The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-09-29

cuse university announced that Mrs
Russell Sage had given $4,000 to thu
institution on her birthday.
DR.. Cook arrived in New York har
Dor Tuesday morning on the Oscar II
from Denmark.
The Chicago & Northwestern rail
road carried $1,000. 900 passengers dur
ing the year ending June 80, 1909
without single life being lost accord
ing to a report issued by that road
The other roads which have thus fal
announced a clear record of this KIND
for a year include the Pennsylvania
Burlington and Santa Fee.
The First National bank of Burn
| side, KY, closed its doors Friday. The
bank has $500 capital stock. Over
| loans and some unfortunate business
deals are given as the cause of failure
A campaign for a constitutional
amendment for prohibition in Ala
bama was launched at Birmingham at
| conference which was participated
in by several hundred prohibitionists
| anti-saloon league members and par
tisans from all over the state. An
official statement was made prior to
the beginning of the meeting that the
conference represented no political
faction or set of politicians.
Assistant United States District At
torney Crum said that the trial of the
officers and directors of the American
Sugar Refining company who were in
dicted by the federal grand jury for
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law, probably would not come up I'M
til the middle of October.
A COLLISION of bicycles killed Victor
Yasenar and seriously hurt John Dow
ney, brother of Tom Downey, short
stop of the Cincinnati National league
team. Downey will recover.
Right Rev. William George McClos-
ky. bishop of Louisville and the oldest
living Catholic prelate in the United
States, is seriously i'll at Louisville,
KY. He is eighty-six years old.
Mrs. E. H. Hartman has been made
the sole beneficiary and administrator
of her husbands vast estate. which is
estimated to be valued at from $780,
100000 to 5000, 100000.
Packy Mcfarland and Ray Bronson
fought twenty rounds to draw at the
West Side Athletic club in Nc
Donoughville, just across the river
from New Orleans, Sunday afternoon.
Judge Corey, of the probate court,
made an order distributing to Mrs.
Anna Spreckels, widow of the late
Spreckles. her share of the sugar
kings estate. which is estimated to be
worth more than 100000.
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Foreign.
A second earthquake was felt
throughout a large part of southwest
ern France, Thursday. The quake it.
self caused little damage, but it was
followed by terrific hailstorm that
destroyed the remaining crops.
The highest telephone line in the
world. running to the Queen Marguer-
hita observatory on Monte Rosa. more
than $1,000 feet, has been placed in
operation. The observatory and the
telephone line which has been con-
structed at the expense of the queen,
took six years to complete. The new
line will be of great help to Alpinists
in distress on Monte Rosa.
John NJ. Grice, an American mining
contractor, and five Mexican miners
were instantly killed by an explosion
of dynamite in the Petgrina mine in
the Guanajaunto district of Guiana
juanto.
More than ten lives were lost and
property worth over $4,000. 900 was de-
stroyed in the cyclone of Pinar Del
Rio. Cuba. Communication between
Havana and the storm area in the
western part of the province was cut
of except at two or three points and
reports of damages are just reaching
Havana. More than 1000 people are
without shelter or supplies. several
hundred houses and huts and tobacco
barns, several thousand acres Of to-
bacco and many small vessels along
the coast were destroyed.
The steamer Mauritania has again
in reducing her eastbounG
record three-quarters of an hour. Her
time from New York on the trip which
ended Monday was four days, thirteen
hours and forty-one minutes. and her
average speed was $3.50 knots an hour.
The success of aviation week at
Rheims has prompted the holding of
another such meeting in Berlin. be-
September &c. Fifty thousand
dollars in prizes will be given and
among the entries are Farman. Bier
lot. Latham. LIE Blanc. Roughier, Besa,
Edwards, Orville Wright and Dfour.
The one hundredth anniversary of
the Chilean declaration of independ- |
ence was observed at Guayaquil with |
much enthusiasm. The festivities be- |
gan last night with torchlight par
ade. in which all the local societies |
and clubs and number of military !
bands took part.
Bishop Seth Ward, Of the Methodist |
Episcopal church, south, who arrived
IN Japan last month on his regular
tour of the Methodist missions. and
was taken i'll at Kobe shortly after
ward, is gradually sinking and little
aOpe OF recovery is entertained. |
Bishop Ward comes from Houston,
The foreign board has drawn up a
protest to the powers against the &C.
tiCn Of Spain in the Riff territory,
this to be a branch of the
AlgeclraS agreement and charging