The Columbus journal., 1909-11-03
GENERAL NOTES.

rive uuuQTeU luQldQ DUCKS anu
squaws, after receiving their annuities.
INDUCED in one of the widest orgies
that the Leech Lake iMinn) agency
ever Witnessed. 1t was the last day
when saloons could Sell liquor to the
redskins.
Mrs. Frank Stanley. at Pana. Ill.,.
shot and killed her husband. Frank.
during struggle for the possession
Of q shotgun. The woman claims she
shot in seH-defense.
Frederick Gebhardt, the New York
selfconfessed wife murderer, admits
he has been guilty of three such
crimes. for the purpose Of securing
the women's money.
Grand jury at Chicago in their final
report to Judge Tuthill, declared the
jury-drawing system of Cook county
"rotten and corrupt" and charge the
commissioners with wholesale viola
lions OF the law.
Gen. Oliver o. Howard. the last of
the union commanders of the civil
war. died at his home in Burlington,
VT. Of heart disease, aged 70 years.
Credence is given by Tokyo officials
to the report that the assassination of
Prince Ito was the elimination of a
plot. the ramifications of which ex-
tended through Korea and into China.
Federal Judge Holt, at New York,
handed down a decision which will
allow Gustav E. Kissel and Thomas
B. Harmed. who were among those in
cicted along with the American Sugar
Refining Company for criminal con-
spiracy. to escape prosecution through
the provisions of the statute of limita-
lions.
John r. Walsh. the former Chicago
banker. has received 100000 for an
option on his railroads from the United
States Steel Corporation, which will
enable him to settle his financial Gihi-
culties for the time being. at least.
A secret investigation into alleged
irregularities in the federal prison at
Leavenworth. Kan. is being made by
Alexander Bruce Bielaski, a special
examiner from the department of JUS
tice at Washington.
The fourth annual convention of the
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway as
sociation is in session at New Orleans,
with President Taft, Vice President
Sherman, Speaker Cannon, several
members of the cabinet, numerous
governors. senators, representatives,
members Of state legislatures and
members of industrial and semi-public
organizations in attendance
The thirty-ninth annual reunion of
the Society OF the Army of the Ten
nessee was held in Columbus, O., Gen.
James Grant Wilson delivering the
address.
Fire destroyed billiards. opera
house at Kenopa, Ont. The loss is es-
timated at $500 The fire started
In the scenery of the opera house.
The South Da-ota Educational as
ISOLATION met in annual session in
Lead and the Nebraska State Teach
ers' association in Lincoln.
Sheriff Strassheim of Cook county,
Illinois (Chicago), was fined $500 and
costs by the Illinois supreme court for
NoAeSAAPS ~ uoS PAohPeAy OUCyAuS
mandate Of that tribunal Gov. De-
ncen will pay the fine, If the decision
stands, as the sheriff was. 1t is alleged,
following his instructions.
Harry K Thaw's contention that
he was Illegally committed to the
Matteawan asylum was overruled by
the New York court of appeals.
BY decision of the Illinois supreme
court Chicago will have to pay $780,
600 for cars burned during the big
railroad strike of 1890.
The western section of the Northern
Illinois Teachers association met in
Galena, III. with Cyrus Grove of Free
port presiding.
Fifty thousand people greeted Presi-
dent Taft upon his arrival at Cairo,
M. during his trip down the Missis-
sippi