The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-06-03

Port Arthur, Ont, broke. causing
loss of three lives and property loss
OF $500, 900. sES
The battleship Michigan war
launched at Camden. N. J., Gov.
Warner OF Michigan being among the
guests and Miss Carol Newberry.
daughter Of the assistant secretary OF
the navy. being the sponsor.
Justice Lambert in New York de-
cided that the ballot boxes used In
the .McClellan.Hearst mayorafty cleo
ton should be opened. :,
George and Claude Blessing. sons OF
George Blessing, who lived q mile
south of New Hampton, Mo-, were
killed by lightning.
Rev. S. H. Glasgow, for many years
pastor of the Woodson (M) Presby-
terrain church, was drowned after res
cuing his little son.
Ten dead, II injured, several fatally,
hundreds of head of cattle killed, q
vast acreage of crops destroyed, ruin
and desolati0n. are the results OF q
series of tornadoes that visited Alfal-
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also visited towns in Nebraska.
Four men were killed in a mine ex-
plosion at Salinesville, o.
w. r. Hearst gained q votes in the
recount of the first two ballot boxes
opened in New York.
After drifting helplesssly in the lit
tie launch Zeus of Avalon, Santa Cata-
lima island, for two days, E. E. Easton.
his wife, two children and a colored
nurse were rescued on the high seas
by the United States converted cruiser
Buffalo. Capt A. Crist of the launch
is lost and c. E. Hooline, seaman
on the cruiser, was drowned.
The battleship feet anchored for
day in Tacoma harbor and then four
of the vessels sailed for San Francisco
At Hampton Roads the monitor
Florida was made the target OF the
heaviest projectile. fired at its turret
plate with the highest of explosives.
from the largest naval gun and at close
range. The turret stood the severe
test exceilently, as did the new mill
tary mast.
Senior Don. Augusta B. Leguia has
been elected to succeed DR.. Pardo as
president of Peru
Former Chief of Police John NJ. Col
Inns and Frank d. Comerford, police
attorney under the Dunno administra-
ton in Chicago, were found not guilty
ny jury of conspiracy to .defraud the
city Of Chicago by diverting the serv-
ices of the police to political work.
The coroner's jury found that Mrs.
Carrie Shaw of Hortonvflle, Wis,
whose body was found in mill pond.
committed suicide.
Six leading officials of as many
boiler-making plants and structural
iron works in Boston were arrested
by police inspectors, charged with
conspiracy to defraud the city.
The Boston fishing schooner Fame
was run down and sunk by Dominion
liner Boston and II of her crew were
drowned.
Two men bound and gagged Mrs
Frank Blanchard in her home neal
Benton, ILL.,. and set fire to the house
The husband arrived just in time tc
save her life.
Election of eight bishops was com
pleted by the Methodist conference
at Baltimore.
Enraged farmers near Belleville. Ill.
nearly lynched a negro who had
robbed a saloon.
1 D,,t1n hnf
Simpson, a locomotive engineer with
whom she was infatuated, at Roanoke
Va, and then committed suicide.
After a separation of 30 years, J. L
Carr of California and Miss Belle Og
den of Clarksburg, w. Va, who had
been childhood sweethearts, were mar
ried in Cincinnati, o.
II has been decided no. to withdraw
any of the United States troops from
Cuba at the present time.
Pope Plus has decorated A. B. Nc
Donnell. a banker of Chippewa Falls
Wis. with the order of St. Gregory
the Great.
Street car men of Cleveland, o.
voted to continue the strike.
Fourteen persons dead. others miss
ing, property valued at millions of dol
lars swept away, thousands homeless
and being cared for by charitable as
sociations, train and wire service de
moralized, were the results of tn,
food in northern and central Texas
In Oklahoma much the same condi
tons existed.
Fines amounting to 100000 as
sessed against post Office clerks fol
breaches of discipline. have been de
clared illegal and will be RENTED.
Two steamers went ashore and tv,
others collided in a dense fog In thu
vicinity of New York.
The general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church put itself OF
record as indorsing unQualifiedly tn
work of the Anti-SaloOn league ant
also favoring local option.
Three; bold bandits tried to ro
three bank messengers of $43, 900 o.
crowded street and in broad day
light in New York, but were foiled b.
: the messengers, who were helped b
plucky restaurant waitress.
Mrs. Ellen French Vanderbilt wa
granted a decree of divorce from A
fred Gwynne Vanderbilt and awarde
the custody of their only child.
Justice Morschauser of the Ne'
York supreme court decided tina
Harry X. Thaw was still insane an