The Green Forest tribune., 1909-02-05
.Ws 0F THE WEEK
TEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
t'RTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
\ A'ejsn Lands, Throushout the Ma etion and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

The officers of the United Hatters
 North America, 10000 of those
 mbers on strike, and the members the National Felt Hat Manufactur-
 Association having failed to make M NfDvertures to each other for re-
 mption of the trade, the governors M tNew Jersey, New York and Con- ~ cticut will meet in conference, .s.s .. obably in New York, in few days,
 discuss ways and means of set WMg the strike.
 's Henderson Cremeans, known to be
 esoldest man in West Virginia and
 obably the oldest in the United
 ates. died Friday near Point Pleas
 H. W. Va, aged 115 years. His fath- and mother are said to have been xa Ne first couple married west of the Suue Ridge mountains in Virginia Under an order entered in the fed al court in Chicago Friday William
 halmers, receiver for A. Booth &
 0mpany, the fish firm which recently
 ent into receivership, is given
 ower to examine any person who
 nows anything concerning the
 nances of the firm.
 gPresident-elect Taft Friday made ! Is eighth trip across the Isthmus and Nerywhere was greeted with marked Demonstrations of good will. With lis party MT Taft landed Friday Aorning at Colon and proceeded by pecial train to Culebra, where Fri fay night he was quartered at the esidence of Lieut. Col. Goethals, fhairman of the Panama canal com mission. His reception by the Pan una officials both at Colon and Cule- lra wts most cordial. Saturday Mir. Uaft will visit the site of Gatun dam. The first experiments in Berlin with flying machine were witnessed Thursday when Armand Seipfol, C. |EFench aviator, began a series of trials pn Temple field. More than 50,000 per the expectations of the people were disappointed, for the machine failed fly.
 Statistics covering the preseilt sen- -eral homeward movement of Japanese from this country have just been re- ceived by Imperial Japanese Consul Y. Numano, stationed at Portland, Ore. The compilations cover the first ten months of 1908 and indicate in brief that for every Japanese that is coming to the United States three are return ing home.
 In accepting the United States sen atorship from Kansas, formally voted to him by the legislature, Senator Jo- seph L. Bristow assaiied the methods used by E. II. Hartman and his asso- ciates in the Alton cas as criminal and declared the men guilty of such high-handed operations should face Imprisonment for their crimes % ce-President Fairbanks Wednes- day received a telegram from Charles S. Warren. the Montana messenger charged with the duty of bringing the electoral vote of that state to Wash ington. saying his failure to arrive within the period allotted by law was sduc to the fact that he had broken shis arm.
 I Rear Admiral Evans, in lecture at Canton, O., Wednesday night, de clared for changes in the navy We need better navy more efficient navy he said At the station the admiral was met by war veterans of the city. who escorted him to the Me Kinley monument.
 The Oklahoma state prison board has announced that plans have been completed to transfer all Oklahoma prisoners to Oklahoma within a week after date of the expiration of the contract with the state of Kansas.
 Loose methods in handling the rich est zinc-ore mines in the world, occu- pied to a large degree with pure self ishness, are given by s. c. Edgar or St Louis as the reason why the zinc miners of the Joplin, Mo-, district are asking for an increased duty on zinc ore.
 One of the most important decisions by the interstate commerce commis- sion for many months was handed down Monday by that body in order ing material reduction of railroad rates in the cases of the Beatrice Creamery company ct al. against the Illinois Central and other railroads and the Blue Valley Creamery com, popy otn oooirCt tha Michioan Gen. tral railroad company and other roads
 EX-State Treasurer Frank P Glazier of Michigan, whose failure in Decem- Der. 1907, resulted in the closing of the Chelsea Saving bank, of which Glazier was head and which had on deposit about SGS5,000 of state funds guilty of misappropriating state funds
 Three houses at Fl PiZmo, Cal, were carried away and swept into the Pacific ocean Tuesday when Price creek overflowed and swept through the town. The Santa Marie river has changed it's course, threatening the city of Santa Maria.
 Francis B. Runder, former cashier of the St. Louis postoffice, pleaded guilty in the United States court Mon day to one of the counts in a $7,00t embezzlement charge and was sen tcnced by Judge Riner to spend si, pay $7,10o fine.