The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-20

Huldered for one months pay by chance acquaintance on a lonely road, Harold Dick. an Illinois Central Rail- road brakeman, was placed upright in hollow tree across the Mississippi river from Cape Girardeau. The body fell out into the roadway and was discoI cred by school children.
 Preparations have already begun for the reception and entertainment of the officers and crews of the Ameri- can bettleship fleet at Manila. The formation of large reception commit tee made up of Americans and Fili- pines will be undertaken immediately,
 Two persons were killed. one fatal ly hurt, seven more or less injured, and scores of lives were imperiled when St. Louis & San Francisco pas senger train No. 40S, northbound, was wrecked on high trestle across Spring Creek, eight miles west of Bristow, Okla.
 All over Eastern Oklahoma in the counties formerly Indian Territory, there is distinct and growing dispo- sition on the part of white citizens to force the full-blood Indian children out of the schools.
 Anniversary of wedding of king and queen of England recalls fact that they are oldest married couple among the crowned heads of Europe.
 Proposed local option plan is op- posed in Indiana as brewers scheme to nuilify the remonstrance law and wipe out dry districts.
 Kansas people resent literature sent out 9. the distilling and brewing in- telests intending to show that prohibi- tion restricts the growth of states.
 Giuseppe Alio, condemned murderer of Father Leo Heinrichs, makes des- perats dash to escape from the county jail in Denver, slashes the throat of trusty, but is finally overpowered.
 1icv. J. M. Cooke, who eloped last year with Floretta Whaley, says he has learned the bitter lesson, that the world is hard to buck"
 The death of Vernon Bidwell, Il years old, at Urbana, H., has been declared to have resulted from lock- jaw, following vaccination. This declaration has caused renewed oppo- sition to the order of the state board of health, that all school children be vaccinated, and litigation is likely to follow.
 Three men on horseback rode into Tyro, Kas., and while one stood guard the others entered the only bank in the town held up three men and se- cured $2,500 in cash.
 A copy of the cipher used in con fdential correspondence between Washington and the various legations has been stolen at Bucharest. The theft is attributed to a French erl- ploye at the legation now in Constan- tinople.
 Evidence is being collected on which suits against police officials can be instituted on behalf of Olga Averbuch and Rose Stern, whom the police ar rested after Lazarus Averbuch was killed by Chief Shippy. The suits, it is planned, will be for damages for false imprisonment and for the treat ment received by the women when un- der arrest.
 Governor Folk has announced that in case the supreme court should hold the new Missouri primary election law to be unconstitutional, he will con vene the legislature in extra session to enact another law.
 Secretary Metcalf announced that the battleship fleet will leave Sau Francisco July to continue it's jour ney around the world via the Sue canal. The first stop will be mad at Honolulu, thence the fleet will pro ceed to Samoa and Australia, then to Manila, where the fleet will engage in fall target practice. On the home voyage via Suez, stops will be made at Colombo, Alden, Port Said and Gibraltar.
 Reports from Premier Sir Henry Campbell sick room are that the invalid finally confesses that he has reached the end of his strength and must lay down the leadership, both of the cabinet and of his party in the house of commons.
 Denial is made that President Roose- welt is planning message to con- gress favoring increase of freight rates.
 Machine guns operated by the gov ernment forces of Chile in conflict with strikers at the nitrate beds and in the City of Iquique, laid 2,500 men low, most of them being killed, ac- cording to advices received by the Norwegian steamer Christian Bors, ar irving direct from that South Ameri- can republic.
 Otto F'ehringer, druggist of Colo rado Springs, Col, died as the result of a gunshot wound received at the hands of an unknown highwayman, who assaulted and robbed him Feb. 19.
 By vote of 21 to 19, constitutional prohibition was defeated in Mississip- pi. The defeat of the measure was not surprise
 The Atlantic fleet will arrive at San Francisco May D. the Pacific fleet will arrive there May 6, and the grand review of both fleets, under command of Rear Admiral Evans, will be made by Secretary of the Navy Metcalf on May 6, according to an an- nouncement made by the navy depart. ment.
 Leo Grubb, aged 24, shot and killed