The Green Forest tribune., 1909-02-05


 Malinoff assuring him that Turkey has no aggressive intentions against Bulgaria, but that at the same time she is desirous of securing rectifi- cation of the existing frontier.
 The president Thursday vetoed the act of congress providing that off cers of the army. navy and marine corps and of the revenue cutter serv- ice on the retired list, whose ranks are advanced in accordance with the law. shall receive commissions in ac- cordance with such advanced rank.
 Carrie Nation was arrested Thurs day and will have to appear in Lon don police court for breaking the glass of an advertisement of cigarettes in station of the Waterloo-Baker street underground railway.
 Secretary Newberry has written 8 letter to F. C. A. Jennings, seaman on the U, s. S. Arehusa, commenting him for his gallantry in jumping over board and assisting in the rescue of human life during the fire at the navy yard, Mare Island, San Francisco, sion of floating gasoline.
 An Oklahoma syndicate has estab- lished headquarters in Boston for the booming of immigration of girls to Oklahoma to relieve the scarcity of wives there.
 
 The president has accepted the res ignation of Chaplain Joseph Casey of the First infantry at Vancouver bar racks, Wash, to take effect at once.
 Kirk Bailey 15 years old of Se- dalia, Mo-, who was stabbed in the abdomen by his 13-year-old brother, Victor, Sunday, died at Haywood hos pital Thursday. The brother, who disappeared immediately after the stabbing, was found Wednesday night on the family farm near Dresden and brought back to the city and is now at his mothers home.
 President Samuel Gompers, Vice. President John Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morrison, recently adjudged i'll contempt of court and sentenced to Imprisonment in the District of Co lumbia jail, were Tuesday ordered by Justice Wright to pay the cost in- cured in the proceedings which re- suited in the sentence for contempt. These aggregate about $1,500.
 The possibility of the federal author ities having to stand aside to permit the state and county of New York to proceed against the publishers of the New York World for the libel in con nection with the Panama canal pur- chase, was made apparent Tuesday i'll
 letter written by District Attorney Jerome to United States District At torney Henry l.. Stimson.
 There are 14,235,4 ,451 Roman Cath plies in the United States according to the advance sheets of the 1903 Wiltzius official Catholic directory, published in Milwaukee. The sta tistics are furnished by the archblsh- ops and bishops of the United States after the taking of a census in all dioceses.
 Rev. Thomas J. Shahan of Hartford, Conn.,, it is stated in well-informed cir cles, has been selected to succeed Bishop Dennis J. O'Connell as rector of the Catholic University of America. Bishop Carroll has originally been spoken of for the position, but was unwilling to give up his work in Mon tana.
 Edward Kaiser of Evansville, Ind, aged 16. who has been mar ried year and is father of one son. Thursday obtained a divorce from his wife, aged IT. He alleged she hypno- tized him and that he married her against his will Klaser formerly lived in East St. Louis.
 Will B. Otwell, the editor of Ot- wells Farmer Boy at Carlinville, H., has formulated his plans to establish a coloney of farmer boys in the St. Francis valley in Arkansas. There MT. Otwell has secured options on 6.O0O acres om land, which he will divide into tracts of 10, 20 and 50 acres.
 The United States government has filed 35 suits against the Oregon & California Railroad Co.,, the Southern Pacific Co.,, the present owners of the Oregon & California Railroad Co.,, and morethan 100 other individuals and private corporations The suits are to recover from the railroads and their grantees who comprise the other de- fendants, an aggregate of S53,2SS acres of land within the old Oregon and California land grant in Oregon. The lands are valued at over 5,O0O,00O.
 Being fatly reversed by President Roosevelt's referee board of chemists, Dr. Harvey w. Wiley, chief govern ment chemist, whose administration of the pure-food law is under fire from many quarters, for the first time dur ing his long service at the head Of the federal chemical bureau, is in immi' nent danger of losing his job.
 Prominent Germans of Omaha have inaugurated a movement which is ex pected to become national in it's scope for the celebration on September g. 10 and II, of the nineteen hundredth anniversary of the battle of Teuto burg -Teutoburg forest. where in the year A. D. nine the Germans, under Arminius, annihilated the Roman army under Various.
 A Missouri girl, born and reared or a farm and educated almost entirely by her own efforts has been awarded the Braun prize as the best student oi the universities of America and Flu rope and will star the coming sum mer on a tour of the world with the money her victory has given her. She is Mabel E. Sturtevant of Brookfield