The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-10

er than assist in the prosecution d
Delavan Smith and Charles R. viii
liams, indicted in connection. with tn
Panama libel case. has resigned.
Joseph b. Healing, United States
district attorney at Indianapolis. rath
Elton Baldwin confessed that ht
killed his mother at Sagatuck, Mich.
because he feared she would tell thai
he set fire to their barn.
Heirs of Andrew Layton, at q meet
ing in Beloit, Wis, decided to lay
claim to land in the heart of Chicago's
business district which is worth mil
lions.
The resignation of e b. Cochems
formerly of the University of Wiscon
sin, as athletic director of st. Louis
university, has been accepted by the
athletic board.
King Victor Emanuel granted a pr
vate audience to William Marconi
and afterward entertained the in
ventor at dinner. His majesty con
graduated his guest warmly on the
results achieved by his system OF
wireless telegraphy.
Sidney l. Dandy has made a full
confession to Captain of Detectives
Anderson of Indianapolis, admitting
the conspiracy in which he and Jay
O'Loane were charged with having
entered into to kill James Goodwin
an aged Nevada miner. and get his
fortune, estimated at SCI, 200.
Capt. Merritt H. Insley, one of the
oldest and wealthiest citizens OF
Leavenworth, Kan, died, aged IS.
Capt. Insley served with distinction
through the civil war and was one of
the special guards appointed to guard
the White House in 1861.
Tucson, Ariz., in their special rain
for a trip over the Mexican coast
lines. ..s,
BY a decision of the Nebraska SUI
preme court Bishop Bonacum, of the
Catholic diocese of Lincoln, triumpns
in his ten years fight with ra,ner
William Murphy, q priest at Seward,
Neb.. for possession of st. Vincent's
church.
Frank c. Hollins, a New York bank
er and broker, who promoted and built
two railroads in Illinois, committed
suicide by inhaling gas.
Because of the heavy snowstorm
and blizzard in the east New York
newspapers were compelled to get
most of their stories about the in
auguration of President Taft by wire
less telegraph, a triumph of science
over nature.
The California senate adopted .
resolution calling on congress to pass
law excluding Asiatics from the
United States.
E. w. Backus of Minneapolis has
purchased machinery and will start a
big paper-making plans at Interna-
ticnal Falls. MINI.
A diamond necklace estimated to be
worth from 100000 to 100000 lost
by Mrs. Otto c. Heinze in New York
was found in the possession of a
Greek who was arrested in Omaha.
Neb.
The storm on the Atlantic coast de-
layed the arrival from Washington of
Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Roose
welt at their home in Oyster Bay seV-
eral hours.
Gov. johnson of Minnesota sent
kilograms to Washington congratulate.
ing President Taft and praising Theo
dore Roosevelt for the work he has
done.
To show their appreciation of his
stand in connection with the Browns
vile affair the negroes of Washing
ton presented a loving cup to Joseph
Benson Foraker, ex-senator of Ohio.
Indictments in connection with the
alleged Panama canal libel were voted
by the federal grand jury in New
York against the Press Publishing
Company and Caleb Van Hamm, man
aging editor of the New York World
A petition for divorce was fled If
St Louis by George Edward (Rube)
Waddell, the baseball pitcher. The
document charges that Mrs. Waddell
showed "a violent and ungovernable
and set pair Of vicious dogs
on him.
E. H. Hartman and party arrived in
Tucson, Ariz., on their five-car specia.
train en- route to Sonora, Mex, where
Mr.. Hartman will make an inspection
of the Mexican lines of the Southern
Pacific.
The legislature of New York will be
asked to make an appropriation OF
$3.50 for the purchase and preserva
ton of the cottage in which Gen. Grant
spent the last days of his life. and the
woodlands about it on Mount Mac
Gregor, near Saratoga.
Dispatches received at London and
Berlin confirm the reports that the
Servian premier has declared that
Servia, on the advice of Russia
France, Great Britain and Italy. does
not insist upon territorial compensa'
ton from Austria-Hungary.
Claiming they are being discrimi.
mated against. the coal dealers of Ohio
and Pennsylvania will make an appeal
to various railways leading to Lake
Erie points for a lower freight rate.
The sale of all the properties Of the
Southern Steel Company at auction
was decided upon At a meeting Of the
creditors of that company in Birming-
ham, Ala
Four men were killed by an explo.
sion in the Diamond mine at Butte.
Mont.
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