The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-30

Britain is gradually abating.
President Taft nominated William
TX. Chaplin registrar of the land Of
/ fee and william C. Edwin receiver III
public moneys, both at Cheyenne,
, Wyo.
Business conditions generally over
the country show improvement.
Opponents of reciprocity are making
a lively campaign in Canada.
| Further strike complications have
appeared At Liverpool, England.
A favorable majority report on the
arbitration treaty was made In the
senate
Senator La Toilette in a speech
urged federal supervision of utilities
in Alaska.
The program for the governors
meeting at Spring Lake. N. j.. has
been outlined.
A $500 trophy is the prize for the
best peck of wheat exhibited at the
Minnesota state fair.
At least thirty-seven persons were
killed and many injured in wreck
near Manchester. n. Y.
The United States exported seven
million dollars worth of medicines
during the past year.
Tariff revision is to bob up again
when the regular session of congress
convenes in December.
President Taft talked to Crane
Army veterans at Rochester on the
evils of concentrated wealth.
Workmen of Lincoln will celebrate
labor day with a picnic at which Gov.
Aldrich will make and address,.
Vice President Kruttschnitt of the
Hartman lines says that the matter
of a strike is up to the employees.
The course in the negotiations con-
corning the Moroccan dispute was ap-
proved by the French cabinet council.
Secretary Wilson admitted in his
testimony in the Wiley hearing that
his department was somewhat upset.
Chicago's population is now 1884,
1874, according to the announcement
made by the publishers of the new
city directory.
Friends of Mrs. Grover Cleveland
announced that they were authorized
to deny that her daughter, Miss
Ethel Cleveland. is engaged to marry.
Lieutenant Whittier. executive of.
ficer of the United States revenue cut
ter AndroscOggin, died at the relief
hospital in Boston of injuries sustain
ed at the hands of thugs.
Congressman J. p. Latta of Nebras-
ka and his son Ed accompanied by his
physician. DR.. Luken, has gone to
Rochester. MIMI. where he will prob
ably undergo an operation.
Martin Dewey La Toilette, eighty
four years of age, died at Marietta, O..
of paralysis. He was a noted Grimm
Ologist and jurist and was judge of
the Ohio supreme court from 1889 to
1896.
Jose Maria. managing editor of the
paper Cuba at Havana. and his
nephew. Manuel Villeverde, an editori-
al writer on the Cuba, were seized at
the residence of the former and
placed on a steamer and depOrted to
Spain.
The foundation of a federation OF
democratic club of the country at
large was laid in Washington in the
adoption of a charter and bylaws.
The organization is under the guild
ance of Senators Owen of Oklahoma
and Chamberlain of Oregon ana
George H. SHIRLEY of Mississippi.
A bag of American mail matter
which was lost overheard while being
landed from the Hamburg-American
line steamer Kaiserin Auguste Vic
toria at Plymouth. August II, was
picked up in the HelfOrd river near
Falmouth. The mail bag was swept
away from the steamer by wave.
The bishop of Padua has issued q
pastoral letter addressed to all the
clergy under his jurisdiction, warm
ly exhorting them to use their in
fuence to the end that women and
especially fashionable women. should
adopt more decent and dec0rous
modes of dressing on these hot sum-
mer days.
A new comet recently discovered by.
Dr. W. R. Brooks. director of Observa-
tory and professor of astronomy, Ho-
bart college. and named by him the
Brooks comet has become SO bright
as to be seen with opera glasses or
small telescope and will soon be visi-
BILE to the naked eye.
Governor Eberhart of Minnesota
was subpoenaed to appear before the
state board of control to testify in
the hearing of the charges CT cruelty
preferred against Superintendent
Whittier OF the Red Wing training
school,
The presiden; probably will leave
Beverly September II. returning east
about November 1. He will go west
through Iowa. Kansas, Nebraska,
Colorado and Nevada to the coast.
Most cI the big cities in those states
including Des Moines. Kansas City,
Omaha. Denver and Salt Lake City
will be visited, but the plans for the
trip contemplates stops at scores of
smaller places as well.
Personal.
Secretary Wilson will speak at Lin.
coin September ).
Congressman Latta of Nebraska,
operated upon, vii! pass the crisis in