The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
nuRTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma ton. and Particularly from the
 Great Southwest.

 A1emhers of the Wisconsin leaf tobac- CO towers department of the Amerl- can Society of Equity Delegates re- presenting growers of 10,O0o,ooo pounds of leaf tobacco pledged them selves to pool the crop and as far as possible sell direct to the tobacco manufacturers.
 An epidemic of typhoid, which has been prevailing in Montreal for several weeks, is assuming serious proportions. All the city hospitals are filled and are refusing additional patients. Private physicians are overrun with calls So far the num- Der of deaths have been compar- atively small The bad water supply and impure milk are given as the causes.
 By the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the seat ing in the annual convention of any delegate not engaged actively at hls trade. the Illinois Federation of Labor, put up the bars, against politicians and those who the mem bers claim have worked to the injury of the organization by entering the conventions in the interest of their political bosses. The amendment to the Constitution was presented by Delegate Brady of. Chicago.
 Singing in 10-cent moving picture show at Fresno, Cal, May Yohe, once Lady Frances Hope, now Mrs. Put nam Bradley Strong, is trying to save up enough money to sue her husband for divorce.
 While 6,000 feet in the air the Parseval dirigjble balloon met with an .E,ident and dropped to the ground, causing great damage to the apparatus with which the balloon was equipped. Maj. Perseval and his assistant were badly shaken up by the fall The bursting of the compart- ment forming the tail of the ship, caused the accident.
 It is officially stated at the Ad- miralty that the Duke of the Abruzzl who is to marry Miss Katherine Elkins, has received three months, extraordinary leave, with permission to go abroad.
 One body and seven injured em- ployes have been taken from the debris which buried from 40 to 50 men and boys when the roof of the Lehigh Valley railways roundhouse collapsed at North Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The body recovered is that of Peter Mullen It is feared that number of b dies still remain under the wreckage.
 The supreme court has sustained the legality of the Nebraska blue laws, forbidding almost all Sunday business transactions.
 At the trial of Ray Lamphere for complicity in the Guinness murders, Attorneys Darrow and Worden declar- ed that they expected to prove Mrs. Guinness alive. They declare they have three witnesses who saw Mrs. Gun ness July g.
 Whatever doubts may have been entertained by the Japanese Of the genuineness of American expressions of good will is removed as the result of the memorable meeting between the mikado and Admiral Sperry at the imperial palace and the inter- change of greeting on behalf of the emperor and President Roosevelt.
 The Isthmian canal commission asks $35,000,000 for work on the Pan anna canal during the fiscal year 1909 crthy tn6 n Secretary of War Wright by Col. ,&oethals, chairman of the committee. FThe appropriation for 1908 was $27,- O00,OOO, of which $1,500,000 was for the purchase of three transports.
 Electrification of all the tracks of the Illinois Central railroad within the city limits of Chicago was authorized at the annual meeting of that roads stockholders. J. ogden Armour, Charles A. Peabody and Alexander G. Hackstaff are to succeed themselves as stockholders.
 west of Shawnee, Okla, caused the south Canadian to rise at an unpre- cedented rate to height of two feet above the former high water line. Much damage has been done to pro- perty and to crops, but so far no loss eoa life has been reported. Train ser vice was demoralized, all trains being detoured.
 While it has been impossible thus far to obtain confirmation of the re- ort from Washington, it is rumored in New York that President Roosevelt is to become associate editor of the Outlook company. after his retirement from the presidency.
 Five hundred Harvard students fled pell nell from their dinner in Randall Hall, Cambridge, when the ammonia reservoir in the ice making plant burst, flooding the building with suf- locating fumes. A dozen maids in the kitchen were overcome and rescued with difficulty by the firemen.
 Mrs Rebecca E. Mitchell, daughter of Dr. Richard S. Nathan, second president of Hobart college, New York and widow of once wealthy merchant of Washington was foun < starving and destitute few nights Nago on vacant lot in BFightwood.