The Green Forest tribune., 1908-09-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS or THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma ton, and Particularly from the
 Great Southwest.


 ton, and Particularly from the
 Great Southwest.
 The first break in the scheduled itinerary of the American fleet occur red Thursday when it was founded in advisable, owing to the delay in coal ing, to set sail for Manila until Friday morning. The leave-taking could have taken place Thursday, but it was de- cided to spend one more night in King Georges Sound.
 \ More than $1,000,000 has been Left by John Burnham Brown, pioneer business man of Chicago, who died Thursday, for the founding of one of the most unique schools in the country. The institution will fit young men and women to enter busi- ness careers One of the peculiar provisions imposed is that the bodies of Mir Brown and his wife, who died suddenly Jan. 8, be buried under the rotunda of the main building. Only $90,000 of the estate goes to relatives, G If Count Boni de Castellane will ac-
 
 cept an offer of 5000 a week for 10 weeks to appear in vaudeville, the former husband of Anna Gould will be seen on the stage in New York during the winter
 The Michigan Central Railroad con- pany has closed a contract with the American Car & Foundry company to repair 5000 cars. This will keep one plant busy until January 2, adding 1000 men to the pay-rolls. A verdict of not guilty was return ed by the jury trying Congressman Jay F. Laning of the Fourteenth Ohio district, charged with embedding from the Ohio Trust Co.,, of Norwalk, O., of which he was an officer.
 The United States will be rid of Emma Goldman, champion of anarchy, for a time. She is going to forsake the shores of America for Australia. :. where she will make lecture tour.
 The "standpatters" of Iowa have selected as their candidate for the United States senate nomination against Gov. Cummins, ex-Congress- man John F. Lacy of Gskaloosa, turn ing down E. E. Clarke, Roosevelt's s appointee to the Interstate Commerce Commission, on the theory that he is not well enough known.
 Six hundred persons were made homeless, half million dollars worth of damage done, and 9000,000 feet of Diamond match lumber destroyed when fire swept over Saco, Me, con- suming 85 tenement houses and threatening for a time the complete destruction of the place. There were many heroic rescucs and narrow escapes from death, and it was only after long, arduous struggle that the firemen were able to subdue the flames.
 William Irwin, former Judge of the criminal court, one of the oldest and most prominent jurists in Indiana, fell dead in court, while arguing case. Heart disease was the cause.
 Determined to pry Col. Wm. F.. Stewart loose from the army, war de- partment officials will shortly call that officer, who has been living in exile, at Fort Grant, Ariz., before retiring board.
 The Government Is determined to get out of the employers liability law all the potential power that is in it. w. R. Harr, of the solicitor generals office. has been sent to San Francisco to prepare a brief, and make argu- ment in number of such cases be- fore the circuit court of appeals. Harr had had charge of the employers liability cases before the supreme court.
 Developments indicating that A. Booth & Co, who were placed in the hands of a receiver last week, had not ceased to operate as trust and were fixing the prices of fish and other pro- ducts throughout the United States, are being made the subject of a rigid investigation by the United States district attorneys office. It may be followed by the prosecution of direc tors of the company.
 Trials of participants in the Spring field riots of one month ago begin in the Sangamom circuit court before Judge James A. Creighton. They will be preceded by the trial of Joe James, the negro who killed Clergy Ballard, and who may be said to have lighted the first sparks of lawlessness in the city.
 Premier Asquith, who at the last moment interfered in the great Cath olic procession of the Blessed Sacra- ment and caused the parade to be rob- bed of all ceremony, may have to answer to Parliamtnt for his action.
 While a guest of Col. Chas. Edward Gen. Edward Luard, retired, whose wife was shot and killed mysterously near London, Aug. 24, died by throw ing himself beneath the wheels of moving train.
 Worn out by her activities in Washington society during the last season, Miss Anna E. Cockrell, daugh- ter of F. M. Cockrell, interstate com merce commissioner and former senator from Missouri is i'll. having undergone an operation for appen- dicitis.
 By the death of Samuel Deyin, 35 years old, well-known merchant of Edge Grove, Pa., near Hanover Adams