The Columbus journal., 1911-04-05


adjourn about April 4th.
The employers compensation act
was passed in the Illinois senate.
Opponents of Lorimer are laying
plans to GUST him at the coming ses-
sion.
Friends of the Aldrich currency
plan are to conduct campaign IN It's
favor
Stanley Robson. owner of the st
Louis National league baseball team.
is dead.
New York democrats in caucus
failed to make selection for United
States senator.
The national forest reservation
commission is ready to begin the pur.
chase of lands
The first move for peace must come
from the rebels if President Diaz OF
Mexico has his way.
Oklahoma Kansas bandits held up
and robbed an Iron Mountain train OF
an amount said 10 be $4,000.
Francisco Madero. jr.. has made it
plain that ne must be consulted be-
fore peace plans are concluded.
China has decided to unreservedly
ac,Iuiesce 10 the demands OF Russia
concerning the treaty OF 1881.
The New York legislature will make
strenuous efforts TO get a senator be-
fore the extra congress cCnyeneS.
New Workers held a mass meeting
in the interest of more adequate pro-
lection of so-called fire-prOof build
ingS.
Selection of president Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific TO succeed George J.
Gould will not be made for several
weeks.
The Russian government has foru-
ally notified China that it is satisfied
with her final reply to the Russian ul-
timatum.
Directors of the Missouri Pacific
railroad met and approved the eX-
penditure Of 100000 for betterments
on the road.
The Red Cross VIII collect funds
for relief OF families who lost rela-
tives in the New York skirt factory
confederation.
Mrs. Austin NJ. Knight. wife of Cap
tain Knight of the United States navy.
nal complications. .
Senator Bourne i'm a speech before
the Boston City club. urged the for
nation Of direct legislation leagues TO
work for the adoption of the initia-
tive and referendum.
The executors of the estate of Ce-
Gil Grace. the aviator who lost his
life while attempting an across chan
mel flight. were granted leave to pre-
sumo his death. His body has never
been found.
Counsel for the indicted Chicago
meat packers appeared before Judge
George A. Carpenter in the United
States district court and were given
one week to file a demurrer to the
government action.
Prompt denial was made by friends
OF President Taft of the report from
Springfield. ILL.,. that MIR. Taft had
Joined with Senator Aldrich in urging
the election of William Lorimer to
the United States senate.
Henry l.. Myers. the new United
States senator from Montana. is forty
nine years old, native OF Missouri.
He worked on his fathers farm,
taught school. became newspaper
man. finally lawyer, and now sen,
ator
Secretary Nasel of the department
of commerce and labor announced the
appointment of Rcllard =. Faulkner
as assistant director Of the census.
+. Willoughby was recently transfer
red to the economy commission at the
white house.
One hundred and fifty lives. mostly
women and girls. were lost in fire
at skirt factory in New York City.
Operatives were entrapred and most
of them lost their lives by. jumping
from great height. Property loss
on the Building is less than 100000.
VI. B. Cohn. prominent Omaha
business man. was asSassinated as he
was on his way home late at night in
an alley and shot down the victim
rs he was crossing the same. Two
arrests under suspicion have been
made.
At Los Angeles. after swallowing
poison and cutting his throat Wesley
Churchill. forty years old. leaped from
the top of the eleven story building.
He landed in an alley and was man.
cled into d shapeiess mass. Churchill
had lost his position because Of poor
health. Tie had large family.
DR.. Kelly. 4 young physician. grad
nate of an Omaha medical college.
killed two men in Des MOines. one
of them deputy sheriff of Pottawat-
tamie county, while on his way to the
inebriate hospital at Knoxville. to
which he had been sentenced. The
deputy sheriff. lifelong friend of
the murderer. had him in charge. The
other man killed was a saloon keeper
of Des Moines who had refused to
sell 4 drink to the frenZied doctor.