The Green Forest tribune., 1910-09-02

s. Frank Jones probably fatally in. jured when the roof of drift at Mer- cantile mine No. 1 at Webb City, Mo, caved in.
 A demand for reparation, estimated at $1,000000 is being prepared for presentation to the Interstate Com merce commission by merchants and manufacturers in the Missouri river territory, who assert they have been
 Light fr0sts prevailed over western and northern Nebraska and indica- tions are for continued frosty weather. In the Black Hills an inch of snow fell, breaking the record for early snow All vegetation was killed in the hills and the temperature dropped to 9 degrees In Northwestern Ne braska the temperature went 70 36 degrees, while over the entire west ern end of the state the thermometer stood at 40 degrees. The usual kill ing frosts have been known as early as August 20.
 With the clearing away of the ruins of the wrecked and burned Pullman sleeping car Nebraska" probably has the actual number of lives lost when the rear section of the Boston X Mon- treal express from Chicago crashed into the forward section on the Grand Trunk railroad, three miles east of Durand, Mich. Estimates of the num- of Gio a dozen to possibly twenty.
 With the court room crowded with scores of women, representatives Of the Women's Era club, and others in- terested in the ease, Mamie McLough- lin, IS, charged with murder in the first degree in connection with the death of Hugh Smith, Jr, a wealthy resident of New Orleans, was acquit- ted there.
 That the action of delegates to the special miners convention in Indian apolis in repudiating what he calls the recognized principles of the or ganization, will not disturb the mass of the membership at home, is the opinion of President Tom l.. Lewis. Without the generous indorsement of the convention contained in the spe- cial committees report, which was rejected, the international officers will attempt to make the strikes sue cessful
 The Des Moines, 1a., council rein stated George Yeager as chief of pc lice. The resolution of reinstatement absolves MT. Yeager from the charges of maladministration as filed by the Iowa Anti-saloon league.
 President Taft and former Presi- dent Roosevelt are again fellow work CTS in the same political field. The threat that they might pull apart has been forefended by full explanation on one side and an unreserved accept ance on the other. The president made it plain in letter given out in New York by Lloyd c. Griscom, pres ident of the New York Republican county committee. how the misunder standing arose. He explained that he never took any part in a committee cabal to defeat Col. Roosevelt for tenn poraryy chairman for the coming Re publican state convention.
 A mother and her three daughters, all graduates of exclusive finishing schools, were cremated when an auto mobile driven by the father was blown to fragments, near Pittsburg, by the explosion of a 20-gallon gaso- line tank on the rear of the machine The father, William Faith, retired oil operator and che of the most wealthy men of Masontown, Pa, and his son, William Faith Jr., were seriously burned and may die.
 The corn crop in the vicinity of Lattle, La, on the Atchfalaya river, has been ruined by bears
 At Pine Bluff, Ark, a heavy rain fell, flooding the streets The wind tore down several awnings. Farmers say the rain was damaging to crops.
 President Frank Bishop of the Co., lumbus (Ohio) Union of the Brother hood of lnterurban Trainmen an nounced that the strike on the Co., lumbus-Dayton division of the Ohio electric lines was off. A dispatch from Springfield says that P union ists will hold out.
 William J. Peet, a wealthy soap manufacturer, was killed in an auto- mobile accident ten miles south of Kansas City. Henry E. Long, his wife and Mrs Peet were injured in the mishap. None of them is danger ously hurt.