The Green Forest tribune., 1909-09-24
NE WS IF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD TERSELY TOLD.
A0RTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign, Lands Through out the Nation, and Particularly
 The Great Southwest.

B. s. (Texas) O'Reilly, the cowboy
 messenger, who started on horseback
 from San Antonio, Tex, for Chicago, : arrived there and delivered his invi-
 .ation to President Taft at the ball
 grounds.
 By decisive majority, the street
 car employees of Chicago voted to end
 the wage controversy which has last
 ed more than two months, and accept
 the latest proposition offered them.
 Gen. Albert L. Meyer, coafmanding
 the Department of Texas at San An
 tonic, ordered 5000 troops at Fort
 Sam Houston to entrain October 12
 for Ell Paso to be present for the meet
 ing between President Taft and Pres
 ident Dag of Mexico on October 16.
 The annual reunion of the Twenty
 sixth and Seventeenth Missouri infan-
 try and the Tenth Missouri cavalry will be held in Chamois Saturday, Oc-
 tober 2. The order has been issued
 by Captain R. D. Denny, commanding
 the Twenty-sixth infantry.
 Sixty-five suits, aggregating s125,O
 damages, were filed against the Frisco
 railroad in the federal court at Hugo
 Okla., by excursionists to the recent
 Confederate reunion at Memphis.
 The first person to greet Dr. Freder-
 ick A. Cook when he returns home
 will be his wife. This was arranged
 by the committee of the Arctic club,
 which has the reception in charge, at
 the request of Mrs Cook.
 Guy Anderson, manager of the
 Nebraska cotton glove factory at
 Omaha, which was damaged $10,000
 by fire Saturday night, confessed he
 robbed the safe and set fire to the
 building.
 Willis Boyd, 2s years old, of Jones'
 boro, H., committed suicide by laying
 two sticks of dynamite on top of his head and touching them off. His head and shoulders were blown off He worked in s. H. Tripp's silica mine. Dependency over family troubles is gf as the cause of the act. Grating operations aggregating $60000 were uncovered and seventeen a business men, some of them among the wealthiest and most prominent in < Ohio, were indicted by the special N grand jury Investigating charges of K bribery and grating in Youngstown z and Mahoney county.
 Miss Rose B. McKaig, a clerk in the \ postoffice at Washington, has filed < breach of promise suit against Will liam c. Brownlow, son of Congress man Brownlow, of Tennessee, for $25,000 damages.
 Although a reward of $500 has been offered for information leading to the arrest of the murderer of Theresa F Procopio, years old, and Ferdinanna Infusio, aged 21a years, at Utica, N. H Y, the police are without clew. Commander Peary has declined an ] invitation to attend reception in his < honor, to be held jointly by the cities of Portland and South Portland, Me. & The answer to the invitation was re- ceived by wireless from Battle Har- bor.
 An impersonation of Dr. Cook, the < explorer as given by Henry Lee, a < vaudeville performer, at the American $ music hall, New Orleans was cheered, M while an impersonation of Command CT Peary was greeted with misses and catcalls.
 Two masked highwaymen held up # Clarence Boardman, compelling him to stop his automobile at Garfield boulevard and Roby street, Chicago. M He was forced to stand on the curb stone while they searched his clothes for valuables.
 Mrs. Raymond Long of Salem, O., killed her three-months old son by & thrusting his head into a bucket of water and then committed suicide by cutting her throat with razor. Mrs. iF4ong had worried oyer her child's ill.,
 iles-.
 FThs frozen bodies of three German tourists and Swiss guide, who lost & their lives during recent snowstorm on the Jungfrau, were found at the $ foot of glazier.
 In runaway at MillersDurg, Ind, Mrs. Sarah Crouch, 49 years old, was x thrown out and killed and her daugh- ter. Miss Jennie Matther, 27 years < old, was injured seriously. Two chill dren escaped unhurt. The harness was defective and when the party drove H down a hill the horse became fright q ened, ran away and overturned the buggy.
 "a Mrs. Mary Zagello, aged 30, and 4 Antonio Firto, aged 10, are dead, the 4 result of gunshots and thirty Italians X are in jail as the climax of days & debauch in the Italian section of N Hutton, Pa.
 v The report that the American Tel Tel I&ephone and Telegraph Go. (the Bell " &interests) has bought control of the XWestern Union Telegraph Co.,, was %generally credited in Boston. It has x been known for some time that Vest #ern Union stock was being bought up Ikfor the purpose of taking over the &big telegraph company.
 $& Thomas Dwyer, janitor of the Owls 5Nest club at Harrisburg, Pa., was shot 3and killed at the club rooms by Wells
 Detweiler The latter is brother of #the late Meade D.. Detweiler, who was
 head of the Order of Elks in America.