The Green Forest tribune., 1909-08-20

A merger of the Riverside Cotton mills and the Dan River Power and Manufacturing company, two of the largest cotton mill corporations in the south, has been effected. The name of the new company will be the River side and Dan River Cotton mills, which will have paid in capital of $2,000,. 900 in addition to $1,000,000 surplus
 Samuel R. Van Sant, of Minnesota, was elected commander-in-chie of the Grand Army of the Republic.
 Two gend 'armes and two robbers were killed and gend arme captain and lieutenant and robber were wounded during a fight between the gend' 'armes and robbers who were en- deavoring to loot the Baranovitch postoffice.
 The large morocco manufacturing plant of A. B. Hoffman & Son, incor- porated, West Lynn, Mass, burned, with a loss of nearly $250,000. The factory was closely surrounded by tenement houses, many of which burned. score of families were made homeless.
 Mrs Annie Targosky, charged with highway robbery, committed suicide in the jail at Garfield, N. J., by hang ing. Friends believe she was inno- cent of the charge against her, and that terror caused by imprisonment drove her to suicide.
 Twenty-one skeletons were un- eartheded near Piedmont, Tex, in an excavation made by the Houston 6 Texas Central railroad.
 The Bankers Deposit Surety com- pany, an organization formed to in sure deposits of Kansas banks, was denied permission to do business in the state by the state superintendent of insurance, Charles w. Barnes.
 L. c. Miege, an assistant professor of French at the University of Kan sas is in jail, charged by the federal authorities with misuse of the mails. He is charged with advertising a fake teachers agency in Mexican news papers, saying he could secure posi- tions for teachers of Spanish in the United States and requiring a pay ment of $5 as a pledge of good faith.
 During the progress of ball game between Valentine and Norfolk Neb, terrific wind storm carried off the roof of the grand stand, near which players and spectators had taken ref uge. Nearly a dozen suffered inju ries.
 The United States government seized a carload of flour at Musca- tine, Ia., under the charge of viola tion of the pure food and drug act because the flour was bleached. This is to be test case.
 Mrs. May Spindle, wife of H. T. Spindle, prominent Louisville (Ky0 lawyer, shot and killed herself in a bedroom of her home while breeding her daughter.
 The four-story building of the T. s. Bagley Tobacco company, at Detroit wa sdamaged by fire to the extent of s100,O0O.
 Murray Curran, son of Chief of Po-
 
 Tenn, died from the effects of fall by which his skull was fractured.
 Captain w. H. Wood, aged 63 years, and familiar figure on the hurricane decks of river steamboats all the way from Pittsburg to New Orleans, fell from a barge into the Ohio river and was drowned.
 Glowing reports have been received of the discovery in the Abercorn dis trict of British Central Africa of gold deposits similar to the Rand forma- tion, which are said to extend over an area of six miles.
 disastrous fire swept through the business section of Monticello, the county seat of Sullivan county, N. Y., destroying fifty or more stores, the postoffice, a bank, the Palatine and Mansion hotels and driving hundreds
 Baron Takahira, Japanese ambassa- dor, accompanied by Madame Taka- hira and their daughter, and by Isa- buro Yoshida, the third secretary of the embassy, left Washington for Seattle, when, on August IT, they are to sail for Japan.
 Without having made formal de- mands upon the company, nearly thousand freight handlers in the sheds of the Canadian Pacific railway walked out.
 Alfred Kinard, for years known as an outlaw, is seriously wounded at the Harrisburg (Pa.) hospital, follow ing fight in small mountain settle ment north of that city, where he attempted to rob the store of Lewis Myers.
 Lieut.. Farrell English was fatally injured and seven other Cleveland firemen were l>urt when the roof of the Ohio Sash and Door Co.,, Merwin street and Columbus road, collapsed during fire The loss is estimated at $75,000.
 Two men were killed by live wire in fire in lumber yards between St. Paul and Minneapolis. The fire de- struyed tine yards of tine St. CrUix, the Transfer and the H. B. Wait lumber companies. The total loss is $75.000.
 The striking employees of the Pressed Steel Car Go. at McKees Rocks, Pa, won the first round in the legal battle when Judge James R. Mcfarland granted rule on the Pressed Steel Car Go. to show cause on or before August IS why arbitrat- ors should not be appointed.