The Columbus journal., 1908-02-05

to be built at Hankow, China, by Chi
nese capitalists will cost $1,000. 900.
Gov. Hughes was strongly Endorsed
for the Republican nomination for the
presidency and the administration Of
President Roosevelt was commended
in q resolution unanimously adopted
by the Republican committee Of New
York county.
Marshal Halstead. former United
States consul at Birmingham. Eng
land. and son OF, Murat Halstead, died
in Cincinnati following an operation
for appendicitis.
Gen. BENJAMIN Rush Cowen. for
over q years clerk of the United
States circuit and district courts for
the southern district of Ohio. assistant
secretary of the interior under Presi-
dent Grant and formerly editor of the
Ohio State Journal, died in Cincinnati.
The Illinois house passed the direct
plurality primary bill already adopted
by the senate.
The corOner's jury in the case OF
the theater holocaust at Boyertown,
Pa, asked for the prosecution of Mrs.
Monroe, owner of the stereopticon ma.
chine, and Harry McC. Bechtel. the
deputy factory inspector. on the
charge of criminal negligence.
Practically complete election re
turns gave J. Y. Sanders lead of be-
tween 1900 and $4,000 votes over T.
S. Wilkerson in the Democratic guber-
Material primary in Louisiana.
Charles H. Kipp of the wholesale
grocery firm of Kerr, Kipp & Co., Of
Hastings, Neb., committed suicide, as
the result OF overwcrk and worry. by
shooting himself in the head with a
shotgun.
That this nation has reached the
point where it must decide whether
it is to lose the use of the rivers in
the east and south through the nom
preservation of forests which safe.
guard the watersheds was the decla-
ration of Secretary OF Agriculture
Wilson, president OF the American
Forestry association, which convened
in Washington.
Night riders burned two large to.
bacco barns near Adairsville. KY.
Two negroes who robbed and killed
their father near Commerce, Miss,
were lynched by a mob of colored
men.
Judge F. NJ. Powers at Denison. Ia,
sentenced Joseph and Solomon Hars.
san to a term of 25 years each in the
penitentiary for the murder of their
cousin, Fred Nawfal, last January.
Bert Swan, a wealthy farmer near
Missouri Valley. Ia, committed SUI
eide by cutting his throat with a razor.
Two masked men robbed the Office
of the Adams Express company al
Mansfield, O., of $1,000, but missed a
bag containing $4,000 in gold.
The jury in the Schooley- Crawford
will contest at Scranton, Pa, declared
the paper presented by George B.
SchOoley as the last will of James L.
Crawford, the millionaire coal opera,
tor, to be forgery.
Nolan J. Whiteside, at religious
revival IL Minneapolis, confessed to
a long series of crimes.
Mistaking his father-in-law, William
Conner. for a burglar, A. c. Burr shot
and instantly killed him at Dallas.
Tex.
Several persons were fatally shot in
political riots on the streets of Lisbon.
Rev. John w. Venebal. for many
years pastor of Grace Episcopal
church at HOpkinsville, KY, and for
the past 40 years sovereign grand
chaplain of the Odd Fellows in the
United States, died.
Fire in Newton. Kan, destroyed
half dozen stores, the loss being
$15O,OOO.
During the last quarter of 1907 the
net earnings of the United States
Steel corporation were $32 1858, ,995.
1t seems likely that prosecutions
may follow the coroner's inquest into
the Rhoades opera house disaster at
BOyertown, Pa, which cost 169 lives.
In the testimony there were strong
hints of graft as well as admissions Of
gross negligence.
Fire in the heart of Chicago's down.
town district did about S1.7O0,O0O the
heaviest losers being Alfred Peats &
Co., wall paper; Edison Keith & Co.,
wholesale millinery, and John A
Colby & Son, furniture.
John l. Dickson. president of the
First National bank of Fulda. Minn.,
was struck by q passenger train and
instantly killed.
Brig Gen. Medorem Crawford. who
was recently promoted from colonel
of the Coast Artillery corps, was
placed on the retired list on account
of age.
Flames destroyed a part of Nelson
Morris & Co.'S packing plant in Kan
sas City, half a million dollars dam
age being done.
The Order of the Legion of Honor
has been conferred upon Eugene
Meyer. a New York banker.
Four cars of fast New Orleans &
Northeastern passenger train toppled
of a low trstle near Hattiesburg,
Miss, and rolled down an embank
ment without killing or fatally injur-
ing person.
A colored family of seven persons
burned to death at Bedford City, Va.
Capt William Rohde of the German
steamship Neidenfels. just in from the
Orient, asserts that the natives Of In
dia are busy preparing to shake on
the British yoke.
The Partisan laundry building in
Detroit was gutted by fire, the loss