The Columbus journal., 1909-09-08

which VIII watch the 1nternatlOn'
naval parade at the Hudson-Fulto
celebration.
Secretary Dickinson at Nashvill
Tenn, intimated that investigation I
the case of J. II. Booker. charged wit
hazing at West Point, will be r.
opened.
visory Post Office Employees met in al
nual convention in Chicago.
A peace feet" of eight armpre
United States cruisers sailed from Sa
Francisco on five months trip t
Japan and China.
A monument to Chief Menomine
and his band of PottawattOmie Indian
who were unjustly evicted from thei
reservation in Indiana in 1888 was I'm
yelled at Twin Lake. Ind.
Thirty Japanese sent by their gov
eminent to study commerce and trad
in the United States. landed at Sea,
tie. They will travel through =
states.
| Dr. Frederick A. Cook of Brooklyn
y. Y, on April q. 1908, discovered tn,
north pole. according TO a message re
ceived from him by his wife and in
formation sent TO Copenhagen by tbs
captain of the vessel on which he re
turned to that point.
| Through a conference between the
operators and the national executive
board of the United Mine Workers of
America the dispute with the $4,000
miners in the Pittsburg district has
| been settled. and 1000 men now ON
| strike will return to work
At Sleepyeye, Mimi. George W.
! Sommerville. former state senator.
lawyer and politician, was shot and
fatally wounded, in his private Office.
by John S. Hayner, manager OF large
business block, in dispute over mon
ey matters.
4 message received by relatives 1T
death from cholera at Foo Choo.
China, Of Rev. and Mrs. George Corn
wall, for 30 years Presbyterian mis-,
sionarieS in that country
Through a deal involving millions
the United States Steel Corporation
has taken over the property known IS
the Kelly lands and Mines in Danville.
ILL.,, district on which it held an option
from the Hammond Company
kraSnOyarsk, Siberia. is to be the
place of exile OF Alexander Lonukine
former chief of the Russian police de-
partment, who was convicted of actiy-
ity as Il revolutionary.
John II. Myrick. who enlisted i'm the
union army as private at the out
break Of the civil war; and who was
retired as a brieadier-general in 1903.
is dead in New York
While playing with a shotgun at
Nicholasville, Ky, James Littrell.
eight years old, accidentally dis
charged the weapon and blew off the
mead OF his sfx-year-oId sister.
Fire destroyed the Savoy theater at
hamilton. Ont Loss. 100000. The
tneater belonged to the Stroud-Ben
nett syndicate, but was to have been
taken over by the Shuberts
Durlng the funeral at Seattle of
George f. Eccles. the wireless opera
Tor WI" persisted on the steamer Ohio
ever! wireless telegraph instrument
III the western division WAS silent for
half an hour.
Mrs katherine Miller formerly Mrs |
Kate SofIel. who served a two-year
prison term for helping Jack and Ed |
ward B,cdle, the murderers. escape |
from the county Jail at Pittsburg. died |
OF typhoid fever.
lied to a Il BIZ robbers. an EN- |
pioye of the Ingram Day Lumber Com |
pany, suffered fortunes for three days |
near NuSent, Miss. His mouth was |
stuffed with paper and rags and he
was without food, while mosquitoes
were torturing him
President Taft has decided that Bey-
'rly, Mass, shall be the summer Cap
tai again next year, and has leased
he cottage he now is occuying fo-
he season.
Samuel Gompers. president of the
american Federation of Labor. and
delegate from Austria engaged in a
var OF words at the International
raoGS Unions congress in Paris when
ne latter attacked American labor
1f not joining the organization.
The United States and Europe were
rousht nearly three hours closer to-
ether when the great liner. Maure-
anla reduced her record from New
ork to Queenstown 70 four DAYS. II
ours and - minutes.
after staying Cecil Norton. Is wears
Id. daughter of his housekeeper: his
auShter Dorothy. aged -. and set
ng fire to his house. Will Tibbetts, a
'ealthy farmer of Red Wood Falls,
linn, committed suicide.
Five persons. all relatives, were
llled when street Car struck an au-
near st. Louis.
new tobacco war has been
arted at Covington. Ky, by the filing
suit by Clark & Scott. independ- ,
ut manufacturers, against the Burley ,
'ciety, demanding Sl35,52O, said to
ave been overcharged on tobacco
ought by them.
An important amendment has been ,
ade to the navy regulations which :
aces the engineer officer attached TO r
ship of war in lire TO succeed the ,
,eCutive officer.
Mrs. Fred Young. wife of a farmer
ear Barnum, Mimi. threw their three
llidren, one. two and five years. into
well, set fire to a barn, DESTROYING