The Green Forest tribune., 1908-05-22

harvest.
 Papermaller testifies before select committee of congress which is in- vestigating pulp question that price of raw material has gone up $750 a ton in recent years and profits have decreased.
 Wives of millionaires in Chicago and elsewhere are mulcted for thou sands of dollars by book agents" through a scheme resembling "old lightning rod game"
 Late reports from the cyclone in North Texas show 15 additional deaths and great property loss. The town of Ben Franklin was wrecked by the wind and 40 firms suffered a loss | of S100,000. Twenty business houses in Linden were wrecked, with losses amounting to S250,0O0
 Harry Thaw has overcome the ob- jections of his attorneys and will take the stand and tell his story of the shooting of Stanford White when the rebuttal evidence is begun in his hear ing.
 Apologies and sore heads have re- suited from the free-for-all fist fight in which peace-maker, Senator Eek Brook, received stinging blow on the jaw; Senator Reuben NJ Roddie of Ada, black eye; Senator J. Sf Mor- ris of Hooker a skinned nose, and Senator Bill Johnson of Calumet, a de- cidedly bruised head.
 No contesting Bryan delegation from Minnesota is likely to go to the Democratic national convention. Gov Johnson's victory in the state conven- tion was so complete that the talk of bolt in favor of Bryan has seemingly dissolved.
 An exact counterpart of the Chester Gillette murder case was revealed when Alvin Heaton, IS years old, con- fessed that he had murdered his sweetheart Mary Stevens, in can yon back of the town of Ordevilie.
 Capt. Jonathan Powell, 75 years old, a leading Republican of Central Hi nois and for 30 years a member of the Mclean county bar, is dead. He was three times congressman and widely known as campaign speaker and civil war veteran.
 Admiral Evans says secret report of target practice of his fleet while on cruise would startle world, as all records were smashed; wants forty eight ships; praises personnel of navy, but dodges war and politics.
 Miss Jessie Shay, the beautiful and talented pianist who toured the Unit ed States as sclo pianist with Jan Kubelik, the Bohemian violinist, is dying in the Presbyterian hospital in New York. She has been operated upon there but no hope is enter tained for her recovery.
 Heirs of Millionaire Daniel c. Sto- yer, windmill manufacturer, have de- termined to make an effort to have his hundred-year trust will set aside in the courts. His two children, who by the will receive but a petty an nuity, have retained lawyers to com- mence suit to have the document do clared invalid in the Stephenson coun- ty Qll) court.
 Student journalists of the Univer- sity of Kansas, who had charge of local daily for one issue and who print ed a lis. of the joints being operated in Lawrence, now see the results of their work Of nine cases against ne gro jcintists brought on evidence, the students submitted, the first case tried resulted in change of plea and the jointist was fined s10O and sentenced to jail for 30 days. The other defend ants pleaded guilty as soon as brought into court. Over 50 students who had patronized the negro joints had been subpenaed as witnesses.
 Gov Hughes says he will not be candidate for the vice-presideacy and if elected he will decline to serve.
 Cardinal Logue, in an interview in New York, declares America does not need vast war power.
 By a vote of 20 to 1. the people of San Francisco have voted $1S,200,0C0 bonds to rebuild the schools destroyed by the earthquake and fire, and to provide an auxiliary water system to fight fires.
 William D. Haywood withdrew his name from consideration by the So- cialist national convention as oandl- date for the presidential nomination. In long statement he said he felt he
 review of the windstorm starting in the southwest on Sunday, swept through Texas. Oklahoma. Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin Monday. ac- cording to dispatches, shows that # killed at least II men and women and destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property and livestock. The storm was felt as far south as Gainesville, Tex
 Out of 60 persons who attended d church social at Rockwell City. Ia, 20 have been stricken with typhoid fever One is dead and five are dying. All ate pressed chicken and cabbage salad.
 Fifteen to IS persons were killed and more than a dozen seriously in jured, according to reports being re- ceived of the havoc wrought by tor nado which swept Omaha and the country to the south of there.
 In brief petition reciting that she had been abandoned and treated with cruelty, Bessie Johnson Mariani, only daughter of Mayor Tom L. Johnson. 8 cent fare traction champion, has brought suit for divorce. She was mar ried March 23, 1907, to Signor Freder- icn Mariaui. an Italian steel expert