The Columbus journal., 1911-08-16

| Suc hSSVOIy "a Tic OulOA oSlAS.
The English parliament will adjourn
| August Is till about the LIST of Novem
Der.
Attorneys general of eight states
! discussed railway rate cases at St
! Louis.
John W. Gates, who recently died
in Paris, left a fortune of forty mil
| lion.
Three railroad lines entering Chica
60 will build a station costing $40.
00G,00Q.
Admiral Togo took much interest
in the big dresGnaughts that Uncle
Sam is building.
Standpat republicans have told the
president that any bill he sees fit t.
| veto will not be repassed
Baltimore gave Admiral Togo cor.
ing the five hours of his stay.
The will of John w. Gates will be
probated in Port Arthur, Tex, where
the financier made his residence.
The national monetary commission
! was denounced in the senate as ex
travagant, and a useless expense.
The French steamer Emir founder.
ed today five miles east of Tariffa,
Spain, in the straits of Gibraltar.
Editors of the central west have
been sounded on the question of presi.
dental approval or veto of the wool
bill.
The United States government has
declined the Australian proposal for
reciprocal cent postage arrange
MeDt.
The Georgia senate passed bill fix
ing sixty hours a week as the max
imum for work in cotton and wool
mills.
Arthur P. German, son of the late
senator German, is a candidate for
the democratic nomination for COVER
nor Of Maryland.
Robert Ryan, formerly of Lincoln,
says that the Des Moines commission
er system of city government has not
stood the first severe test.
The prohibition national committee
will meet December 6 to choose the
time and place for holding the party's
presidential convention.
Mr.. and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt
of New York were guests of King
George and Queen Mary at dinner on
board the royal yacht Victoria and
Albert.
Governor Hadley appointed the
commission of Hannibal men which
will have charge of the erection of a
monument to Samuel L. Clemmons
Mark Twain at Hannibal.
A new roof garden has been opened
in Washington. 1t is located at 1000
Pennsylvania avenue. where Presi.
dent William H. Taft lives when con
gress keeps him in the city.
Augustine Edward, the Chilean
minister to Great Britain, paid over to
Ambassador Reid 1S4,6S7 pounds, the
indemnity awarded the United States
in the Alsop claim against Chile.
Announcement was made by thu
S"tSu wi pOA otioA Nudt
the untitled tonnage on the books Of
the company on July 81 was 3,5S4.OS5
against 3,36l,07S tons on the books
On June 80.
Twenty-one thousand young people
will compete at forty-fve of the coun
~ fairs to be held in Wisconsin this
fall for $4,000 offered as prize money
for the best exhibit of grain grown by
boys or girls under eighteen.
Il must so where am ordered
greatly as l regret to leave Wyo
ming" said Bishop X J. Keene wher
informed that his nomination to the
archbishopric of Dubuque had beer
ratified by Pope Plus.
Gross extravaganza of the demo
cratic majority in conducting use
less investigations" was charged in
the house by Republican Leader
Mann, who also claimed the new dem.
ocratic house leaders were incompe-
tent.
Augustin Edward, Chilean minister
to Great Britain, paid over to Ambas-
sador Reid lS4,G37 pounds sterling,
the indemnity awarded the United
States in the Alsop claim against
Chile under the arbitral judgment OF
King George.
James r. Mann, the floor leader of
the Republicans in the lower house of
congress, is taking an active part in
the operations OF the ways and means
committee in collecting statistics re,
garding iron and steel industries for
tariff revision purposes.
Miss Florence Hopwood, a Mime.
apolis girl, is to become the wife of
Charles G. Gates, son of John W
Gates. who died Wednesday in Paris
The engagement took place early in
thesummer before Charles G. Gates
was called to Paris.
The famous Crccker's Iowa brigade
will hold its sixteenth biennial re-
union at SigOurney, Iowa, Wednesday
and Thursday, September and z,
1911. All soldiers who served in the
brigade composed OF tine Eleventh,
Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth
regiments of Iowa volunteers are en-
titled to membership and are earnest
ly urged to attend.
Personal.