The Green Forest tribune., 1908-05-15

] his fathers will for a share of the s2,000,000 estate, have unearthed | host of letters written by women to the old man, through which they | preyed upon his senile love mania to wheedle him out of large sums of money. >. f, 4 ,'''}is>i ;'}3s>i IT,
 A ban has been placed against rats i and mice on the Panama canal zone in efforts to prevent bubonic plague from gaining foothold there.
 Unostentatiously and without un- usual ceremony, Rear Admiral Robley | D. Evans relinquished command of the Atlantic fleet to Rear Admiral | Charles M. Thomas. His flag at the mast head of the Connecticut was hauled down with salute of 13 guns. | Announcement was made by the papal delegate, Rev. Diomete Fal conio, that Auxiliary Bishop Muldoon of Chicago has been recommended | for appointment as bishop of the Rockford Qll) diocese. Bishop Null doon's name has been sent to Rome but the pope has not yet made the appointment.
 The reforestation of Ireland on a vast scale is the latest official proj- l pointed which has recommended that the area of Ireland under forest | should be raised from 100000 acres, the present figures, to 100000 acres.
 In doing an act of human kindness, | Winner Sandt violated the state game laws unconsciously and was arrested by Deputy Game Warden Acker of Al lentown. .Sandt was picking stones from field at Freemansburg, when he uncovered nest of three rabbits. Fearing that they might be harmed, he took them home. The arrest fol- lowed, and Sandt was fined $3S.25.
 District Attorney Jerome admitted on witness stand in the hearing of the King charges against him, that he threw dice for dollar apiece and | the drinks with the two sons of Thom- as F. Rryan, at a restaurant near tho criminal courts buildings, while Del phin H. Delmas was summing up in the first trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White. War has been declared against east ern railroads by commercial and man. ufacturing interests of cities extend- ing from the Mississippi river to Maine, and preliminary steps toward gigantic fight against the proposed | freight rate advance have been taken. An advance in freight rates on the | leading railway systems east of the Mississippi river was recommended by the presidents of all the big eastern railroads at a conference in the of fees of the Trunk Line association. Twenty members of the council of the diocese of Texas were poisoned by the luncheon served by the wom- en of Christ church at the parish house in Houston, and for time several were in dangerous condition. One man was killed and four in- jured in an explosion which wrecked the $3OOO,0OO. plant of the Western Glucose Co. at Hammond Ind. It is feared other victims are in the ruins of the plant.
 Babe" Farris lying at the point of death from gunshot wounds, and Ed Carr in jail charged with the shoot ing, is the result of a fight over dividing fence near Lake Prairie, Mo.
 Hetty Green has decided to quit the palatial Plaza hotel and return to the simple life owing to the notoriety which her recent move gained for her.
 Senate at Springfield, H., passed bill increasing pay of Chicago alder men from S1,500 to $3,500, and meas ure now goes to the governor.
 Henry Tobey, a senior in Sarles (Mass.) high school, will be blind as result of prank by schoolmates, who left sulphuric acid in sink. When Tobey turned on the water the acid splashed into his face. The per petrators had expected the young women to put their hands in the dilut- ed acid, causing a discoloration re- sembling cigarette stains.
 John A. Mackenzie, young Ameri- can, has just made his way out of the frozen north with news of the discov- cry of a diamond field which, he has told his friends, is richer than Kim berly. These friends say he brought with him thousand stones which ex- perts pronounce to be of the first wa ter
 Express Messenger Chas. H. Wright was murdered by train robbers, who footed his car on Rio Grande train. The bandits got $100, and escaped. The body was found when the train reached Denver.
 Standing on Bryan radical plat form, practically dictated by the men who sought his defeat, Judson liar mon of Cincinnati was nominated for governor of Ohio by the Democratic state convention on the second ballot Mayor Tom L. Johnson, who dictated the platform, fought Harmon to the last ditch.
 Ohio publisher tells congressional committee that extortions of the pa per trust have brought many smaller publications to the verge of bank ruptcy.
 Mrs. John Alexander Dowie was awarded S400 by the appraisers of the personal property of the late founder of Zion City. They filed their report showing that instead of the great