The Green Forest tribune., 1908-07-31

together. A dense fog caused the | accident.
 Ruby Casselman, convicted forger, sentenced to seven years imprison-
 ment for cashing more than 60 forged checks for sums ranging from $15 to | $200 at banks and business houses in | Los Angeles, is one of the strangest criminals that ever appeared for trial | in the southwest. She is known as "the girl enigma
 A rubber balloon which Miss Grace | Cochran, clerk in toy store at Jop- | lin was showing a prospective pur- | chaser bursted and a fragment of it struck her in the eye with great force | It is feared the eye will be permanent ly blinded.
 William Bargee, one of the best
 known lawyers in Illinois, died at his | home in Dixon as a result of street car accident near his home several weeks ago. Mr. Bargee was the legal school master of many Chicago law yers and jurists of prominence. Richard Croker, the old-time leader | of Tammany Hall, is to return to New York this fall according to advices re- ceived While denying that he would take active part in the campaign for Bryan, Croker said he hoped the Ne | braskan would win, and thought his l chances good.
 Wm. Stamm, farmer residing 15 miles north of Chester Illinois, was arrested and lodged in jail, charged with the murder of his two sons, who disappeared about year ago. The preliminary examination has been de- layed while search is being made for the bodies.
 Matthew Cummings of Boston, was elected president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, over J. P. Dolan of New York at the convention. Michael Scereiznski, real estate dealer of Gary, Indiana, was attacked by wolf in Broadway, the main street of the new steel town, and his condition is critical. His legs were badly torn and doctors fear blood poisoning. IA
 Mrs. Mary Foster. the oldest woman in Randolph country, Illinois, died at the home of her daughter, Msr. Eliza McConachie. She was born in Abbey
 vile district, South Carolina, Nov. IF, 1909, the year Illinois became territory.
 Philip B. Mans Jr., who killed Ar thur w. Krafts and shot Mrs. Krafts, killed himself by shooting himself through the head. A farmer driving along the road near St. Matthews, near Louisville, found the body.
 The most desperate struggle that has yet taken place between the revo- lutionists and the shah's troops in Tabriz is now being waged. Mes- sages received from Tabriz tell of musketry battles between the Loyal ists and the Nationalists mobs.
 The federal Grand Jury in Chicago returned indictments against 29 al legged 'get-rich-quick' concerns, in- volving the use of the mails to de- fraud clients out of $5,000,000.
 An unknown thief hurled 8 brick through the plate glass window of c. D. Peacock Co.,, powders at Adams and State streets, Chicago, early We'd nesday and escaped with tray of rings valued at $1,000.
 Judges Grosscup, Baker and Sea- man, sitting in the Federal Court of Appeals at Chicago, knocked out Judge Landis' $29,240,000 fine imposed on the Standard Oil Company for re- batting. The higher court reversed the decision and remanded the case to the lower court for new trial. The Standard Oil attorneys left court with their faces wreathed in smiles of triumph.
 Night riders burned the station houses of the Illinois Central railroad early Wednesday morning at Gracy, in Christian county; Cerulean, in Trigg county, and Otter Pond, in Cald- well county.
 The Minnesota, Red Lake & Mani tobe Railroad Co.,, of St. Paul, We'd nesday served notice on the state railroad and warehouse commission that beginning Aug. 1 it would charge a passenger fare of cents a mile, thus ignoring the 2-cent fare law.
 John T. Burford, Chattanooga (Tenn.) real estate man, lost suit case containing $10,00O worth of stocks and bonds. He fears they have been stolen. Burford was a witness before the federal grand jury in Chi cago and, after testifying, got his suit case and hired boy to carry it to the station. He stopped at a store to buy cigar, and when he emerged the boy had disappeared.
 Twenty members of tallyho party were scattered about the road at Col ma, near San Francisco, when San Mateo electric car smashed the ve- hicle in splinters. Five of them are still in a precarious condition.
 G. w. Rowland of Cynthiana, Ky, for two years clerk in the state peni- tentiary, has confessed to the board of prison commissioners that he is short $1,GOO in his accounts of .convicts fund"
 B. P. Cropsey, Al, d wealthy real es- tate dealer and member of the Crop sey family of colonial fame, shot and killed his wife in his home in Bath Beach.
 The men injured in the explosion on board the warship Kearsarge several days ago are all improving and 1t is expected they will recover.
 Because she refused to live with him again, Charles Wilhelm, furni- ture salesman, clubbed his wife to death at her home in Victor, Col | and then blew out his brains. Their l