The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-12
NEWS IF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLl
 TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST. SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands Through. out the Nation, and Particularly
 the Great Southwest.

The Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies steamship line, comprising the bulk Of the great coastwise shipping trust organized by Charles w. Morse which he hoped would be the crowning work of his career, is likely to be sold, it is learned to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Go.
 Ten million dollars is the sum Mrs. John Jacob Astor is expected to re- ceive in lieu of the alimony for which she has not applied, when she gets a divorce from her husband The de- cree of an absolute divorce in favor of Mrs. Astor is expected to be hand ed down this week.
 Dr. William " Ames, SS, a promi- est active member of the Elks in the United States, died at Fremont, o. The Standard Oil Co., has announced a ten-point reduction in the price of refined oil, as follows: Refined, in cases, 10-45c; refined, in tanks, 4.55c; standard white, S.05c. The company also reduced the price of crude oil 5 points, to 1.48c.
 Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretary of state, telegraphed to Abyssinia h the pope's name to in sure the safety of the missionaries and converts in the event of King Menelik's death. The pope is extreme 1y anxious about them.
 Mrs. Arthur Risley. living near Pe- tarchl1rO Ind Woc h11rppd tO dpath her dress catching fire from leaves which she was burning in her yard. Cash and bonds amounting to near ly $10,000 were stolen from the home of Schuyler Rainier, aged 72 years, by masked robber at Burlington, N. J. J. G. Scott, stockman, accidentally E shot and killed himself at California, Mo, while getting ready to hunt. The lGNd entered his right lung. He was 5@ years old.
 Mrs Hanna Johnson, 107 years old, died at Marshall, Ark. She went to Arkansas from Raleigh, N. C., sixty years ago, and was the mother of ten children, eight of whom survive her.. The United States Rubber com | pany's boot mill at Millville, Mass, will be shut down next week indef1- nitely to curtail production. Eight hundred hands will be thrown out of work.
 Returning home from an ali-day ex- cursion at Spearfish, s. D., Miss Ethel Hogan, 19, was instantly killed and her cousin and aunt, Edna and Edith Sedgwick, were injured in wreck on the Burlington, five miles south of Deadwood, when the rear trucks of the baggage car, in which the women were riding, left the rails. Before the rain could be stopped the car struck n empty on siding and lurched over nto the creek. Miss Logan was brown through the open door, strik- hg on her head and breaking her eek.
 After being out few minutes bry at Marshall Mo- acquitted John Gofero of the charge of killing J. Spangler.
 Mayor Murphy of Oregon, Mo, pro- (te judge of Holt county, Mo, is dead his home in Oregon.
 Mrs. Clara E. Sater, widow of Mil D Sater, Cincinnati lawyer, who ed October IS, was found dead in
 room Mrs. Sater had written e saying today was her wedding hiversary and she could not live
 longer.
 The sight of William Holloway of lux City, Iowa. was suddenly re- red to him following brief spell weeping. Some time ago MT. Hol- ay became blind while reading Tspaper Specialists held out little
 Sfpr the aged man.
 wo masked highwaymen held up
 Cariboo stage at 150-Mile House Cariboo, B C., and stole several
 Is of registered mail. It is be- bd they obtained $4,000 to $5,00O.
 s. Thomas Spencer of Webb City,
 gave up her life in an effort to
 her son, Carl Postlewaite, a con-
 d forger, pardoned by Governor is ey. The boy arrived home in
 to gratify the wish of the mother
 |e her son before she died.
 B. Alpha Mack, St. Louis wid-
 s preparing to go to Asheville,
 to take charge of an estate val
 It between $40,000 and $5O,0o0,
 has been left to her by John
 hgs, 43, an old sweetheart whom
 hd refused ert Lee Thomas, an influential n ln, was stabbed and seriously at New York in 8 quarrel with a 's.. Schilling, jockey, in the pad.,1 ) At the Sheepshead Bay race the death of Davie sAyyes near 3 rsss rSsss b, O., it developed that he and ] yo,..ss ther, Jasper Ayres, of Rbchesss z 'ss'is isa whom he fought side by side a.r snrl Ehe civil war, cache drew pen SSnn ,Sain pr injuries received on the 'h ey, one of them, however, al-
 ifs injuries to be due to sun
 ld the other to frozen feet.
 Tomkins, of Charlotte. IN. C., = recommended by the Ma
 Association of Manufacturers U the American Cotton Manu' - association as United
 mister to China.