The Green Forest tribune., 1910-05-13
NORTH. EAST. SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation and Particularly
 the Great Southwest.
National League Standing.
An1arican- -Leanle.

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 The income tax resolution was killed i'll the lower branch of the Mass 8 chusetts legislature by a vote of l02 10 l7G on the question of substituting t for all adverse report of a commit, tee.
 Engineer ]. A. Brown of Derry, Pa, was killed and Fireman James J. Kim mel, also of Derry, was seriously in jured when the boiler of the engine attached to a passenger train ex- ploded.
 Dr. B. C. Hyde, on trial for the al leged murder of Col. Thos H. Swope. refused to follow the plan laid out by his attorneys for resting the case without permitting him to take the stand in his own defense. Dr. Hyde insists that he he allowed to take the stand and answer any questions the state cared to ask him.
 Another university degree was add d to the long list that already dee crates Col Roosevelt's name when the University of Norway gave him the honorary degree of doctor Of philos- 9phy. RooseYelt's throat is still both aring him, and he received a second treatment from a Christiania special ist
 One thousand foreign miners. heav- fly armed and carrying ped tanners stoned a car carrying miners to the Grown Hill .aines. near Clinton. Ind in a successful move to prevent the resumption of work under the new temporary agreement adopted at the Ferre Faute convention.
 George Douglas, his wife and three small children-his entire family were burned to death in their dwelI- ing, about two miles south of Coulter vile. H. The fire was discovered by neighLors. The cause is unkonwn
 The sundry civil appropriation bill, which, in it's giant size and the varie- ty of it's items, becomes "every6ody's friend was reported to the house. The total is $111.S49.211. This is ST. | $50, SG0 less than the estimates and $2C000.000 less than the total in last years bill
 Advances in railroad wages already made or tC be made before the end of the year are estimated at S100000 900 for the entire country. This is the figure stated by President W. c. Brown of the New York Central Cal culated on the interstate commerce commission statistics as a basis, the wages paid to railroad employees un- der the new scale will amount to $1,- 227 27,233,000 a year.
 Dr. Howard L. Ricketts, assistant professor of pathology in the Univer- sity of Chicago, is dead, and another name has been added to the long list o1 victims that science has claimed as her own. Dr. Ricketts died in Mexico City of typhoid fever, the disease he went south to study.
 United States Judge John A. Mar shall sustained the contention of at torneys for Governor Haskell and oth- CTS in the Muskogee town lot cases and continued their trials. A press dispatch from Washington | announced that John D. Rockefeller has abandoned the idea of securing a national charter for his proposed foun- dation. Starr J. Murphy, personal counsel for MT Rockefeller, and speaking for the Standard Oil presi- dent, said the statement was entirely W AIt Mt,p l.,. said that MT. Rockefeller had nothing to do with the Economic and Gener- al Foundation" for which a charter is being sought from the New York leg islature for 'an aged man of wealth. | said to have $2,500000 to spend os charity
 H. Clay Pierce of St. Louis has pur- chased the Borda Gardens at Cuerna, vaca, Mexico, the favorite retreat for Poor Charlotta," wife of the ill-fated Emperor Maximillian. The price is said to have been $15,000.
 As labor leaders view the situatios, great building trades strike in St. Louis is imminent. That 60000 men may on the instant throw down their tools and desert construction of build ings is matter of serious proximity, say these leaders.
 Lieutenant Hotrichter, an officer in one of the crack Austrian regiments, has confessed he sent poisoned can dy and poisoned medicines to superior officers, more than a score in num- Der, in the hope that by their death he would be promoted Hofrichter probably will face firing squad.
 Approximately s250000 of the es. tate of Thomas J. Emery, who was by
 far the largest realty owner in Cincin-
 natf, has just been set aside by his
 widow, Mrs. Mary Emery, for the
 founding and perpetuation of home | for birds.