The Green Forest tribune., 1910-09-30


 in America.
 The death rate in the United States in 1909 was 15 to each 1,000 accord ing to a bulletin about 10 be issued by the census bureau This is the lowest average ever recorded for this country.
 The Roman Catholic cathedral of St. Patrick, generally regarded as the most magnificent church in the Unit ed States, will be consecrated with | elaborate ceremonies October 5th in New York
 Several members of the gun crew in the forward turret fthe battleship Georgia were stunned by the bursting of the muzzle of the great 12-inch gun on the left side.
 That the memb bers of the lakes.to- thegulf deep waterways movement will antagonize President Taft for re- nomination should he decide to seek the presidential nomination in 1912 is the information that reached St Louis from New Orleans A telegram from that city states that w. K. Kay anaugh of St. Louis, president of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway as sociation, in letter to Philip Werleia, president of the Progressive union ot that city, quoting from Roosevelt's St. Paul conservation speech, intimates support of the former president in the next campaign.
 Population statistics were made public by the census bureau as fol- lows: Aurora, H., 29, ,SO7, an increase of 5,660, or 23.4 per cent over 24, ,147 in 1900; Elgin, H. 25,976, an increase of 3,543, or 15.S per cent over 22,4S3 in 1900.
 A man believed to be Burton w. Yates, Detroit business man, com mitted suicide by hanging in the coun- ty jail in Cleveland, O., an hour after he had been lodged there for shooting q woman identified as Mrs. Fred Singer of Cleveland, formerly of De troit, in roadhouSe at Rocky river.
 The regent of Persia, 1tzad- Ul-Mulk, died in Teheran.
 The Oklahoma Oil and Gas Produc- CTS association appealed to Secretary Ballinger of the interior department car repair bills are suspected of hay ing dipped their hands into the coffers of the Missouri Pacific railway to the extent of more than $100,000 by the same methods which were used to defraud the Illinois Central, according 1 to revelations just made.
 Suspension of increase tariff sched- ules filed recently by forty railroads, operating in the west and southwest territory, was ordered by the inter- state commerce commission, the date of operation being extended until Jan. ,, 1910. The commission ordered full hearing on complaints against the proposed tariffs becoming effect i've, reserving announcement of the time and place for the hearing
 Dr. H. H. Crippen and Miss Ethel Clare Levene were bound over in the Central criminal court (Old Bailey), in London, to be tried at the October term of court for the murder oi Belle Elmore Crippen, the doctors wife.
 In accepting his twentieth nomina- tion to congress, Joseph G. Cannon made a speech in Danville, Ill.,. in which he reaffirmed his adherance to the principles opposed by the insur gents.
 to protect the royalty rights of minor Indians by preventing the marketing | agencies from discriminating in the prices paid for oil. Attorney General Wiekersham was asked for legal in- vestigation of the alleged practice. Primaries for the nomination of candidates for congress, legislature and county offices were held through out Minnesota. Returns indicate the defeat of Congressman J. A. Tawney by small margin by Sydney Ander- son, young attorney of Lanesboro and progressive.
 Judge Smith McPherson, in United States court in Council Bluffs, la, sen- fenced Barney Martin and William B. Godefroy, two members of the Mabray swindle organization, to nine and one half months in the county jail. Returning from his work, John Saus of Byers, Pa., was mortified to discoy- CT that his wife and two small daugh- | ters had been slain. Later, in the yard of his home, the grief-stricken parent found his 7-year-old son, who died while being hurried to the Phoe- niXville hospital. The skulls of all were crushed as if by an ax or club, and the identity of the murderer is as yet a mystery
 In Tampa, Fla, while being trans ported to the county jail, Castenge Ficcarotta and Angelo Albano, two well-to-do Italians who have been con- spicuous in the cigar strike here, were taken from deputy sheriffs, hur- ried to heavily-Wooded place near by and hanged to the limb of tree. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt slipped quietly into New Haven, Conn.,, for political conference with President Taft. The request of the conference came from the eX-president. The two men talked politics and reviewed both the New York state and nation al situation.
 Several passengers were slightly ln- iured and mail clerk was badly hurt in head-on collision of passenger trains on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad in tbe Fremont (Neb.) yards.
 Though the weather was unprop1t- ious for the undertaking, MT. Wey- mann. the American, and George Cha