The Columbus journal., 1909-01-27

]. H. Brooke, an English explorer.
met death at the hands of the natives
of Thitet.
Jay Gould, champion amateur court
tennis player of the world and son of
the millionaire railroad director,
George J. Gould, is likely to become
a probation officer in a New York 20
lice court.
A pair of surgeons forceps, acct
dentally sewed up in the abdomen
after an operation IL years ago. caused
the death of Miss Mary G. Donovan
of Philadelphia. The operation in
which the unfortunate mistake &C.
Cured was performed by a surgeon Of
that city of high reputation, who has
since died.
The number of dead in the crib fire
horror at Chicago was estimated at
20. 1t was believed the disaster was
caused by a workman dropping .
torch on dynamite W" So
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison
published a statement declaring they
would not ask for clemency in the con-
tempt of court matter and severely de,
nouncing Justice Wright and his de
cisiOn against them.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the mems building Of the Mahoning
county infirmary at Garfield. O.. and
Is of the aged inmates received burns
more or less serious.
The prohibition forces Of Tennessee
scored another victory when the house
passed the bill prohibiting the manu-
facture of intoxicating liquors in this
state after January 1, 1910.
Alvin Boline of Ottawa. ILL.,, shot his
wife and fatally wounded her mother
in the latter's home at Galva, ILL.,, and
then committed suicide.
An alleged conspiracy of stockmer
10 drive a stock company from South
Dakota was revealed by the confess
sions of men under arrest.
Mrs. Susie NJ. Burdette, widow of
the late Joshua Burdette, a wealthy
pioneer merchant of Creek county, Ok
lahoma, who was the victim of a mys-
FERROUS assassination at Eufala, Okla,
in 1906, filed suit for the recovery of
100000 insurance upon Burdette's
life.
The Union Tobacco society after
months of preparation and preliminary
meetings received the final touches of
the promoters at Louisville and as a
result the tobacco growers of Ken
lucky, Indiana and Wisconsin are
welded into one body with a central
administration.
Prof. T. A. Jaggar. Jr.. of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, an
authority Oh volcanoes, predicts a ter
ribie eruption of Mount Etna within
Is months.
The members of the Union of Ame-
icaI Hebrew Congregations united in
the dedication of a memorial window
to Rabbi Isaac NJ. Wise at Temple
keneseth Israel in Philadelphia.
The business portion of McCracken.
Kan, including the Jesse hotel, was
destroyed by fire.
A plot to assassinate Detective Ga
briel Longobardi of Chicago because
of his activity against the Black
Hand, was exposed by an Italian
" oman.
Fines ranging from $50 to $500
have been imposed upon St. Peters
burg journals for publishing articles
based on statements in foreign news
papers to the effect that agents of
the Russian police had participated in
crimes.
Over the veto of Gov. Patterson
both houses of the Tennessee legisla-
ture passed the senate bill which pro-
hibits the sale of intoxicating liquors
within four miles of schoolhouse in
Tennessee and is in effect a statewide
prohibition act. 1t is effective July l,
1909.
The jury in the case of Gov B. B.
Conner of Alabama against the Mont
yomery Advertiser awarded damages
Of one cent for libel. The governor de-
$4,000.
Four men were killed and ten 9TH
srs injured. one fatally, when several
IONS of dynamite in one of the build
ngs Of the Forcite Powder works at
Lake Hopatcong, N. j.. blew up.
Mrs. Ingles and four of her children
we're burned to death in their farm
house IL miles from Lang, Sask.
Gov. George E. Chamberlain of Ore
son, a Democrat. was elected United
States senator by a Republican legis-
ature. and Charles J. Hughes, Jr.. was
elected senator by the Colorado legis-
ature
Consideration of the bills denying
Japanese the right to own land or to
be directors of corporations was de-
aged for one week by the California
at the request of President
Roosevelt and Gov. Gillett.
That the United States is not q
Christian country was the spirit OF q
resolution passed by the delegates to
he twenty-first council of the Union
II American Hebrew Congregations
n Philadelphia.
Announcement was made that an
,ther alleged trust is to be investi-
gated by the federal authorities in
New York. The company concerned
s the Atlantic Terra Gotta Company.
/ 100000 corporation.
On a warrant sworn out by Gov.
charging conspiracy to de.
lame the governor, Scott MacRey-
holds. attorney and special agent for