The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-09-27

Rev. r. H. Deliver, brother OF the
late Iowa senator. died at Hot Springs.
S. D.. aged IS.
Taft is willing to be retired rather
than bulge on the tariff question.
Canada defeated reciprocity by q
! landslide vote.
Champ Clark says democracy is in
sight of the promised land.
Federal Judge Grosscup of Chicago
is soon to retire from the bench.
Spain is facing crisis as grave a
that confronting the nation in 1909.
Congress must soon fix the toll
charges for the Panama canal.
Henry Seymour of Lincoln. Neb..
was drugged and robbed at Niagara
Falls.
c. p. Rodgers. the coast-to-coast avi.
ator. suffered a hard fall at Middleton.
n.
Fifty people were killed and two
hundred injured in the Sunday riots at
Vienna.
Six people, living in adjoining hous-
es were murdered while they slept at
Colorado Springs.
Robert L. Borden. opposition leader
in Canada, made a final appeal to the
voters against reciprocity.
There was a bad slump in steel
stocks on rumors of coming suit for
dissolution of the company.
A change of contempt of court is
made against an attorney for the de-
tense in the Mcnamara cases.
J. J. Hill, chairman of the Great
Northern railway, celebrated his sew
enty-third birthday on the 18th.
Carl Morris. the white hope. was
outfought in his ten-round battle with
Jim Flynn at New York.
Henry Watterson says the day OF
free passes and free tickets in the
newspaper business is passing.
Sensational developments are prom
ised in connection with the assassina-
ton of Premier Stolypin OF Russia.
Seven Kansas ministers will ask the
president to veto Secretary Wilson's
connection with the brewers con-
gress.
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad
shops at Sedalia, employing nearly
200 men, clseod for an indefinite
period.
Lieutenants Atwood and Sheppard.
the English army officers who were
arrested at Emden, Prussia, charged
with espionage, were released.
Seattle was chosen as the next
meeting place of the American Asso-
citation of General Passenger and
Ticket Agents in 1912.
Unless collections for the state
treasury come in more rapidly the
state treasurer of Nebraska will be OBJ
liged to stop buying municipal bonds.
The fire at the plant of the Her
cules Oil Refining company at Yer
non, Cal. which burned for twenty
four hours, was brought under con-
troll.
Officials of the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna & Western railroad said that
less than 1000 out of total number
of 1900 track employees were on
strike.
To become thoroughly familiar
with military conditions Secretary OF
War Stimson contemplates visiting
practically every army post in the
country.
Fourteen thousand Kansas corpora
tons lost their charters when the
charter board found they had not
complied with the law requiring an
nual reports.
Ogden L. Mills. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ogden Mills of New York and Miss
Margaret Rutherford. daughter of
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, ST., we're
married in France.
A number of Kansas democrats
who are in favor of Champ Clark for
president will meet the Missourian
and will seek to learn from him
whether he will enter the race for the
nomination.
At Des MOines, Ia, Judge Smith Nc
Pherson in federal court dissolved the
Injunction obtained recent
ly by the express companis of Iowa
against the State Railroad commits
sion.
The anniversary o: Mexico's declar-
alton of independence was celebrated
at Mexico City, the feature of the
program being a parade of the milit-
airy, reviewed by President De La
Barra.
General Jose De La Luz Blanco.
of rurales in northern
Chihuahua, has been officially ordered
to take his forces to siorales and give
fight to Zapata. General Blanco has
been with Madero In his campaign In
Yucatan and will return at once to
Casas Grandes and get his army.
Five governors of western states
that have conferred the electoral
franchise upon women-Hawley Of
Idaho. Spry of Utah, Carey of Wyom-
ing, Hay of Washington and Shafroth
of Colorado-vere participants in a
largely attended meeting in the inter-
ests of woman suffrage at Cooper
union, New York.
Personal.
President Taft, on his long journey,
made the first stop at Syracuse. N. Y.
Twenty-Five governors attended the
meeting at Spring Lake. N. J.