The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma tion, and Particularly from the
 Great Southwest.

Street and Electric Railway Employes of America; President w. V. LOCK hart of the Chester (Pa) union, and l2 strikers of the Chester Traction Com pany, were indicted by grand jury for alleged conspiracy and dynamitlng 20 cars of the company.
 Ohio is going after the saloons with a vengeance Already 1G counties have held elections under the Rose local option law, and all the 16 coun- ties have gone dry driving several hundred saloons out of business.
 One fireman killed and four injured, one seriously, with a property loss of between $150,000 and s20O,OOO, was the result of fire which ragged in Dallas, Tex.
 The American pattleship fleet which passed Perth, Australia, last week, is due off Manila Friday or Sat urday. Because of the cholera out break in Manila all arrangements for the reception and entertainment Of the officers and men except the water parade upon the fleets arrival, have been postponed. The fleet will in dulge in target practice as previously arranged and then depart for Japan
 The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times says that Russia and Great Britain have demanded clearer reply from the shah to their representations on the subject of the elections.
 The proceedings of the opening ses- sion of the Sixteenth National Irriga. tion Congress which met in conyen- tion hall at Albuquerque, N. M., Tues day, were impressive, and the specta- ors who crowded the galleries were loved to repeated demonstrations of ,proval. Two letters and a telegram | Ire read to the congress from Pres.' dent Roosevelt.
 Conducting one days campaign in South Dakota Monday William J. Bryan poured volleys of criticism into the Republican platform, MT. Taft and President Roosevelt. He covered a good deal of ground in the state and Monday night stopped ill Sioux City, Iowa, and left Tuesday morning for Rock Island, III.
 TheIe were fourteen new cases and three deaths reported for the twenty four hours ending at o'clock Monday morning in Manila Practically the entire staffs of the bureau of sciences and the local schools have been draft ed into the service to fight the dis ease. The staffs of medical schools arc acting as nurses and attendants at the various hospitals, for cholera patients.
 That the suit for civil damages which Gov. Charles N. Haskell prom ises to bring against President Roose- welt in connection with the Hearst charges against Haskell, that the President took up as his own, may delay Roosevelts proposed hunting trip immediately upon his retirement as chief executive, is the declaration made Tuesday by several of Haskell's friends
 With characteristic aggressiveness President Roosevelt made reply Sun- day night to William J. Bryan's recent letter and speech, in which he main tained the Democratic party and plat form were not getting a square deal in the campaign. The president sets forth ill detail what has been accom- plished by the Republican party since the last Democratic administration, and compares it with the work accom- plished under Democratic rule. The president says that under the last Democratic administration not a single indictment was returned against shippers for receiving secret rebates Under Republican manage ment forty-nine indictments have been returned for secret rebates. with eighteen convictions. In only four cases have the indictments failed. The other twenty-seven cases are still pending.
 Reports to the Washington Weather Bureau from the West indicate that the drouth is broken in practically all territory lying east of the Mississippi River. Forest fires are eXtinguished and streams which had reached low water mark heretofore unknown will soon be at normal. The sudden drop in temperature will do no damage to crops.
 Three Americans and two Italians were blown to pieces in an explosion of dynamite while working at Cross --eys cut on the Delaware, Lacka- wanna & Western railroad near Toby hanna, Pa.
 The British ship Loch Finlas, from Pert Pirie, South Australia, for Callao, i. was wrecked off Foster Island, Tas. mania, at daylight Sunday morning were drowned. The other four men were picked up by passing steamer. M Unknown parties, supposed to be Knight riders, posted notices on several s<gins in Texas, instructing owners not 'Ssto gin any more cotton until further x sznotice. The notices informed the gin- f 6ers that if they operated their plants skhey would have to suffer the conse. xGpences.
 Suit has been entered against Gov.
 Rskell of Oklahoma and his wife, # lillian, to recover taxes due on two 3 ty lots in Lima, o. Foreclosure also sasked The lots were obtained by
 gkell when he built the Lima Nor.
 Fn Railway about 10 years ago.