The Green Forest tribune., 1909-09-24

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 Running at top speed a Reading (Pa.) trolley car turned over on a sharp curve at a culvert under the tracks of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad. The conductor, Winfield Wiedner, was killed and four passen- gers were injured seriously.
 According to reports from Sebasto- pol the czar's health is very bad. The emperor and empress intend to re- main some time in the south. They will make a long sojourn in the vii cinity of Malta.
 St. Louis has landed the Eagles convention for next year.
 In the federal court at Marquette, Mich, E. T. Larson, former cashier of the defunct Ironwood National bank, was sentenced by Judge Knap- pen to seven years in the Detroit house of correction.
 Three robbers dynamited the safe of the Neosha (Kans.) State bank and escaped with s3,000. The bank fix lures were wrecked. The thieves ex- changed several shots with the city marshal without effect. John S. Parks of Kansas City was appointed receiver for the Merchants Refrigerator Go. of that city by Judge Phillips in the United States district court. The refrig company failed in October, 1907, with approxi- mately $900,0O0 in creditors claims. The First Natinal bank of Burnside, Ky, has closed it's doors. The bank has $25,000 capital stock. Overloans and some unfortunate business deals are said to be the cause of the failure.
 After holding up and robbing Miss Freda Santage, IS years old, about two miles from the end of the Spring Gar den avenue car line, at Pittsburg, Leon Johnston, a 17-year-old negro, narrowly escaped lynching at the hands of three infuriated neighbors from the city.
 An advance of from to 10 per cent in the price of watches to jobbers has been made by the Elgin and Waltham watch companies. It is stated the advance is based purely on the new tariff bill, though both companies deny this.
 Aroused by the challenge hurled at Texas Democracy and the yelled at- tack against himself by w. J. Bryan in his Fort Worth speech, Senator Bailey announces that he will reply to Bryan in Dallas.
 J. E. Savers of Richmond county, W. Va, was on the verge of madness in his cell after being arrested for the murder of his bride, a girl of A. They had been married only two weeks. The allegation is that he gave poison to his bride, with whom he eloped.
 Fulfilling his promise to Sheriff Gaston, made at his Birmingham home, where he was questioned, Fred Banding, the University of Michigan baseball player, who has been men, toned in connection with the murder of Mabelle Millman voluntarily went to Detroit. He went immediately to police headquarters for a secret con- ference with Captain of Detectives Mcdonnell
 Running at full sped into a group of three nuns crossing the street, the |. automobile of Charles Mueller real estate dealer of New York, hurled the women aside with frightful force, kill ing one of them and possibly fatally injuring another.
 Secretary Ballinger, it is under stood, will retire from the Taft cab inet. This does not mean that his resignation will be immediately ac- cepted. It is the information of his subordinates that the president is not satisfied with the explanations which have been given regarding his con- nection with the Cunningham coal tract in Alaska.
 One torpedo boat destroyer and three torpedo boats, bound from Hampton Roads to St. Louis, entered the mouth of the Mississippi river at Port Eads, La, Monday afternoon and proceeded on their way to New Orleans.
 Fire destroyed the business section of Monroe City, Ind at loss of $10O, 000 Both telephone exchanges were destroyed and communication with this city was cut off.
 John R. Early, the so-called leper, has been stricken from the pension rolls, as he has been found to be en- tirely free from any disease, having recovered from the skin eruption which was declared by eminent physicians to be leprosy.
 After killing 12-year-old boy and terrorizing the community at Moselle, Miss, Leroy Watts, negro crazed by whisky bought from a blind tiger, was slain by posse, which ran him down in the woods.
 high school building is nearl gnished and will be ready for use this fall.
 Considerable excitement was caused and many guests fled from their rooms to the street when fire attacked the Hotel Rensu, 292 Wabash avenue, Chicago, causing loss of $1,000.
 Mrs. Charles Levy and her five year-old daughter, Marian, were shot and seriously wounded by the husband Ferdinand Levy, wholesale liquor dealer at San Francisco, who then end ed his life. Mrs. Levy is in critical condition The child will recover.
 William Lloyd Garrison, son and name-sake of the great anti-slavery leader, died at his home at Lexington,