The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28

Porto Rico is making strides in a
ricultural development.
! President and Mrs. Taft celebrate
a: Washington their twenty-fifth wed
ding anniversary.
Talking to Yale students. Attorne,
General Wickersham declared agains
the Arizona constitution.
The campaign publicity bill va
cast aside in the senate
The United States has officially rec
ognized the republic Of Portugal.
4 President Taft will be unable (,
visit Huron, S. D., during his west
ern trip.
The American medical association
convention will meet this month II
Los Angeles.
The London public got q new
glimpse of royalty in the second day
! parade of the streets.
Fourteen secretaries of retail lum
Der dealers associations were indict
ed by a Chicago grand jury.
President Taft sent a message Il
congress urging amendment to the
pure food and drugs act.
Under orders from Washington
many mail cars are now being hauled
behind the baggage cars.
The house refused to concur in the
senate amendment on direct election
of United States senators.
The senate is in such an ugly snarl
that the fate of the reciprocity bill
is hanging in the balance.
Anselmo Braamcamp was elected
president of the republic of Portugal
by the constituent assembly.
Testimony at the sugar hearing dis
closed that Havemeyer was a silent
partner of the Mormon church.
Insurgent republicans and demo-
Gratis of the senate have formed a
new combine to force tariff legisla-
ton.
The Panama bond sale shows that
Uncle Sam is in good health and the
business men of the country GONZALES.
cent.
James Proctor Knott, former gov
ernor of Kentucky. and prominent for
many years in congress, died at Leba-
non, Ky.
In an address at the Yale alumni
luncheon the president spoke in
praise of recent supreme court de-
cisions.
Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus has
succeeded to the command Of the At
lantic fleet, taking the place of Ad-
miral Schroeder.
A storm which included hail. wind.
lightning and rain swept central Kan
sas. doing thousands of dollars dam
age to farm property.
Ferdinand Edmund Duez, receiver
for the dissolved religious congrega-
tons of France. was convicted by a
jury of embezzling 100000.
Mrs. Mary L. Cox, formerly of Day.
ton, O., was granted a divorce from
James NJ. Cox. newspa-
per publisher and financier of that
city.
Governor Wilson gave out a state
ment expressing his pleasure over
The success of the commission gov
movement in Trenton. n. J.
Subscriptions to the British portion
If the $30.OOO.O00 Hukwang railway
oan to China were opened and i'm
closed, having been over
Four members of the H. o. Mills.
Daugh family at Westport. S. D., are
ying at the point of death from
poisoning, due to eating
'aw ham.
Rev. Dr. John Clifford of London.
England. president of the Baptist |
world alliance took a decided stand |
against any "unitey of organizations"
Imong the christian churches.
The death of Syed Ali Belgraml at
iardor, Oudh, from heart disease,
lged 81, removes one of the most YER
atile and eminent Indian scholars.
lie spoke a dozen tongues, and could
cad. write and think in twenty.
Apparently uneasy over the grow
ng habit of mineral water drinking
y senators and their office STATS,
senator Lodge introduced and had
dOpted a resolution which is expected
o check the practice.
George Burns, Cleveland, O.. aged
fteen. fatally shot his father. Seward
urns, aged forty-f1ve, when he came
nd found his father abusing his
lother.
Senatorial reports of crop damage
l the northwest made the Chicago
larket 60 skyward.
The battleship Florida. now nearing
ompletion at the New York navy
ard. was ordered placed in commits
on on September Is. Her sister ship.
le Utah. is expected to be completed
n August l.
The reports emanating from Vienna
fatalities resulting from the recent
lrricane were greatly exaggerated.
D far as known, not more than TWEEN
five lives were lost.
Edward Valentine Lee, under ar
st at Buffalo, charged with the A,
left Of $4,000 from the paymasters
lfe while serving as a clerk on the
Georgia at Havana last ,
ebruary.. married Miss Audrey F.
elsey Of Washington. After the
he returned to his cell.
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