The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-09-20
General.

The strike of Illinois Central shop
men has been averted.
Cholera has a grip on the Ottoman
empire from end to end.
Cheng Tu. China, is undergoing a
siege at the hands of rebels.
The high tide of interest has been
reached in the Canadian campaign.
The crater of Etna is emitting ashes
and lava. and peOle in the vicinity of
the eruption are in panic.
Reports from Maine indicate that
there is a majority in favor of retain
ing prohibition.
Moving pictures of the Beattie trial
were stopped at Jacksonville. Fla, and
several other places.
Premier StOlypin of Russia was shot
and probably fatally wounded while
attending an opera at kiev.
Governors of states voted to unite
in a protest to the supreme court
against the Sanborn decision.
The report of the bethrothal Of
Prince Arthur of Connaught to Prin-
cess Irene. daughter of the Grand
Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna. who is a
sister of Emperor Nicholas. is official
ly denied.
Fears for the health of Miss Clara
Barton, founder of the American Red
Cross society, who has been i'll at her
home at Oxford. are not we'll founded,
according to statement issued by
her nephew. S. E. Barton.
News was brought by the Orteric
that the japanese naval authorities
have decided to abolish the naval sta
ton at Port Arthur in favor of Chin
hal Bay. Korea. The officials at Port
Arthur have been notified
President Charles Barrett. of the
national famers' union, declared at the
union cotton growers convention that
France-German syndicate has
guaranteed any amount of money up
to $75.OOO.O0O toward financing the
south's cotton crop.
Four men were killed and two seri-
ously injured by a dynamite explosion
in the stone quarry of the Elmhurst.
Chicago company, fifteen miles west
of Chicago.
Mascara. in the Italian province OF
Leoce, where. according to informa.
ton. mobs burned the cholera hospital
and carried the cholera stricken pa
tients through the streets, was de-
Clared under martial law.
G. Appias OF Napa Junction, Cal,
was stricken dumb by a hallucination.
He informed his family. in writing,
that he had seen terrifying specter
In his dream. standing by his bed.
When he awoke he was mute.
The first woman ever to enter the
diplomatic service of any country in
the world is Miss Clothilde Luise,
who has been appointed by the presi.
dent of Uruguay as an attache of the
Uruguayan legation at Brussels, Bel.
GUM
Congressman Latta of the Third
Nebraska district, died in the hospital
at Rochester. Mimi. where he had I'M.
dergone an operation. He was G. years
years old. His successor will De chos-
en- at the November election. Burial
took place at his home in Tekamah.
The convention of the national as
sOsiation of mutual insurance com.
panies chose W. B. Straut of Lincoln,
Nebr.. as president.
Rodney J. Oiegle. former sergeant
alarms of the Ohio senate. who was
convicted of aiding and abetting al
legged bribery. was given three years
in the penitentiary.
The condition of all crops combined
IN the United States was on Septem-
Der ]. approximately. Is per cent be-
low the average condition on that date
for the last ten year. according to the
supplemental crop report of the agri-
cultural department.
The first flying postal service was
inaugurated last week at London IN
der the auspices of the British post
ONCE.
A total production of 12.918.2O
bales of cotton as the final yield this
year is indicated b. the department of
agriculture's official report on August
Is.