The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-06-15

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ton will take place at Bellevue jun
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DR.. w. NJ. Greene. IN aviator, vii
attempt on June 81 to fly from
Rochester across Lake Ontario t.
! Toronto.
King George and Queen Mary en-
tertained Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt,
at luncheon at Marlborough house il
London.
Glenn H. Curtiss will attempt ar
aeroplane fight from Cleveland tc
Put-in-Bay and Detroit some time
next month.
In London. June s, Miss
Margareta A. Drexel. daughter of the
Philadelphia banker. was married to
an Englishman.
The postoffice safe at Merriam
Wis. was blown by burglars and
money and stamps to the value of
$4,000 We're stolen.
Charles Gridley, attorney OF Vir.
ginia. ILL.,. who represented the fisher
in the Springfield lobby. was given a
clean bi, ~ Mr.. Burke. after he had
testified.
Reports received at Bristol. Tenn.
are to the effect that two churches
and probably a dozen dwelling houses
were blown down in a wind and hail
storm which visited that section.
Emil Seidel. the mayor of Milwan-
kea, in a speech declared the mon
opolies were labor-saving devices and
necessary. Mr.. Seidel added that all
monopOlies. however. should be un-
der the strictest regulations.
A mass meeting of Pittsburg resi-
dents of British birth or British de-
scent decided to erect research lab
oratory for the tuberculosis sanitar-
ium of Pittsburg as local memorial
to the late King Edward VII.
The grand jury which was convened
May 16 by Governor Hughes of New
York. to Investigate alleged county
grating cases returned fifty indict-
ments against :wenty-seven persons.
Thomas E. Watson. once q demo-
cratic member OF congress and once
named by the populist party for pres:-
dent. announced in a card issued last
week his return to the democratic
party.
In a desperate encounter between
revenue officers and "mOonshiners"
in Wilkes county. North Carolina.
more than a hundred shots we're fired
and several of the moOnshiners We're
injured.
When Colonel Roosevelt comes sail
ing home on June IS Collector of the
Port William Loeb. Jr., and several
hundred loyal friends will meet him
down the bay in government vessels |
and escort him up to Manhattan.
Attorney General Wickersham has |
rendered a decision in which he holds |
that Richard Parr is entitled to re- |
cover from the government the |
amount of his claim for information
given against the so-called sugar
rust.
Charles Stuart Rolls started in an
in an attempt to fly across
he English channel from Dover a.
ralais. He had gone only a few
ards. however. when the motor
'roke down and he was compelled IL
postpone the flight.
Treasury officials figure that II al
he money in circulation in the Unit
d States were divided equally. every
nan. woman and child would have
34.59. This is II cents per capita
lore than they would have had BY
he same process Of reasoning
lonth ago.
Notwithstanding recent threats
nat a revolutionary movement would
e inaugurated in China Sunday the
ate set for the opening of the Nan.
ing exposition. this ceremony was
arried out without the slightest dis
rder.
In a desperate encounter between
evenue officers and "moonshiners'
! Wilkes county. North Carolina.
ore than a hundred shots were fired
nd several of the moonshiners were
,jured. The officers destroyed four
licit distilleries and 1000 gallons o.
eer.
At the Press Clubs dinner In honor
Glenn Curtiss. the aviator, J. Der.
ard Walker of the Scientific Amer.
an announced that Edwin Gould
ifers $4,000 as a prize to the man
no shall produce the first aeroplane
employing two motors
nd two propellers.
Richard Parr. the officer of the New
ork custom house who unearthed the
gantic frauds committed by the
merican Sugar Refining Company.
i'll get his reward from the govern
ent in a short time. Through Parr
e government recovered almost So
10000. His reward is likely to be
oSe to 100000.
Personal.