The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-07-08

Denver, Col, was commended by the
board of directors of the National Ed
ucation association as the place for
the next annual convention Of the as
sociation.
Fire in Stamping Ground, KY. de-
stroyed a hotel and three residences.
Four persons were badly hurt and
two dwellings wrecked by BLACK
hand bomb at McKeesport, Pa.
An American citizen named Bar
rington has been arrested at San Jose,
Guatemala, as spy and may be put to
death, according to mail advices re-
ceived in San Francisco.
Nine men were killed in a collision
between fast trains near KnObnoster,
Mo.
All the battleships of the Atlantic
squadron assembled in San Francisco
harbor ready to start on their trip
across the Pacific.
Francis G. Bailey, the president of
the Export Shipping company of New
Jersey, who, together with his brother,
Albert w. Bailey. Charles H. H. N.Y.
ers and Capt Albert Oxley was placed
aboard the Norwegian steamer Ut.
stein at Puerto Cortez. Honduras, in
custody of Lieut.. p. w. Berry Of the
New York police department, made
his escape in a small boat.
The Minnesota Republican conven-
ton nominated Jacob F. Jacobson OF
Madison for governor and adopted a
platform indorsing the work of the
Chicago convention and pledging the
party in Minnesota to continue the
work of railway regulation.
Count Zeppelin outdistanced all
world records for steerage balloons.
He remained in the air for II hours
and traversed the greater part of
northern Switzerland, attaining an
average speed throughout of "a miles
an hour.
Mrs. Frances Thompson. wife Of a
Fargo, n. D.. school teacher, was
found strangled to death, gagged and
bound hand and foot with a clothes
line, in her apartments in a rooming
house in Chicago.
August Reltzner, aged IS, one of the
most prominent business men of
Joliet, ILL.,, was killed while resisting
two holdup men in his grocery store.
Wilbur F. Parker, well-knOwn real
estate man of st. Louis, committed
suicide.
The Idaho board of pardons COM
muted the sentence of Harry Orchard,
who was under sentence to hang for
the murder of former Gov. Frank
Stuenenberg, to Imprisonment for life.
One man was killed, three were seri-
ously injured and a halfdozen were
slightly hurt in a railway collision at
Des Moines, la.
Thomas Hill, a well-known land
scape artist, committed suicide at his
home at the entrance of Yosemite
valley.
Lorenzo Dow Harvey, Phi. D., SUI
perintendent of public schools and su-
perintendent of the Stout Training
school of Menomonie, Wis. was
elected president of the National Ed
ucation association at Cleveland.
twenty-five starving French sea-
men cast away on Antipodes island
were rescued by the British warship
Pegasus.
Oliver p Ensley of Indianapolis,
former county treasurer, was indicted
on a charge of embezzling $22,5O0.
Walter J. Bartnett of San Francisco
was sentenced to ten years in the PEN
itentiary for having hypothecated
bonds and securities to the amount OF
s205.00O belonging to the estate of
Ellen NJ. Cotton, of which he was spe-
cial administrator.
Mae c. Wood, the Omaha woman
who sued United States Senator
Thomas c. Plat for divorce. was in
dicted by grand jury in New York
on charges of perjury and forgery.
The $50 employees of the Remington
typewriter works at lion. N. Y. re-
ceived $4,000 as the semi-annual
bonus distributed by the company to
it's employees.
Annie Wilson, nine years old, told
in a New York police court of sue
cessfully committing more than SO
burglaries.
Attacked by a band of so insurgents,
government troops at Palomas, Mex
leo, small town in Chihuahua, killed
one rebel and wounded several 9th
ers. The revolutionists fed to the
mountains, pursued by the soldiers.
Mrs. Louisiana Hobbs Douglass, one
Of the numerous wives of the alleged
bogus Lord" Oswald Reginald Doug
lass, was granted an absolute divorce
from Lord" Douglass at Norfolk.
Va.
Two men were killed, and three
badly injured in the collapse of liv-
cry stable in Minneapolis.
At Friedrichshafen Count Zeppelin's
sirship stood brilliantly the longest
and most searching test it has yet un-
dergone. 1t remained in the air for
six hours and three-quarters, attaining
an average speed of 34h miles an hour
throughout.
In order to escape trial on a charge
of being implicated in the robbery and
killing of Frank Frorer. millionaire
banker of Lincoln, ILL.,, William Web
Der of Springfield entered a plea of
guilty to another charge of robbery
and was sentenced to the penitentiary.
George B. Mcclellan was declared
to have been duly elected mayor Of
New York over W. r. Hearst, in 1905,
by Justice Lambert. and by the JUS
tees orders the jury returned YER
dict to that effect.
Judges Sanborn, Hook and Adams,
in the United States circuit court at