The Columbus journal., 1911-10-18

The finances of the country made
a good showing in September.
In a speech At Bellingham, Wash
President Taft predicted the opening
| of the Panama canal in July, 1913.
Late returns show that woman sui
frage has triumphed in California.
Senator LaFollette is to begin tout
of western states early in November.
Railroads of the country are con
| sidering taking over express business
| Seattle crowds were unusually cor
dial in their greetings to President
Taft.
DIR. Hyde says a Kansas City off
cial offered 10 bride juryman at his
| first trial.
Early returns indicated that the
woman suffrage amendment had beer
| defeated in California.
The funeral of General Henderson
took place at Omaha in the presence
I! of many mourners.
Counsel for Senator Stephenson
| contended his large expenditures was
| no proof the money was used cor
ruptly.
| Attorney General Bancroft of Wis
| consin says the primary system is
the source OF Senator Stephenson's
, troubles.
Seventy proprietors OF steel and
iron foundries met at New York and
| discussed business matters behind
closed doors.
Thomas kallum, lawyer and editor.
shot and killed Henry Whitaker, a
brother attorney, on the main street
Of Pilot Mountain, n. c.
Postal savings banks will be estab.
lished in Nebraska on November at
Alma. Arapahoe. Galloway. Crofton.
Harvard, Howell, Litchfield. Madison,
Shickley and Wisner.
The aim of the Chinese revolution.
lists is to make the empire republic.
There was a mutiny of between
5000 and 5000 Chinese troops at
HankOw.
The German and French govern
ments have decided to keep the ma.
ture of the Moroccan agreement Sec
ret until the second part also is CON-
pleted and signed.
At Juneau. Alaska, Clifford Pinchot
and Senator Miles Poindexter ad-
dressed big public meeting. giving
their views on the development of
Alaska
1t is reported that the japanese am
bassador to Germany, Viscount Chin
da, will be transferred in February
to Washington to succeed Viscount
Uchida, who has returned to Toxic.
Brigadier General A. H. Hoyt, U. S.
A.. and Miss Cora II. Har5old. daugn-
ter OF Mrs. Mary MarbO!d of Harris.
burg, Pa, were married at Fhiladel-
phia.
Jorn d. Rockefeller, through his at
torneys. appealed to the state tax
commission to lower the assessed
valuation of his home property in
East Cleveland.
When en- route 20 their home al
London. Ohio. Harry Armstrong and
his wife were instantly killed at West
jefferson when their automobile was
struck and wrecked by a Pennsylva
MIA train.
Preliminary official reports to date
indicate that the 1911 European
wheat crop will go on record as e
fairly close third in magnitude to the
years.
Henry Broadhurst. for many years
a liberal labor member of the British
parliament and formerly secretary oil
the parliamentary committee Of the
Trades union congress, died. aged
years.
Captain John Bradie. giving exhibi
tons at the South Georgia fair at Tif.
ton. was killed when he fell from his
balloon and plunged 200 feet to the
earth.
The resignation of Captain Frank A.
Cook, recently coart-martialled at San
Francisco for conduct unbecoming an
officer has been accepted by the presi
dent.
The Ohio Federation of Labor has
gone on record as favoring woman
suffrage, a minimum wage scale for
women and a law providing penalty
for parents who testify wrongly as to
the age of children workers.
According to all reports the harvest
of 1911 in Denmark will surpass all
records since 1868. Not in forty-three
years has weather, labor and other
conditions proven SO suspicious to the
farmer.
The public is warned by the secret
service against a new counterfeit ter
dollar bill. 1t is on the Croker Ma
tional bank of San Francisco. is of the
series of 1902-1S0S. bears check letter
IF" and the names of Charles W
Treat and w. T. Vernon as the secre
tary of the treasury Of the United
States and registrar Of the treasury,
United States Steel corporation that
the untitled orders on its books on
30 totalIed 3,G11.317 tons.
The Germans OF the United States
as represented by the German-Amer- |
lean national alliance now in conven- /
ton in Washington, signified their
wish that Germany enter into negotia-
lions with the United States for a
general arbitration treaty similar to
those with Great Britain and France,
now pending ratification by the United |
States senate.
Cornelius y. Bliss died at New /
York following long illness.