The Green Forest tribune., 1909-07-23
Mrs. Susan Pierce Stephens, known

Mrs. Susan Pierce Stephens, known to the literary world as Sheppard Stephens" a well-known writer, daughter of Bishop Henry Niles Pierce, of the Episcopal diocese of Arkansas, died here at Little Rock, Ark.
 Facing the certainty that at least a portion of the dispatchers of the road will desert their keys, officers of the National Railways of Mexico de- clare that they have the strike broken before it has begun. A special cable dispatch from Paris says it reported there that the Duch- ess de Chaulnes, formerly Miss Theo- dora Shonts, is engaged to marry Prince Joachim Murat, one of the wealthiest of the French noblemen. The convention of the National Live Stock Exchange, comprising IA of the leading live stock markets of the country, was opened at Denver in the stock yards pavilion by an address by President T. s. Greaves of Indian apolis.
 Accompanied by an uncle, Mrs. Cora Miller, wife of Dr. w. R. Miller, now being held in the Watseka Qii.) jail on charge of murdering Banker Sayler of Crescent City, H., left Blairsville, Pa, for Watseka. She refused to discuss her plans other than to say that she intended to look after private interests concerning her self and husband
 Mrs. William Oliphant of West Branch la, who gave her four chil- dren poison, causing the death of the youngest, and then attempted suicide, was arrested for murder She admits her guilt.
 Detroit and Washington played what | is believed to be a record game for consecutive scoreless innings in major league contest, the game being | called at the end of the eighteenth | inning, to o.
 United States Ambassador to Mex leo David E. Thompson admitted that he had lost $13,000 through the al legged dishonesty of one of his private secretaries.
 l A passenger train on the Chicago, | Kalamazoo & Saginaw railway col lided head on with freight one-half mile north of Schultz Station, Mich. Engineer Meade and Fireman Chan dler, of the passenger train were killed, and Engineer Kruz and Fire man Millbeck of the freight, were probably fatally injured
 The superior court, in session at Philadelphia, affirmed the decision of | the lower court in the capitol graft cases. It is probable the convicted men will carry their cases to the su- preme court.
 i Reduced passenger rates to Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and | St. Joseph from all states west of the Missouri river was agreed to by number of leading western railroads and will be available through the summer months.
 | The explosion of hundred pounds of powder in the barracks of Battery A at Fort Russell, Wyo., injured seven soldiers, three fatally, and destroyed the building. The injured men were preparing blank ammunition at the time of the explosion.
 | A late dispatch from Melilla says that Spanish troops at Alayou shelled body of tribesmen who were mak- l ing preparations to attack the Span | ish forces. Several tribesmen were killed or wounded and the others fled
 In ten rounds of vicious fighting Jim Flynn of Pueblo, Col, bested Billy Papke of Spring Valley, Ill.,, before the Pacific Athletic club at Los An geles.
 Capt. E. v. Roberts, master of the big Hill steamer Minnesota, died on his ship between Kobe and Nagasaki Japan, of heart failure. This was his first trip in command of the Minne- sota.
 l The United States revenue cutter Perry seized the Japanese sailing sailing schooner Teki with IS men while they were killing seals within three miles of the Pribylof islands. l A number of the Japanese laborers on the Waimanalja plantation, who are forming an association on prorit- sharing basis and who will oppose l strikers, are now at work. Hereafter no Sunday funerals will be held in Denver, unless orders are issued by the board of health, making | them necessary in particular cases. | This was decided when an agreement was signed by forty ministers, twenty one undertaking firms and the two principal cemeteries of the city.
 The merger of the business of the Wells Fargo company in Mexico and | that of the National Mexican Express will go into effect October 1, by c. w. Stockton, of New York. counsel and assistant to the president of the Wells Fargo company.
 l By a decision of the appellate di- vision of the = eme court, another attempt to break the telephone mon- | opoly in New York was defeated,
 leaving the field to the New York Telephone company. The court de- nied the appeal of the New York In dependent Telephone company for permission to place telephone wires under the streets of the city.
 There arc now G2 patients in the Louisiana lepers' home. This is a larger number than at any time since | the colony was started. Joseph Hutchins, alias Joseph Eaton Chapin, who three years ago eloped with the daughter of B. B. Boynton a