The Columbus journal., 1910-09-28
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

Miscellaneous Matters Of General IN.
terest Here and There.
Democrats Of the country are very
much encouraged over recent state
state elections.
An Mexico celebrated the S0tb
birthday Of President Diaz.
Mrs. Hyde. wife Of Dr.. Hyde.
Kansas ity, is critically III.
The cholera scourge il sweeping it,
way across Asiatic Russia.
There were 100 Rockefellers in
NewburE. n. T.. for . reunion.
One was killed and eighteen injured
in collision of Burlington and Rock
Statistics show that American rail-
road employees get better wages than
those Of Europe.
From eight to ten thousand people
listened to the speech Of EI-President
Roosevelt In Omaha
D. E. Thompson. late minister to
Mexico. has sold his interest in the
Lincoln (Neb) Star
The democratic machine In Virginia
II In a position to receive . severe
SS~Ses~0 a. oA CotAJ Ooy.
Congressman g. W. Norris OF Ne
braska, returned from Wisconsin
pleased with insurgent victory.
The report that Taft will step aside
for Roosevelt in 1912 was declared at
Beverly to be unworthy OF a denial.
The Right Reverend Joseph Char
trand was consecrated as bishop CO.
oAS,,snr ~ ha To- lie
The voters OF Shreveport. La. de-
clared in favor of the commission
form Of government at a special cleo
ton.
Arizona's constitutional convention.
which will meet October 16, will have
forty-one democrats and eleven repub-
icans.
Hamilton w. King OF Michigan.
United States minister to Siam. is
seriously III at hospital at Balti.
more.
Il don't care what anybody says
about me SO long as ] am conscious
Of doing my duty" says Secretary
Ballinger.
Governor Shallenberser has quit
the recount game and declares Mr..
Dahlman the democratic nominee for
governor OF Nebraska.
A formidable bomb was discovered
lying on the railroad track in front Of
Emperor Williams train in which he
was proceeding TO the hunting lodge
at Mohacs.
W. NJ. Bradshaw, a guard in the
federal peniientiary at Leavenworth.
shot Bertha Schmetz at her home
Eear Horton. Kan. and then commit
ted suicide.
The building which stood upon the
site purchased for the Carnegie Ii.
brary in Alliance has been moved
and work is now progressing on the
new building.
Mon Win, st. Louis only patient at
quarantine. escaped from the leprosy
isolation hut west Of the quarantine
station. leaving note which read:
Me going west"
The estate OF the late Thomas W.
Evans, the Philadelphia who won
fame and fortune as dentist to arr
stocracy in Paris. has dwindled from
$G.Oc0. 600 to sl,75o.CGO.
The war department decided to
send the Seventh and Eighth cavalry
to the Philippines to relieve the
and Thirteenth. The Seventh
is now at For, Riley. Kas.
Acting Mayor Mitchell of New York !
has ordered that Police Commission
or Baker be removed on the ground
Of uniitness in permitting gambling
10 flourish in the city unchecked.
Prospectors returning from Knik ]
Arm, Alaska. 4 branch of Cooks inlet, !
report the discovery OF an immense |
field Of bituminous coal that promises |
to be more valuable than the Man
taniuska deposits.
H. T. Howell. one of the most |
prominent bankers and financiers of !
Nashville. Tenn. has resigned his
position as president of the Fourth
Naticna! bank OF Nashville to accept
the presidency of the Carnegie Trust
company of New York.
Lightning struck the statute of |
Henry Clay in the Lexington, Ky.
SCATTERING an arm and leg
Of the figure. The memorial was un-
yelled in July and took the place Of
4 similar monument which was struck
BY lightning in July. 903.
Charles Mindeleff, a New York ex
pert metailurgist, has been engaged by
the treasury department to make 4
study of the methods Of refining gold
IN the United States minis. He was
engaged by Acting Secretary A. Plat
Andrews and will begin work at once