The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-27

ADfuZZ1, to Miss Katherine ElkinS daughter of the United States sera- tor.
 The roughness and "slugg,ng" which have characterized basket ball this year among the colleges have caused comment among the authori- ties, and if change is not made next year there is possibility of the faos ulties interfering and stopping the game.
 The diamond trust has issued ap edict declaring that the present prices of diamonds will be maintained. so the owners of that particular variety of jewels need lose no sleep over the report that the recent money stringency is about to cause a slump in diamond values.
 Persistent rumors that President and Mrs. Roosevelt will visit England next year are current in American circles in London. It is said that he will stay six months in London with his family, and will study the organization ol the navy and the management of the dockyards.
 Policeman Daniel D. Thomas Of Wilkesbarre, Pa, has received a let ter threatening him with death if he testifies against John Boner who is charged with the murder of his broth CT, Leo Boner. The letter is unsigned The police are now making an effort tO 6iSpOvpr tho writor Tbop,oe he is not frightened.
 Mrs. Fannie Pew, who recently died in Lexington, Ky, and who was prom inent in the social and church life of Lexington, is credited by Curt Jett, the notorious Breathitt county mur- derer now serving life sentence in the penitentiary. with having been the instrument of his reform and conver- sion to the Christian faith.
 A man, who, the authorities say, is Abraham Rosenthal, alleged murderer of his brother -in-law, Lewis B. Claw son, in Reading, Pa., last month, was arrested at Billings, Okla, by Deputy Sheriff w. Gilloin, and is now in the Noble county jail at Perry awaiting an official from Reading
 Chicago is to ask the aid of Europe in war upon all anarchists. This is the interpretation placed upon the trip of Sergeant George Wedding, sec retary to Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler. Wedding left for Berlin, Germany.
 Five posses searched in vain for the two bandits who held up the officers of the Davis bank at Hoffman, Okla, and secured S1,0G0, all the money that was in sight It is said that Henry Starr and 'Kid' Wilson, two of the gang that recently robbed the Tyro (kas.) bank, are responsible for the Hoffman robbery
 Thirty thousand men in St. Louis are out of jobs, according to State La Dor Commissioner Hitler. In theJ heaviest week of last year, manufactb uring concerns employed 113,171 per sons in St. Louis and the commission CT thinks that about 10000 of these are idle and another 10000 working on half time.
 William Dulaney, the negro barber who has been at the White House ever since MT. Roosevelt became pres ident, has laid aside the official razor to become bookkeeper in the office of the auditor of the navy. His ap- pointment, which carries with it a salary of $1,G00, was made at the re- quest of the president several days ago.
 Representative Lilley has practice ly withdrawn from the investigation of the charges he made against the Elec- trio Boat Co.
 Alonzo F. Shriner chief clerk in the office of the surveyor of customs in St. Louis, is charged by Charles G. Daues, assistant United States dis trict attorney, with embezzlement of $35334, and with failure to deposit $2,442 at the proper time.
 Judge Wood, in the district court at Caldwell, Idaho, sentenced Harry Or chard to death for the murder of ex Gov. Steunenberg and recommended that the board of pardons commute his sentence to Imprisonment in the penitentiary. In written ruling, Judge Wood gives as a reason for his recommendation that Orchard told the truth in his testimony in the Hay wood and Pettibone trials.
 The entire north side of the busi- ness. street of the town of Carrier Mills, H., was destroyed by fire. It is believed the fire was the work Of an incendiary The loss is $40000.
 The federal government announces that it will file suit against the Chesa- peake & Ohio railroad at Richmond, Va, for favoring certain shippers in an illegal manner and at the expense of other roads,
 Kate Trainer, who shot and killed Samuel Roberts. her sweetheart, who had discarded her at Xenia, O., has been sentenced to 20 years in the per- itentiary She was indicted by spe- cial grand jury. and pleaded guilty.
 The convention of the Crited Mine Workers of America rescindeC its for mer action to hold it's next national convention in St. Louis Indianapolis got the convention.
 Unless some sort of relief is forth coming immediately for the inmates of the Bethesda home, 30 Belden place, Chicago, a suicide pact, involv- ing probably a dozen lives, may be carried out. This was learned follow ing the death of John Koch an in mate, who drank carbolic acid, pre- ferring death to slow starvation.
 Frank H. Hosford, at one time read