The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-01-06

The steamship IeXaS. on neI IndlO-
en- voyage from Christiana, Norway,
to Havana, put in at Savannah. ia,
with her cargo of paper and carbides
afire The passengers were landed
safely. but it was feared the vessel
would be destroyed.
Great anxiety is being felt by the
inhabitants of Greenbank, a small
town in West Virginia. over the stead
lily increasing appearance of burning
crater of seemingly volcanic nature,
on the side OF a neighboring noun
tain.
The Park opera house at Erie, Pa.
caught fire during performance and
a terrible panic was barely averted.
No one was seriously injured.
The two masked highwaymen who
held up % men near Tulsa, Okla.
were captured.
The Tom Jones restaurant in Chi
cago was totally wrecked by an ex-
plosicn of gas.
An aerial warship 700 feet in length
with accommodations for 100 paSsen-
! gers. food and fuel enough for a voy-
age across the ocean, and a full COM
plement of guns, is to be built immedi-
ateIy at the Nixon yards, according to
Lewis Nixon, the designer and con-
structor of many warships.
Prof J. p. Gordy of New York uni
versity and his wife committed sui
eide a few hours after the death Of
their daughter.
Passenger travel across the Atlantic
| in the year of 1908 shows Shrinkage
| of nearly 100000 persons as COM
pared with the preceding year.
Forty-eight bodies were taken from
| the colliery at Lick Branch, w. Va.
| and it was certain that the explosion
| killed about GO men.
With the beginning of the new year
the statewide prohibition law in Ala
| bama went into effect.
Fire destroyed the Whitwell hos
pital at Tucson. Ariz., all the patients
being saved.
! Because he swore around the house,
| Lee Marshbanks, living five miles east
of Catoosa, Okla, shot and instantly
killed his brother. John.
| A disaffected Corsican fired several
shots at NJ. Clemenceau, the French
premier. but failed to hit him.
Ray Reese of Kansas City, Kan,
shot Mrs. Clyde Setter, his former
! sweetheart. and killed himself.
| TOD <ho hanlr 1f
| Wellston. Okla. and after exchanging
many shots with the citizens escaped
with $1,000. No one was hurt.
Arthur Trotter. So years old, sup.
posedly insane, killed his aged mother,
Mrs. Ann Trotter. by beheading her
with an AK and knife in New York.
Fire in the wool warehouse district
of Philadelphia caused a loss OF
100000.
AL Kaufman of San Francisco
stopped Jimmy Barry of Chicago in
the thirty-fifth round of their sched'
uled 45-round fight in Los Angeles.
A. w. Troutman, an employe OF
Kansas City. Mo-. produce company
committed suicide after confessine
that he had embezzled $720 of the
firms money
John Emerson Stone. aged %, high
ly connected in Boston and New York
graduate of Holy Cross college. Wor'
cester, Mass, was shot and killed in
Washington by May Woodland. who
then shot herself twice and may die
u The will of the late Amos H. Van
Horn, a furniture merchant of New
ark, N. J.. disposing of an estate
worth 100000. gives $4,000 to
Newark for three monuments In city
parks in honor of soldiers and sailors
: and to many churches and charitable
> institutions sums ranging from $4,000
: down.
Capt Harvey c. Daily of the schoon
er Freddie w. Alton. and Philip NJ
Springer. a Boston florist. were found
guilty in the United States district
, court at Boston of conspiracy to SNUG
gle Chinese into the country.
Accused of professionalism In de
handing exorbitant expense moneys
Melvin W. Sheppard. Charles Bacon
. Harry F. Porter and George ". Bonhat
of the Irish-American Athletic club
F.. G. Bellars. New York Athletic club
and J. J. Lee. formerly of the Boston
Athletic association. but now unat
tached. were suspended by the Anna
/ teur Athletic union.
Breeding over fancied disgrace t
his family because his father had beel
whipped by night riders, Roy Rogers
the 2O-year-old son of Presley Rogers
: a prominent planter. committed SUI
eide at Hopkinsville, Ky.