The Green Forest tribune., 1908-07-24
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and shot himself in the head. He died
 without regaining consciousness. Ex-Chief Justice Henry Gaston
 Bunn aged 70 years, for II years on the Arkansas supreme bench, died at | Eldorado, Ark. He was a native of North Carolina.
 Davis Bennett Hall, IS years old, and Ernest Hopper, 19 years old, while driving, were struck by Pennsyl- vania passenger train No. 19N.t Green field, Ind, and both were killed. l Fearing that her pet dog would mourn her loss, should she be in- | tered, Mrs. Otto Buseck of Memphis, Tenn, made a dying request that her body be crem ated. The body has been shipped to crematory in St. Louis.
 The dowager empress of China has ordered all tke viceroys to hurry phy. sicians to the royal palace to attend Tsai Tien, the emperor, who is i'll. | It is impossible to learn the rulers ailment, as none but Chinese physi- cians are admitted to the palace.
 Cocaine and it's derivatives are l barred from the mails by an order sent out from the postoffice depart ment. Reports which have been re- ceived at the department indicate that it has been the innocent distributor of the deadly drug to an extent which is alarming.
 Sentenced to be hanged for the mur- der of Beulai, Martin, negress, at Gypsy, W. Va, in March, 1908, Frank Johnson, giant negro, has confessed to ministers that he has murdered five persons since 1896, and gives the names of three of his victims.
 A. H. Fol lbes and J. c. Mccoy of New York and Lieut.. r. P. Lahm, United States army, will compete in the international balloon races to be held in Berlin next October for the James Gordon Bennett cup. | Miss Margare. Armstrong of Phila- delphia was killed and 10 other pas sengers of the White Mountain ex- press were injured when the train, after passing the station at Green wich, Conn, was ditched. | The keels of two new battleships for the Ja oanese navy will be laid before the end of the year. One will | be laid before the end of the month. The new vessels will have speed of l 20 knots and a displacement of 20,S00 tons. They will each carry twelve 12- inch guns.
 The powder magazine of the North western Improvement Go. at Cleelum, | Wash, blew up at 5 o'clock Thursday morning while a gang of men were unloading powder. Nine were killed.
 Beaumont Tex, is threatened with | the worst race war that has occurred in the south in years. Unless the black residents leave town, as they have been notified to do, bloodshed is almost certain. The whites are de- termined to drive out negroes follow ing the attack on a white girl by negro.
 The new cruiser Indomitable, pride of the British navy, carrying the Prince of Wales collided with sail ing barge shortly after leaving Ports mouth on her trip to Quebec. The damage to the great warship was slight, and after brief delay she proceeded on her way. The barge was smashed Fortunately, only the crew was aboard and no casualties have | been reported.
 The Evening Tiles, the new Mun- ] r1n fte iy,st ia1 appearance in Philadelphia. | After having been closed down five months, notice was issued by the Mis- 1 souri Pacific Railroad Go. that the shops in Argenta would be reopened in part about July 27. The strike with car repairers has not been set | tied, but the places of strikers will | be filled.
 By vote lacking only one of being | unanimous, Rev. F. E. Maddox, pastor of the First Presbyterian church at 1 Texarkana, Ark, was expelled from the Ouachita presbytery on a charge of heresy. He was accused of deny | ing inspiration of the Bible as whole and also with denying that salvation is an Instantaneous act. MT. and Mrs. Jesse Kinney, we'll known residents of Aurora, Mo, are under arrest charged with attempting to poison the family of H. c. Hamp- sher by administering trough on rats" | by means of blackberry cobbler pie given to the Hampsher family by Mrs. Kinney. While catching baseball game, Frank Howard of Harvard, H., was hit over the heart by swiftly pitched ball and instantly killed. He was 16 years old.
 | Bishop Henry c. Potter continues l to improve and his condition is bet 1 ter than at any time since his illness He is not unfavorably affected by the heat
 A murder has been committed in | the West Virginia penitentiary at ; Moundsville, the fourth at the prison within four years. Oscar H. Hipps attacked William Banks and stabbed him in the back with long scissor blade. The two convicts had been enc mics for several months. T. M. Allen, postmaster at Cassville. Mo, was arrested by postoffice in- spector who alleges that he opened mail addressed to person in his of flee.
 Preparations are well under way for 1 the national convention of the Inde- DendenCe party tO ha held at Chicago Monday, July 27.