The Green Forest tribune., 1910-06-10
RACES FOR THE REMNANTS.
National League.
American Leauue.

Lord Longattock, accomplished the
 feat of flying across the English chan
 nel from Dover to Calais and back
 without a single stop on French soil
 thus making the first round trip ever
 accomplished.
 While 13 stations in the corn and
 wheat belt of the northwest reported
 temperatures at or below freezing
 Thursday, June 2, hot winds swept
 Oklahoma with temperature of 110 tC
 115 in the shade.
 A Folk-for-president banquet was
 held in St. Louis by the Missouri
 Democratic league, at which former
 Governor Joseph Wingate Folk was
 ndorsed for president. The guest of
 honor, in ad address, said he was vii
 ling to respect the party's wishes.
 Twenty-two railroads in Ohio, Indi
 ana and Illinois have filed freight
 schedules, raising rates from 10 to 4G
 per cent, with the Interstate Com
 merce commission to take effect July
 1. The move by the railroads is re a garded as exactly parallel to that in & the middle west, and which the gov 4Fernment is contesting in an injunction '#suit.
 A federal grand jury at Chicago is 1 Investigating the fixing of butter and egg prices in Chicago and Elgin. The inquiry is the result of an investiga
 ton by Attorney General Wickersham
 To Tah Eob +o fo1y place ill San Francisco. The board of supervisors granted the permit with but two dissenting votes.
 The supreme court of the United
 States has restored the corporation
 cases, heard last spring, to the docket
 Former President Roosevelt startled all England by declaring to them in lecture that the British should rule Egypt right or quit.
 Because a policyholder committed suicide is no defense against payment of the amount is ruling of the Mis- souri supreme court.
 At St. Paul, Minn., Capt Timothy Murphy of the Volunteers of America who said that he was kidnapped and robbed of $1,250 belonging to the or ganization on March IT last, was found guilty of larceny.
 John w. Gates and the other stock holders of the Texas Oil company sHaave voted an increase of $1S,000,000 in the capital stock of the company \ making it $36,OOOOOO.
 More than 800 persons have been drowned and many ships lost in a ter rife cyclone that swept East Africa 4 according to meager dispatches re- f ceived from Mozambique.
 The present demand for labor in the west is so strong and the wages paid so high, comparatively, that the post office department is finding it difficult to find young men for post clerkships at the initial salary of $600 a year. Postmaster General Hitch cock has written to Senator Penrose chairman of the committee on post ethces and post roads, to this effect k and has suggested the passage of a Dlli authorizing the postmaster gen. eral to allow a higher compensation \ TOT services at points where it is diff hcult to obtain clerks
 Mrs. Frank Bond of San Francisco k Waas drowned in the Russian river $ near Bonneville, Cal, when the auto mobile in which she and her husband q thelr daughter and A. R. Strange of San Francisco were riding, plunged over 15-foot embankment. # Lena Berteau and Henry Meineke A were downed in Vermilon river near Cleveland, O., in the sight of hun & dreds of holiday makers. While try Ing to change seats their canoe was upset.
 a The deposed shah of Turkey, who has been living at Odessa in a villa # placed at his disposal by the govern. 2 ment, has taken up the study of medi- Y cine. After private preparatory work a4he expects to attend clinics and lee. &tures at the University of Odessa. Al The British Antarctic expedition set ss sall from London June l. The steam. ger Terra Nova will pick up Captain N Scott ln New Zealand and the 10000 < mile voyage into the Antarctic will then continue. December, 1911, is the sstlme set for the arrival at the south spole.
 A TWO men were killed, one fatally #lnJured and several others badly hurt 9s@he lumber train on the Mobile & sssOhio railroad was derailed near Scoo. sssSba, Miss, by a defective switch The suead are; Engineer John Campbell szBrakeman Jesse Davis.