The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-12-23

heart, Miss MauQ daruey, Hdu TeJoCe-
ed him. James B. Harmon, the 1S-year-
old son of Police Sergeant James M.
Harmon, shot and killed her on the
street in Somerville, Mass.
The four men convicted in the Penn
syIyania capitol fraud case were SEN
fenced to two years in the penn
Tertiary. $500 fine and costs, the maxi
mum punishment allowed by law. and
were released on 100000 bail on su-
persedeas.
James Curren, IS years old, was
killed in a boxing bout with Benjamin
Barnet, II years Of age, at the Broad
way Athletic club of Philadelphia.
Frank Cain. city marshal of Higbee.
Mo-, was shot and probably fatally
wounded and Elmer Magruder was In
stantly killed in the city Jail by three
men whom Cain had arrested on
charge of robbing a railway station at
Salisbury, Mo.
Eleven deaths have occurred and IL
men are seriously ill at keithley
camp, Mindanao island. as result OF
the men of the Eighteenth infantry
drinking calumbic acid. vegetable
compound extracted from the columbia
root
Six hundred pupils calmly marched
out of the high school at Altoona, Pa,
which was on fire.
Cox. Campbell of Texas announced
that the law closing saloons on Sun
day would be enforced throughout the
state.
Sir Max Waechter. who is touring
the capitals of Europe advocating the
abolition of emperors and kings and
the formation of the United States of
Europe, was received by NJ. Pichon,
French minister of foreign affairs. Sir
| Max fayors King Edward as the first
| president of his proposed union.
The Council of Jewish Women.
through DR.. Cornelia H. Kahn, chair
man of the committee on purity OF the
press. has issued an appeal to newspa-
pers for the elimination of indecent
details in the published evidence at
murder and divorce trials.
One man was fatally injured and
one seriously hurt in a head-on COLI
sion between two passenger trains or
the Big Four railroad between Lilley
and Woodruff, Ill.
On a charge of criminal libel. made
! by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., S. S. Car
! valho. president of the Star Company.
! publishers of William r. Hearst's New
| York American, was arrested in New
| York.
+, A considerable part of Rostov-on-
the-Don, a bGsy Russian city Of 12o.-
| 600 population. was destroyed by flre.
Frederick A. Storm, real estate
dealer, testified in the trial of Thorn
| ton J. Hams, as a principal with MS
! brother, Capt. Peter c. Hams, in the
| killing of William E. Annis, that the
! defendant had inquired as to the
| whereabouts of Annis shortly before
the latter sailed up to the dock where
Re was shot. Charles Birchfield. a
| friend of Annis, declared that Thorn
| ton Hams drove him back with a
drawn revolver when he sought to
stop the shooting.
Postmaster General Meyer an
nounced that he would not renew his
order. issued in December, 1907, per-
hitting delivery to charitable organi-
cations of letters addressed TO santa
| Claus"
Oregon Railroad & Navigation train
No. l. known as the Chicago-Portland
special, was held up and the express
car dynamited by four masked rob-
bers nine miles east of Portland, Ore.
Express Messenger o. H. HUFF SAID
the robbers secured little of value.
Rev. Joseph l.. Sullens of Spring
field, Mo-, was shot and killed acci
dentally while hunting.
| The tentative selection of Salt Lake
City as the next meeting place OF the
Grand Army of the Republic was con
| firmed by the executive committee
which has been investigating the &C
commodations afforded by the city.
The doors of the First National
bank of Somersworth, n. H., were
closed, following the discovery of a
shortage, placed at $4,000. and Fred
H. Varney, the cashier of the bank.
was arrested on a charge of being a
defaulter
Nine companies, with their subsid,
iaries, are named as constituting an
illegal combination in the final de-
cree, filed in the United States cir
cult court at New York. putting into
effect the judgment recently OBJ
tanned by the government in its suit
TO dissolve the so-called tobacco
trust.
The Dutch Battleship Jacob van
Heemskerk captured the Venezuelan
guardship % de Mayo and towed it to
Curacao. In Berlin President Castro
called on the German chancellor and
was examined by a physician.
On hearing of the seizure by the
Dutch of the guardship Alix. Acting
President Gomez declared Venezuela
in a state of defense. President Castro
arrived in Berlin and was given an
ovation.
That the latest battleships built by
this country are vastly superior to
England's Dreadnought. is emphatical'
~ stated by Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans in an article in the latest mum
Der of Hampton's Broadway Magazine,
wherein he strongly defends the
American navy and replies to crit
cisms of 1t made some time ago by
Henry Reuterdahl and others.
In an onfnion nv Justice Holmes
the supreme court of the United States