The Green Forest tribune., 1908-09-11

William H. Taft will make a travel ing campaign during the month of October, devoting his time principally to those states which the National Committee may consider doubtful, if the ideas of both the candidate and his national chairman Frank H Hitch cock are carried out
 The Republican National Committee has issued the campaign textbook for 1908. Its 536 pages contain in concise form such information as is likely to be required by speakers and writers and other campaign workers.
 Leon s. Ehrenberg, one of Little Rocks best-known young business men, was shot and killed by Charles B. Parsell There were no eve witnesses to the killing and Parsell re- fuses to talk, merely stating that he killed Ehrenberg in self-defense. The men were former partners in the plumbing business, and were believed to be on friendly terms.
 John R. Early, the leper, signed his pension certificate without touching it. except with the point of the pen and without seeing it. The paper was covered when it was handed to Early, little spaces just large enough for the signature being exposed. In these spaces Early wrote his name. and the covering was then removed by the health authorities and burned.
 Not only will Mrs. Peter c. Hains the wife of Captain Peter c. Hains Jr., who, with his brother T. Jenkins Hains, is prisoner in Long Island Prison, charged with murderng Will liam k. Annis, at the Bayside Yacht club be called on to testify at her husbands trial, but it is expected that the mother of the brothers will take the stand in their behalf
 The city authorities at Springfield, H., have agreed to make good the re- cent losses by fire, due to the riots in that town, for which the companies were not liable on account of the riot clauses in their policies. It is under. stood that an agreement has been made to have the city pay 75 per cent of the total damages and the owners will have to lose the remainder.
 The state saloon" or liquor dispen- sary system in Oklahoma, as a salary producer and money maker, is not proving the success anticipated. The Rev. J. J. Thompson, who left the pas torate of a Presbyterian church to ac- cept a position as district dispensary inspector, has reported that the county dispensaries in his district are not do- ing thriving business.
 Fire in Sumner, Miss, town of 2000 inhabitants, wiped out the busi- ness section and part of the resi- dence section, causing loss of S10c, 900. A. M. Phipps, newspaper man, who was asleep in the office of the Sumner News, with which he was con- nected, was burned to crisp before aid reached him.
 The old Secoy cabin in Oklahoma, in which Jesse James passed several weeks, has been destroyed by fire. In 1873 James assisted in the capture ot desperado in the cabin. The cabin stood in dense wood some distance from a road.
 Chester S. Jordan. accused of the murder of his wife and the attempt to throw her dismembered body into the ocean, stoically answered the ques- tions of Judge Wentworth in the Somerville station, when he was brought in for his preliminary hearing
 Going in direct opposition to His Majestiy, King Edward, who had ex- pressed the hope that she might wed member of royalty he had picked out for her, Mrs. Marshall Field Jr, of Chicago, became the wife of Baldwin A. Drummond, second son of the late Edgar A. Drummond, at the Registry Office.
 That Helen Maloney, daughter ol Martin Maloney, is preparing to, enter a convent as the solution of the matri. monial complications into which she has plunged herself, Is now virtually assured as the result of recent devel, opments at the Maloney summer home at Spring Lake, N. J.
 A negro who had attacked Mrs. Foster, residing near Wesson, Tenn. was shot and killed by the husband of the woman. Foster was at work in house by hearing his wife screaming.
 Capt. G. A. Merriam, United States navy, commandant of the Portsmouth navy yard died following an operation for appendicitis. He was 5S years of age. He commanded the battleship Missouri on the recent cruise of the battleship fleet from Hampton Roads to San Francisco.
 The sunken hulks of the Japanese battleship Yashima and the Russian warship Sebastopol, which went down in an engagement during the recent war, have been found by Japanese salvage vessel.
 The initial work on the Union Pa cific new s1,O0O,0OO extension from Seattle to Black River Junction has begun. Further extensions, which will be pushed at once, will cost the road several times this omunt.
 A concerted movement by the rail road employees of the middle west to back Judge Taft was started in Cri- cago when the Railway Mems Inde- pendent Taft club was organized A board of directors, consisting of 25 members, was chosen to direct the efforts of the club.
 On the ground that there was no in tention to deceive, the National Base