The Columbus journal., 1909-02-17

| concentrating the birth OF Abraham
Lincoln were held. Ambassadors from
foreign nations joined in the tributes
to the martyred president. and Presi.
dent Roosevelt spoke at Hodgenvile,
Lincoln's birthplace in Kentucky.
The playing and singing of "Ameri'
ca" stopped panic in an opera house
at Fargo, N. D., when a false cry OF
fire was raised.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
left Berlin where they have been Wis.
iting Kaiser Wilhelm for four days.
Sixty-seven were missing after the
steamer Penguin sank off Cape Teraw.
hiti and are believed to have persisted.
An unidentified British steamer sunk
after running on a rock off Quessant,
France, and seven were drowned.
A new political party has been
formed by the Liberals in Norway.
Among the organizers are the former
premier, Nicholson, DR.. hansen and
Prof Sars.
Mrs. Edwin S. McCook, 60 years old,
widow of Gen. Edwin s. McCoOh of
the famous Fighting McCook family"
was killed by an automobile in New
York city. Her husband was murdered
in Yankton, S. D., in 1873.
The Porte has notified Russia of its
acceptance in principle of Russia's
latest financial proposal for settle
ment of the Turco- Bulgarian dispute.
Following a number of alleged
blackmail plots by the BLACK hand" at
the Canadian 500 the body Of Giovanni
Ciotti was found in the street at Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich. The murder is be-
lieved to be the work of the society.
Three men were bitten by a mad
dog which dashed through the streets
Of Burlington, la. Rabies is feared.
Allen Depue, financial secretary of
the Roseland Central Presbyterian
church in Chicago. committed suicide
in the church parlors. after being &C.
cused of embezzling its funds.
The schooner Sarah w. Lawrence
was driven ashore off the Delaware
coast and pounded to pieces in gale.
The crew escaped.
p Kellum, editor of the News at
College Corner, Ind, was slain by
Clyde Henley who committed suicide
soon after the murder
The California assembly passed a
bill providing for census of the Jap
anese in the state. The measure ap-
propriates $4,000 for the work.
Rev. DR.. Nathaniel Seymour Thomas
of Philadelphia and Rev. Benjamin
Brewster of Salt Lake City were
elected bishops of Wyoming and west
ern Colorado. respectively.
A company of the rural guard of
Cuba mutinied and attempted to enter
the palace Of President Gomez in
Havana.
1t was announced in Berlin that Chan
cellor Won Buelow and Under Secre-
tary Hardinge agree on the questions
upon which they conferred and now
the Germans are anxious to know
what the questions were.
An appropriation of $4,000 for the
erection of penitentiary and the pur-
chase of a 640-acre farm at McAlester,
Okla, is carried in a bill recommended
for passage by the Oklahoma house.
General Manager Bottomley Of the
Marconi Wireless Company in New
York says the disaster to the steam
ship Republic, and the proposed lesis-
lation with regard to wireless, is now
bearing fruit, outfits being ordered for
many ocean steamers.
A series of interesting letters and
documents relating to the American
war of independence, four of them
signed by Gen. Washington. are to be
offered for sale at Sotheby's in Lon
don on March 1. The letters are
chiefly addressed to Col. Israel
Shreeve. commanding in New Jersey.
Within less than two hours after
argument of counsel had ended at
Denver the jury in the case of Burdett
Pell, who shot Cubier Dury to death
a month ago because he stole his wife,
returned a verdict of guilty of volun-
tary manslaughter
The British government has decided
TO lay down five battleships of the i'm
proved Dreadnought type the coming
year. The building of the sixth bat
tleship will depend upon the progress
Of GermaEy's new construction.
Thirty-two medical students of the
University of Louisville volunteered to
give bits of their cuticle to save the
life Of Luther Clifton, aged q, who
was burned badly at East St. Louis
about a month ago. Doctors began on
the work of grating.
The warm welcome given to King
Edward and Queen Alexandra, who
are visiting the kaiser in Berlin. has
pleased the English people who see
in it closer friendship between Great
Britain and Germany.
Denmark held a great national feast
in celebration of the two hundredth
and fiftieth anniversary of the final
repulse of the Swedish assault upon
Copenhagen under King Charles Gus
tavus.
The publication of cablegrams which
passed between Madrid and Havana
during the progress of the Spanish
war show that Spain surrendered Cuba
because of fear that the United States
warships would attack her coast and
bring On revolution.
Martin Oberman of Chicago. sudden.
ly becoming insane on a train in Iowa,
stabbed Ernest Richards of Parkers-
burg. Ia, and Z. S. Dawson and G.