The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-01-18

Both houses OF congress adjourned
n q mark Of respect for Senator Fl
kins.
The house voted to abolish the ol
nee OF second deputy commissions
! Of pensions.
I President Taft gave approval Il
the report of the board of engineer
on reclamation projects.
The supreme court finds 1t dihicul
to draw the line between legal ant
illegal restraint of trade.
! The plan of refunding the Hondur
an debt is regarded as amounting L
United States protectorate.
The aerOnautical club of Paris dis
cussed the award of the statue of lib
erty prize to John B. Moisant.
Captain Peary told house commit
tee that the man who discovers tn,
pole must make his own roadway.
Members of the Missouri valley
conference stood pat on the question
of eliminating thanksgiving day foot
ball
Supreme court of Nebraska holds
that the sale of beer in bottles in
cases is a sale at retail and not whole
sale.
Assets of the Washington-Alaska
bank, now in the hands of a receiver.
are $1,100,0OO and its liabilities are
100000.
A reduction in the freight rate on
cottonseed from points in Missouri.
Arkansas and Louisiana to Memphis.
| Tenn. is made.
A strong movement. supported by
the bishop OF Liverpool and leading
churchmen, has been started against
Mormon activity there.
| The grand jury has returned an in
dictment charging perjury against
| William l.. Brewer, former vice presi.
dent of the Northern bank of New
York
1t is now s. years since the opening
gun was fired OF the campaign for
popular election OF senators which is
now clearly approaching a successful
issue.
The 100000 appropriation made by
congress at the last session for re-
moving tie wreck of the battleship
Maine in Havana harbor will be in
sufficient.
Refusal of the Interstate Commerce
commission to assume jurisdiction Of
the railways of Alaska was sustained
by the supreme court of the District
of Columbia.
One fatality out of 32.500,0O0 pas
sensers carried by steam vessels OF.
all classes plying to and from Phila-
delphia was the remarkable record
made i'm 1910.
In a fit of rage because she had
gone to live with her mother. Walter
Osgood, of Omaha, shot and killed
his wife and fatally wounded a man
who came to her assistance.
Declaring the merit system recent
ly inausurated by the postal depart
ment gives room for grave Injustice
on the part of officials. a deputatioE
4 protest.
The state depa- tment has finally
given its consent to the Haitian loan
and bank contracts and has SO cabled
Minister Furniss. These involve the
creation of the National Bank of Hal.
ii instead OF the existing French
bank.
Lieutenant Governor Oglesby Sc
verely criticised the Illinois senate,
when he found that not enough SEN
ators to make a quorum had re-
manned in Springfield, and that. as a
result, no action was possible on the
election canvass.
Bills to put most of the necessities
of life on the free list were offered
in the house by Representative Mann
of Illinois. There were Is of these
measures. covering leather, cotton
goods, lumber. cereals. vegetables.
meat products and the like.
Mrs. Lydia A. Gear. who came to
Chicago seventy-eight years ago,
when Chicago consisted of Fort Dear
born and fourteen log cabins, and
whose marriage was a society event
of the fort. is dead.
Senator Burrows refused ~ desiS-
nate a day for vote on the question
OF unseating LOrimer.
w. r. Hearst must either pay dam
ages or prove to court of law that
he cannot be held responsible for the
fire works explosion of election night,
1862, in which several We're killed or
wounded.
A stamp tax on sale for future de-
livery of stocks, grain. provisions or
other commodities may be imposed
by state without violating the fed.
eral constitution, according to a de-
cision of the supreme court of the
United States
THE canal when completed" says
the president in his message, will az
ford the only convenient route for
water communication between At
lantic and Pacific coasts and virtual
ly will be part of the coast line of
the United States. Its assured pos
session and control will contribute to
our peace. safety and prosperity as q
nation"