The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-10
GENERAL NEWS.

With the departure of half of the
National Guard on riot duty. Mayor
Marshall issued a formal call on the
men of Columbus. O.. for 1000 special
policemen to serve during the street
car strike
President Taft dedicated the big
monument to the Pilgrim Fathers at
Provincetown. Mass. The presidential
salute was fired by II battleships. the
Grafton was delivered by Dr. Charles
W. Eliot and Ambassador Brice, the
minister from the Netherlands and
other noted men took part in the cere.
monies.
Jacob Harmon, former national
Republican committeeman from Okla
hOma. was named by Senator Thomas
=. Gore as the man who offered a
bride of $4,000 in Washington i'm con-
nection with legislation affecting the
Indian land deal that is now being
investigated by congressional COM
mittee at Muskogee. Senator Gore
also declared that Harmon told him
Vice-President Sherman, Senator Cur
tbs of Kansas and Representative Nc
CURE of Oklahoma were Interested in
the deal.
{ An insurrectionary movement has
started in the Basque provinces of
Biscay. Alava, Guipeuzcoa and Navar-
70. The Spanish government has dis
patched troops to the scene of the
trouble. The government has learned
that priest i'm one of the Basque
villages is distributing arms to the
populace.
Revolution is rampant in the Span
ish Honduras republic Cprisings
have broken out in a hundred large
towns and cities in all parts of the
country and American interests in the
agricultural districts are in jeopardy.
Arrest of g sailor at Portland, Ore.
is expected TO vindicate John Deyine
OF the charge of train wrecking. for
which he served six years in the
Canon City tCOll penitentiary. De,
vine. who died in prison in 1909 was
known as the man of silence" be.
cause of his refusal to discuss the
case.
Four lives were lost in a fire in a
three-story frame dwelling at West
HobOken. y. J. The victims were Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Biassetti and their
children. Paul and John. eight and
four years old.
Champagne may become greater
luxury this year because of the rayases
of mi!dew among the vines of the
Rheims district of France Than il was
made by the imposition of a higher
duty in the tariff law.
Another general clothing strike is
under way in New York city. Fifteen
thousand coat tailorS. of whom s.eOD
are women. quit work in 200 factories
demanding fifty-three-hour working
week and an increase in wages
Shortly after he was indicted in
New York on the charge of con.
spiracy in using the mails for fraudu.
lent purposes. Col. c. c. Wilson. presi.
dent of the United Wireless Telegram
company. sixty-nine years old mar.
ried his stenographer. Miss Stella
Lewis, eighteen years old
BY the apprehension of a Japanese
boy. Henry Yamagachi. for whom a
vigorous search is being made. Sono-
ma county officials hope TO obtain the
key TO the murder OF Enoch Kendall.
Mrs. IRA Kendall. his wife. and their
son. in their canyon home Just north
of Santa Rosa. Cal
Col F. George Cooke. L. S A re.
tired. is charged at a court-martial at
Fort Lawton. near Seattle. with Dor.
rowing from enlisted men and civil.
ans
The annual convention of the ILL
nois State Hotel Clerks association
began in Decatur.
1ntimation OF the formation of a
new labor union Of national scope.
comprising the Western Federation of
Miners. the United Mine Workers of
America. and the steel workers of the
country. was given by President
Charles H. Meyer of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners at Denver.