The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-10-26

It is suggested that Associate Jus
tice White of the supreme court ma,
be elevated to chief.
Rhode Island republicans renomi
mated present state officers and en-
dorsed the administration of Presi
dent Taft.
The West Indian hurricane has hi,
Florida a fearful blow. causing loss OF
life and property.
| The interstate commerce commits
sion made an order that the long and
short haul rule must be adhered to
A council of Christian union to
sweep away UNCONVENTIONAL barriers
was proposed at the Topeka conven
| ton
The validity of the Carmack amend
ment to the Hepburn rate Law is be.
ing tested in the United States su.
| preme court.
The government has authorized the
Spanish minister at Lisbon to enter
| into relations with the provisional
government.
Announcement was made of a gift
! of $250.0O0 by John ID. Rockefeller to
the medical department of Western
Reserve university
Luiggi Lucheni. who assassinated
the emperor of Austria in 1908. COM
United suicide in his cell in the pris.
on known as IEveche.
The duty on lumber imported from
Canada will be waived by the United
States in the interest of the Mime
sofa forest-fire sufferers.
United States Senator Nelson W.
Aldrich. who, with the members of
his family. has been in Europe for a
month. returned last week.
English bankers have agreed to ex-
tend the period of negotiating cotton
bills of lading under the present sys-
tenn from October 81 to December 81.
Secretary OF State Knox has return
cd TO his desk at the state department
after spending nearly all summer at
his country home at Valley Forge. Pa.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad COM
rany was fined from SO to $25 each
On four counts fer violating the six
teen-hour law in the federal court in
st. Louis.
The English government has invited
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener to be-
come member of the committee on
imperial defense and Lord Kitchener
has accepted.
The population OF Omaha is la, 1896.
as compared with 1O2,555 in 1900 and
1882 in 1890 The increase from
1900 to 1910. therefore, is 2l.5iI. or
21.O per cent.
John ID. Rockefeller has given to
the Rockefeller institute for medical
research an additional S3.S20.0OO.
bringing his donations to this institu-
ton up to an aggregate of $4,000. 900.
Thirty-six cigar factories out of the
thirty-eight belonging to the Manu-
facturerS' association will open their
doors at Tampa to all cigarmakers
willing to work on the manufacturers
terms
A commission OF scientists has
come to the conclusion that Amer
lean potatoes are no longer a source
Of contamination. and the French gov
eminent has decided to admit this
product
Seventy-seven men heroically gave
their lives in their effort to subdue
the disastrous forest fires which rag
ed in the west during the latter part
Of August, according to figures given
out by the forest service.
Joseph NJ. Huston of Philadelphia,
architect of Pennsylvania state
capitol. was sentenced to imprison-
ment for not less than six months
nor more than two years in the east
ern penitentiary at Philadelphia
The twenty-first annual report of
the Great Northern railway says that
in conditions during the
fiscal year ending June so last result
ed in the largest earnings for one
year ever reported by the company"
Announcement was made at Cleve-
land of gift of $3.50. 600 by John ID.
to the medical department
Of Western Reserve university. The
phe. "hiSh 10 fNi ouC. 10 uuduc
on the raising of $780,
300 more by the university
Another chapter was added to the
history of aviation when the French
dirigible balloon Clement Bayard
made the voyage from COmpeigne to
London in the remarkable time of six
hours. journey requiring seven
hours by the fastest express trains.
Acting Secretary of State Alvey A.
Adee. who has ridden over much of
This country and Europe on a bicycle
without mishap. was injured while rid
ng in Washington when he attempt
ed to avoid running over a yellow dog
The Missouri state primary election
aw of 1909 is attacked in a petition
fled in the supreme court declaring
t unconstitutional. The petition was
lied by attorneys for John Felz to |
compel the board of election commits |
sioners of st. Louis to place his name |
On the official ballot as an independ- |
mt candidate for the office of justice |
If The peace.
Personal.