The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-02-08
General.

Revolutionists are masters of the
situation in parts of Mexico.
Nebraska stands TO lose a congress
man under the reapportioment.
A. B. Funke announces that he is
out of the Iowa senatorial race.
Republican sentiment in the ma
tionai house is against any increase
in representation.
A threatened Mexican insurrecto at
tack on Ciudad JauareZ mas caused an
exodus of the population.
The senate passed the ship subsidy
bill. the vote of the vice president be-
Ing necessary to break tie.
The editor of the Paris Liberator
calls the sentence of Edward Iylins
a white-wash of King George.
Senator Norris Brown, in sting
ing Indictment of Lorimer of Illinois,
demanded that he be expelled.
Retail merchants OF most OF the
southern states are protesting against
passage of the parcels post bill.
In the murder of Count de Lossy at
St. Petersburg. his accOmplice, dec
tor. confessed poisoning many pa
tients.
4 resolution was introduced in the
house opposing the proposed reciproc-
ity treaty with Canada. The conStitu-
tional convention. after a long debate
was finally indefinitely postponed in
the senate.
The annual Chicago automobile
show opened with every inch Of space
in the Coliseum and the First resi-
ment arnory occupied.
The proposed charter for the city of
St. Louis was defeated at a special
election by majority of 4O.155. The
total vote was S9.937 of which 24.S9l
against.
Wholesale murder of Chinese labor
erS by MeXicans in connection with
the smuggling of contraband celeSti-
ais across the border is indicted by
the story of a wounded Chinese found
In an isolated mountain locality near
Nogales, Arizona.
At St. Joseph. Mo-. Leila Cooper
and Stanley Clark were killed and
four companions were injured, three
probably fatally. when Chicago
Great Western motor car ran down
an automobile in which the six young
people were riding.
The Indiana Republican Editorial
association, which. at its convention
year ago. refused to endorse the
Taft administration, faced about and
adopted resolutions endorsing. unre.
servedly, President Taft. rledging
him the support of the republican
press of the state and appealing to
the voters to rally TO him.
The Spanish minister Of the int.
rior has issued an edict prohibiting
women from taking part in bull fights.
BY abandoning his southern trip
the president has caused speculation
as to the possibility of ar extra seS.
sion.
Count Josef Gisycka of BIansko
Moravia. Austria-Hungary was sued
for divorce by his wife. Countess Gis
ycko in the circuit court at Chicago
Colonel Edward II. r. Green, son OF
the richest woman in the world. has
arrived in New York to become the
active manager Of his mothers vast
interests.
Lieutenant Colonel Goethels. chic!
engineer of the Panama canal. sailed
from Colon for the United States.
1t is said that if E. H. Hartman
had nved he would have had a rail
road around the world. This was one
of his great ambitions.
Count Won Rex, formerly German
minister to China, has been nominal
ed as ambassador to Toxic to succeed
Baron Mumm Won Schwartzenstein.
Montana's vote was cast in favor
of the income tax amendment to the
constitution of the United States
The senate concurred in a house re
solution ratifying the amendment.