The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-07-05

Lieutenant de Malherbe. a French
military aviator, few from Paris to
Sedan.
A meeting of the republicans and
socialists at Madrid passed resolu'
tons condemning SPANS military op
erations in Morocco.
Norman Macleod & Co.. Philadel'
phia. stockholders, made an assign
ment.
The Cunningham Alaska coal land
claims were disallowed by the interior
department.
Senatorial reports of crop damage
in the northwest made the Chicago
market go skyward.
John d. Spreckles told how his faith
er and H. o. Havemeyer entered into
sugar producing combine.
Under orders from Washington
many mail cars are now being hauled
behind the baggage cars.
Old and dreary Westminster abbey
was transformed into a scene of light
and beauty at the coronation.
President Taft approved an issue
of $1,50O,000 Hawaiian bonds. the
money to be used in public improve
ment in the islands.
1t is reported that Bakhmetieff. for
mer Russian ambassador at Toxic,
has been promised the Washington
post in case Baron ROSen resigns.
At CoshoctOn. O.. Aviator Lemar
was probably fatally injured when his
Curtis biplane, flying low, struck the
roof of house, turning over and dash
ing him to the ground.
Festivities in connection with the
coronation of King George, so far as
the metropolis is concerned, ended
Friday with his majesty's treat 10 the
children.
Expeditions action in the pending
treaties with Honduras and Nicara-
qua, providing for customs guarantees
for foreign loans by those govern
ments, where urged by President
Taft in a message to the senate.
The supreme court of the United
States issued an order to the attorney
general ordering him to instruct the
lower courts to carry out the supreme
courts decision providing for the dis
solution of the American Tobacco COM
pany.
f. H. Engwersen of Chicago was
elected president of the National Live
Stock exchange in convention in Chi.
cago. Portland. Ore. gets the next
meeting, although Chicago also was
a bidder
Reliable advices have been received
at Vienna from Albania that the stu
alton there is growing decidedly criti-
cal Turkey has massed fifty thous
and troops within days march of
the Montenegro frontier.
Edward H. Harriman's billion-dollar
merger of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroads. with their
allied properties. is upheld by the
United States circuit court of appeals,
in a decision handed down In st.
Louis.
Rev. Timothy Sullivan, OF Fort
Dodge, the Catholic priest who was
found dead in a bath tub in hotel in
New York last week. was well known
in the Sioux City Catholic see. He
was stationed in Sioux City for four
years.
Philadelphia financial circles re-
ceived a disagreeable shock when it
became known that the liabilities of
the stock brokerage firm of Norman
Macleod & Co. which suspended re-
Gently. aggregate S1,1S2.113. while
the assets are given as si10,SS4.
Miss Florence r. Cushing of Boston.
who arrived from Honolulu. jumped
from the seventh story of hotel and
was instantly killed. A note found in
her room said troubles had made her
iespara,e and asked that her brother.
c. F. Gushing, OF Needham, Mass. be
notified.
Gifts to the amount of $1,200.O00
by Harvard university last
year. were announced by President
Lowell to the 1000 for more Harvard
men gathered for the alumni meeting
in the quadrangle behind Seaver hall.
Parramatta. the new summer white
house, is in readiness for the arrival
Of the presidential family. For sever
Al months small army of workmen
IF various trades has been engaged in
fitting up the house and grounds for
he use of the Taft family.
The great hurricane which devasted
he coast of Chile a few days ago ex-
ended from Pisagua in the north to 1
on the south. Torrential
aims have followed.
4 wave Of economy is sweeping the
according to figures of the
bureau of statistics of the department
# commerce and labor which disclose
he fact that Americans cut their i'm
ported champagne bill in two and
ldorned themselves with 100000
worth of diamonds fewer during the
asst eleven months than in the same
,eriod last year.