The Columbus journal., 1911-08-23
General.

Utah Is planning for big exhibit
at Omaha Land show.
Senator La Toilette cannot come to
Nebraska for the state fair.
Railroad traffic in Great Britain is
greatly impeded by a strike of oper'
Rtives.
A typhoon and tidal wave caused
great loss of life and property in Jap
an.
The house adopted the conference
report of the campaign publicity bill
2S3 to q.
Willard Taft Atwater, aged 50. a
second cousin of President Taft, died
ut Minneapolis.
Germany may join the other foreign
powers in an arbitration treaty with
the United States.
Bryan, at Columbus, O., said he
would announce his choice for the
presidency at the proper time.
The strike at Great Britain has
reached serious stage. and ccndi-
lions are becoming critical.
Major Levi Ferguson of the Twenty
second Indiana infantry during the
civil war. died at Wichita.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
submitted plan by which to effect a
saving in carrying of mails.
Myrtle Reed Mccullough. a Chicago
author, died from a drug believed to
have been taken with suicidal intent.
Senator Bailey of Texas resigned
from the national monetary commits
sion. and his resignation was accepted
Visiting members of the national
humorists' association. at Boston for
their tenth annual convention, made a
trip to historic Plymouth.
The Spokane council has Endorsed
the movement looking to operation by
the government of the Alaskan coal
mines and the selling of coal to con-
sumers at cost.
Paris Midi is authority for the SEN
sational report that sixty soldiers at
the Marseilles garrison have been
placed in the hospital as suspected
cholera patients.
The session of the fifty-ninth an
nual convention of the American
pharmaceutical association at Boston
was largely devoted to sectional
meetings with papers by delegates
Mrs. Rachael Blount, widow of
William Blount. is dead at her home
In Howell county. She was 1l3 years
old and is believed to have been the
Oldest person in Missouri.
While driving an automobile at
twenty-five miles an hour Pearlie
Owens struck a COW near Rockwell
City. Ia. the collision causing the car
to turn turtle with its five occupants.
o. c. Morrison. aviator. was rescued
from the English channel two miles
out from Sandgate. His aeroplape
plunged into the sea while he was at
tempting an air passage to France. A
boat reached him just as the machine
was sinking.
The funeral of st. Croix Johnston.
who. like William r. Badger. was
killed by fall from an aeroplane last
Tuesday, was he'd at Chicago.
The sale of the St. Paul G. Des
Moines Railroad company to the Chi
cago. Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
company two months ago was approy-
ed at meeting of the stockholders.
Governor John F. Shaf-oth believes
President Taft was wrong in vetoing
the statehood resolution. including a
provision for the recall of the Judicial
~. "a state has the right. in nv
opinion, to make its own laws, by
which its people shall be governed"
At Durant. Okla. mob of 500 whites
captured and shot to death an
unidentified negro. who attacked and
shot Mrs. Redden Campbell. near
there. Afterwa,d they burned the ne
gro's body. TIE negro was killed
after a running fight. lasting more
than an hour. in which he exhausted
his ammunition.