The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-10-14

The new town of Taft, on the Island
of Samar, was destroyed by the re-
cent typhoon in the Philippines.
During manuevers Of the TurkestanI
army corps in the vicinity of Askabad.
Gen. Mistchenko. who played a con-
spicuous part in the Russ0-Japanese
war and who is now governor general
of Turkestan, was wounded in q sham
battle. A revolutionist plot is sus-
pected.
Hongkong dispatches asserted the
real reason for Sir Robert Harris re-
cent visit to England was to bring
about an alliance between China, the
United States and Great Britain to
conserve the interests of the nations
in the far east.
The Atlantic feet sailed from Ma
Mia for Japan.
Gov. Wilson of Kentucky sent a
company of state troops to Hickman.
KY, to prevent an attack by night rid
erS.
Fire destroyed the business section
of Inkster, N. D., the loss being $119,-
900.
A 15,OO0-gallon water tank supply
ing Tombstone (Ariz.) Consolidated
Mines Company was blown up with
dynamite and the pipe lines supplying
the mill damaged.
Mrs. Rose d. Rittman of Memphis,
Tenn, leader of the so-called anti-ad-
ministration element in the Woman's
Catholic Order of Foresters, was
elected president of the order by
majority of one vote over Mrs. Eliza
beth Rodgers of Chicago.
Chicago won the National league
baseball pennant by defeating New
York in a game witnessed by record
breaking crowd.
The jury in the case of Abe Raymer.
alleged mob leader, charged with de-
struction of property during the re-
cent riots in Springfield, ILL.,, returned
a verdict of not guilty.
Charles H. Trotter, an American,
and Vicente Toledo and Jose Canayan.
Spaniards, were killed in the province
of Pampagna by a party of Fflipinos.
The Liberal party held it's first ma
tional convention in Chattanooga,
Tenn. and the following nominations
were made: For president, Sydney c.
Tapp of Atlanta, Ca; for vice-presi-
dent, John Maddox of Minnesota.
Comptroller of the Currency Muir
ray announced that he would put into
immediate action a plan for the for
nation of IL districts of national bank
examiners, with chairman examiner
in charge at each of the following
cities: Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia, Pittsburg. Nashville, Chicago,
Minneapolis, Kansas City, Fort Worth,
Denver and San Francisco.
The arbitration treaty between the
United States and China was signed
in Washington.
The strike of Iowa Central railway
shopmen was settled, the shops re-
naming union.
Salvatore Sallina was convicted of
throwing a bomb in New York and
sentenced to nine years imprison-
| ment.
P. T. Ecker and S. Ecker were SEN
fenced at Clarksburg, w. Va, to four
years in the penitentiary for making
spurious nickels, which were used to
work slot machines.
Five Harvard men who sailed in the
old cup defender Mayflower to recover
the treasure from long-ago wrecked
Spanish galleon, were wrecked in the
hurricane that swept the West Indies
and were rescued with difficulty.
With a conclusion which shook the
entire village of Richford, VT, large
grain elevator, having a capacity of
100000 bushels. exploded, causing the
death of IL men and a woman.
| The French fishing schooner Juanita
foundered on the Grand Banks and 25
of her crew drowned.
Six Mexican miners were killed by
a cave-in at Gananea, Mexico.
John w. Richardson, a Virginia far
mer, killed his fatherin-law, his sister
in-law and himself.
| Perry Roger, marshal of NORTH,
Kan, shot and killed ]. H. Schmucker.
editor of the Morrill, News, and then
committed suicide.
| Leaking gas in an Italian boarding
house at Waterbury, Conn, killed four
persons and made six others uncon-
scious.
| In an attempt to escape after being
arrested, Lucian Ferriss was shot and
instantly killed by Sergt. George
Smith at Nashville, Tenn.
After rescuing an aged woman from
a burning house Policeman Nicholas
Nestor Of Jersey City plunged again
into the blazing building and met
death by suffocation.
One fireman was killed and eight
were injured by the falling walls of a
burning grain elevator in Buffalo.
N. Y.
Messages of congratulation from
President Roosevelt and Messrs. Bry-
an and Taft were read in the trans
Mississippi congress in San Fran
cisco.
A woman, believed to have been
Mrs l.. D. Draper Of Saginaw, Mich,
committed suicide by leaping over
Niagara Falls.
The janitor of one of the largest
public schools in the Bronx. New York
city. discovered a charge of dynamite
in the foundation walls.
While temporarily insane Jacob
tempting, aged 20, prosperous
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