The Green Forest tribune., 1909-06-18
NE WS 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 firm of R. NJ. Smith & Co.,, lum- Der dalers, with large holdings in West Virginia, Indiana and Louisiana, was adiudged a bankrupt by Federal Judge Dayton at Parkersburg w. Va, on voluntary petition.
 Joseph Cullen Root of Omaha, sov- ereign commanded of the w. O. w., said that special committee would report favorably on the proposal to erect a $750,000 building from 12 to 15 stories high at Omaha.
 Two $50 gold pieces from the United States mint at Philadelphia in 1871 were sold at the Numismatic club to William H. Woodin of New York for S1O,O0O each, the highest price ever paid for an American coin.
 That there is to be no let-up in the investigation of the federal authorities into the affairs of F. Augustus He1nze, the former copper king, is attested by a new batch of grand jury subponenas that have been issued.
 Gideon Taber Stewart, for sixty years prominent in the country'S pro- hibition movement and in 1875 that party's candidate for vice president, died at his home in Pasadena, Cal, at the age of S5. He practiced law ln Ohio and during the war edited papers in Toledo, Norwalk and Dubu- que, Iowa.
 President Castro, of Venezuela and his wife are living quietly ill vllla near sanstander, Spain. There is no evidence that he is planning to assist financially rumored filibusterlng eX- petition.
 Henry c. Ide, the newly appointed American minister to Spain, presented his credentials to King Alfonso. lie drove in state to the palace, where the king received him surrounded by his minister's The ceremony was brilliant.
 To investigate what opportunities are open to American finance ln de- veloping China, several of the proml- nent financial houses and banking in stitutions of the United States shortly will send an agent to the orient.
 Joseph Floria, an Italian, was ar rested in Albany, N. Y., after he had called at the residence of Bishop I. M A. Burke of the Catholic diocese, where he is alleged to have made d threat that he would shoot the bishop. Rishop Burke was in Troy at the tune.
 The minister of French colonies has received advices from Morocco that m June a French detachment re- nulsed an attack by band Of adher- ents of the rebel chief Maelalnln on tho outskirts of Moudzerid. The en- emv lost ten men killed, while the French casualties numbered three.
 The Berlin Tageblatt's Aleppo cor resnondent states that the Turkish au- thorities last week executed twelve o1 the ringleaders, including six Arme- nians concerned in the Adana mas sacres.
 Secretary Dickinson received rom Gen Marshall. chief of engineers, re- ports of two boards of engineers Whlch investigated the project for a deep waterway from St. Louis to the Gull of Mexico. In accordance With lne desire of several members of congress- +be rerorts will be forwarded to that hodv at once. They will not be made public until submitted.
 On her first visit to New 1ork ana her first ride in an elevator, MISS Lena Schoonmaker, 19 years old, was crushed to death Monday afternoon when her head was caught between the floor of the elevator and the slAsh floor of the Flat Iron building.
 Murad Bey. editor and proprietor or Mizan at Constantinople, has been sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor for participation ln the revolutionary movement of April Is.
 Representative Rodenberg tlll) lh- +roduced a resolution providing TOT an appropriation of $30OO00 for part ,cipation by the United States Ill the Brussels exposition.
 Disasrrous floods continue among inc Rocky Mountains and trafhc Is completely tied up at some places on inc main line of the Canadian Paclnc.
 Rev. Aaron S. Watkins, of Ada, o. ,x 1oo9 candidate for vice president on the Prohibition ticket, has accepted inc office of president of Asbury col 1eqe at Whitmore, Ky.
 Forest fires which swept over more +ban 100 square miles in western N1.u Rrunswick last week are prac- t;c.,,v under control It is estimated square miles of excellent tinoher land have been fire swept
 Members of the Modoc and Klamath 1rdian tribes have filed complaint with the secretary of the interior agent here against H. c. Wilson, h. dian agent in Klamath reservation, alleging neglect in the education or their children and naming other al- legged offenses for which they ask his removal.
 The jury in the case of Oscar 1acobs on trial for the murder of Elba poberts. at Sturgis, s. D., last Jan nary returned a verdict of guilty, fix ing the punishment at life imprison- ment.