The Green Forest tribune., 1909-08-13
NE WS IF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign, Lands Through out the Nation, and Particularly
 The Great Southwest.

III ddtHeSNlle, Gd., EuOnl MdtlHSNS. d negro porter of local hotel who at. tempted to criminally assault Mrs. ". 5 T. Lawson, trained nurse, was Y dshedd to Atlanta to prevent a lynch ing. Matthews has an ugly wound in his neck, Mrs. Lawson having stabbed him with a knife.
 The Lisbon Secoli's Melilla core spondent says that the Spaniards have lost 500 men killed and 1200 wounded in the last three days fighting with the Moorish tribesmen, and that thir- ty-fve officers and 150 men have fall en into the hands of the Moors, who tortured them before putting them to death.
 The Evansville street car strike, which has lasted siXty-nine days, was ended by the carmen's union, by the lifting of the boycott. The terms of settlement have not yet been made public.
 Federal Judge Ralph E. Campbell sustained the demurrers of defendants in 30,000 Indian land alienation suits brought by the government. The ac- tions by the government were ordered dismissed The court held that the fore the act removing restrictions went into effect are good.
 Because he attacked an 11-year-old girl in 1898, William Bowman, at Fort Smith, Ark, was sentenced to hang. He was convicted once before but se- cured on technical grounds an order by the supreme court for new trial. The girl, now 22 years old appeared in the case both times as prosecuting witness.
 Action will be commenced in the \ United States courts next week to test < the Kansas state bank deposit guar anty law, according to decision reached at a conference of representa- tives of Kansas state and national banks
 John H. Shaw, charged with forgery $ ats oneville, Ark, who was being taken from Greedy, Colo, where he was arrested Wednesday, jumped from train near Shawnee. Okla, and suf- fered injuries from which he died a few hours later The train was run ming 30 miles an hour at the time.
 Jeu Sing Wah, a Chinese, who has amassed a fortune as merchant at Eudora, Ark, and is now on his way to China with his American wife and a son II months old, called on United States Immigration Inspector James R. Dunn at St. Louis to get certifi- cate emitting the boy to citizenship in the event he wishes to return to the United States when he reaches maturity.
 Letters demanding $45,000 ransom, coupled with a threat to dynamite the Pennsylvania lines, steampships and vowing death to the travelling pub lie in the event of refusal, led to the arrest in Philadelphia of Abrac c. Eby, mayor and referee in bank ruptcy of Burkeville, Va.
 The record for laying 150 feet of hose, breaking coupling and attaching to pipe, after a half mile run was broken twice in the Iowa State Fire mems tournament. A Clinton team reduced the record 1:15 to 1:14 1-5, and later a Sioux City team set the record at 1:13 3-5.
 Earth shocks are being felt daily in the Rikateje region of Portugal, where the populace is greatly frightened and camping in the fields.
 Clara, the 13-year-old daughter of G. J. Braithwaite, hotel keeper of Harrisburg, Ont, hanged herself to tree. She had received a whipping from her step-father The tree she se- lected was at point where her father would be certain to see her body on his way home.
 Mrs. H. S. Baker filled her hus- bands pulpit in Brooklyn. She has eTheen preaching sermons in her hus- Sb. nd's place in order that he might take a months vacation.
 Marital troubles caused Mrs. En- ma Michael, of Chicago, to kill her two children, Meta, 15 years old, and Gustav, 12 years old, and then com init suicide by means of Illuminating gas.
 The Alexander & Boyer Lumber company of Fort Smith suffered loss by fire of 15,OOO, which partly de- strpyed their large yards. The cause :. or the Qro IS unknOWH. luc Dike Lumber company, adjacent, lost sev- eral piles of lumber.
 William Dean Howells, the author, who has been spending the summer at his country place in Maine, is said to be in very poor health. He will sail next week, with his daughter. Mildred. for Carlsbad.
 President Taft pardoned Manning C. Palmer, former president of the American Exchange National bank, of Syracuse, N. Y, who was convicted of misapplication of the banks funds and sentenced to five years imprison- ment in the Auburn state prison His sentence would have expired on the S1st inst.
 Sim Anderson, negro was taken from a deputy just outside of Wills ton, Ga, and shot to death by posse of citizens. The negro was caught peeping into room occupied bv the daughters of w. P. Bell