The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-11-18

| destroyed the country home OF JOhn
Wampfler near Alliance, o.
George S. Terry of New York has
been appointed assistant treasurer of
the United States to succeed Hamilton
| Fish. .H: t
Prof. Mark w. Harrington, former
chief of the United States weather
bareau, who mysteriously dropped out
of sight nearly ten years ago, has
been found, a hopeless mental wreck,
In the New Jersey Asylum for the In
sane at Morris Plains.
Three hundred and thirty-nine men
were killed in the Radbod mine near
Hamm, Westphalia, by an explosion
aid resulting fire. Thirty-five were
taken out badly injured.
A motor boat containing ten China
men and three white men was
wrecked Oh the breakwall at Buffalo.
N. Y. and six of the Orientals, who
were being smuggled from Canada,
lost their lives.
The Register and Leader of Des
Moines, Ia, has bought the Daily Trib-
une, an afternoon Democratic daily.
The Illinois state board of equaliza-
ton fixed the total assessed valuation
of property in the state at $685.
515,156. against 1884, BOG in 1907.
Mrs. Mary Wheeler Somerby of
Newburyport, Mass, an aged widow.
| was declared to be the sole heir to an
estate valued at 100000 by an order
filed in the chancery court at Tren-
| ton, N. J.
Clarence Agnew, colored, was given
| life sentence for causing a fatal
wreck on the Southern railway near
Duncan, S. C.
President Roosevelt Thursday re-
ceived at the White House about 500
farmers and their wives, who were at.
tending the convention of the National
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.
The jury in the Lamphere murder
case at Laporte, Ind, was completed.
the states attorney made his open
ing statement and the introducing of
evidence was begun.
A cold bloodeG plot by a daughter
to murder her mother for her money
was exposed in the arrest Of Miss Mae
L. Otis of Chicago. The woman had
arranged to have her mother beaten
to death, but unwittingly hired de-
tectives to do the deed.
Judge Taylor of the federal court
at Cleveland, O., appointed Warren
Hicknell and Frank A. Scott as joint
receivers for the Municipal Traction
Company and the Cleveland Railway
Company.
Albert Berger, a former Alaska min
er, just before committing suicide at
Canyon Ferry, Mont, threw $4,000 In
post-office money orders payable to
himself, in the stove.
One Nan was killed and 35 injured
by an explosion in the Excelsior
Springs Powder factory at Dodson.
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Postmaster General Meyer an
nounced that the postal deficit for the
fiscal year ended June 80 amounted to
$16,91O,279, the largest in the history
of the post-cfice department..
Mrs. A. w. Bonds of Memphis,
Tenn, killed S. p. Craig because he
insulted and annoyed her.
Manila's new water system has been
completed at a cost of $2,O0O,000.
DR.. B. F. Bechtold, aged 6 years,
Kulpsville, Pa, patient in a private
hospital in Philadelphia, was burned
to death.
Eleven persons pere killed and
many injured when a Great Northern
express crashed into the rear of q
New Orleans & Northeastern local at
Little Woods station, a fishing and
hunting camp on Lake Ponchartrain
II miles from New Orleans.
c. E. Sweet of Dowagiac, Mich, de-
feated candidate for prosecuting attor-
ney, sued T. J. Bresnahan, his sue
cessful opponent, for $4,000 damages
for libel and SANDER.
The names of 20 Nebraska newspa-
per men holding Western Union Tele-
graph Company franks were certified
to to the attorney general by the
state railway commission for prosecu-
tion under the anti-discrimination
clause of the commission act Among
the defendants is Victor Rosewater,
chief of the publicity committee of
the Republican national committee.
A bill providing for universal suf-
frage in Hungary was presented to
the chamber of deputies by Count An
Grassy, minister of the interior.
Rev. French E. Oliver, a revivalist,
has issued an open letter to William
]. Bryan urging the Nebraskan to be-
come an evangelist, and predicting
that he would become an equal of the
apostle Paul.
Republican members of the Bull.
garian national assembly and even
several members of the government
majority made a most sensational at
tack on Emperor Ferdinand during the
debate on the address in reply to the
royal message.
Edward Bostwick, 6S years old, and
a former state senator of Michigan,
committed suicide in Syracuse, N. Y,
by strangiirs himself with q silk
scarf.
An average yield Of 26.2 bushels Of
corn per acre and an increased total
production of 2,642, 6S7 900 bushels of
corn are preliminary estimates an
nounced in the report of the depart
ment of agriculture.
William Oswald. president of the
Telegram Publishing Company of
Lawrence, Mass, committed suicide.
The battleship North Dakota was
successfully launched from the yard