The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
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 Taking of evidence is closed in the trial of Charles w. Morse and A. ii. Curtis in New York.
 Pending decisions affecting the in terstate law are anxiously awaited by railway men, and it is said the, court ruling in the Missouri river jobbers case will be momentous.
 A threatened outbreak on the part of company of Turkish troops at' tached to the garrison at Yildiz KIOSK was put down with single Yolley from a loyal battalion. Three of the mutineers were killed and fifteen in jured.
 Russian troops have crossed the Aras river into the Persian Province of Azerbaijan The Aras forms the boundary between Russia and the northernmost part of Persia.
 The Aero club of Berlin have awarded officially the prizes in the in ternational race for the Bennett cup, which was started from Berlin Oeto- Der II. The Swiss balloon Helvetia is given first, the English Banshee second and the Belgian Belgica third u prize. Up to the time of this an- nouncement the Banshee had been re- garded as the winner.
 It is officially announced that Prince von Buelow, chancellor of the German Empire. has rendered his resignation to the kaiser The resignation comes as a direct result of the interview with the kaiser as published a few days ago in London.
 Only 6OOOO out of 500,000 copies of Queen Alexandras s Christmas book, which is being sold for charitys sake, are now available for sale, the re- mairder being already subscribed for, so that there is every likelihood of the whole lot being disposed of be- fore they are all out of the press.
 Action of suffragettes in chainins themselves in the gallery of the house of commons is likely to result in the removal of the much despised grille.
 Confronted by the ever-growing problem of the unemployed, the Union Jack Industries League plans cam- paign to have contracts for British war materials placed at home.
 William Randolph Hearst, father of the Independence party, and five of his lieutenants in the new political movement, were made defendants in a suit filed in the Marion (Ind.) superior court, by Henry w. Bullock of Indianapolis for $700 wages, Bull lock sets forth that he performed work for Hearst and his associates by circulating petitions.
 Mrs. Cora Hinkle who has been con fined in the jail at Benton, Mo-, since February last charged with giving her husband poison with fatal results has confessed the deed.
 The motor of Wilbur Wright's re- rd-breaking aeroplane exploded while he was making short flight. Wright was unhurt. The motor had been acting badly for several days.
 The Boston Herald has announced the abolition if it's comic Sunday SUD- plement, declaring that the funny side" which delight the children have outlived their day.
 The last vestige of the Balkan war cloud has disappeared as the result of the yielding of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria to the proposals laid down in the tentative program for the international conference, announce ments of which are expected to be re- ceived soon by the various European chancelleries.
 Charged with conducting the most extensive matrimonial agency swindle ever unearthed in Pittsburg, James l.. Leclaire and Miss Lena Miller are prisoners. More than 2000 letters from men and women and about 300 photographs have been confiscated by the police. The police say that close to 5000 men and women, representing every state in the Union, have each paid $1 after being promised to be in troduced and welded to an affinity.
 While 6,000 feet iL the air the Parseval dirigible balloon met with an accident 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.
 David H. Andrews, president of the Boston Bridge Works, and Charles N. Fitz, head of the New England Structural company, were fined 5000 each after pleading guilty to indict- ment of conspiracy by means of col lusive bids to mulct the city of Boston
 Capt. Peter c. Hains, who shot and killed William B. Annis for alleged betrayal of his wife, will plead insanity as did Harry K. Thaw This developed when the army officer, with his brother T. Jenkins Hains, was arraigned be- fore Justice Garretson in the supreme court at Flushing, l.. I.
 Thirsting for vengeance upon the woman who won her husband away, though he has now been dead 10 years, Mrs. Margaret Buchanan ap. peared in the supreme court in New York as claimant in a suit fer $50, 900 for alienation of his affections.