The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-30
NE WS IF THE WEEK
LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD ....-- TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Happenings in Foreign Lands and Throughout the Nation Chron-
 cled in Paragraphs.

The long expected shakeup in the presidency of the Illinois Central came when Charles H. Markham, president of the Gulf Refining con- pany and pipe line company of Pitts burg, who started his career as rail road laborer, was elected to succeed James T. Harahan as president of the railroad. The action was taken at the meeting of the board of direc tors in New York.
 President Taft is going to take a rest. Announcement has been made at the White House that from now until the reconyening of congress, January 5, he will pay as little atten- ton to the routine of office as pos sible.
 News was brought to Victoria, B. C., by the steamship Aymeric of floods that caused large loss of life and of a severe famine in the Anhui province of China, affecting 2,o00,00O persons.
 The worst disaster in the history of English mining in the last decade occurred in the Ulton colliery, near Bolton. England when a terrific eX plosion trapped the entire working force within the shaft 700 feet below the surface. More than 250 of the miners were killed instantly and prob ably more than 300 are dead. There were 337 men in the colliery at the time the explosion occurred.
 ID ,1 man naval expert, is bitterly angry at the fraternation of the American English and French fleets. He says the omission of the American fleet to visit Germany is l deliberately un- friendly act toward the kaiser and his subjects.
 The most destructive fire ever ex- perienced in Cincinnati swept through the manufacturing section of the city, costing three lives and damage esti- mated at $2,500,O 900. Seventeen per sons were injured.
 Fire destroyed the recently con structed corn meal mill and package department of the Great Western Cereal company's plant in Fort Dodge, Ia. The loss is S50,000, partially GOV cred by insurance.
 In Rock Springs, Tex, the district grand jury adjourned without return ing the anticipated indictments Tn connection with the recent burning of Antonio Rodriguez, the alleged slayer of Mrs. Lem Henderson, wife of a ranch owner, over which riots were caused by MeXicans.
 Fred Cady, 70 years old, was killed instantly: Joseph Estes, 90, injured fatally, and William Harter 31, hurt badly, by the fall of a 40foot crane at the new courthouse under construc ton at Salem, H.
 Major General Leonard A. Wood chief of staff of the United States army. in an address at banquet at the Burnside post, G. A. R., Tn Wash- ington. characterized the so-called war scare as silly"
 Additional police were sworn m TOT lowing t.e strike riots in Nlhhlpes' Man. when 21 street cars were wrecked by the striking motormen and conductors.
 Charles D. Drew and Charles N. Nardell. former boss goYerhmeHt weighers. who were conylcted last September in the United 0'dtes cli chit court of taking bribe money lfolD Thomas s. Doyle, employed on tne ArhucEle docks, Brooklyn, N. Y were sentenced by Judge Martin to ten months each in the New 4ofK peiil'en tiary on BlackwelPs Island.
 John Feagles, who had been heid oh a1,oroo of nnrder in connection with the ouadrupIe killing on the Berhhalo farm in Jackson county, has, M''' freed by Sheriff John Steed lh Old'ng His release came simultaneously Wi'D report from the coroners Jury tn'' the murders had been committed py narsons ito the jury unknown. Doth narties to the controversy over wages between sixty-one raliroaus op orotinq west of Chicago ana tue | Brotherhood of Locomotive EhSlneei Ahova aoreed to mediation under lle D1rdman act ,a AK Asociate Justice Edward Douglass t+o of the United States supreme N 1rt has beent elevated to the oii'e ;'Xsticeship of that tribunal JuS'i'e Wx7hite is a Democrat.
 For the first time in many years &nbe senate sustained an appear run, M ~ decision of the vice president ano .Soled a ruling by which. senators
 Bouncing their pairs were couhteu .Iang with senators recording aye anu nov votes in order to make quorum
 Artbur V. Hill, manager of fniia ,o,nbia loan company, the first per con in he convicted in Penhsyisania under a decision that classes money leaning offices where usu!louS fa'es are charged as disorderly houses oas mas ,an ,'l sentenced to pay fine or Sooo and costs.
 >-oor,y another month has been aou
 ta inc long drought that nas aarohed oklahoma from Arkansas U inc Texas panhandle ,oe inc
 Edward D. White, the new chlei yus tica m of the United States supreme court has been formally sworn i