The Green Forest tribune., 1909-10-08

onlll, ODtutu III lS Ol d IuIllDGI Ol SIIlh- CTS pickets and policemen interfered, firing at the officers All the bullets went wild.
 Fire wiped out the lumber yard of sweeping an area of thirteen acres bare. This is the second fire in two weeks. The loss will reach nearly million dollars The total quantity of lumber was 75.000,0O0 feet
 The supreme court of Georgia re- fused a new trial to Clifford M. Orr, former cashier and director of the Ex- change bank, of Macon, who was con victed in March, 1908, of embezlement and sentenced to serve seven years in the penitentiary.
 The aeroplane and balloon carnival scheduled in the Fort Indianapolis speedway on October IA, 15 and 16, has been called off, according to an an nouncement Friday by Director F. A. Moross. Failure of the speedway management to reach suitable terms with the aviators, particularly Glenn H. Curtiss, is given as the principal reason for the action.
 With view to carrying out Post master General Hitchcocks policy of retrenehment and economy in the postoffice department, Alexander Grant, superintendent of the railway mail service, directed the division SUI perintendents of the mail service to meet him in Washington on October II for conference.
 John H. Morrow, veteran Southern Pacific engineer, forced his way into his wife's home at Oakland, Cal, and killed her. He shot at his sister-in- laws baby, which his wife had been holding, and then inflicted probably a fatal wound upon himself Mr. Mor- row had been estranged from his wife.
 The American Red Cross society, through the state department, sent an additional $2000 to the flood sufferers in the vicinity of Monterey Mexico, making a total contributed to date of $7,000, and one thousand blankets.
 Fishing schooner Caldwell H. Colt, of Pensacola, Fla, has been seized by a Mexican gunboat off Progreso and her crew of eight men thrown into prison.
 On the steps to the Hall of Fame at New York university an unknown man shot himself in the head The body was removed to the morgue.
 Dr. Frederick A. Cooks claim to be the discoverer of the north pole wss indorsed by the American Association of Orifieal Surgeons in convention in Chicago.
 Unprecedented cold weather in the valley in the vicinity of Mexico City has destroyed the corn crops. It is estimated that the loss will reach $20,000,000. The thermometer We'd nesday morning registered degrees below the freiezing point
 A government balloon sent up by the weather bureau from Bluemont, Va, landed at Rockport, Mo. A de- vice for recording the temperature and the height attained was in the basket of the balloon. It was sent back to Bluemont.
 By mutual agreement between coun- sel for defense and prosecution, the preliminary hearing of Rev. Wallace M. Stuckey of Williamsburg, Kas., who was taken to Ottawa from Wau- kegan, H., charged with the abduc- ton of Lorena Sutherland, 16 years old, vas continued until October g. While near the finish in the 600-yard race. at an athletic meet in Brooklyn, Michael McCaffrey broke his right leg just above the knee It is believed that McCaffrey, who was in third po- sition at the time, crossed his legs while turning into the stretch and thus cracked the bone.
 By a decision handed down in the district court, Sweetwater, Tex, will retain the permanent headquarters and shops of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railroad, in Texas. Sweet water obtained temporary injunction restraining the removal of the offices to San Antonio.
 The Rev. Henry F. Xavier. known in Yonkers. N. Y., as the strenuous clergyman" expressed from the pulpit in St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church his intention to publicly chastise cv cry couple in his parish whom he finds spooning in secluded streets.
 G. w. Bruce, superintendent of the state school for the blind, at Fort Gib son, Okla, has requested Governor Haskell to have the census enumera tors make a separate list of the blind children of the state, that they may be induced to attend school. Bruce believes there are 300 blind children in the state, and of that number only fifty-seven have been enrolled in the | school
 Judge A. H. Huston, of the Logar county district court, declined to ac cept the appointment to be United States district attorney of the West ern district of Oklahoma to succeed John Embrie, resigned.
 The report is published in Honolulu | that President Taft may visit the Hawaiian Islands and that he will gc there on the cruiser St. Louis. | | does not appear that there is any foundation for the report The famous organization of politi | clans which was brought together il | Cincinnati soon after Theodore Roose welt became president and which ha'
 been known as the Roosevelt Repub
 lican club has been practically dis banded.
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