The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-06-08
General.

The Injunction against the railroads
was made at Taft's suggestion.
The supreme court sustained the in.
ters:ate commerce in the Missouri
river rate cases.
Every section foreman employed by
the Southern Pacific in Texas was or
dered on strike.
Weakness in stock and cotton
markets forced down the price OF
wheat at Chicago.
The month of May lived up TO its
reputation and, outside OF politics,
there was not disturbing element
Chinese warships with troops have
been dispatched to Marking in anti.
cipatipu of q native outbreak against
foreigners.
President Guy Potter Benton. Of
Miami university Oxford. O.. was
elected president of the Boston
university.
Thirty thousand dollars has been Of.
fered to the first aviator who flies in
an aeroplane from New York TO St.
Louis. or from st. Louis to New York.
wildcat evangelism" was denounc-
ed at the closing session of the
fiftieth general session of the South.
ern Presbyterian church by DR..
Charles r. Nesbit Of Nashville, Tenn.
Premier Rutherford rendered his
resignation as the head Of the
Alberta government cabinet.
Governor Hughes has signed the
bills to enable LIE state O. New Eork
20 accept gifts of land and money Of
fered by Mrs. E. H. Hartman and
others for park embracing the Hud-
son river Palisade
The long-continued dispute be-
tween Missouri and Kansas oySr the
boundary line between the two states
will be settled by the state in &C.
cordance with joint resolution
adopted by the senate.
Seventy-five per cent OF the farm
ers of tine United States plant their
crops according to the moons phases,
but scientific investigation shows that
potatoes planted in the dark" OF the
moon are no better than others.
Sydney Webster. an authority on
corporation and international law. and
private secretary of President Frank
lin Pierce. died at Newport, r. l., Mon
day.
Mrs. Guniiro Aoki. formerly Glayds
Emery. daughter of Archdeacon
Emery of San Francisco. is at Carson
City with her child. and mother. Mrs
Emery. to establish a six months resi-
dence prior to obtaining a divorce.
The widely-heralded cour of do
mestic relations. exclusively for hus.
bands and wives with martial dis
putes. was approved by Mayor Gaynor
when he signed a bill recently passed
by the New York legislature creating
such a tribunal
Additional areas in Wyoming and
Utah were designated by the interior
department for disposition under the
engaded homestead act.
Captain John Pembroke Jones.
the Oldest graduate OF the United
State naval academy at Annapolis
and a veteran Of the Mexican and
civil wars. died at Pasadena. Cal
The dead body OF Alma kellner. the
long missing Louisville girl. was
found in basement.
President Taft takes full RESPONSE
bility for the Lawler letter.
United States Senator Julius c. Bur
rows of Maryland has announced his
candidacy for reelection and his de-
sire to be endorsed by popular vote at
TIE primaries next fall
President Taft wrote a letter to
Representative Tawney deploring re-
Elections on southern hospitality.
Seventy-five thousand mines with
S75O.000 fund behind them are on a
strike in Illinois.
House insurgents have about aban-
doned efforts to GUST Speaker Can
non at this session of congress.
Eighty-fve tins of opium. valued at
$4,000 and believed to have been
smuggled into this country, were
seized by United States government
agents in a Chinese grocery store at
St. Louis.