The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-05-18

I The New York Stock exchange VII.
be closed for two hours on Friday
May 20. during the funeral Of Kina
Edward.
Montreal exporters fear . grain fam
inc at that port, owing to the refusal
Of Manitoba grain men to market last
years crop for less than 80 cents.
Advices received at Guayaquil state
that the Peruvian government has sta.
toned 100000 men along the frontier
to resist invasion.
Millers' reports of the abandonment
Of wheat fields makes wheat at Chi.
cago turn sharply upward.
King Edward VII died at Buckins.
ham Palace. London. after an illness
Of about one week. with pneumonia or
complicated throat trouble. All Eng.
land mourns for the beloved ruler.
and from all over the British empire
and other countries condolences
poured in. Edward is succeeded by
his second Oldest son. the Prince Of
Wales.
The French minister Of marines
has ordered that all ships Of the
French navy carry their flags at half
mast until after the funeral Of King
Edward.
The department Of justice at Wash.
ington has begun its crusade against
the bucketshops of the country.
1t would be criminal to sacrifice
the individuality of the Independent
party with a close alliance with either
democrats or republicans. in the
opir'" IN of w. r. Hearst.
Max Berbohm. the writer and critic,
and Miss Florence Kahn. an Ameri.
can actress. whose home Is In Mem.
phis. Tenn. were married in London.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
will contain an item of $4,000 to en-.
able the department of justice to con.
tinue the investigation and prosecu'
ton of sugar customs frauds.
The kings bench In London con.
firmed the lower courts order for ex-
tradition of Frank Matusio. wanted
for alleged forgery in st Louis.
Approximately COCO trainmen and
conductors employed on the lines OF
the New York Central east Of Boston
will receive wage increases averaging
30 FER cent.
The demand Of the administration
for two new battleships will be grant
ed. the senate committee on naval
affairs having practically decided to
accept the provision of the house bill
on this subject.
The federal government will con.
struct a wireless station at Omaha.
The house passed a bill providing
that Indian lands near Falls City In
county. Neb.. be included
in the Nemaha river drainage I'M
provement now being made.
After twelve years the Inflated bat |
tleship Maine Is to be removed from |
Havana harbor and the bodies which |
went down with the vessel and will |
be inferred in the national cemetery |
at Arlington.
The Minnesota democratic state
will be held in Mime
apolis July %.
The National Conservation congress
will not be held in st. Louis In
August J. b. White. chairman of the
committee of the congress.
has announced that Theodore ROOse
Welt will address the congress.
A Nicaragua citizen has written
The American consul that crueltieS
ire being practiced in Nicaragua.
Mayor Mccarthy Is trying to show
hat San Francisco is the proper place
or a Panama exposition.
There is a disposition Of the house
committee to hold back the postal saw.
ngs bank bill.
The tomb of Edward VII will be be
'eath the memorial chapel at Wind.
or.
Nearly a thousand bodies have been
aiken from the earthquake ruins at
'artago. Costa Rica.
Fifteen people were killed and fifty
INJURED by an explosion near the town
4 Hull. Quebec.
The senate judiciary committee has
erorted favorab'. a bill to aid the
tates bordering on Lake Michigan to
reak up gambling on specially chart
red boats along the coast.