The Green Forest tribune., 1908-12-18

| MTs. CCra Whitney, wife Of Casper | Whitney, an author and editor of Out Ing, obtained a divorce from her hus- band in tho District court of Omaha. She was allowed $500 a month ali. | mony.
 1 Joe Bergstrom of Des Moines, is | dying from wedding juoke. Berg strom left for Colorado Springs with his young wife to escape the ravages of tuberculosis, developed from cold he contracted on his wedding night month ago, when friends lashed him to tree in front of the officiating minister's house, and left him in the cold. He stayed there till the min ister, Rev. Neis Peterson, released him, and has been ill ever since President Roosevelt and supporters of the administration believe they 1 have discovered a determination on the part of senators of both parties to discredit the administration in it's closing days The president has call ed to his support his friends in the senate and is planning a vigorous de- l fense, if not counter aggressive movement.
 | Presidert-eleot Taft will visit Pana- l ma some time in January. He prob- ably will leave for the isthmus about January 20. rnless the plan he has confided to friends miscarries. MT. | Tafts desire is to see the progress of the work on the canal before he enters the White House next March. l A giant blast of dynamite was pre- maturely exploded in the canal work ings at Bas Obispo. Ten men were killed and fifty injured. It may be that others have been killed. for the debris is piled up in all directions. Bas Obispo cut is about thirty miles from CSolon, and the shock of the explosion was distinctly felt here.
 An order for the arrest of P. H. Keiran, head of the Fidelity Funding company of New York, was issued, but Keiran had disappeared when officers arrived at his hotel, the New Willard. He had packed his trunk and left the hotel.
 | William Nelson Cromwell in a 2,O00- word statement makes sweeping de- nial of all charges of graft and crook edness in Panama canal deal.
 A transaction involving millions of dollars has just been closed in New York City, whereby the United States Steel Corporation takes over the Standard Steel Car company, with plants at Butler and Newcastle, Pa, and Hammond, Ind, and the Pressed Steel Car company, with plants at Nc Kees Rocks and the lower North Side Pittsburg.
 President-elect Taft and Speaker Cannon had an hour and half con- ference Wednesday morning. At it's conclusion Judge Taft said that both had agreed not to disclose the details at this time.
 Robert Bruce Kelly, native of Ma coupin county, H., Union Army veteran of the Forty-first Illinois h. | fantry, was killed by an electric car in South Dallas, Tex. He was 72 years old
 The Dutch commander of the fleet now off the shores of Venezuela has been given full discretionary powers in the matter of opening fire on 1 Venezuela according to a statement issued by Dutch court officials. l President-elect Taft declared in favor of an educational qualification | for suffrage in the southern states in order to free them from the domina tion of ignorant classes, white or black, in his speech at the annual banquet of the North Carolina society
 The secretary of treasury in the book of estimates advises the appropri- ation for the new St. Louis postoffice be increased from less than $400,000 to $500000, that the building may be faced with stone instead of brick. When the contract was let, provision was made for the proposed change.
 Francisco Martinez, who murdered four members of the Garcia family at Tecolte, Las Animas county, and then kidnapped Margaret Garcia and fled, murdered the girl and committed suicide in lonely cabin twent-six miles from Tecolte when overtaken by an armed posse.
 Justice Stafford at Washington inn posed a sentence of two years inn prisonment and $1O,000 fine on Fred erick A. Hyde, millionaire real estate operator of San Francisco, and one year and two months and S1,000 on Joost T. Schneider of Tucson, Ariz., convicted of frauds Bonds were given by the defendants to carry the case to the appellate court.
 The Chicago city pure food ordin- ance for condemnation of food found to be deleterious to the public health, was upheld as constitutional by the supreme court of the United States. The case came to the highest court through appeal by the North American Cold Storage company.
 Mrs. Emma R. Chesebrough one of the best known society women of Rhode Island and chum of Mrs. John | D. Rockefeller, Jr., committed suicide by shooting herself through the head with a small-caliber revolver. She was so determined to die that when the first shot didn't kill her instantly; she fired another in almost the same | place.
 Four prominent Chicago men are marked for death by mysterious anonymous letter write-two ministers