The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-03

President Taft has taken the con.
servation policy in his own hands.
Ohio republicans selected Mr.. Har.
ding for governor. the Taft following
thus winning out.
Senator Cummins declares Cannon
and Aldrich are driving the country
toward socialism.
The mayor of Columbus. O.. made
an appeal to the governor for troops
to cope with strikers.
The explosion at Fortress Monroe
is believed to have been due to . de-
fective device on the gun.
The supreme court of Oklahoma
says the capital must remain for .
time. at least, at Guthrie.
Twenty-Five persons persisted in q
flood that followed a cloudburst at
the town of Dees, Hungary.
At Clinton. ILL.,. Chief of Police John
Struble was shot shout midnight by
an unknown man and died in a short
time
Daniel Kinet. the Belgian aero
naut who fell when the rudder OF his
aeroplane broke. died from his in.
juries.
Mrs. Margaret Barcha. a bride Of
less than year, was found shot to
death in her home at Chicago
Heights.
Cardinal Gibbons was &c years old
Saturday. He spent the day at the
country home of a friend near West
minister. Md.
The Baltimore Eastern League base.
ball club has sold Pitcher Lefty"
Russell to the Philadelphia American
League team for $4,000.
Nonconformists were successful in
the British commons in having ex-
plunged an obnoxious clause in the
pending kings accession bill.
The French government has accept.
ed bronze copy of Houden's statue
of George Washington. which was
presented by the state of Virginia.
Plans for the establishment Of
bureau of railway economies az Wash.
ington. d. c.. by the railroads of the
country were announced at Chicago.
At Hamburg Thirty-five Thousand
ship yard workers united in . de
mand for an increase of 10 per cent.
in wages and a fifty-three-hour week.
The forest service Is engaged in
cruising the national forests In the
south and southwest for the purpose
of determining the stand Of saw tim
Der.
Copious rains which fell over the
Central and Southern sections OF
Iowa. those portions Of the state
which needed it most. saved the corn
crops.
President Taft has approved the
appointment by the Interior depart.
ment of J. A. Ockerson of St. Louis to
Investigate conditions In Imperial val.
ley. Cal.
Major General Frederick Dent
Grant has left Chicago to assume
command of the Department of the
East. with headquarters at Governors
Island. \. Y
In an automobile accident at West
hampton. L. l.. Desmond Dunno. jr..
son of Desmond Dunno. former CON-
missioner of public work in Brooklyn.
was instantly killed.
Laura Jeanne Libbey the author OF
When His Love Grew Cold" Lovers
Once. but Strangers Now" and more
than fifty other similar novels, will
make her debut on the stage.
William Tubbert. GO years old. and
William J. Tubert. IS. cousins. died
at Syracuse. n. Y. within q half
hour. The former was one of the
best known sporting men in Central
New York.
Eleven men were killed at La
Taqua. Quebec. One of the men was
opening a can of powder with an Ak
when an explosion occurred which set
fire to train of powder leading to
I tunnel in which fifteen men were
working
At Pittsburg. Pa. federal food in.
spector armed with legal papers and
clothespin clapped over his nose
seized l25 cans of Nebraska eggs,
which were marked canned fancy
mixed and Frozen" and yet guaran-
teed pure and fresh"
A motion asking for new trial In
the bleached -four case In which q
jury recently returned a verdict favor.
aIle to the government. was filed in
the United States district court at
Kansas City by attorneys represent.
ing the Lexington Mill & Elevator
company of Lexington. Eeb.
Chalmers No. 5. which was driven
by Bill Bolger. was the winner of the
Glidden trophy. The contest board of
the American Automobile association.
n session at Ce:roit. fully sustained
the protest Of the Chalmers Motor
company against the entry of the
Premier Motor Car company of Indi-
annapolis. and awarded the Detroit car
the classic trophy of endurance con-
test The Gil lden tor victor was a
81 500 Chalmers go"