The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-27

the conference next Tuesday between Grand Duke Peter Nicholaieyitch, head of the engineering corps, and c. P. Vim cent, representative of Hart O. Berg, European manager of the Wright Brothers,
 Seven persons were killed and twelve injured, some of them fatally, when the boiler of the steamboat H. M. Carter exploded on the Mississippi river, eight miles south of Plaque mine, Ala. The wreck. caught fire and in few minutes the hull of the big steamboat was a mass of flames, carrying everything before it.
 atives of British commercial houses deny absolutely the stories that Prince Ching, Yuan Shi Kai and the Dow ager Empress Yehonala had been as sassinated by palace plotters. The situation is reported as quiet.
 Thirty girls, employees of the Mer- cantile Corporation of Dayton, O., were hurt when a platform collapsed while they were posing for a picture along with several hundred other hands
 There is no truth in the Guthrie, Ok, story that MT. Bryan sent me to Oklahoma to purchase Guthrie news paper as preliminary to his removal to that state.'' This is the statement issned by R. l.. Metcalf, associate editor of Bryan,s Commoner.
 AS tke result of carelessness on the part of hunters, 26 oil rigs were burned near Trombley, O., and power house and a hundred-barrel tank filled with oil also went up in the flames.
 Fire in a six-story brick building at Hawkins and Sudbury streets Boston, caused the loss of $1o0,000. The blaze started in the furniture establishment of Stearns & Henderson company. The Union Paint and Varnish company, the Boston Mirror company and Tut tie X Bailey were also burned out.
 Speeding along at the rate of 40 miles an hour, Earl Wheeler, 13 years old, escaped from reform school of ficer by plunging through window of a car at Janesville, Wis. The lad was uniniured.
 Franklin D. Eddy, former cashier at the postoffice of Grand Rapids, Mich., who was convicted of embedding S1500 from the government last May, was sentenced to the Detroit house of correction for mine months.
 Mayor Tom L. Johnson Thursday announced that his fight for Scent fare and against monopoly in Cleve- land had cost him his private fortune He will give up his magnificent home on Euclid avenue and move into smaller house. His automobiles will go too. His wife owns the Euclid avenue home, but Johnson says he is too poor to occupy it longer.
 Fourteen men have pleaded guilty to the murder of John Hayes and his family in raid made upon the cabin, and have been sentenced to various terms in the penitentiary. The mur- ders were committed in Valley county Mont, and were the result of the Hayes family having jumped claim.
 Congressman Robert c. Davey, re- presenting the second Louisiana con gressonal district in congress, to which he had just been reelected, is dying at Hotel Dieu in New Orleans MT. Davey was stricken with apoplexy last week.
 Heavy loss by floods and tremen- dous property damage are reported in ragna. cores of houses have collaps- ed and miles of railway track washed away. Most of the telegraph wires out of these districts are down.
 A man supposed to be F. B. Cush- man of Steubenville, H., committed suicide in room at the Leland hotel in Chicago, by shooting himself through the heart with revolver.
 The House of Commons decided that Lord Fairfax, an American member of the famous Fairfax family of Virginia, had established his claim to seat among the peers. Although Albert Kirby Fairfax fought for and won his right to the title of Lord Fairfax, he, nevertheless, remains an American and is Wall street broker in New York.
 The White House dinner to labor leaders and others, invitations to which were declined by several of the vice presidents of the American Fed eration of Labor because President Gompers was not among the invited, was held Tuesday night.
 On the strength of her own story, a coroner's jury eXonerated Miss Cor inne McCowan, the 1S-year-old girl who shot and killed Norvell Powell, a negro, in Kansas City. A verdict Of self-defense was returned.
 A bomb exploded in the government school of France for the manufacture of high explosives, killing three of those in attendance and wounding several.
 Robert Thomas, 2601 Pine street, St. Louis, was sentenced in the United States court Monday to two years i'm prisonment for writing an improper letter to Mrs. O. C. Rains, wife of physician at 3221 Lucas avenue.
 The petition of Albert T. Patrick, the New York lawyer who is serving a life sentence at Sing Sing, for a writ of habeas corpus, was denied Monday by the supreme court of the United States.
 In commenting upon the financial ruin of Tom L. Johnson, mayor of ho frac- 1