The Green Forest tribune., 1909-10-22

Jack Johnson vindicated his right to the heavyweight championship ti- tie by knocking out Stanley Ketchel in twelve rounds of a twenty-round fight at San Francisco.
 A new Jack the Ripper" has ap- peared in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has already murdered three girls.
 At Stuttgart, Ark, Dr. A. D. Bum 1141al bushels of Japan rice on 19 acres, and S1 bushels of Honduras rice to the acre on 21 acres.
 The head of L. w. Smith, one of the most enthusiastic baseball fans in Atlanta, Ga, is completely bare of hair as a result of betting that the Pittsburg team would win the world series in five games.
 A pure white quail was killed by three boys near Coshocton, Ohio. It was with a covy of ordinary quail.
 Harry Hall, II, negro, opened the door of George Antilles chicken house in the north part of Wellington, Kas., at o'clock in the morning. A shot gun arranged to be fired when the door was opened blew a load of shot into the boys shoulder.
 The Kansas state board of railroad commissioners have demanded of the Pullman company that the same rates be granted in Kansas as have been given Oklahoma.
 Tarred and feathered from head to foot, and shivering from cold and eX- haustion, Forest Written, of Cam bridge, Ohio, freshman in Mount Union college stumbled into Miller hall, the college dormitory and asked assistance from his classmates, He had been hazed by upper classmen.
 It IS announced that the committee having in charge the recent balloon race for the Gordon Bennett trophy, has definitely decided to award the trophy to Edgar w. Mix, the Ameri- can competitor who landed in Russian Poland
 A silver medal in recognition of gallant service has been awarded by the treasury department to F. M. Humboldt, adjutant general of Missou- ri. The medal is for saving number of persons from drowning in Manila bay.
 President Diaz' trip from Mexico City has been a continuous ovation. At every stop crowds have gathered with flags and flowers and cheered those journeying northward to meet the presidential party from Washing ton.
 Judge William Lindsay, former United States senator and former chief justice of the Kentucky court of appeals, died at his home after an ill ness of two months. Judge Lindsay was "A years old.
 J. H. Dodge, special agent of the government in the interest of good roads, met with the business mems league at Canton, Miss, and it was decided to build mile of model road to cost about $1,500.
 Mrs. Nancy HartZell, aged 93 years, mother of Dr. Joseph c. HartZell, bishop of Africa, for the Methodist church, is dead. Her descendants in clude two great-great-grand children.
 The Cossack villagers of Pavlovsk, Russia, have condemned anG lynched seven men for murder. Tie victims of the men lynched were three women and child, who were lured to a lonely inn, inhumanely tortured and killed.
 Five thousand seven hundred dol lars worth of stamps were stolen from the postoffice at Middletown, Ohio, in one of the most daring robberies in the history of the Miami valley.
 Charged with attempting to poison his mother-in-law, Mrs. Annie Stetzer of Laurelton, Pa.. and her family by placing arsenic in medicine and flour which they used. Jacob Baughman, 90 years old, of Cass. w. Va, is under arrest at Lewisburg.
 A Socialist mass meeting in Los Angeles, at which President Taft was denounced, resulted in near riot and the dispersal of a mob by the DO lice. The police arrested three of the radical leaders.
 Andrew Carnegie has subscribed $100.OO0 to McGill university. Mon treal, as part of the general fund of $2,OO000O which friends of the uni versity are trying to raise.
 Politics in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the only two state holding elections this fall, looms up unusually large for an off-year. In those states the governorship is at stake. while the income tax amendment lends great interest in the contests in each legislative district.
 Watched by over IA cates, which were her only companions in life, the body of Miss Mary l.. Johnson, 61 years old, was found in her lonely home near Wallingford, Vt., under circumstances indicating murder. Rob bery is the only suspected motive.
 Dr. J. L. Skipworth was shot and fatally wounded by H. J. Thomas al Bushnell, Fla. Dr. Skipworth, it is said, met Thomas and demanded ar apology for remarks made about him requiring Thomas to get on his knees Thomas made the apology, but as Dr Skipworth turned to walk away picked up shotgun and fired both barrels.
 John Pierce, of 1SS Schermerhorr street, Brooklyn, appeared at the Brooklyn police headquarters and de clared that his wife, Saa, was the vic tim of the dress suit mystery of Tiv erton, R. l., near Newport. Pierce asked the police to investigate. Pointing a gun at his 14-year-olC