The Green Forest tribune., 1909-02-19
NEWS IF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma ton and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

Earnest efforts are being made by the administration to secure the ap- propriation of s20,000 for the expenses of commission to go to Liberia to make recommendations as to what specific action on the part of the gov ernment is desirable that will most aptly render effective relief to that republic under the present critical cir cumstances.
 Now that the acute phases of the anti-Japanese agitation on the Paclnc Coast have been quieted. a more defi- nite settlement of the points at issue between the United States and Japan probably will be reached by diplo- matjc interchanges.
 William L. Milne, the 15,0o0-a-year lace salesman of New York, whom Mrs. Jane Parks Caldwell, the trial marriage beauty of Eminence. Ky, brought into public view a month ago as her affinity IS dead, mostly from worry at his home in the little Jersey suburb of Haworth.
 Very much the same review program is expected to be followed at Hampton Roads when the president and Secre- tary Newherry greet the battleshlp feet on it's return cruise as when the vessels left that place more than year ago.
 1t is said by leaders of union laDor that the charges made by Postmaster General Meyer against Frank L. hos- CTS, president of the United Assoela- tion of Post Office Clerks; Williaa Kelley. president of the National As sociation of Letter Carriers, and E. Il. Roberts of Washington, representing the railway mail clerks, of attempting to influence legislation in their own interest and in the interest Of the asso- citations they represent, is but the be- ginning of a movement to take the en- tire postal service from the ranks of unop labor.
 Becoming suddenly insane on Great Western passenger tram near ? Berwick. Ia, Martin Oberman of Chl- cago drew a large knife and slashed at all within reach. Before he had been beaten sensless by trainmen and passengers he stabbed three men.
 James H. Ceiford, his daughter. Mrs. .Jarnes Collier. and James Collier, prominent people of Pocahontas, Ark, have had a hearing before Commls- sioner Parse at that place, charged with peonage F. H. White and Della, his wife. who are midgets. and Homer White of Pocahontas, their father, claim they have been leased against their will to Ceiford and Collier for exhibition purposes.
 tax on Merry Widows is being urged by Senator Shirley Gilliland ln a bill he is supporting before the pres ent Iowa general assembly. Mr. Gllh- land has a supreme contempt TOT the woman he describes as she with hat so broad she can not squeeze Into telephone booth without going sioe- ways and who chucks under the chin some rich old man ill his dotage In order ;o become his surviving spouse The Wright brothers have accepted an invitation to so to London at the end of March, when they will be gwen the gold medal of the Aeronauticai ! Society Of Great Britain.
 Railroad companies must show that < cbanees in rates or rules and regu- lations proposed by them the Just anu reasonable. before being able to put such changes in effect, if the Dill which has been introduced by Repre- 8 sentative Needham of California IS # enacted into law.
 M Any idea that he was contemplat- inc retirement from active participa- tiop in the management of the rali- N road and other properties ln wnlch he is interested, was secuted py % George J. Gould To reporters who ' asked him about report to that ef- M fec. Mir. Gould said that however much he might desire to get out or X business. he could not think of do- Ming so.
 sM Charles A. Strong, son-in-law or % John D. Rockefeller, was attacked ana |Sbitten on the face by an insane pas sEsenger on the North German Lloyd ,galiner Barbarossa on the last trip to ss5serNew York.
 RM According to new figures compiled E2gthe railroads operating in the South 7awest have increased their rates from Ssfour to 10 per cent since August $, lEx2a sos. when the Hepburn law became '$e effectfye.
 S@K William Jennings Bryan denies em' the report that he was ln- s3ured in an auto accident ill Florida. s2# Four insane criminals armed with Ek knivcs made from springs taken from 63fheir shoes, escaped from the state Hospital at Columbus, O. sS.M Thomas Oliver, inventor of the Oli- Y Fer typewriter, died suddenly of heart Bsease in Chicago. MT. Oliver, with
 fs wife, was at railway station $ feady 10 start for Pine Bluff, Ark, \ When he collapsed. He was going to eFjne Bluff to perfect machine which #NhR said would pick cotton. TsE. II is declared in Rome that the
 merican Red Cioss society has x1aced S250,000 at the, disposal of N0heen Helene for the establishme at n :.n orphanage for the care of tue &kildren left homeless by the Italian
 4rthQuake.