The Green Forest tribune., 1909-07-02

Some, the Japanese resident general. voting machines can not be used in Ohio. The court holds that they do not meet the requirements of the pro- vision of the constitution which says that all elections shall be by ballot.
 Jay Eye See, known the country over as the first 2:10 trotter. died Friday on the Pleasant View farm. Death was due to old age, the horse being 31 years old.
 The six years fight for an interna- tional apprenticeship law, which has been waged hy Denver Union No. 40 of the International Printing Press mems Union, eliminated in the adop- tion by the convention of that union of bylaw making a four-year term of actual press work qualifi7 ation for becoming eligible to the union. Driven temporarily insane by the excessive heat, Mrs. Emma Monthly threw herself and her eight-year-old daughter from the roof of a five story apartment house in Quincy street in an exclusive section of Brooklyn. Both were killed instantly.
 Otis B. Goodall, for several years private secretary to the assistant sec retary of commerce and labor, has been appointed special agent of the census. He will have charge of i'm portant field work of the thirteenth census.
 After shooting his wife to death and trying vainly to kill his 3-year-old daughter, Armour Duwir, of Ford City, Pa, cut his throat with razor when his revolver failed to explode car fridge.
 The United States attorney general directed the dismissal of the govern ment's suit against the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the Bos- ton & Maine railways and others for violating the antitrust laws. The Massachusetts legislature has expressly authorized the consolidation of those roads.
 The Downieville stage for Sierra county, Cal, carrying five passengers was held up and robbed by masked highwayman a short time after leav- ing. The robber took S90 from the passengers and the Wells Fargo Ex- press box.
 The workmen employed by the gas company which is a part of the light and power company of Rio Janeiro have gone on strike. The city is in darkness but there have been no dis orders.
 Rev. Father Buckley, assistant rec tor of the cathedral in St. Augustine, drowned at South Beach, Fla, We'd nesday afternoon while surf bathing.
 John Crutchfield and James Price mebers of a sheriff's posse in pursuit of a desperado near Claremore, Okla, opened fire on each other, mistaking one another for the outlaw. Crutch- field is dying and Price is seriously wounded.
 Dr. H. B. Hoover of Susquehana university, Selins Grove, Pa, was elected president of Carthage, Ill.,, col. lege.
 The seasons pine apple pack will be 500,000 ceses according to the esti- mates of the Hawiian Pine Apple Growers association. The association appropriated S5O0O0 for advertising. Geo. Howell, planter of Dublin, Ga was shot and killed and his wife was fatally injured by Robert Jenkins negro in Johnson county. The negro, escaped.
 President Taft commuted to life i'm prsonment the sentence of death im- posed on Henry l.. Schrifogle, alias "Ducky" Holmes, convicted of the murder of Mrs. Mary A. Hamilton, November 26, 1907. The execution was to have taken place next Thurs day.
 Governor Stuart of Pennsylvania, signed the pardon for James B. Gentry the actor, who murdered his sweetheart Madge Yorke, in Philadel- phia in 1895. The papers were mailed to Philadelphia, and Gentry was set free.
 Oswald Lippold, 35 years old, and William Arnold, 21, both of Milwau- kee, drowned in the mill race at Ann Arbor, Mich, while swimming. Will liam Cole, also of Milwaukee, was res cued. Lippold and Cole were teach ing Arnold to swim. Arnold pulled them under water.
 A hay and grain elevator partly filled and owned by A. F. Walther of Chicago was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $11O,000. Several firemen were injured slightly.
 Mrs. Minnie Tracy, arrested at York, Pa., pending an investigation of the sudden death of her husband, Joshua Tracy, has, the police say, con- fessed that she poisoned him. In statement which is held by the police 1t is officially given out she duplicates her brother-in-law.
 During a fight between Chinamen in laundry at Tenth and Locust streets, Philadelphia, Lee Kee. the proprietor, shot and fatally wounded Lee Sing. The shooting occurred in the presence of crowd of nearly a thousand per sons who had collected on hearing revolver shot in the laundry.
 Walter WWeiimaH, who is about to undertake another north pole expedi- tion, and his party left for Tromsoe, Norway. where they will embark on the steamer Arctic for Spitzenbergen. They are due at the latter place July 1.
 Tho crew of Count Qbermiller's