The Columbus journal., 1908-06-24

According to the Iron 4 Steel
Trades Journal of Londos. American.
German and Russian syndicates are
about to form an international steel
trust with f150, 00O, 900 capital.
Three national guardsmen Of New
York were killed by . flare back" In
one of the guns of Fort Wadsworth
during the mimic war.
Twenty-three wrapping paper com
panies pleaded guilty, in New York. 70
indictments charging them with vio-
lating the Sherman antitrust act.
Sweeping reductions in lumber
rates west of the Missouri river, and
approximately five per cent. reduction
in the advanced rates In the east, as
well as other changes in the tariff.
were ordered under decisions an
nounced by the interstate commerce
commission.
Five unidentified Italians employed
by contractors on the Lackawanna
railroad cutoff at Lehigh on the
Pocono mountains, were killed by a
premature blast.
Twenty passengers were injured.
one fatally, In an interurban trolley
road collision near Bakertown, Pa.
Mrs. Mary Farmer was found guilty
a. Watertown, N. Y, Of the murder of
Mrs. Sarah Brennan, and was SEN
fenced to be electrocuted.
DR.. Frank Stirn of Cudahy, . suburb
of Milwaukee, was shot and probably
MORALLY wounded by a man named
Antony Kriz whom he had treated
unsuccessfully.
The famous Summit house on the
top of Mount Washington was de-
stroyed by fire.
Gen. Khoroshkin. commander of a
detachment of Cossacks stationed at
VOrkniskan, a town near Uralsk, was
assassinated.
Three members of the New York
National Guard were seriously injured
by the explosion of powder charge
at Fort Wadsworth.
Fire destroyed the plant of the
Shelby Steel Tube company at Shelby.
O., owned by the United States Steel
corporation. Loss was 100000.
Several persons were injured, one
perhaps fatally, two houses and a half
dozen barns were destroyed by a
tornado which struck the eastern out
skirts of Sioux City.
Domingo Schiappa Pietra filed
suit against the heirs of the late Leo
pold Petra of Los Angeles, asking for
one-half of an estate valued at $780,
600. alleging that she is the common
law wife of FREDERICK Petra, an Ital-
ian immigrant, who laid a foundation
for the immense fortune.
AS officers. carrying a warrant charg-
ing him with transportation of the
funds Of the Aberdeen (OD Banking
company. were breaking down the
doors of his barricaded home to place
him under arrest, D. II. Fawcett, pres
ident of the bank. placed a revolver
to his head and fired bullet into his
brain.
Martin Finn of Salisbury, N. Y,
was killed in his sleep by his wife,
who then took poison.
Mrs. A. L. Stairs of Sandy Creek,
w. Va. while temporarily insane
killed her two little children and her
self.
Lazarus Levy, the 65-year-old head
of the banking firm of L. Levy & Co.,
was sued at New York by Susie A.
Merrill. 80 years his junior, for $780,
600 damages for breach of promise.
The federal grand jury at New
York found third indictment against
Alfred H. Curtis, president, and
Charles w. Morse. vice-president Ma
tional Bank of North America, charg-
ing them with making false entries in
rency and the misapplication of funds
for speculative purposes, amounting
to about $1.250,0OO.
The president of the Russian revo-
lutionary republic was sentenced to Is
years at hard labor.
Three Black Hand members we're
killed and a fourth wounded by a
wealthy Italian merchant of New Or
leans from whom they had attempted
to extort money.
The Cunarder Lusitania was stopped
for 20 minutes in the narrows at New
York because the great guns of Forts
WadswOrth and Hamilton were being
fired in the war game"
The Democratic state convention OF
Mississippi instructed the delegates to
vote first and last for the selection OF
William J. Bryan as the presidential
nominee.
DR.. w. F. King, for 40 years presi-
dent of Cornell college at Mount Yer
non, Ia. resigned on account Of i'll
health. Prof. James Harlan was
chosen president
Four hundred feet Of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railway embankment.
which served as levee protecting St.
Charles county (Mo.) farms from the
Missouri river, gave way and 1000
acres of farm lands were inundated.
Miss Miriam Frances BlOomer.
daughter Of James F. Bloomer Of Gin
cinnati, drank poison by mistake in
New York and died.
Thomas Hagen. a marine. was killed
by a blow over the heart in a boxing
bout on the battleship Mississippi at
Philadelphia.
Two hundred lives were endangered
by an incendiary attempt to burn a
tenement house in New York.
Joseph Fangele, a wealthy merchant