The Columbus journal., 1911-01-11

IuS army appropriation OAAA -
nearly ready to report.
Iowa is full of candidates for the
Dolliver senatorial succession.
Five men were killed in a train col
lision At Cheney, Wash.
uary LIST.
Senator Elkins of West Virginia
died suddenly at Washington.
Action was begun at New York to
annul the so-called steamer compact.
Both houses of congress adjourned
as a mark OF respect for Senator FL
Eins.
Reapportionment is giving the re-
publican leaders in the house no end
of trouble
A Cleveland judge says the high
cost of living is responsible for most
of the divorces.
Rhode Island has three candidates
for United States senator and the out
look is for a deadlock
An international railway commits
sion for the United States and Cana
da is practically assured.
Secretary MacVeagh favors issuing
gold certificates againtS bullion IN
lieu of the actual coinage.
Trinity college, Durham, y. C.. was
visited By fire which destroyed the
Washington Duke dorUitcry.
Convicted members of the naval
stores company have asked the SUI
preme court to review their case
If Senator Lorimer retains his seat
it will be only after several senators
have expressed themselves freely
At Augusta, Me-, Charles F. Johnson
of Waterville was nominated for the
United States senate to succeed Sena-
tor Eugene Hale.
Gambling houses and kindred re-
sorts have been ordered out of Gary.
Ind, as menaces to public safety
and public morals.
After being in quarantine at her
home in Akin. S. c., for more than
two years, Miss Mary V. Kirk, leper
died a few days ago.
Jere +. Lillis. whom John p. Cud-
ahy cut with a knife March 5. last.
retired as president of the Western
Exchange bank at Kansas City.
The grand jury in the Los Angeles
Times explosion case returned %
indictments All of the indictments
charge murder in connection with
that crime.
Major William H. HuxfOrd, u. S. A..
retired, who for the past 23 years has
been recorder of tho military order of
the Loyal legion, died at his home In
Washington
DR.. Donald NJ. Gallie. of the Univer-
sity of Illinois. was elected president
of the Institute of Dental Pedagogics
at the sixteenth annual convention
in Washington.
Governor Hadley, of Missouri. has
decided to substitute ectures for
written messages to make known to
the legislature the needs of the var
ious state institutions.
The receiver of the Abilene. KanS..
State bank has sued Mrs. Dahlham-
mer, a widow. for $i6S pension mon
ey paid her by John Flack. the de-
faulting cashier of the bank.
William T. Wardell. prohibition
candidate for mayor of New York in
1896 and for governor in 1900. was
taken ill in the subway Tuesday af-
ternoon and died Is minutes later.
Thirty-five hundred men employed
as motormen. conductors. elevated
railway trainmen, station masters
and inspectors by the Boston Elevat-
ed Railway company received gold
pieces aggregating $4,000.
How to meet the inrOads of west
ern apples in markets until now held
by eastern orchardists is the main
concern Of the New York State Fruit
Growers association, which is hold
ing its tenth annual meeting.
President Taft. Secretary of State
Knox. Secretary OF Agriculture Will
son and Senator Dick of Ohio have
accepted invitations to respond to
toasts at the annual banquet to he
given by the Ohio society this month
on the anniversary of the birth of
President Mckinley.
The Aetna Indemnity of Hartford.
Conn. and the Farmers and Mercan-
tile Insurance company of Lincoln.
Neb.. have been barred from writing
new business in Ohio on orders from
Superintendent c. c. Lamert. of the
insurance department. under penalty
of revocation of their license.
The question as to how the United
States shall he re-apportioned into
congressional districts in accordance
with the 1910 census was discussed
with the president by Representative
Crumpacker of Indiana. chairman of
the house committee on census. Mr..
Crumpacker thinks the membership
of the house should be increased.