The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-12-21
General.

The Kentucky delegation declared
Itself for Champ Clark for speaker
Trade with the Philippines has
shown an increase under the new cen
suS.
The house has passed the Indian ap
preparation bill. 1t carries total OF
sS.217,9S5.
No outward signs Of mourning
marked the funeral services for Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy.
The government case against the
so-called coal trust will be probably
carried to the higher courts.
II is difficult to say whether or not
there will be any serious effort TO
change the tariff this session.
An explosion in the mine OF the
Bond Coal company in Wise county.
Virginia. entombcd twenty-siX miners
From IL to Is new cases of cholera
appear daily at Funchal. Madaria.
Forty per cent of these are fatal.
Announcement is made at the war
department OF the selection of several
general officers of high rank and their
nominations will be submitted to the
senate to confirmation soon.
The police of Havana raided a house
10 Nodado. a suburb of Havana. and
arrested an Italian named Roca and
five others, who We're engaged in
cOunterfeiting American treasury
notes.
Mrs Ada F. c. Adriance of Pough-
keepsie. y. V. must pay $4,000 for
pearl necklace. worth only 5000
because she attempted to smuggle ii
into this country from Europe last
August.
Reports received at Jerusalem from
Assyrian villages say that the threat
ened revolution has become serious.
that Turkish officials have been mas
sacred and troops at military posts
have been annihilated.
A report from the war department
showing how the country is made
quately protected against invasion
from foreign governments was sent to
the house and was returned to the
war department because the house
could not receive a secret report.
In the United States and all its pos
sessions the stars and Stripes protect
101. 100000 souls. This is the official
estimate of the United States bureau
of the census.
Victor II. Olmstead. chief of the
bureau of statistics of the department
NJ oor,r IN, l.;
Gays the high cost of living has
helped farmers greatly.
At San Diego. Cal. by the explosion
Of defective intake valve of the en-.
CINE on the submarine boat Grampus.
three enlisted members of the crew
were injured. one so badly that it is
expected he will die.
Population figures for the United
States and its possessions place il
over the hundred million mark.
The state crop report issued BY the
state board of agriculture shows that
the total corn product in Ohio this
season was 105.512.245 bushels.
Porter Charlton. the young Ameri-
can. who confesses killing his wife in
italy. must return to face trial Young
Charlton was reared at Omaha. Neb.
In the act admitting New Mexico to
statehood the boundary line between
that territory and the state of Texas
will be fixed by law. This line has
been in dispute.
The form of decree to be issued in
the case of the Temple Iron company
will be taken later by the court.
George W. Perkins has withdrawn
from Morgan & Co. to devote his ener-
gies to solving the profit-sharing prob
lem.
The executive board of the Ameri-
can library association decided upon
Pasadena. Cal. as the place of the
1911 conference of the association.
A board of naval medical men.
headed by Surgeon Charles st. J.
Butler. U. S. NJ. will convene at the
naval academy to investigate the re-
cent outbreak there nj typhoid fever