The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-09-20

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United States Senator Pomerene
who has been confined to his home b!
an acute attack OF kidney trouble To-
! several days. is much improved.
Trade reports show conditions to b
only fairly active.
Admiral Togo returned home from
his tour around the world.
| Admission is made in Peking tina
the Chinese revolt is serious.
The death was announced at Brus
| sells Of Imbart de Ia Tour. a Belgian
tenor.
At this writing over 100000 mel
are engaged in army maneuvering IL
Germany.
Five burglars looted a bank of New
Westminster. B. c., of over quarter
million dollars.
Carl Morris. the white hope. va!
outfought in his ten-round battle with
Jim Flynn at New York.
John ID. Rockefeller's protest tina,
the appraisal on his Forest Hill es
tate is too high was ignored.
In an extended review of the case
President Taft exonerates DIR. Wiley
and finds no cause for his resignation
Swindler S. A. Potter is believed to
have had a plan to catch London mel
for half million by "salted" mine
Directors of the Rubber Goods Man
ufacturing company declared a quar-
terly dividend of 2 per cent on the
common stock.
w. S. Overton of Sarpy county,
Nebr., is believed to have been muir.
dered and robbed of $4,000 about q
month ago near Omaha.
Paul F. Bradley of Illinois, law
clerk of the interstate commerce com.
mission, was appointed assistant at
tOrney general of Porto Rico.
At Sydney, n. S. D.. Jack Lester OF
Cleelum, Wash, defeated Bill Land.
the Australian heavy weight, for the
championship of Australia.
Colonel John Jacob Aston and
Madeline Talmage Force, both Of New
York, were married at BreachwoOd.
ShS DiluS5AOOu4 . ~>@w POA( uOuSS.
Five thousand Spanish troops have
received orders from the ministry OF
war to reinforce the Spanish garrison
at Melilia, on the Riff coast of Mo
rocco.
Armed with an umbrella filed with
long pins. Miss Grace Bassett of Ere
mont, Nebr.. avenged a slight on her
reputation by beating NJ. T. Sankey
of Lincoln. a city employee.
The United States Steel corporation
announced that the untitled tonnage
on the books on August 81 was $685.
9S5 tons against 3.584,O5S tons on
July 81.
The will of Ole Cloven, a bachelor
farmer of Iowa. just made public,
leaves $4,000 for the erection of
home for aged poor in the center OF
his large farm. Only $1,000 is left to
relatives.
The death of Congressman Latta
means that at the coming November
election his successor must be chos
en-. Had the Tekamah mans death
occurred within thirty days of the No
vember election the place could have
been filled by appointment by Cover
nor Aldrich.
p. According to the orders of the
Iowa commission of health. Iowa live
stock will be protected from disease
in the future by the most stringent
set of rules in force in the Z. s.
The appointment of George Bakh
metieff Russian ambassador to the
United States to succeed Baron
Rosen, was officially announced at
Petersburg. He was formerly ambas
sador to Japan and was at one time
secretary of the Russian legation.
Ending automatically a courtshiL
of several months. Mrs. L. ]. Sperry,
a widow aged IS, filed suit in the dis
trict court at Lawrence, Kansas
against James d. Faxon, 50 years old
alleging breach of promise and ask.
ing $4,000 damages.
The captain and fifteen of the crew
of the German bark Thekia which was
wrecked last July on the rocks of
Staten island. near Terra Del FuegO
arrived at Punta Arenas Chile, OD
board transport. They had spen,
nearly two months on a desert island.
Senator Thomas p. Gore of Okla
homa, requested the Associated press
to say the story that he has been in
vited by Premier Laurier of Canada
to assist in the campaign for reciproc
ity is entirely without fundation.
The minister of education, NJ
Hazba, carrying out the new govern
ment's policy of interior development
that two new imperial uni
versities accommodating q total OF
900 students would be opened in
Japan.
The wooden steamship Ramona @
the Pacific Coast Steamship company
bound for Skagway from Seattle. Will
passengers and freight, went ashore
on one of the Spanish islands. oppo
site Cape Decision. Alaska, a tota;
loss.
Rallo B. Jackson Of Newton, la.
filed a complaint with the Interstate
Commerce commissionagainst the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
company. complaining against charges
exacted on a carload Of poultry from
Newton to Chicago.
Personal.
The tariff board is working hard Il
make up its report.
Aviator Fowler left San Francisco