The Green Forest tribune., 1908-09-18

conviction and punishment of the de- | fendant
 For violation of the governmental prohibition of formal celebrations in honor of Count Leo Tolstof's 80th birthday, the arrest of more than 1000 l persons throughout the Russian Elm pire is reported
 Tentative proposals for a joint de- bate between Vim. H. Taft and Wm. J. | Bryan in Cincinnati Sept. 23, have been l received in the camps of both candi- dates. Both candidates will be in Gin
 cinnati Sept. 23. Present plans are for Bryan meeting, while Taft has no | engagement.
 In the Rev. Irving H. Berg, pastor of | the Reformed Church at that place. | Catskill has a minister who thinks his salary big enough and who refuses an increase. MT. Berg's stipend was rais- ed this year from $2,000 to $2,500 while he was on his vacation. When he re- turned he refused the raise. With capitalization of S6,500, 900 as-
  ties placed at $5,S9G,50O, the nrm of A. Booth & Co.,, known as the Fish
 Trust has been placed in the hands of receiver by Judge Sol Bethea of
 the United States Court.
 Members of the Protestant Alliance, which has attempted to stir up an anti
 Catholic feeling and to prevent the parade of Catholics on Sunday, the most spectacular feature of the Eucharistic Congress. were warned of death in case the alliance exhibits any show of bigotry in connection with the parade.
 Two officials and an employe of the Central Glass Go. have been indicted by the grand jury for arson, ln con-
 nection with a fire that did q1,500,000
 men are Julius Lipps, manager; Abe Wolf, secretary, and Judge Eckert, an employe.
 Disguised as workman, the Rev. John Thompson, pastor of the Me- Cabe Methodist church of Chicago, spent his time last month in nine of the wealthy churches in this city, to prove the socialists are wrong in their theory that churches are for the rich. Thompson says only one minister re- pulsed him when spoken to at the end of the services. Elsewhere he was welcomed.
 The Corners jury in the Rustin case finds that Dr. Rustin of Omaha. came to his death from pistol shot in the hands of persons unknown, but re- comments that the actions of Charles Davis be further investigated. To America and Orville Wright, a modest young man of Dayton, Ohio., goes the honor of accomplishing the most marvellous feat in aviation yet
 recorded. The Wright aeroplane, operated by the aviator, whose brother Wilbur has heen conducting success full tests in France, sailed over and around the parade ground at Fort Myer, Va, for 57 minutes and S1 se- conds, exceeding by 29 minutes and 8 seconds tho hitherto world-breaking record of 2S minutes made by Dela- grande near Paris.
 Capt. J. K. Moore, Fifteenth Infantry is dead at Fort Leavenworth after a
 short illness of typhoid fever. Capt
 Moore distinguished himself in the
 Cuban. Philippines and Chinese wars. Pearson Tally, of Wilmington, Del, 60 years old, split his wife's skull with broadax He then fractured the skulls of his niece and her husband. Andrew Johnson. Tally's victims are dying.
 Cassius Brown, twice convicted and
 once under sentence of death, is ac- quilted of the murder of Mrs. Nancy
 Ann Day, which occurred near Gar
 rettsburg, Mo-, November 23. 1904.
 The St. Louis National Life had it's first death loss last week, when it paid
 a policy of $1000 The company be gan issuing insurance in August, 1907
 and has $2,500,000 in force.
 John R. Early, the leper, signed his pension certificate without touching it,
 except with the point of the pen and
 without seeing it. The paper was
 covered when it was handed to Early
 little spaces just large enough for the signature being exposed In these
 spaces Early wrote his name, and the covering was then. removed by the
 health authorities and burned.
 Not only will Mrs. Peter c. Hains,
 the wife of Captain Peter c. Hains Jr,
 who, with his brother T. Jenkins
 Hains, is prisoner in Long Island
 Prison, charged with murdering Will |'liam E. Annis, at the Bayside Yacht
 club be called on to testify at her
 husbands trial, but it is expected that
 the mother of the brothers will take
 the stand in their behalf.
 The city authorities at Springfield,
 H., have agreed to make good the re-
 cent losses by fire, due to the riots in
 that town, for which the companies were not liable on account of the riot
 clauses in their policies. It Is under stood that an agreement has been
 made to have the city pay 75 per cent
 of the total damages and the owners will have to lose the remainder. That it is the intention of the Navy Department to seLd the submarines Viper, the Cuttlefish the Octopus and the Tarantula, and, perhaps, che Plunger, now on the north atlantic, to Manila, in the course of few
 months, is the statement made from an authoritative.
 Leon s. Ehrenberg, one of Little