The Green Forest tribune., 1909-07-09
NEWS IF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
A02TH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign, Lands Through out the Nation, and Particularly
 The Great Southwest.

At a celebration in Guayaquil in honor of St. Peter and St. Paul, mob attacked the police. The troops were called out, but many of the soldiers joined the mob and pitched battle was fought in which 1G persons were killed and 30 wounded.
 The body of Edward St. John, buried in Casco, Mich, six years ago, was disinterred and brought to Otsego for reburial. It was found on the open ing of the casket to be petrified. His hair, white at death, was black.
 The senate "came within one" of agreeing to vote next Tuesday on the entire income tax amendment to the . tariff bill, including the corporation tax substitute. The compact was pre- vented by the objection of Senator Bulkeley.
 The new Lincoln pennies coined at the United States mint in Philadelphia are ready for delivery. They are much like the old ones, except that the h. dian,s head is replaced by profile of Lincoln.
 John Novak, laborer, accused of killing Miss Caroline Braush, book keeper for San Francisco contract ing firm in the office of the company, has been arrested The girl was shot down during a dispute over 65 cents difference in pay check.
 c. c. Petty, who shot and killed his wife in the Methodist church at Sparks, New, on the night of March g., was found guilty of murder in the first degree, the jury fixing punishment at death.
 Gen. Geo. B. Crosby, aged 69, ma. tive of Kentucky and one of the few surviving brigadiers of the Confeder- ate army, committed suicide by inhal- '-g gas. He had been suffering from 8 ,aralysis.
 Ex-Vice President Charles W. Fair banks and Mrs. Fairbanks, on a tour of the orient, were presented to the emperor and empress by Viscount Sone, the Japanese resident general.
 Jay Eye See, known the country over as the first 2:10 trotter. died Friday on the Pleasant View farm Death was due to old age, the horse being 31 years old.
 Driven temporarily insane by the excessive heat, Mrs. Emma Monthly threw herself and her eight-year-old daughter from the roof of five story apartment house in Quincy street i'll an exclusive section of BrooklyR Both were killed instantly.
 The supreme court decided that voting machines can not be used in Ohio. The court holds that they dc not meet the requirements of the pro vision of the constitution which says that all elections shall be by ballot.
 The Fallansbee Brothers tin mills at Falansbee, w. Va, and the Pipe tin mill of Steubenville, O., signed the scale asked by the Amalgamated As sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work CTS. thus preventing a strike at these plants. About 1000 men are affected
 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, who is visiting Ireland, preparatory to an Eu ropean trip, was welcomed at a spe- cial meeting of the Dublin Trades Council.
 Marvin, alias Wm Mathews, was held in $25,0OO bond by United States Commissioner Frazier to appear be- fore the federal court in Omaha on the charge of complicity in the hold-up oi a Union Pacific train May 22.
 Five men of the torpedo boat Hull were badly scalded by the bursting of a boiler tube near San Francesca It is feared B. F. King, fireman, was . fatally injured. The boat was slightly e damaged.
 Harry Brennan, who escaped from the Ohio penitentiary 16 years ago. after serving one year of i've years sentence for burglary, has been cap tured at Monroe, Mich.
 The direct primary law enacted at the late session of the California leg islature was held to be constitutional in an opinion rendered by the state supreme court.
 Dennis l.. Minton, aged 23, commit fed suicide at Knoxville, Tenn. It is said that friends of young woman o1 his neighborhood were about to force him to marry her. Minton shot him self in the head at the home of his aunt shortly before the wedding was to have taken place.
 An unidentified woman jumped into the Hudson river from window of Pennsylvania railroad ferryboat, wher the boat was in midstream, and was drowned She appeared tn he ahon1 40 years old and we'll dressed.
 Mayor James Brown of Nashville re ceived an anonymous letter threaten ing him with death because of the ac tivity he is taking in the enforcement of the prohibition law.
 The butchers of Santiago are or strike. and the market has been closed The police are now engaged in butch ering cattle, and trouble is feared.
 George Hecox, who has been miss ing from Lee, Mass, for 45 years, ap peared there last night and made him self known to his wife, who had dur ing his long absence married another man and had been widowed.