The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-06-10

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convention.
The City of Cleveland, largest pas
senger steamer on the lakes, started
from Detroit on her maiden trip.
About 20 persons were killed and
sec, 900 damage done to property by
cloudburst at Guanajuato, Mexico.
Mae O'Reilly, who, Julius G. Truel-
son, Jr., declared in a confession" to
the Texas authorities, was murdered
on the Guinness farm at LapOrte, Ind,
is in Saratoga, n. Y, alive and well.
Three persons were killed instant:
" and more than a dozen injured in a
collision between an Elgin, Joliet &
Eastern freight train and an Aurora
car of the Joliet & Southern Electric
Traction company.
Joseph NJ. Brown defeated Hoke
Smith for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton in the Georgia Democratic pri-
mary.
Forty ships were wrecked and 27O
pearl fishers met death in a terrible
typhoon off the west coast of Austria
liza.
The Wise levee. constructed along
the Missouri shore of the Mississippi
river. across from Alton, broke and
about 1000 acres of farm land were
submerged.
Mrs. Minnie Grunert was found
strangled to death at Appleton, Wis,
and the police believed she was muir
dered.
The jury at Allegan, Mich, disa-
greed in the case of Mrs. Nelly,
charged with manslaughter because
her child died while under treatment
by mental healers.
Reports of principals of schools in
the East side, New York, have re.
vealed the shocking fact that hundreds
of the pupils are starving. A commit
tee of East side school board members
has organized for the relief of these
poor children and emergency meas
ures have been adopted.
In desperate fight with a large
wildcat near CannOnsburg, Pa, John
Brady, farmer. was fatally injured.
Robbers cracked the safe of the
Bank of Falkland, Okla, and obtained
$4,000.
Idaho Democrats were split by the
Mormon question and held two con.
ventions. Democrats of Maryland and
Louisiana elected uninstructed dele
cations.
Preparations for the placing Of
Emile Zola's body in the Pantheon
! aroused the anti-semites of Paris to
violent rage and some riOting &C.
Cured.
Charles T. Muir, paying teller of a
New York bank. committed suicide be.
discovered.
Senator Allison defeated Gov. Cum
| Minis in the Iowa primaries by about
$4,000 majority.
The Burlington road was fined at
Springfield, ILL.,, for violating the 2S-
hour live stock shipment law.
A. p. Camden. Chicago travelling
man, was murdered in Minneapolis
by a youth supposed to be insane.
The federal grand jury at st. Paul
returned three indictments against
James l.. Lowering. publisher of the
Mail Order Monthly and of Successful
Agriculture, charging him with using
the mails for the purpose of promoting
a lottery and scheme to defraud.
With appropriate exercises, the peo-
pie of the south celebrated the one
hundredth anniversary of the birth of
jefferson Davis.
Mrs. William Dorner and her four
young daughters were asphyxiated by
gas in their home in Chicago.
Postmaster General Meyer an
nounced that an agreement had been
reached with the British government
for letter postage of two cents an
ounce between the United States and
Great Britain and Ireland, to become
effective October 1.
The president appointed Roy H.
Chamberlain, an attorney at law, of
Iowa. as general appraiser of mer-
chandise at New York.
The Kosciusko county bank at War
saw, Ind. was closed by the state au-
ditor because of bad loans.
c. F. WILDER. a butcher of Beatrice,
Neb, built a gallows and hanged him.
self
Theodore P. Shorts denied the
stories that his son-in-law, the Duke
de Chaulnes. was drug fiend; he said
the nob!eman was stricken with heart
disease while praying by his wife's
side.
For perhaps the first time in history
there will be fair election in Central
America the first week in July. when
Panama chooses its new president
The campaign has become so threaten.
ing that it has been decided to guard
the polls with United States marines.
The supreme court of the United
States affirmed the decision Of the
United States circuit court for the
eastern district of Missouri in the ex-
tradition case of H. Clay Pierce of the
Waters-Pierce Oil company of st
Louis. holding him subject to extradi-
ton to Texas, where he is under in
dictnent on a charge of perjury.
OBITUARY.
Dr.. Williamson F. Boyakin died at
Marysville. KY, in his one hundred
and second year. He was reared in
Tennessee and Gen. Andrew Jackson
gave him a college education.
Mrs. w. Van Werden, wife of DR.
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