The Green Forest tribune., 1907-02-01

Vim. Whitely, a well known citizen of London, Eng, was shot and killed by young man who claimed to be his son. The youth then fatally wounded
 himself. It is believed to be the re- suit of fancied grievance. Says a dispatch from Berlin: "At the annual reception at the palace | more Americans than usual were pre-
 sented to tLe emperor and empress The Kentucky court of appeals up. l held the constitutionality of the legis- lative act of 1904, making chicken l stealing felony.
 Secretary of State Root and Mrs.
 Root have returned from Montreal. l The secretary said he found the Cana | dians very friendly to Americans. | The executors of the Marshall Field estate have filed with the probate | court in Chicago an inventory of the
 late merchants possessions. The ap- proXimate value of the estate is placed at $75,000,0O0
 fame perpetuated in Chicago by uni
 versity bearing his name. Articles of | incorporation have been filed in the | county recorders office whereby the
 new institution is allowed to teach | many sciences.
 | It is reported that Pope Plus will end the traditional custom of extract
 Ing the entrails of the deceased pontiff | and preserving them in the parish | church of the quirinal, consequently | Leo XIII will be the last pope to be thus mutilated. Senator Russell A. Alger, of Mich. igan, died in Washington. Senator Al l ger was born in 1886, in Ohio. He | started in a farm boy, became a school teacher, then lawyer, soldier, specu- lator, governor, cabinet member and | senator.
 Friends oE Senator Bailey, of Texas are rowing uneasy, the silence of op- posing forces being regarded as omin- ous.
 can troops and Yaqui Indians, in heavy loss. but carried away their | dead. The Mexicans lost 20 killed. | Mrs. Louise NJ. Este died at Balti- | more, Md, aged 104. Her father, 1 Judge William Miller, was the agent 1 of France in the Louisiana purchase Twenty miners, according to the l most authoritative information obtain | able, lost their lives as the result of
 an explosion which occurred in the l Colorado Fuei and Iron Co.'S mine near
 Primero, 20 miles west of Trinidad, Col.
 l Following the Jamaican earthquake, | tEe southern Texas oil fields show | heavy decrease.
 The Texas legislature reelected Jo,
 seph w. Bailey to the United States
 senate. In Illinois Shelby M Gull
 lom was reelected; in Wyoming, Sen
 ator Warren; Elkins in West Virginia,
 and Tillman in South Carolina According to a private cablegram
 received at Washington from a promi
 nent government official at Manila,
 Gen. Luke E. Wright, American am. bassador to Japan, has made known
 to his friends that he will retire from
 the diplomatic service next August
 and return to his home in Memphis, Tenn, to resume the practice of law.
 The mayor of Kingston, Jamaica, in his official capacity, has appealed to
 the generosity of the American people
 on behalf of the Kingston earthquake | sufferers.
 | William M. Robertson, aged 57, re-
 publican ratio1al committeeman for
 Nebraska in 1888, and for many years
 prominent politician, died at Norfolk | Neb., of cirrhosis of the liver. | Advices from the Dutch East Indies
 tell of a tidal wave that devastated
 southern coast of the island of Simula causing a loss of 1900 lives. Federal official at St. Louis refuses
 naturalization to a Hindoo and appeal
 will be taken to Washington American refugees fro.l Kingston
 Jamaica, tell stories of selfishness on | the part of the English after the earth | quake They declare that the captain l Of the English steamer Port, Kings l ton, on which were Sir Alfred Jones | and party, refused to allow American
 women to sleep on the bare decks Of ais ship and put them ashore on the l + oks, where they remained three l days, and that this English noble man never once sent them coffee ol | food of any descri- ion, but that the | captain of the s-essel visited the docks once and talked very uncivil The l Americans who underwent this expe l rience adopted resolutions and gave | them to lhe press of the world de nouncing the acts of the English and 1 declaring that the much-talked-o1
 bonds of blood and language" when
 tested, mockery and diplomatic | phantom.
 Senator Sutherland, in a speech be
 fore the senate defending Senator
 Shoot, declared that the accused had
 always led pure life.
 Little difficulty is experienced in in
 ducing the negroes to work, at Kings 1 ton, on account of the conviction
 among them that this was white l mans earthquake" and that it would be dangerous for colored men to iI
 .erfere wit,l an act of God.
 The Hamburg-American Steamship Go. has ordered a mammoth steamer
 to exceed in size the Amerika and
 the Kaiserin Augus-e Victoria, to car
 ry 4,205 passengers in addition to g
 crew of 800, and to make 19 knots ar
 hour.