The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-03-29

| Liverpool no longer sets the pric,
for American wheat.
Yale has received a gift of $1OO.OOl
for forestry school building.
Senator Carroll introduced in the
senate a bill to legalize prize fights in
Illinois.
Frederick Haase, the German char
acter actor, died in Berlin. He wal
born in 1926
Finance Minister Limantour con
fessed conditions in Mexico were
worse than he supposed.
President Taft reiterated that the
sending OF troops to Texas conveyed
no threat toward Mexico.
The dedication of Cleveland's new
100000 postOffice took place with
many prominent men present.
No laying down of arms while peace
negotiations are going on is the de-
cision of Mexican insurrecto junta.
Annual reports shows the gross
| revenue collected by the Bell tele-
| phone system in 1910 was $165.0OO,-
| 600.
The New York senate judiciary
| committee voted, S to 3. against re-
| porting two woman suffrage resolu-
tons.
The Iowa senate. al the close of an
exciting debate. defeated the resolu-
ton for woman suffrage by vote of
% to 81.
The International American Purity
federation has decided to hold its
next congress in Columbus, O.. Octo-
Der 1927.
All railroads operating in Oklahoma
must maintain general Offices in the
state. according to a ruling of the SUI
preme court.
Adams county. Ohio, grand jury has
brought in its final report in the vote
buying probe. In all 2.l4S indict-
mentS were returned.
The final provisional census returns
give the total population of India as
315.O00.G00. This is an increase of
20.500.000 as compared with 1901.
l.. s. NaftZger. formerly president
Of the Fourth National bank of Wich-
tia. Kansas. was found guilty by q
jury i'm the federal court of buying
and selling stolen postage stamps.
Mrs. Rida Shyrock Booth. divorced
wife of General Alfred Edwin Booth,
of Baltimore. and Robert Stewart. jr,
of Philadelphia, were married in VIII
mington. Del. where they had gone
in an automobile.
The French government has award
ed life savers gold medal of the
second class to. Eugene Higgins OF
the New York yacht. Varuna. which
went ashore on the coast of Madeira
island on Nov. 1G. 1909.
British feeling regarding the Mex
leo program of Washington is decid-
eddy less censorous than it was
week ago. The change for the better
is due to clearer conception of the
purposes of Mr.. Taft and to a cessa-
ton of makeshift explanations.
Charles r. Davis. who served as a
private in the Indian wars in Montana,
and the Dakotas. and in
1877 killed the Sioux chief. Lame
Deer, after the latter had attempted
to assassinate General Nelson A.
Nine more states must ratify the
federal income tax amend
ment before il can become a part of
the constitution. Reports from the
capitals of the sc states show that
the amendment has received favOra-
BILE action in the joint legislatures of |
&c
One of the principal questions |
which the war department hopes to |
settle as result of the maneuvers |
in Texas and California is whether |
the army as now organized is provid-
ed with an Overstock or with an in |
sufficient equipment of wagons, tents |
and supplies.
Senator PenrOSe, of PENNSYLVANIA, |
unless the republican slate in the SEN
lte is broken. is to have the place of
Nelson W. AlGrich, of Rhode Island.
ong powerful in directing the course
IF tariff and other legislation in the
United States senate, at the head of
he senate committee On finance.
Heavy failures in the wooden and
10th trade in Japan. the most serious
)eing those of the Wada and Matsui
irms. are reported in Japanese mail
,dvices brought by the steamship Sa-
10 Maru. which arrived from Yoko-
lama. Each of the two failures men,
toned involved a half million dollars.
De;achments of ten companies of
he Illinois National Guard are patrol
ing the mining town of Bend. south
If Gillespie. ILL.,. and the presence of
he state soldiery has had a salutary
fleet Oh the striking miners. who
oined in demonstration calculated
O awe their brethren who wanted to
eturn to work