The Green Forest tribune., 1909-05-07

GllDefJ U. HreSJOn, preSlu9nL or the Interstate Coal & Coke company shot and killed himself Sunday in the bath room of his home at Columbus, Ohio.
 Cornelius Fellows, founder and the president of the National Horse Show association, died Friday, aged G9. It was largely due to his efforts that the annual horse shows held in Madison Square Garden attained their popu- larity
 H. Ota, councillor in the department of agriculture and commerce for the Japanese government, has been ap- pointed commissioner general to the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition and will come to Seattle imediately to take charge of the Japanese exhibits.
 Fire caused by crossed wires Thurs day night destroyed the plant of the Piqua (O) Home Telephone company. A score of operators seated at the switchboards when the ire broke out had narrow escapes, the entire build ing being in flames a minute or so after it was discovered.
 Senator Shoot Thursday received assurances from the officials of the department of justice that there would be an investigation of the charge of discriminating by the Hartman rail roads which were recently made by the merchants of Salt Lake and other cities in Utah.
 At least two persons were burned to death and many severely injured in a fire which threatened to destroy six-story tenement in New York. The fire, starting on the third floor, worked up to the roof and imprisoned many families
 When Margaret Tarney, beautiful 16-year-old girl, saw Des Moines off cers arrest Charles A. Morgan, mar ried man to whom she wrote burning love letters, she swallowed an ounce of laudanum She was taken to hos pital, where her condition is preca- rious.
 Charles K. Shu, probably the frs. Chinaman to be made justice of the peace in this country was Wednesday invested with that authority by the cO11OuWGdllH Ol MdSSdcltuoSltS. eoii' is native of Seattle, Wash.
 New York is to have the highest hotel in the world, is plans filed with the bureau of building are carried out. They call for thirty-one story struc- ure 376 feet high.
 The Rev. Edward Everett Hale, aged chaplain of the United States senate, was taken ill on his way from Wash ington to Boston Wednesday, and IS now confined to his home.
 Nat Goodwin has purchased the Her vey 60-acre orange grove near Fuller ton, Cal, paying for it $G4,000. The ranch is considered one of the most attractive in that section.
 The annual edition of the "QuaX, Drake University's student publica- tion, was confscated by the faculty and it's editors threatened with possl- bIe expulsion unless two objectionable cartoons were withdrawn.
 The Florida house of representa- tives Tuesday adopted resolution en- dorsing the democracy of the match less and peerless leader of the Demo- cratic party William Jennings Bryan.
 Former Congressman John J. Lentz of Ohio, Tuesday filed a petition Ill bankruptcy in the United States court scheduling liabilities of $S7,0S2.41, of which s19,300 is secured and assets of $20,645.
 J. R. Capablanca, the Cuban cham pion after fifty-two moves scored ms second victory Tuesday night agaihst Frank J. Marshall, in the fifth game or the chess match at the Manhattan club at New York.
 On account of the funeral of Maurice Powers, a former member of the Pnll' adelphia Athletics, the game between Washington and Philadelphia Amerl- can Leagues scheduled for Thursday at Washington will be postponed.
 Advices received Tuesday from Sydney Australia, state that Jack London, the American author who started on a tour of the South Sea Islands many months ago in the sloop Shark has sold the boat at that port and gone to South America
 Earth and snow slides which have continued intermittently for the past sixteen hours at point on the Great Northern. a mile east of Nyack, Mont, have completely blocked traffic and dozen trains, including four passen- ger trains, are tied up on either slde. Adele Boas, the 13-year-old daugh- ter of Arthur E. Boas, is at home with her parents, the mystery of her dlsap- nearance having been dispelled ana the case resolves itself into nothing more than the escapade Of chllo with a sudden desire to see the worlo. According to dispatch received Monday night former Governor Low rev. of Mississippi, who is ill in New Orleans, has suffered relapse and it is not believed he can survive for many hours.
 An unidentified wire tapper was caught sending results out of the arand stand at Lexington, Ky. De- tectives stripped him of a pocket key and wires running down his trousers legs to heel plates connected With wires through nails on which he stood. He was put off the grounds. Andrew Carnegie has just given s75 900 to increase the facilities and extend the Carnegie medical library at New York University The labor atory was established by MT. Car negie twenty-five years ago. The new gift was accepted.
 Owing to the long list of abuses ,.1. l.r,.o nrnnrn 1n llnlpr the nrac-