The Columbus journal., 1911-05-17

| Jay IQtO erect on June i.
: A house committee has begun in
! veshgation of charges of graft in
awarding of shoe contracts.
Congressman Longworth says thai
at birth a man has his choice between
bald head and brains. His OWL
choice, he says. is apparent.
At Alton. ILL.,, Allen Soroggins was
sentenced in the city court to ter
years in the penitentiary on a charge
of having enticed into white slavery
Grace Whaley. IA years old, of Alton
Robert r. Moore, who ran for
comptroller on the same ticket with
Mayor Gaynor. was appointed city
chamberlain to succeed Charles H.
Hyde.
The draft Of the arbitration treaty
between America and Great Britain
has advanced SO far towcrd compile.
ton that it will be ready for submis-
sion to the British government with.
in two weeks.
A bill aimed at the United States
Machinery company and its alleged
monopoly of the shoe manufacturing
machinery business was introduced in
the house by Representative Peters
| of Massachusetts,.
The international opium conference
which was to have met at The Hague
on July l has been postponed for one
year Germany, Japan and Portugal
| are not prepared with the data which
| Great Britain desired should be pre-
scented at the opening of the confer
ence.
The japanese have robbed a con-
sulate at Algun. a Chinese town Of
Manchuria on the Amur. IS miles
from the Russian frontier. and this
has caused the Russian government
to inquire the reason for this step and
whether it was taken for strategical
purposes.
The Indianapolis & Southern rail-
way was sold at auction for $2,50O.-
600 to the Illinois Central railroad.
The sale was mortgage foreclosure
proceeding brought by Charles A.
Peabody and Alex G. Hackstaff of
New York.
The independence of the Philippine
islands is contemplated in a joint res
olution introduced by Senator Gore
of Oklahoma
Lewis NJ. Hedges. one of the most
widely known old-time showmen and
for years manager for the late p. T
Barnum. died at his home in Chicago
The American Federation of Labor
issued an appeal for funds for the de
Tense of the Mcnamara brothers. in
Jail in Los Angeles for using dyna-
mite.
The Kansas state board of railroad
commissioners refused to permit the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad to
issue $1O2.O0O,OO0 in bonds on the
ground that the proposition is too in
definite
At Oklahoma City the democrats
were victorious in the first city cleo
ton under the commission form of
government.
Insurrectos made an onslaught on
JuareZ, but commander of the feder-
ais in the city says he will die before
he will surrender
Germany has warned France of the
dangerous consequences likely to fol-
low the occupation of Fee by French
troops.
A curb on the leasing at high prices
of patented machinery by the manu-
facIurers thereof was proposed by
Senator Gore of Oklahoma.
Prof Fred Lemar Charles. associate
professor of agricultural education in
the University of Illinois. committed
suicide by choking himself with a
bookstrap.
The body of Halsey c. Ives. the art
director of the city museum of ST.
Louis. who died at London. was Gre
mated at Golden's green. The ashes
will be sent to the United States.
Gen. Thomas L. James, president |
of the Lincoln National bank and for |
merly postmaster general in the cab |
met of President Garfield, was married |
at Tenafly, n. j.. to Mrs. Augustus |
Gaffney. OF Rochester who was d. |
vorced from her first husband. The |
general is so years old. and has been |
twice before.
As viewed at Washington the log. |
ical program of Madero is next to |
march on Mexico City.
John NJ Stahl. legislative agent OF |
the farmers national congress. says
that body opposes reciprocity
Rebels al Aqua Prieta have estab |
lished provisional government.
The late Robert Hoe paid $4,000
to Louis F. Brown of Covington. Ky,
to persuade Brown to drop a suit
against Hoe for the alienation of the
affections of his wife, according to
testimony of Brown.
A Georgia judge pronounces the
prohibition law a failure in that state
J. p. McRea of Bloomington. Neb,
who stopped at the Often hotel in St
Joseph, dreamed that the building
was on fire and arising about mid
night he jumped through a second
story window to the pavement. He
landed squarely on his fee: and one
leg was broken.