The Columbus journal., 1911-05-31

Mexican rebels effected the capture
of many towns In the state Of Sina-
loa.
Andrew Carnegie and family sailed
for their summer vacation in Scot
land
Two resolutions were offered in the
senate to reinvestigate the Lorimer
election.
A reign of riot and pillage followed
the capture of the town Of Pachuca
by Mexican rebels.
The Christian Herald has forward
ed $4,000 more for the relief of Chi
nese famine sufferers.
1t is said reciprocity has made Taft
popular in the cities. but farmers are
yelling bloody murder"
Theodore Roosevelt was criticized
by John w. Foster for his recent ut
terances on arbitration.
The interstate commerce commits
sion was instructed to take jurisdic-
ton over railroads in Alaska.
The house voted favorably on the
| resolution for admission of Arizona
and New Mexico to statehood.
The Gideons, a religious organiza-
| ton, last Sunday placed 1.40O free
bibles in the hotels of Omaha.
The birth rate in New York City
for the first three months OF the year
was 2S.11 per 1000, the largest on rec
ord
There was a demonstration at Mex
leo City because of the delay of Presi-
| dent Diaz in rendering his resigna-
| ton.
Miss Grace Dexter Bryan, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Bryan. will be
married June 9TH to Richard Har.
| greaves. of Lincoln.
The Texas railroad commission has
filed forfeiture of charter suit against
| the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
way, alleging bankruptcy.
Louis d. Brandeis, who was invited
| to conduct the inquiry by a house
committe into the affairs of the post
Office department, declined to serve.
The Countess Szechnyi, formerly
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, has given
$4,000 to the city's poor in Budapest
in return for the city's agreement not
| to lay street car tracks in front of her
| palace.
| The annual meeting of the trans
| Mississippi commercial congress set
for September next, will be held in
Kansas City, instead of Oklahoma
City.
Announcement was made that the
Iowa City high school has won the in
terscholastic championship of the
United States incidentally taking the
| John Jacob Aston cup.
| Annie Parros. nineteen years old.
was suffocated and property loss
estimated at 100000 was sustained
by fire caused by the explosion of gas
in dairy lunch room at Pittsburg.
President Taft has signed procla-
nation establishing the Colorado ma
tionsl park in Mesa county, Colo.
Anthony Howard Hunkle. well
known for his interest in mucisians,
died at Hot Springs, Va.
One thousand delegates attended
the fourth national convention Of the
United Presbyterian mems movement
in the First Presbyterian church at
Pittsburg
At Washington Miss Zelda NJ. Strik-
er, an orphan. aged IS, and strikingly
beautiful, was married to Sadaske Fuj-
Dolphin and old enough to be her
| father The romance began in 1906,
when the bride was a little girl.
J. NJ. Parks. former financial secre-
tary of the Los Angeles Iron Workers
union, and Bart ]. Connors. former
Alaskan ironworker. were arrested at
Los Angeles On a charge of placing
dynamite under the hall of records.
| which was wrecked there last Sep
/ TENDER.
| TIE results of exhaustive inquiry
/ into the steel trust made by the
bureau of corporations will not be
| available to the house committee in
| vestigating the United States Steel
| corporation unless President Taft so
1 directs.
| Lieutenant Colonel Beverly W.
Dunn. inventor of dunnite, has resign
ed from the army because President
Taft declined to grant him retirement
| to continue his work with explosives.
| Efforts were made to avert strike
of the firemen on the Southern rail-
| way at a conference at Washington
between officials of the railway and
representatives of the nineteen local
organizations of the brotherhood OF
locomotive firemen.
The geographical survey has issued
bulletin giving derivations of names
of American cities. Chicago, says
the bulletin. is Ojibwa Indian She
Kag-Ong." signifying wild onion
place." from a root form implying "a
bad smell"
President Taft has signed the pro-
clamation establishing the Harvey Ma
tional forest in South Dakota. 1t en-
braces 5S3.S20 acres formerly con-
tanned in the Black Hills forest and
5S,727 acres taken from the public
l domain