The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-01-20

| A general strike of hat makers, that
may involve some $4,000 workers, was
inaugurated in the hat manufacturing
centers Of the country rs the result of
q decision of the Associated Hat Manu-
facturers to discontinue the use Of the
union label in the factories represent
/ ed in the association.
Several children who had beer
buried in the ruins of Messina for IL
days were rescued.
Mrs. Nathan Sherrard and four chill
dren were burned to death at lum
Der camp 20 miles from Ashland
Wis.
Cyrus Campbell, "a years old, .
pioneer resident of Cherryvale, Kan.
was burned to death and his wife
| fatally injured in a fire that destroyer
their home.
President Cortlandt Field Bishop
of the Aero Club of America has pre-.
scented $1,000 to the club, to be di
vided into four equal prizes and
awarded to the pilots of the first foul
aeroplanes making a continuous flight
of at least one kilometer during the
| current year.
Thrilling escapes, many injuries
and one death accompanied the de
struction by fire of the famous Cope
land hotel in Topeka, Kan. Isaac E
Lambert of Emporia, familiar through
out Kansas as attorney and politician
was burned to death. Fifteen persons
a number of them well known in the
state, were injured. 1t is likely al
will recover.
That Rev. John H. Carmichael o.,
Rattle Run, Mich, murderer o.,
Gideon Browning and later slayer o.
himself, was insane, was proved al
the post-mortem examination of his
body.
Miss Jane Beatrice Mills, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills, ant
granddaughter of the well-known finan-
| cier, d. o. Mills, was married to the
eighth earl of Granard in New York.
Two hundred and forty men were
entombed in q coal mine at Veszprim.
Hungary, by an explosion. Forty-five
bodies were recovered. ..
Brig. Gen. Robert NJ. O'Reilly, who
has been surgeon general of the army
for the past seven years. was placed
on the retired list after As years serv.
ice with the advanced rank of major
general.
Miss Frances Livingston of Boyd
Wis.,. who advertised in papers in all
parts of the country for a husband and
received 1000 proposals of marriage
has chosen Louis Struvanz of Dor
chester, Wis.
Harry Keener, York county (Pa.)
farmer, confessed that the story told
by a girl of this city that he had killed
man on his farm last July is true
A life sentence was given Johr
BraZiel at Marietta, O., for numbering
Constable D. B. Cook and Dan Sims.
Ship-owners Of northern England
representing more than 100000
worth Of tonnage took the first steps
toward formation of an international
union of ship-owners.
The National League for Industrial
Education, designed to foster national
state and local cooperation in the pro
motion of industrial training in
schools, has been organized in New
York with James J. Hill of st. Paul as
honorary president.
The corporation of Harvard college
sent to the overseers of the college
the name of Abbott Lawrence Lowell
professor of the science of govern
| ment, as their choice as president Of
the college to succeed President
Charles w. Eliot.
In fire that completely burned the
residence of Samuel Higgins. general
manager of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad at New
Haven, Conn.,, yesterday his mother
Mrs. Higgins, lost her life.
Binding. gagging and assaultine
Solomon Loughner. so years old, neal
Pittsburg, Pa. and his two sisters. both
OF whom are about 80 years old, six
masked robbers secured about 1.500
In cash, ate their supper, and then
disappeared.
More than 100 lives were snuffed out
by an explosion in the mines of the
Lick Branch colliery, near Bluefield.
w. Va. Just two weeks before. 50
miners we're killed In the same mines
by similar explosion.
Beryl BENJAMIN Laska, q young at
torney Of Denver, was declared not
guilty in Federal Judge Lewis court
Of using the hypnotic eye" for exer-
cising powers of clairvoyancy to influ.
ence jurors to hand down verdicts IA
vorable to his clients.
The Turkish government accepted
the Austro-H Hungarian offer of E2,5OO,-
600 Turkish ($10,s00.000 indemnity
for the annexation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. thus removing every DOS
sibility Of war.
John v. Duffy. confidential clerk tc
Martin J. Condor. president of the
American SNUFF Company, was arrest
ed in New York charged with forging
his employers name to IL checks az.
gregatins $500.
About $1.000.00 which has laid un-
claimed in Massachusetts savings
banks for more than 30 years will be
paid to the treasurer Of the common.
wealth. through a decision Of the 81.
preme judicial court.
Mrs. Tomas Estrada Palma, widow
OF the former president of Cuba, has
decided to return to Central Valley
Orange county. N. T., with her chill.
dren, there to spend the rest Of he1