The Columbus journal., 1909-05-05

state insurance department of Ohio
reported a shortage Of s.. 342.6S in tn
accounts of the Ohio Underwriters
Mutual Life. Insurance Company o
Columbus.
1t has been discovered In Rome TIM
a satchel containing iewelry valued a
10000. which was recently st0lel
from a train there, was the pr0pert,
Of Princess Won BuelOw of Berlin.
The w. CT. U. of Cincinnati vii
ask Mayor Markhreit. of that city Il
forbid the moying.picture shows t.
present scenes showing the electrocu
ton Of women.
J.sW. Fowler. receives for the First
National bank of Carroll, Ia, brought
suit for $264.29 against the estate 81
w. f. Culbertson, former president
of the bank, who committed suicide
last October.
The twentieth annual congress 81
the Sons of the American Revolution
was held In Baltimore. delegates be
| ing present from AZ states. :.
John A. Benson of San Francisco
was acquitted in Washington on 9
charge of bribery in connection with
land frauds 81
William H. Reynolds. Brooklyn
millionaire, who sailed for Europe, took
a negro quartet with him to entertain
| him and his guests aboard ship and In
his tour abroad.
New York is to have a hotel at
Forty-second street and Madison ave-
nue. 81 stories high. to cost $2.500, 900
Hiram Webster. 65 years old; a Sec
ton boss on the Michigan Central, lost
his life at Hastings. Mich. while try
ing 10 remove hand car in the way
of an approaching special
Six hundred feet of the west wall
at the Indiana state prison at Mich
igan City were blown down by a cy.
clone. The prisoners made no attempt
to escape, but the militia has been
ordered out
Porter Smith of Chicago shot and
killed Miss Helen Marden at Sommer-
vile, at Smith college, Northampton,
Mass, and then killed himself because
she had Tilted him.
Nadir Pasha, an aide to Abdul
Hamid. depOsed sultan, was hanged
and $50 other conspiratOrs shot at
Constantinople.
Mrs. Harry Thaw was fined $3.50 for
given five days to pay the amount or
go to jail
Four men We're killed by an ex-
plOsiOn in a powder factory at Rey-
nOlds. Pa.
Mrs. Margaret Griffen, a widow.
was slain with a fiatiron in her home
at Winnebago. near Rockford, Ill.
Two Chicago firemen were killed
while fighting flames which destroyed
an Illinois Central elevator which had
been struck by lightning.
President Taft officially recognized
Mehmed w., the new sultan of Tur-
key, in a message sent to Ambassador
Leishman.
The Red Cross society has sent
$1,000 to relieve the suffering of refu-
gees from the massacres in Asiatic
Turkey.
Beach Hargis was convicted and
sentenced to serve a life term in the
penitentiary for staying his father at
Irvine, Ky.
The tody of Maj. Pierre Charles
LEnfant. who laid out the city Of
Washington, was taken from the
grave at Digges farm. Maryland, and
buried in Arlington cemetery.
Policeman Kroeger of Logansport.
Ind. and an unidentified pickpocket
were slain in a pistol duel following
the performance of circus.
One person was killed and many
hurt by tornado which swept Doug
las. Udall and Rock, Kan.
The miners in the tri-district con-
vention at Scranton. Pa. decided to
accept the old agreement with the an
thracite operators and authorized
their officials to sign it.
An anarchist named Verdier was ar
rested at Monte Carlo and charged
with plotting to kill President Fall
Heres of France.
The defense In the case of James
Boyle decided to call James p. Whitla.
father of the kidnapped boy, to testify
In the prisoners behalf.
President Taft has signified his in:
tention Of witnessing the Information.
al yacht races between American and
German boats, to be sailed OF Marble
head the first week in September. His
newly-selected summer home at Bev-
erly is only three miles from the
starting point.
Abdul Hamid H., for 80 years ruler
OF Turkey, was deposed and his
brother. Mehemmed Reschad Enendi.
ascended the throne.
Fears were expressed by the AID
rich faction OF the senate that the de-
bates on the tariff bill will prevent
nnal action on the measure until late
President Taft, speaking at the
Grant dinner in Philadelphia, praised
the soldfer-president and pleaded for
closer ties between north and south |
The National Federation Of Reli-
Sfous Liberals held its first annual |
conference in Philadelphia.
Russia has decided to accept the
American proposal to revise the treaty
of 1882. Her answer will express as
sent to the negotiation of q new treaty
provided that the old agreement re-
main in force until the new one is |
ratified.
Masons from all over Missouri at |
tended the grand lodge meeting in
Joplin.
Indiana liquor forces got the hard