The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-11-17

the American Civic ASSOCIATION began
their annual meetings In Cincinnati
with q Joint session at which al
dresses were made by Charles J.
Bonaparte and ]. Horace Mcfarland,
presidents of the organizations.
Fragmentary reports received at
Kingston. Jamaica, from the country
side show that the damage to rail-
roads, plantations and telegraph lines
by a hurricane is very heavy. In and
around Kingston the property loss Is
estimated at 100000.
Arthur Alexander, the negro whom
William James. the black man lynched
at Cairo, ILL.,, implicated In the MUIR
der of Miss Anna Pelley, was taken to
Kankakee by a strong guard of sol
diers and safely lodged in jail there
Cairo is under martial law blu: the
mob spirit there is apparently broken.
Ransom R. Cable. one of the build
ers of the Rock Island Railway sys'
tenn, is dead at the home of his son,
BENJAMIN F. Cable of Chicago. after a
brief illness. He was IS years OF age.
Clara Brodenberger, an 1S-year-old
girl, told the Chicago police that her
mother, who is now confined in an In
sane asylum, shot and killed her hus-
band, Henry Brodenberger, a jeweler
of Madison, Wis, three years ago be-
cause she was jealous of him. This
clears up a case that has mystifed
the police for years.
James F. Bendernagel, for many
years general superintendent of the
Williamsburg Sugar Refinery Com
pany, was arrested and indicted at
New York, charged with conspiracy
to defraud the government by false
weighing of sugar. He was released
on $4,000 bail.
President Taft delivered an address
at the installation ceremonies of max
ing DR.. William Arnold Shanklin pres
ident of Wesleyan university, at Mid
dletown, Conn.
Driven to bay by an armed mob.
Earl Bullock, the 17-year-old bandit
of Lawrence, Kan, held up the En-
dora (Kan) State bank for the Sec
ond time. He shot Fred Starr. q
patron of the bank and snatching $500.
fed. A mob pursued him and when
capture was inevitable Bullock fired
a bullet into his own head and will
probably die. He was accompanied by
William Mckay, aged Is years. who
was jailed. Less than a month ago
Bullock robbed the same bank of
nearly $1,000 and when Policeman Will
son Pringle undertook to arrest him.
the youthful robber shot and killed
the officer.
Mrs. Isabella G. McCosh. widow Of
the late DR.. James McCosh, who was
president of Princeton college from
1868 to 1888, died at her home at
Princeton, N. J. She was the mother
of DIR. Andrew McCosh, who was killed
in a runaway accident in New York
last year.
Gustav H. Schwab of the Merchants
association of New York, announced
that in the near future he will resign
from the Craftsmanship of the execu-
tive committee of the National Council
of Commerce owing to pressure of
business.
Directum, 2:O5A, who set a worlds
record for four-year-old trotters in
1898 on the Nashville track, died at
Savage, MINI. Death was due to blood
poisoning. NJ. w. Savage purchased
Directum. who was q years old, in
1898 for $4,000.
That Samuel L. Clemens is the
greatest living literary man was the
opinion voiced by Prof. Brander Mat
thews of Columbia university during
his fourth lecture on 'MOliere" at the
Cincinnati university. This opinion
was called forth by a series of ques-
tons from one of the students in the
audience.
Because his wife would not get up
and prepare his breakfast as quickly
as he thought she should Steve Was.
menski of Paterson. N. j., set fire tc
the bed on which she lay and nearly
made himself a widower.
After 4S years of active service in
the United States army, Maj. Gen.
John F. Weston, commander of the de-
partment of California, has retired,
having passed the age limit.
The grand encampment of Illinois
Odd Fellows began in Springfield.
Thomas ]. Hall, aged II, the son of
a Louisville furniture dealer, entered
the Merchants National bank at New
Albany, Ind, and in an attempt to
hold up the institution shot and killed
J. H. Fawcett, the cashier, and seri-
ously wounded President J. K. Wood
ward. In attempting to escape young
Hall shot and MORALLY injured a col
ored chauffeur when the latter failed
to start his automobile. The youthful
robber was captured on the Kentucky
side of the river after an exciting
chase and only escaped the vengeance
of a mob by a ruse on the part OF the
sheriff.
Deputy United States Attorney Gen.
eral Stimson at New York is making
preparations to push criminal pro-
ceedings against the sugar trust
which. it is charged. has stolen $780,
0O0, 900 from the United States treas
ury through underweighing importa-
tons in the last 20 years.
Seven persons were injured. some
probably fatally, in a wreck on the
Missouri. Oklahoma & Gulf railroad,
five miles south of Henryetta, Okla.
Two passenger coaches left the track
and turned over