The Green Forest tribune., 1909-10-29

Federal aid for the construction of good roads throughout the country | and indorsement of the present sys- | tenn of forest protection were the bur den of reports presented by two com | mittees to the convention of the Car | riage Builders National association in Washington.
 l Armed with certificate of mar | riage that she says never took place, | Miss Alice O. Anderson, 19 years old, | of Derry, Pa., is in St. Louis on the | trail of Charles A. Shanefelt of Bra denville, Pa, who, she says, disap- peared after the justice had come to perform the ceremony.
 The Presbyterian and Hahnemann | hospitals of New York will each be about $90O,O00 richer by the will of | Mitchell Valentine, a money lender of | Westchester village, who died at the age of S5 years, leaving an estate worth $2,O0O,000. One of the Italian military dirigible | balloons went from Bacciano to Rome, | a distance of 19 miles, in 30 minutes | The dirigible executed evolutions over | the city, and passing over the gardens of the Vatican, was seen by the Pope. The pontiff stopped to watch and ad- mire the evolutions
 The Bank of Minocqua, Dis, was | robbed by four masked men. The rob- bers blew open the vaults and escaped | with several thousand dollars. A posse has the robbers surrounded in | the woods between Hazelhurst and Minocqua.
 Matt" Henson, the negro who ac- companied Commander Peary on his | polar dash. was the guest of honor at | dinner given by the leaders of New York City's negro population. A heavy | gold watch and chain with miniature gold icebergs linked together were presented to Henson.
 The Nippon bank of Sacramento, Cal, voluntarily closed it's doors and notified State Bank Commissioner An derson of it's suspension. This is the second Japanese bank in that city to close within a week.
 The explosion of boiler in the gov ernment Indian school at Rapid City, Mich., resulted in the death of Adolph Russell, pupil from the Pine Ridge reservation, and the probable fatal in juries of Ronald Whitfeather, another student.
 For the first time in California, a woman was sworn in to serve as a juror, when Mrs. Johanna Engelman, of Santa Monica, took her place in the jury box of department of the superior court of Los Angeles county. Use of the words "so help me God" at the end of oaths may be prohibited in the courts of the District of Colum- bia, if congress passes law which is now being drafted by the commission CTS of the District of Columbia. Howard A. Robinson, of Memphis, Tenn, cousin of Lamar A. Harris, the Los Angeles attorney who commit ted suicide after robbing the Erskine bank at Highland Park, H., arrived in Chicago and identified the body positively as that of his cousin.
 Uncle Sam grew financially fat off industrious inventors last year, the records showing that revenues in fees from this source were sufficient to pay $1,SS7,443 in expenses for run ing the United States patent office and leave a surplus of $SS,476.
 The fourth annual convention of the
 
 opened in Chicago. Five hundred del egates from all parts of the country have arrived Gov. Deneen welcomed the delegates at the opening of the convention.
 Col. J. c. s. Blackburn, of Kentucky, head of the department of civil ad- ministration in the Panama canal zone, is in New York. Colonel Black burn denied that he contemplated re- signing as governor of the canal zone
 Deer are so plentiful in Franklin county, a., that farmers in the noun tains are losing money by their depredations. Deers destroyed 400 head of cabbage in one field
 Jack Johnson vindicated his right to the heavyweight championship ti- tie by knocking out Stanley Ketchel in twelve rounds of twenty-round fight at San Francisco.
 A new Jack the Ripper" has ap- peared in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has already murdered three girls
 At Stuttgart, Ark, Dr. A. D. Bum has threshed an average of more than 1141a bushels of Japan rice on 19 acres, and S1 bushels of Honduras rice to the acre on 21 acres.
 The head of l.. w. Smith, one of the most enthusiastic baseball fans in Atlanta, Ga, is completely bare of hair as result of betting that the Pittsburg team would win the worlds series in five games.
 A pure white quail was killed by three boys near Coshocton, Ohio. It was with covy of ordinary quail.
 Harry Hall, Il, negro, opened the door of George Antilles chicken house in the north part of Wellington, Kas., at o'clock in the morning. A shot gun arranged to be fired when the door was opened blew load of shot into the boys shoulder.
 The Kansas state board of railroad commissioners have demanded of the Pullman company that the same rates be granted in Kansas as have been given Oklahoma.
 X silver medal in recognition of gallant service has been awarded by the treasury department to F. M.