The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma ten. and Particularly from the
 Great Southwest.


 Mrs Rosa Stone of Myrtle, Va, was given a $400 verdict against the < Norfolk & Western railroad for being { compelled to ride seven miles in a Jim Crow" car with negroes. She < asked for $1,000 This is the only case of that sort ever tried in Virginia. sThe jury allowed her $40 minute for actual riding time.
 fS Sixteen American batueships, con %Stituting the American fleet on it's beaceful cruise around the world, are %riding at anchor ill the bay of Tokio, soccupying post of honor in front of lsa number of Japanese men-of-war, the gEhulls of the American vessels making strong contrast with the somber-hued z ones of the Japanese.
 A The French government received Of !1icial confirmation of previous reports INof the mobilization by Turkey of the ( sAnatolian army corps. This is regard Ted in official circles as Turkey s answer to Bulgaria's s refusal to accord Mcompensation for the Oriental rail Froad and it is believed to make war practically inevitable.
 N in the Illinois river valley, met at < Havana, in Mason county, and formed { a permanent organization. the object j of which is to furnish whatever pro tection may be necessary to guard their respective properties from tres, passing, poaching and encroachments of every character by hunters and fiShemen.
 Sixteen persons are known to have ! been burned to death, when the train which was carrying 300 persons flee ing from the fire which destroyed the town of Metz, ran into burned out culvert, was overturned and destroyed by the encircling forest fires. Art Lee the fireman, sought safety in the water J tank on the engine, and was literally boiled to death William Barrett, the brakeman, died on the engine, and the charred remains of John Nowickis, Jr., were found in the road crossing ths track just ahead of the engine.
 Japan and China, it is announced have reached basis of settlement Of the difficulty arising out of the recent clash between the Japanese garrison at Kantao, northern Korea, and company of Chinese marauders. Japan made a formal protest that the Chinese war office refused permission to the garrison soldiers to pursue the Chinese across the border. The basis of settlement was not made public, but it is said the matter will be amic- ably adjusted.
 The English court of appeals has found that the fire which swept the business portion of kingstown Jan. IA of last year, the day of the great earthquake, was net caused by the earthquake, but preceded it. The in- surance companies will, therefore, have to pay, several million dollars to Kinkstown policy holders.
 Fire in South Chicago destroyed the International salt docks, with two sheds loaded with salt, burned the of flee of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern (belt line) railroad and 8 empty freight cars on it's tracks, threatened the Calumet elevator e. and imperil- ed two grain vessels, the Admiral and George Stone, causing total loss of between STOOD and $SO0,000.
 Senator Gore has appointed Samuel Houston, grandson of the Texas hero, and Henry Watterson Jr., grandson Of the noted editor, as cadets to West Point from Oklahoma.
 Commanding him to produce Harry K. Thaw in Pittsburg forthwith, United States marshal, served the writ of a Federal court upon pr. Lamb, superintendent of the Mat teawan asylum.
 The story is current i'll nign society circles in Rome that Miss Katherine Elkins, the American heiress, whose engagement to the Duke of the Ab- ruzzi, cousin of King Emmanuel, has tilted her royal suitor. One rumor is that Miss Elkins has refused to change her religion, which would be necessary in case she became the bride of the Duke.
 Reports from the International race say the Spanish balloon Mantana, ex- ploded over Mestzendorff, SaXony, while at a height of 6000 feet. The car and the rigging shot toward the earth. but when within 1000 feet of the ground the ripped envelope form ed in the shape of 8 parachute and the speed was checked. The occupants of the basket alighted without injury.
 One man is dying and more than a dozen others were injured in abattle between Sheriff Jones of Macoupin county, H., aided by four officials, on one side, and four car loads of minors on the other, at the Interurban depot at Carlinville, III.
 Bound, gagged and locked in box car by hazing students. William E. Smith, freshman of Kentucky state college, has disappeared and the grand jury is probing what may be a ghastly mystery, and police and railroad men are working desperately to ascertain his fate.
 Disappointed after a searcn of two days in not finding Shep Jones, the negro who assassinated A. J. Wall, a wealthy cotton planter at his home near Hickory, Miss, mob of fifty men has hanged one innocent negro and shot two others to death.