The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-19
NE EWs 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.

The body of James Hickey, 21 years old, was found in Broad road by coal miners going to work at the Lamagie mine near Johnson City, III. There were two stab wounds, one in the right side of the neck and one in the back of the left Robbery and murder are suspected.
 Sons of Confederates and Daughters of the Confederacy gave banquet for the gray-haired veterans of the lost cause at the courthouse at Water Valley, Miss. There were 23S seats for the veterans and their wives, wka marched into the hall to the soul-sth ring strains of Dixie"
 The Union county fair at Eldorado Kan, closed with more than 10000 persons in attendance. Former Gov. James K. Vardaman of Mississippi de- livered his lecture, "The Impending Crisis, to a vast crowd, which added much to the success of the fair.
 After having remained in Nashville for 22 years, the clerical offices of the supreme lodge, Knights of Pythias, will be transferred within the next few weeks to Minneapolis.
 Motion for a new trial was made by attorneys for the five men convicted at Omaha Thursday for holding up the Overland Limited train near that city May 22 last
 Three children of Henry Kissner, aged 3, and 5, were burned to death in a barn at Leigh, Kan. The child ren played with matches and set the building on fire.
 The postmastership of Taylorsville, Ind, is going begging. Gaston Fulp, the present postmaster, has resigned. place was to have been held, but An examination for applicants for the there were no candidates.
 William J. Bryan is to make a five months tour of the countries of South America this winter He will first go to Panama, and then to South Ameri- ca, remaining principally in Brazil.
 Boston high school girls Will be re- w obtain points for graduation. An order to that effect has just been issued to the Boston school committee.
 Active steps are being taken by the Texas national guard to defend the member now in the hands of the civil authorities charged with murder in the killing of citizen on the oc- casion of President Taft's visit to Dallas in October.
 When Mrs. Frank A. Slavin died at South Norwalk, Conn.,, a week ago, It was thought she did not have cent. The kitchen carpet was taken up and two layers of small bills, which al- most covered the entire floor, weer discovered. There were nearly a bushel of them when piled up, and they amounted to $3,400.
 Miss Mabel Rayburn, of Champaign, H., is in a serious condition with an injured back and internal hurts, and the face of her sister, Miss Ethel Rayburn, is fearfully cut and is dis figured for life as result of an au- tomobile accident.
 Dr. William w. Ames, 8S, promi- nent physician reputed to be the old est active member of the Elks in the United States, died at Fremont, O.
 The Standard Oil Go. has announced ten-point reduction in the price of refined oil, as follows: Refined, in cases, 10-45e; refined, in tanks, 455c; standard white, SO5c. The company also reduced the price of crude oil 5 points, to 1.4Sc.
 Mrs. Arthur Risley, living near Pe- tersburg, Ind, was burned to death, her dress catching fire from leaves which she was burning in her yard.
 Cash and bonds amounting to near ly $10,000 were stolen from the home of Schuyler Rainier, aged 72 years, by masked robber at Burlington, N. J.
 J. G. Scott, a stockman, accidentally shot and killed himself at California, Mo-, while getting ready to hunt. The load entered his right lung. He was 55 years old.
 Mrs. Hanna Johnson, 107 years old, died at Marshall, Ark. She went to Arkansas from Raleigh, N. C., sixty years ago, and was the mother of ten children, eight of whom survive her.
 Insane with jealousy when he found his sweetheart, Della Sands, with John Reising at Peoria, H., John Hudson bounced upon the latter and in the melee received two bullet wounds in the stomach from which he died.
 At meeting of the pastors of fifty Northern Ohio Baptist churches at Cleveland, resolutions were adopted barring professional ,vivalists from this field, so far as the Baptists are concerned.
 John J. Mac1 Jugald, cotton planter living twelev miles east of Little Rock, was shot from ambush while on his way home and instantly killed. MacDougald was a deputy constable and, with Constable J. N. Roberts, had gone to neighboring plantation to raid negro game, which they failed to locate.
 In spite of the reduction by the Standard Oil Go. of crude oil in Okla homa, developments have continued active. The record shows that nearly 500 wells were drilled in the state in the last two months.