The Green Forest tribune., 1909-04-30
NEWS IF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation, and Particularly
 The Great Southwest.


 Nathan Pratt Towne, eX-chief en- gineer of the Cramp Shipbuilding Co.,. bnd formerly an engineer in the Unit ed States navy, died at his home in Philadelphia Friday.
 The suit in Paris brought by Rich brd Klegin, the pugilisitic manager, hgainst Sam McVey, the negro heavy weight, for $4,00O for breach of con tract, was Friday thrown out of court. Judge Foster in the United States court Friday dismissed the applica- lion for writ of habeas corpus in the case of Louis F. Allardt, who, it Is claimed, defrauded merchants of Peoria, H., out of about S39,000.
 There will be 100 days of racing in Hot Springs, Ark, each year if bill pffered in the legislature Friday is passed. Following a series of confer bnces between the Hot Springs dele gates and local business men, the bill Introduced several weeks ago by Senator Wadley has been amended.
 Dr. N. Knepper, a physician of Col fins. Ia.. was shot in the breast just Rbove the heart by his son Friday. The doctor was reprimanding the boy, and the latter became enraged and fired at his father.
 Cole Younger, ex-bandit and for merly member of the Jesse James Fang of bank and train robbers, made his debut at Tulsa, Okla, Friday on the chautauqua lecture platform. He kaescribed his lecture, which was read from manuscript, as setting forth the essons that might be drawn from hls bast life"
 Asa, son of Whoa, was Thursday Elected chief of the Apache Indians to .succeed Geronimo, the noted war rior. who died last February. The Election will be submitted to the war department for approval.
 Robbers, using a heavy charge of 1ffoglvcerin, wrecked the postofhce safe at Prairie City, Ia., early Thurs >y and made good their escape with s5c0 in stamps and s400 in money.
 "A wireless telegraph station has been established on the roof Of the Auditorium Annex hotel in Chicago. This is the first hotel in the west to Be so equipped. The station Will be used for establishing communication with the boats on the great lakes and with stations that will be established na st. Louis, Detroit and other cities. |iury. He is charged with embezzle- ment of funds from the railroad com pany while acting as its attorney. HIS bond for appearance was fixed at k20.0oo.
 President Taft Thursday night at kended a regular session of Temple Masonic lodge of Washington. There |was large attendance and the presl- .dent. who was made a Mason "at sightn in Cincinnati in February, saw the third degree worked upon several candidates.
 sA breach was made Thursday in the rreat ice jam which for ten days has held the lower Niagara ill its grlp and caused damage estimated at a fnillion dollars. At o'clock the blast from 150 pounds of dynamite sent a tinyI rivulet trickling through the east side of the jam.
 John Mitchell former president oi |the United Mine Workers Of Amerlca spoke Tuesday before the Yale dlvln |ity school on the relation or the working man to the church.
 To afford all protection possible to American citizens and their interests in Turkey the administration has oe |cided to dispatch special cruiser |souadron to that country.
 If Jack Johnson, the heavywelgh' pugilistic champion of the World' ae feats Stanley Ketchell in their fgh' )ctober 10, he will be matched Wltn IaTnes I. Corbett, the former neaVy Weieht title holder, for battle at San Francisco on Thanksgiving day
 Chief Inspector Cochran or the Den yer postoffice announced WednesdaS |that a mail pouch containing 29 regis tered packages had been lost rom |a Union Pacific train between Green |HIxer and Bryan, Wyo., Sunday night s1frn. Minnie Crosby confessed Thurs IF before the coroners jury at Hat fiS1bfirg, Miss, that she pulled the f4I&3&r which sent the contents or Q dfS13Yiie- -barreled shotgun into the heao of TYR. McShane, whose decomposeo l,oflv was found in a secluded spot near the Bouis street bridge in Lea1 river swamp.
 x Gox. Haskell said Tuesday night o fayard would be offered for lnfor matloa leading to the conviction ol thA 1oaders of the Ada mob, which ly1G6&d West, Miller, Allen and Bur r6IlS Monday
 Ihcansed because his stepmothel k&d f8ft him at home near Opelousas n charge of his young stepbroth GRn &6d sisters for the day, Tom God 1<oY; ~ 12-year-old boy, fed the young
 6& his charges to the hogs, anc
 12gWith an ax, inflicted what prob
 till prove fatal wounds on tht
 $children.
 business section of Cordell
 was destroyed by fire earl.
 ". Mrs. James Caston, wife oi
 Aurant proprietor, was fatally
 by jumping from a second
 6indow. Loss $60.000.