The Columbus journal., 1901-09-04

A BnOKEN rail caused Q wreck 1t Grand
Island in the Union Pacific yards Thurs
day morning. An engine and six cars Of
freight train No. II were ditched. The
train crow were Grand Island
None were hurt.
TIE books that help q young man, or
anybody else for that matter, are the
books that interest him. Therefore .
yong man must select his own reading,
il be u to read with any profit to himself.
September Ladies' Home Journal.
After . long rest in South Africa, Mr..
Kipling has returned to England, and is
busily occupied with his literary labors.
One Of his most recent stories is "Hov
The Leopard Got His Spots" which will
be published soon in The Ladies' Home
Journal.
THURSDAY evening ut Madison FIRE
broke ont in the basement OF the build
ing occupied by the Johnson-Ol leo Dry
Goods company, caused by escaping gas
from . gasoline stove used for lighting
purposes. Damage by smoke several
thousand dollars.
IT has been semi-oficially announced
that the Union Pacific have outlined
plans which will call for the expenditure
Of S4OyOOO.OOO on the Southern aud Gen.
tral Pacific systems to be equally divided
between them for improvements, to he
scattered over several years' time.
ONEof the proud boasts OF New Hamp-
shire in the celebration OF Old Home
week was that its town OF Peterborough
was tho FIRST in the world to have Q pub
lic library, snd that the Granite state
w tho first state in tho union to pass .
law authorizing towns to establish free
public libraries.
In . recent conversation with . friend
Count .Tolstoi referred to tho effect OF
go in freeing the mind from it's depen-
dsnos On the body. Az . young man, he
cid, any bodily illness depressed his
mind also, whereas in his present illness
The mind has retained all ito freshness
and power Of lucid thinking.
Roy VAN CLEvL, . boy fourteen years
old, only bon Of Mrs. Van Cleve. matron
q Tie girls industrial school at Geneva,
committed suicide Saturday at the home
q his snnt, BY swallowing . quantity Of
earbolic acid. Dread OF starting to
school in . strange place 10 about the
Only known cause for the deed.
WASHINGTON officials who superintend-
ID TIE recent opening Of the Indian
r~sssrvations in Oklahoma estimate that
To reosipts from the sale OF townsite
property ct the three principal towns
vill rsach nearly S1y004000 all Of which
vil b expended for public improve
msnts and the payment Of the first years
Wlarieo oe county officers.
'OAs1"RxYxoIDs has Just had returns
o. . shipment Of hay to St. Louis which,
- aya, nstted him $50 in the stack.
Il ~ . Ane quality Of tame hay and
beoaght The top price, which va then
o under the highest Of the season. Al
~ cot tvo and . quarter tons to the
ocfo it node him Sl6S7 IN scre,-a reQu-
lar gold minA-Fremo0t Tribune.
Tn county board OF Hall county
svsrdsd The contract for the preparation
a plans and specifications, the superin-
tsoding Of construction and completion
a The new county court house, for which
el00yO00 in 81 Per cent bonds were
recently voted, to Thomas Kimball Of
O0aha, ct tie rate Of 8 per cent on the
esst e construction and le5 per month
Tor ~ paynsatoe Imam under Kimball
. ro0ain On the groand and 80 to the
e~ooGtructio0 of the building.
0xnX1oR Vnr Of Missouri says that IL
- eoald do %, b would put Col. Bryan
In IL United States senate. Hin abil-
IL, ooosaee and honesty are unquss-
tioaahla. bat I do not think him . great
1917" TIE Missouri statesman u .
ftank nan, whstsver slss b may be.
H c-oatinus: ~Js6srsoo, Ven Burso,
Iiasoah and Mckinley have bseo The
Upe6sst political lsedsss and manager
~ N6>U:.N>-A L.