The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-06-07
General.

Twenty-one contestants entered tn,
Paris to Turin contest
Senate republicans claim the demo
cratic family is about as badly di
vided as itself.
Before boarding a ship which viii
carry him to Spain General Diaz is
sued a warning to Mexico.
Rev. DR.. Grant, of Northumberland
Pa. was found guilty of heresy by
the Presbyterian assembly.
At the reciprocity hearing it was
disclosed that many big interests fur
nished means to fight the bill.
By direction of the president. pri
vate papers of the state department
were refused house committee.
Price of wheat in Chicago pit went
higher as result of reports of Hessian
fly. grasshoppers and heat damage
While driving a team across the
South Canadian river Mrs. George
Glover and her three children of Mel.
lette, Okla, were drowned.
Mrs. Levi z. Letter, of Beverly.
Mass, is to have a summer home
built entirely of glass, which will be
tall-bearing and will revolve by sim
ply pressing button.
In New York, Mrs Mary Plat Par
mele. authoress and historian. was
run down and killed by motorcycle
within block of her home.
J. ID. Bren, cashier and accountant
of the state university, was held up
by three Minnesota highwaymen near
the university and robbed of s13,S0O.
He also lost his watch and his
months salary.
The Rev. Thomas Grieves. Method
fst, of Glens Falls, n. Y, says he will
sell everything he has and give the
proceeds to the family of Mary Ma
ginn, who was killed by his auto
GrieveS was held blameless.
Members of the house who are be-
hind the movement to land Speaker
Champ Clark in the white house in
1913 are becoming more and more
satisfied with the manner in which
the boom is taking" throughout the
country.
Attorney General Wickersham said
criminal prosecution of trust mag
mates will be undertaken.
Senator Gamble of South Dakota
puts no faith in the report that the
senate may not confirm the appoint
ment of J. d. Elliott.
Brought together by the friendly Of
fees of the United States. the COM
missioners of Hayti and San Domingo
met at the state department to nego-
tiate protocol submitting the long
standing boundary dispute of the two
countries to arbitration.
Military field mass for the Spanish
war dead was celebrated in the shad-
ow of the Washington monument be-
fore fully $4,000 persons. President
Taft, members of the cabinet, the dip
lomatic corps and OF congress were
present.
President Taft is requested in a
resolution introduced by Representa-.
tive Hubbard. of Iowa, to furnish the
house with all information relative
to the issuance OF railway stocks and
bonds which was obtained by the
special committee of inquiry ap-
pointed by him at the direction of the
sixty-first congress.
The Right Rev. Edmund Prender-
CAST, auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia,
It was announced at the Vatican, has
been appointed archbishop of Phila-
delphia in succession OF the late Most
Rev. Patrick John Ryan, who died
February IL last.
At Macon, Ga. Judge Emory Speer,
United States circuit court, threat
ened Thomas B. Fielder. attorney gen.
eral-elect of Georgia. with disbarment
unless he quit describing the negro
plaintiff in a peolase case as mig
ger"
system of peonage is alleged to
exist in Pennsylvania coal fields.