The Columbus journal., 1911-09-06

Twenty were killed and twenty.si
seriously injured at the theater pani
at Canonsburg, Pa.
Charged with impersonating q fe(
eral marshal, Dave Colome an
Heine Hansen have been arrested q
Winner, s. D.
The total OF the death list of tn
wreck near Manchester. N. Y nov
reaches twenty-eight.
Robert Chasteen. CITY Aarshal o
Ullfn, ILL.,, was shot and killed by IN
identified persons.
Monument makers all over thu
country are in Cincinnati for thu
sixth annual convention of the Ma
tional Retail Monument Dealers.
Sixty persons were injured, eight o.
them seriously, when an express train
on the valley division of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail
road was wrecked by the spreading Of
rails.
Melvin Maniman's balloon, with
which he and five others will attempt
to fly across the Atlantic ocean Octo
Der %, has been shipped from Akron
Ohio, to Atlantic City.
A bag OF American mail matter
which was lost overheard while being
landed from the Hamburg-Amerlcan
line steamer Kaiserin Auguste Vic.
toria at Plymouth. August II, was
picked up in the Helford river near
Falmouth. The mail bag was swept
away from the steamer by a wave.
In denouncing at the session Of the
national independent political league.
the lynching of negroes, Bishop Alex.
ander Walters declared that President
Taft was lone of the weakest presi-
dents the country had ever had, in
view of the fact that he had remained
silent in the face of many lynchings
about the country"
Having a distinct recollection of ev.
cry president in the United States ex-
cept the first five, and remembering
when the first railway train was run
in the United States, Alvin Austin, OF
Chicago. registered for home in the
Fort Berthold Indian reservation at
the age of ninety-four years. Mr.. Aus
tin who was born at Sterlin, Conn.,,
in 1917. is as spry as a man forty
years younger.
The raging storm which swept the
South Atlantic left it's imprint on the
navy. Six torpedo boats were
from their moorings at the
navy yard and tossed as
toys high upon the beach by the nine
ty mile gale. Many buildings of the
yard are believed to be wrecked. No
estimate of the damage can be made
here because of the interrupted tele-
graphic service.
Robert G.. Fowler of Los Angeles.
Cal, is announced as the first formal
entrant in the coast to coast aero.
,lane flight contest for the William
Hearst prize. Fowler. who
will fly a biplane in his projected
trip is expected to
start from San Francisco Sunday,
September 10. His route calls for a
.rossing of the Rockies between Lara
ME and Cheyenne. Wyo.
Eugene Labine, a Marshal county
Mimi farmer, is harvesting 500
Ic-es of wheat with one machine,
working day and night. The binder is |
IN with eight horses, four to a shift. |
nd a headlight is used at night. The |
light shift of horses stand the work |
'etter than those used in the heat of |
he day. and Labine predicts night
inding will become the vogue in the
northwest.
At Kansas City, John Perron, TWEEN
y-seven years old. railroad clerk.
hot and killed Mrs. Margaret Cos
ard, aged twenty-five, wife of a rail
DAD conductor, and then inflicted
fatal wounds to himself. He
ecently left a note saying he and
lrs. Gossard alone knew the cause
Or the tragedy.
Internal revenue inspectors in
earch of illicit distillers have dis
overed that a man trap is being used
D discourage their investigations.
'wo revenue officers said they just
Kissed stepping into a large steel
zap, presumably set for them by
in Iredell county. The
Ulcers had destroyed an Illicit still
William Loeb, jr.. collector of the
ort of New York announced that an
merican art connoiseur now in Eur.
pc is under surveillance by the for
gn agents of the United States gov.
with the French
overnment in the search for the pic
ire Mona Lisa" Leonardo De
'inci's masterpiece. which disappear
from the Louvere some time ago.
The first great duty of the negr
to teach his children that they
ave lived an aimless, worthless life
Mess they have accumulated some
this worlds goods" said B. X
ruce. of Leavenworth, Kas.. ad
ressing the second days session OF
le fortieth annual convention OF
le United Brothers of Friendship
nd Sisters of the Mysterious Ten,
Kansas City.
Minneapolis (Minn) dispatch: With ,
cry member of the credits commit
e present the F. H. Peavey refund. /:
g plan was approved. Holders OF
commercial paper of the
H. Peavey and company practically
! sent their claims to the Minneapo ,
) Trust company in accordance with
e plan of issuing in lieu thereon