The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-07-27


idee "a his fight for reelection.
The health of the German emperor
is said to be greatly impaired.
A strike of conductors and trair
| men was called on the Grand Trunh
line.
1t is said the next lower house Il
not necessarily lost to the republi
cans.
The Oklahoma crop situation
| shows an improvement of Is per cent
over any previous year.
There will be no strike on the
Pennsylvania railroad. the dispute be
ing settled by a conference.
The convention of the American as.
ISOLATION of Ad clubs opened in
Omaha with 500 in attendance.
Rhode Island shows increased
population. but not enough to give
the commonwealth another congress
man.
A: Clinton. ILL.,. Chief OF Police John
Struble was shot about midnight by
an unknown man and died in q short
time.
Daniel Kinet, the Belgian aero
naut who fell when the rudder of his
aeroplane broke. died from his in
juries.
A Lincoln. Nebraska man has in
vented a bucket which may revOlu-
tionize methods of excavating and
hosting.
The crop report for Germany,
which gives conditions up to July Is.
shows a slight depreciation since
June Is.
Prince John Charles Francis. the
youngest child of King George and
Queen Mary. celebrated his fifth
birthday.
Drouth in the northwest is seriously
affecting the cattle men, threatening
them with great losses and possibly
with financial ruin.
The Baltimore Eastern League base
bali club has sold Pitcher Lefty"
Russell to the Philadelphia American
League team for $4,000.
Congressman George w. Norris of
the Fifth (Nebraska) district had his
name flied as a candidate for renomi-
nation on the republican ticket.
Plans for the establishment of a
bureau of railway economies at Wash
ington. ID. c.. by the railroads of the
country were announced at Chicago.
The Wisconsin prohibition platform
contains clauses denouncing both
local and county option as not being
a settlement of the liquor problem.
An aeronaut named Andrews fell
100 feet when his balloon burst at
Lake Manawa, Iowa, but was saved
from death by falling into the
branches of a large tree.
At Enid. Okla. guests OF the City
Hotel fled in their night clothes when
the hotel and an adjoining structure
was destroyed by fire. Several of the
guests were slightly injured.
At Omaha Samuel c. Dobbs was re-
elected by reclamation president of
the Associated Advertising Clubs of
America and after a gruelling fight
Boston was awarded the next conven-
ton.
Chico Baca. who was one OF
Aelaya's closest supporters. has re-
signed as minister general of the
Madriz cabinet in Nicaragua. accord
ing to adviceS to the state depart
ment.
Colonel Roosevelt. as we'll as Gif-
ford Pinchot, has been asked to be
in Atlanta
ing will be held for the purpose of !
a state conservation as
ISOLATION.
Officials of the Iowa State Teach |.
ars' association announced that |
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will |
speak at the meeting of the associa-
ton in Des Moines Friday night. No
H.
For the first time since he returned |
to Kansas. United States Senator
Joseph L. Bristow. in a speech at |
Olathe. Kans.. referred to the fact |
that he has been denied patronage by
President Taft.
Edward A. Thompson. who Is
charged by his former fiancee. Miss
of New York. with disappear
ing on October 6. 1909, the day set for
their wedding with $1.7SO of her
was arrested in Minneapolis.
At Hamburg Thirty-five thousand
ship yard workers united in a de
mand for an increase of 10 per cent
in wages and a fifty-three-hour week.
President Taft was highly pleased
when he received a letter from Secre-
DRY of the Treasury Macveagh.
stating that the splendid showing of
FEDERAL finances announced on June
30 last, had been improved by revised
,eturns showing additional receipts of
about $5.5O0.OO0.
To race with the British expedition
Inder Captain Scott to the south
pole. a japanese sailing vessel OF 200
ons carrying Lieutenant Shirase ana
he Japanese expedition to the Ant
lrctic will leave Toxic bay on
August 1. The expedition will pro-
.ced via Benin islands and Australia.