The Columbus journal., 1911-05-03


some uneacipess in Honolulu.
A weevil has been discovered that
works havoc in alfalfa fields.
The farmers free list" finds favor
| with the Nebraska delegation in the
lower house of congress.
Mrs. Matusek. Of South Omaha. kill
ed her two children and then took her
own life
Senator Brown holds that the in
come tax amendment is on the verge
i of adoption.
The reapportionment bill in the
house provides for an increased mem
bership of 40.
S7nate regulars declined to recog'
nize the progressive republicans as
| separate organization.
The steamer Charles Posal, Operat'
ing between Manila and Corregidon.
foundered in a typhoOn.
Committee assignments were made
In the senate. but the progressives
are far from satisfied.
Congressman Kinkaid introduced
81 bills providing for increases OF
pensions for Nebraskans.
The insurrectos who defended Aqua
Prieta all day Monday. quietly stole
away during the night.
Plans were filed for the construc'
ton in New York of the highest
building in the world. $50 feet.
State biologists from almost every
state met in Washington with the Of
fcials of the geological survey.
The house. by a vote of 296 to 10.
adopted the resolution for direct cleo.
ton of United States senator's.
Mexico sent a protest to London
over the landing of British marines
at San Quentin. Lower California.
The Wisconsin legislature wants
the United States senate to investt
gate the election of Stephenson.
With the Mexican situation on his
hands the president has reason to be
thankful that congress is in session.
The James bill. providing for wo
man suffrage in Wisconsin. has been
bottled by the assembly elections
committee
Mrs. ]. Elliott Langstaff. of Brook
Ign. n. Y. will witness the coronation
of King George of England by special
invitation.
Wool will not go on the free list II
the democratic revision of the wool
schedule of the tariff, at this session
of congress.
President Taft has gone as far as
he cares to on his own initiative. and
if there is to be Intervention congress
must declare 1t.
Rage Adams. a wealthy planter liv
ing near Holt, Fla, was aSsassinated
from ambush. 1t is believed the Kill
ing is the result of an old feud.
George S. Terry. assistant United
States treasurer at New York. died at
Aiken, S. C. He had been suffering
for a week from an attack of dia-
betes.
The New York assembly adopted
the resolution of Senator Roosevelt
advocating the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people.
James Speyer of the banking firm
of Speyer and company. and II.
Miller, receiver of the Buffalo & Sus.
quehanna railway. have been elected
directors of the Missouri Pacific rail
way.
The Episcopal cathedral of st. Johl
the Divine. the largest ecclesiastical
structure in the country and the
fourth largest in Christendom, was
solennly consecrated in New York
city.
2. ". Dinsmore, implicated will
Former State Printer Mark Slater in
the alleged Ohio state house supply
graft case. changed his plea to guilty
when it was intimated that Slater
would turn states evidence. and was
sentenced to 4 year in the peniten-
tiary.
Plans were filed by the Broadway
Park Place company for the cOnstruc.
ton at Broadway and Park Place Of
the highest building in the world. II
will be 55 stories.
Postmasters of the country are tC
be subjected to a rigid investigation
by congress. The house committee OF
expenditures in the postofiice depart
ment has decided to act in response
to a resolution to this effect.
President Taft. addressing the open
ing session Of the Twenty-ninth con.
gress of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States, said:
We have no state church. because all
churches that are working for the
uplifting of men and the spirit are
! state churches within the protection
but not within the guidance or control
of the government"
Senator Norris Brown. OF NebraS
ka, believes that before any tariff
legislation shall have passed congress
the income tax amendment will have
been adopted. IF this proves the
case" said Senator Brown, 'the whole
tariff situation will be completely
revolutionized The argument that
duties cannot be reduced or wiped
out because We need the revenue, will
y \