overcome and three men were badly
injured by an explosion when they
lit a match to find the leak.
Ernest Verweibe's wonderful work
as fullback on Harvard's football elev-
en-. which defeated Yale, has been rec
Ognized by President Roosevelt, who
has written a letter to Verweibe con-
graduating him.
The British steamer Sardinia of the
Ellerman line, bound for Alexandria,
with a crew of A Englishmen. II first
and six second cabin English passen-
gers, and nearly 200 Arab pilgrims
aboard burned close to the port Of
Valetta. Malta, and more than a hun
dred persons lost their lives. including
the captain and many of the crew.
William L. billiard of Boston, driv-
ing the Italian entry. the Lancia. won
the international light car race at Sa-
Ca. averaging more than 81
miles an hour for 1876 miles.
In Madison Square garden, New
York, Dorando Pietra defeated John J.
Hayes In what was practically re:
newal of the memorable struggle be-
tween the two men in the Marathon
race at the Olympic games in Eng
land. -
A large bulldog belonging to Benja-
min Desom of Evansville, Ind. at
tackled his horse and killed the animal.
Much property was destroyed and a
of persons were injured by
tOrnadoes in Christian county, Mis-
souri,. and Delaware county, Iowa.
The Indiana monument to soldiers
from that state who died in Ander-
prison was unveiled in the
presence of Gov. Frank Hanly and
staff and other notables.
Six riotous strikers were shot by |
deputy sheriffs in Keasbey, n. J., and |
Gov. Fort sent four companies of the
state guard to quell the disturbance.
An equestrian statue of Gen. Philip |
H. Sheridan was unveiled at Wash |
ngton with elaborate ceremonies in |
which President Roosevelt and many |
other distinguished men participated.
The hospital ship, overdue at Ma
lila, was badly damaged in a typhoon.
r. w. Drake, prominent planter.
was murdered at his home near Lane
Vile, Ala.
Robbers secured $4,000 from the
bank in Tonawanda. Neb., and $4,000
rom bank in Page. Neb.
The department Of commerce and
abor has ordered the deportation of
3 persons who came from Great
Britain under an alleged unlawful con-
ract with the Firth Carpet Company
# Firth Cliff, N. Y.
Walter Wellman sued a Paris sport
ng paper for 100000 because it called
lis polar expedition "an American
,luff."
Carl Loose, a New York baker, shot
nd killed his daughter Meta, aged
Z, and probably fatally wounded his
on Frederick, pastor of a Lutheran
hurch at Yale. S. d.
Three firemen were seriously in
ured and ten others overcome by
moke during fire at the new Hotel
ionroe in Butler, Pa.
Mrs. Georgianna Sampson of Pal.
nyra, N. Y. widow of Harry Samp-
on. nephew Of the late Admiral
sampson. was arrested charged with
he murder Of her husband, whose
cath was at first said to be suicide.