The Columbus journal., 1911-11-09

( Rev. Anna Howard Shaw was r.
elected president Of the national
{: woman's suffrage association.
Advocates Of the initiative and re
| ferendum say il is a question for
congress. and not for the courts to
decide.
The Italian rear admiral says he Is
master of the situation in Turkish
waters.
A fifteen-story club house. costing
| $2.50O,OOO. was dedicated in New
York.
The call for the republican nationai
convention will provide for 1,064 DEL
egates
The United States has gained Cana
dams almost as fast as Canada has
gained Americans.
An estimate is made that 1t will re-
quire two months to secure jury for
the Mcnamara trial.
George E. Roberts, director Of the
mint, says President Taft will be re-
nominated and reelected.
A negro ran amuck in Algiers, La
and shot two policemen and seHera
citizens before he was killed.
Yuan-Shi-Kai. the masterful mind
of China, is hereafter to guide the
ship of state of China.
The massacre of natives at Han
kow, China, makes the problem OF
oi AifflNnvf
The grand jury at Washington re-
turned white slave indictment
against Robert Davidson of st. Louis.
Former admirers from all over the
United States attended the unwilling
of statue in honor of Robert G. In
gersoll at Peoria, Ill.
George Wright tied himself to car
trucks at Rollins, Wyo., and MADE
trip to Grand Island. Had $175 in
gold on his person.
A reward of $1,000 for the solution
of the mystery surrounding the death
of DR.. Helene Knabe of Indianapolis,
is offered by the city.
Frank H. Nicholai, former assist
ant cashier of the City National bank
of Auburn, Ind, will leave the fed
eral prison at Leavenworth on parole.
A dispute over cents between
taxicab owner and the driver was the
direct cause of walk out OF 5000
drivers and the paralyzing of Lon
don's taxicab service.
Eddie r. Morris, colored pugilist
and mebber of the famous Mabray
organization, was released from the
county Jail at Council Bluffs upon his
own recognlzance.
The arraignment of Allison Mac
Farland on an Indictment. charging
him with murder in the first degree
in causing the death of his wife by
poison. was up at Newark, n. J.
A bequest of $4,000 is made to
Bryn Mawr college by Emma Garcia
Woerschofer, who died last month
and whose will was admitted to pro-
bate.
The funeral of Joseph Pulitzer.
owner and editor of the New YORK
World, was held at St. Thomas
church, New York. The public were
admitted.
Naval officers will have to take the
prescribed walking test more often
than in the past in compliance with
orders made public at the navy de-
partment.
Among the four brightest men In
Harvard, according to the annual
award of the Sears prize, are Robert
A. Taft, son of the president, and
Charles E. Hughes, son of Justice
Hughes.
Fort Worth and Denver passenger
train No. 5, northbound, was wrecked
one mile west of Bellevue. Tex. En-
gineer Cunningham is dead and his
fireman and a number OF passengers
were injured.
Matt McGrath of the Irish Athletic
club threw the 16-pound hammer 1877
feet and 4 inches at Celtic park In
New York. thus breaking the worlds
record held by John Flanagan. by
three feet.
The spot on the parapet of old Fort
Stevens where President Lincoln
stood exposed to confederate fire dur:
ing the attack by General Early on
the city of Washington. is to be
marked by a huge boulder.
Louis Waelchli of Allentown, Pa,
alias Lieutenant W. L. Norton of the
United States army, was arrested a.
Duluth by John NJ. Bowen, a secret
service man. on a charge OF imperson-
ating an officer with intent to defraud.
James Marsh of Kansas Ciy and s.
S. Embrey Of Grainvalley, Mo-, were
accepted as talesmen in the Hyde
case Although he had lived in that
city for seven years, Marsh said he
had never heard of the Hyde case I'M
til when he was summoned as q
venireman.
Personal.