The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
 ton, and Particularly from the | Great Southwest.


 with short crow bar, Andrew Light
 foot, powerful mulatto inmate of the
 Government Hospital for Insane at
 Washington, ran amuck, killing two
 persons and breaking the arm of a
 third before he was shot and oyer- covered.
 The British government has lifted
 the ban which was placed on American
 beef following Upton Sinclair's agita-
 tion and the revelations resulting l. from it.
 In a remarkable telegram to the President of the United States, calling \ on him to prove the charges he in- z dorses against Gov. Haskell or else kadmit their falsity, William J. Bryan #Tuesday offers to submit Gov. Has,
 kell's alleged connection with the
 Standard Ail Co., as a bribery agent to President Roosevelt as a judge, and if she finds Gov. Haskell guilty, to dis
 miss the governor from his position as Hchairman of the Democratic Finance Committee.
 # William J. Bryan, Jr., has the habit,
 too The scion of the house of
 Nebraska's three-time candidate for
 president entered the race for the
 Presidency of the sophomore class at
 the University of Nebraska. Like his distinguished father, young Bryan al ! so has redhot .-ght on his hands, anu
 he purposes getting little practice lin practical politics by making re- sgular "whirlwind campaign" @ Mark l.. Demotte, former congress- man from the Tenth Indiana District and dean of law for many years sin the Valparaiso University, died at Valparaiso, Ind, Wednesday, at the age of 77.
 Interstate Commerce Commission at the Southwestern rate hearing in xAtlanta calls for production of all Ae. sers relating to advances in freight srates.
 A. Russell Peabody, counsel of re- scord for Harry K. Thaw, in his two gtrials for the killing of Stanford White, fdied suddenly at his home in Babylon, AL. l., Wednesday.
 Orvilie Wright, the aviator, who has been at the Fort Myer Hospital since the aeroplane accident in which he was injured and Lieut.. Selfridge was killed, continues to improve. Reports are coming in of the de- struction wrought by typhoon that swept through the central portion of the group Philippine, including part of Samah, northern Leyte, southwest sern Luzon, northern Panay, Nasbate and a part of Romblon. A Boston paper publishes the dis closure of an alleged filibustering ex. petition which intended to start from Boston on October 1, composed of 200 men fully armed and equipped for the SColombia.
 The president has decided not to 1give permission for the establishment sof a wireless telegraph statiCl on the Washington monument. # The commissioner of the general Hand office has ordered the with ldrawal of 5000 acres of public land fin Modoc county. Cal \ A race war between whites and EGrceks, who have made this city &their home. is waging here, with pro- Expects of serious trouble Citizens de sclare they will drive the Greeks out aof town.
 s While playing with a goat, 6year- zold Hal Kerr, son of MT. and Mrs. Twill Kerr of Jonesboro, Ark, was butted. Appendicitis resulted and an soperation was performed. The child Is not expected to live. Y An unidentified young man killed himself at Jonesboro, Ark, by jump ing in front of Frisco passenger train. He was found to have been Suffering with smallpox and was buried immediately
 Desertion is the charge upon which Nat Goodwin, the actor, is passing the suit for divorce which he has brought against his, wife, Mavine Elliott, in Reno, Nov.
 Four states are endangered by forest fires, owing to the continued drought, and everywhere in the wood belts of Wisconsin, Michigan, Min snesota and Western New York farm CTS, and inhabitants of towns border fed by forests, are praying for rain. while they fight back the flames, or, Exhausted, flee for their lives to some 5kearby village.
 If Luffenhoitz, Cal, town of several Hundred persons, has been destroyed tby forest fires, which are sweeping Sfhe mountain ranges in the vicinity, md the inhabitants barely escaped IsUith their lives after running for niles through burning forest
 s An inexplicable air of mystery sur i56nnds the nature of the accident that
 Nell Miss Violet Asquith, daughter VI Premier Ascuith, who, after an all
 Int search, was found unconscious
 f the brink of a high cliff near
 Rain's Castle, in Scotland. They
 6nld give out no statement.
 As freight train was crossing the 81Himore & Chio Railroad bridge QX& the Susqnehanna River at Elk fe65 Md, 10 CT 15 cars fell into the ch1hnel on the Cecil county side of WMfson Island. Engineer Patrick Ly0A and his fireman, both of Balti. mpe>, were drowned.