The Columbus journal., 1909-12-08

More than 5000 books which the
police say were stolen from public II
braries in New York city were found
by detectives in two rooms in Brook.
Ign boarding house. Many of the books
are old and rare. The lot is said to
be worth more than $4,000.
While sleep-walking. 17-year-old Hin
man Knowlton of South birmingham.
Mass, fatally shot both his parents.
The boy was arrested.
Patrick Cox, who was extraditetl
from Chicago a few months ago, and
tried In County Mayo, Ireland, charged
with the death of Edward Murray, was
convicted of manslaughter and sen.
fenced to five months Imprisonment.
An endowment fund for the support
of postgraduate school for teacher
nurses" has been given to the teach
ers' college of Columbia university by
Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins. The
amount of the gift has not been made
public.
The Canadian senate adopted the
bill ratifying the Frane0-Canadian
treaty and 1t was assented to by the
governor general. The French and
Canadian governments will take i'm
mediate action to make the treaty ef-
fective before the first of the year.
Lewis Merickel, 40 years old, Is
dead from a rife wound in the abdO-
men and Joseph Myers, Is years old.
who shot him is held at the Juvenile
home. The boy says that Merfckel
dared him to shoot and that he fired.
not thinking the gun was loaded.
A gift of 100000 for the founding
of home for convalescents in New
York city becomes available with the
death of John Masterson Burke. one
of Americas littie-known millionaires.
The third National Corn exposition
opened at Omaha. Neb.. with exhibits
by the federal government and %
states. and a vast quantity of COM
petitive entries made by grain raisers.
Representatives of many civic and
educational organizations met in New
York to devise a means Of cO-ordinat-
ing civic activities and to plan more
effective methods of studying political
problems.
]. Pierpont Morgan has gained con-
troll of the Equitable Life Assurance
Company with its $472.000.000 assets
through the purchase of stock held by
Thomas F. Ryan. the latter having
bought the interests formerly owned
by James H. Hyde
Following the abrupt termination of
diplomatic relations with Nicaragua
the government has dispatched the
cruiser Prairie from Philadelphia with
200 MARINES on board. the cruiser Al
bany and gunboat Yorktown to Gen.
trail American waters and it is deter
mined that stable government shall
be established and maintained in the
war-riven republic.
A delegation of Chicago business
men visited President Taft and made
a plea for the suspension of the pro-
visions of the corporation tax law.
The president gave them but little
encouragement. saying he would take
their petition under advisement.
Albert I. Patrick. the New York
lawyer under sentence of death for
Staying Millionaire Rice. has lost his
ninth fight for freedom through the
dismissal by the appellate court at
Brooklyn of the habeas corpus writ
secured by him to determine whether
he is being illegally retained by the
state.
Woman suffrage advocates through
out New York state are raising fund
or several thousand dollars to be ICED
for promoting the suffrage bill which
will be put before the legislature of
New York state this winter.
Vermont will erect a memorial to
Champlain, the explorer, and will not
join New York in such an undertake
ing.
The average temperature for No
vember in Kansas City. Mo-, was 50
degrees, and the highest was 80 on
November 8. This breaks all records
for the month since the weather bu-
reau was established there.
Contracts are to be placed for two
for the Russian navy.
They are planned to cruise in CON-
pany with a battleship feet.
The season of heavy gold receipts
at the United States assay Office in
Seattle ended with q total Of $11. 1884,
4S9 for the six months beginning June
1. This is q falling OF Of $5.775. 141.
with the same period in
1908. l..-...t...
Twenty.three hundred switchmen
ON l3 railroads between Lake Superior
and the Pacific coast have struck for
higher wages and DETER conditions.
Unless the strike 10 speedily settled q
serious interruption In trafic IL likely.
Combined resources of all the
banks of the United States reach
more than $4,000. 100000. or about
one-fifth Of the entire wealth Of the
according to special reports
compiled for the use Of the national
commission.
The National Association Of Live
Stock breeders and Raisers. at its con-
vention In Chicago. determined to ask
congress tor q large appropriation for
the prevention and eradication Of
highly contagious animal diseases.
President Zeiaya OF Nicaragua has
made overtures to Estrada. the revoIu.
ZIONIST. intimatine that he would re-
tire from the presidency and permit
congress 10 choose his successor. Es-
lrada promptly rejected the prefer
and says he will fight the matter out.