The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-05-19
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Latest News of Interest
Boiled Down for the
Busy Man.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

over the tariff bill
President Taft administered a Sc
we're rebuke to Gov. Stubs of Kansas.
The senate by vote Of 81 to "a
adopted the schedule placing duty
of Is cents a ton on iron ore.
Senator Bailey said the imprison-
ment of '.malefactor of great wealth
would end violations of the antitrust
laws.
Secretary Knox received a petition
urging the suppression of socialists In
the United States.
The senate began the consideration
of the iron and steel schedules OF the
tariff bill which promise one OF the
biggest fights on the measure.
The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
began its annual meeting in Washing
ton.
Marquis de Villaiobar has been ap'
pointed minister to the United States
from Spain.
Senator Aldrich ordered the senate
finance committee to reduce the duty
on window glass.
The health department of the Dis
trict of Columbia has issued an order
barring ROSTERS from Washington.
Representative Cooper OF Wlscon'
sin, who was one of the leaders oil the
insurgent movement in congress, Will
not, it is said, be reappointed CHAIR
man OF the insular affairs committee.
President Taft sent a message 10
congress urging an amendment OF the
law under which Porto Rico is gov
erned.
Frank B. Kellogg. the trust buster.
denied the report that he had told the
president he intended to quit the gov
eminent service.
President Taft declared himself In
favor of Fairgrounds for children In
all cities.
PERSONAL.
DIR. William Osler declared the pub,
lie must awaken to its responsibility
in the fight against tuberculosis.
Elias b. Burns of Gas City, Ind. had
his funeral sermon preached before ne
died.
William J. Bryan visited the tomb
of Mckinley at Canton, O., and paid a
silent tribute to the man who defeated
him twice for the presidency.
James r. Saunders after spending
81 years in prison at Fort Madison, Ia,
for rnurdor r6nno6
E. H. Gary. head of the steel trust,
said the country is recovering from
the recent panic and prosperity is
coming.
c. L. Hutchinson of Chicago was
elected president of the American Fed
Grafton of Arts at the Washington
meeting.
Wilbur and Orville Wright. the Day
ton, O., aviators. returned from
Europe.
Former Vice-President Fairbanks
sailed from Honolulu for Japan.
GENERAL NEWS.
TOrnad0es which swept Kansas
Missouri and Oklahoma killed at least
five persons and injured more than
fifty.
Charles W. Caldwell. a lawyer at
Columbus. Ind. was arrested because
Of his attentions to a young girl.
Rev. Stephen Van r. Trowbridge, an
American missionary. in a letter re.
ceived in Boston. said the Turkish
sacre at Adana.
Arrested for swindling the South.
western bank out of $11, 900. Robert
Isaac. prisoner in London. said he
did it for excitement and not to obtain
money. ''
The greatest maneuvers of state and
federal troops since the Spanish
American war will take place in and
around Boston in August.
A strange parasite is devastating
forests in the eastern part of the Uni
ted States. 1t is believed that it came
from France on young trees and
shrubs. ~. iaE,Es.,s @.
Eighteen members of the social
democratic organization convicted in
Moscow, Russia. were sentenced to
perpetual exile in Siberia. The exiles
include Prof Rocokoff of the Univer
sity OF Moscow.
Airs. Carolyne Tamplet, society
woman of Louisville, KY, armed with
a revolver, drove a negro burglar out
of her home after a desperate strus
gle.
Twenty men were reported drowned
when a launch sank in the Ohio rive,
near Pittsburg.
Capt. Peter c. Hams was found
guilty of manslaughter in the first de
gree following his trial for slayins
William e. Annis.
Six thousand postal employees OF
Paris went out On a strike when the
chamber Of deputies delayed action on
their demands.
J. e White was arrested at Vim
cennes. Ind. charged with attempting
to kidnap Willie Hamilton, son OF ,
contractor.
The McCune building at Des Moines
Ia, occupied by the New York Wall
paper Z Stationery Company, was de
stroyed BY fire. Loss. $4,000.
william H. Schantz OF HASTINGS
member Of the Michigan legislature
VAS attacked by an assassin vh.
slashed his throat with a razor.
TIE annual meeting OF the Natio,a
Association for the Study and Proven
tioa of Tuberculosis opened TN Wash
inseoa-