The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-10-19

Our government win wait awhile
before recognizing the new rulers in
Portugal
Fire destroyed Pier &C" of the
Southern Pacific terminal company in
the western portion of Galveston.
Loss. estimated at 100000.
The president withdrew 400 acres
Of land from the public domain in
Montana
Fire totally destroyed the Adeline
Sugar company's plant at Franklin,
Pa. Loss. 100000.
Special agents at Washington are
looking into allegations of the ex-
istence of a lumber trust.
The supreme court postponed &C.
ton on most of the big suits pending
until there is a full bench.
With Lisbon tranquil and events
moving smoothly the new republic Of
Portugal seems destined to live.
Reciprocity negotiations will prob
ably be in progress between Canada
and the United States within ten
days.
A violent collision occurred on the
streets of Valencia. Spain. between
republicans and members of the Cath,
Ole club
Thomas J. O'Brien. the American
ambassador to Japan. will sail for the
days leave of absence.
1t is officially stated that the British
war Office is considering the possisili-
ty of securing q regular supply of
horses for the mounted troops in
Jamaica.
The will of Horace b. Silliman of
CohOes. n. ". a former textile manu-
facturer. bequeathes the estate of
more than 100000 to philanthrOpic
purposes.
T. p Nelson of Seattle. was elected
grand president of the Danish Broth
erhood. defeating H. H. Vogt of Dav-
export. Ia. who has been president
twelve years.
To the already large area of about
11.O00.000 acres. the department of
the interior has added 10000 acres
of land to the enlarged homestead
portion of Wyoming.
Joe and Ed Chandler. negro high
waymen. were killed and Ed Black.
third member of the gang. was mort
ally mounded in Huntsville. Ala. by
Sheriff Mitchell and a squad of depu-
ties.
Rear Admiral John A. Rogers. u.
S. n. retired. arrived from Alaska.
that his missing son. Al
exander. who went north in the sum-
mer of 1909. persisted on the Valdez
trail.
Social Washington was deeply in
terested in the recent cabinet meet
ings at the White House. at least in
that part of them which had to do
with the filling OF the vacancies on
the supreme court bench.
AdOlph Rothbarth. the hop mer-
chant. who pleaded guilty to having
defrauded various banks in New
York out of 100000. was sentenced
to serve not less than three and not
more than seven years in Sing Sing
prison.
The long-standing uneasiness among
railroad employees in France de-
veloped in a declaration to strike on
the part of those employed on the
northern roads The decision is re-
suit of a refusal of the company to
grant the demands of the men.
A move toward unification of all
Of Chicago'S street car lines was made
when the city council passed an Or
finance permitting the rehabilitation
IF the Chicago Traction company and
he purchase of the Consolidated Rail.
ways by the Chicago Railways com
Dany
There was a substantial increase
to about 10 per cent. in the
lumber of wooden crOss-ties pur-
chased for consumption by the steam
ind electric railroads in the United
States in the calendar year 1909. as
with the number purchased
n 1905
Uniformity in grain inspection
the United States and in
he rules of trading in all exchanges
will be the principal subject con-
'idered at the fourteenth annual con.
'entiOn of the grain dealers national
which held its initial ses-
ion in Chicago.
Sir William Reloar. the English
and former lord mayor
# London. who has been in the Unit
d States and Canada a month. sailed
IN Sunday on the Celtic of the White
star line. after pronouncing the AM
rican women the "smartest dressed
women in the world"
Consul Chamberlain telegraphed the
tate department from Lourenzo Mar
uez. East Africa. that the governor
of that colony continued in
'ffice under the new Portuguese reg
me: that the republic had been pro-
laimed throughout the provinces and
hat the translation was peaceable.