The Green Forest tribune., 1910-09-16

Following the eXOneration of Albert Julien and Emil Freund, suspected of complicity in the Overland Express the St. Louis police department said that he believed the double crime was committed by novice whose mind had become deranged, possibly through the reading of bandit stories and dime novels
 At Durand, Mich, the coroner's jury in the inquest on the Grand Trunk wreck, which caused 10 deaths, brought in verdict primarily placing the blame on Rear Brakeman George G. Graham, charging him with gross negligence and secondarily blaming Engineer Charles E. Spencer.
 Lloyd w. Bowers, solicitor general of the United States, died at the Hotel Touraine in Boston of complication following a severe bronchial attack and an operation on his throat.
 The jury in the Lee O'Neill Browne sensational bribery case, in Chicago, returned verdict of not guilty.
 E. s. Cole and H. E. Honeywell, who went up in balloon at Topeka, Kas. landed twenty miles north of Tangier Okla. The distance from Topeka to Tangier is 375 miles.
 Three persons, two women and a man, were burned to death in South Chicago, H., when the automobile in which they were riding collided with car loaded with molten slag from the Wisconsin Steel company
 Save livery barn and lumber yard and office, every business house in Lebeaux, s. D., the western termi- nus of the St. Louis railroad, was de- stroyed by fire.
 The committee Gn resolutions of the national conservation congress agreed to recommend a platform demanding national control Of the country's nat ural resources. The platform was adopted.
 In Warren, Pa. the special grand jury which has been Investigating charges against Former Congressman Joseph c. Sibley and four co-defend- ants, in connection with Sibley's nom- ination as the Republican candidate returned true bills against each of the defendants. All are charged with conspiracy to bribe, debauch and cor rupt voters of Warren county.
 A new search has been started for the bandit who killed J. M. Wine, a flagman, and robbed all the passen- gers in the observation sleeper of Bur lington passenger train No. b as it left the Union station switches in St. Louis, Mo. The discovery that Albert Julien and Emil Freund, the Chicago stereotypers, were innocent of any connection with the robbery and mur- der, left the police without a single substantial clew.
 Ex,President Roosevelt refused to attend a banquet in Chicago unless the invitation sent to Senator Lorimer was revoked. He said he would not sit down to the same table with ouNl h
 The twentieth Eucharistic congress and the first affair of the kind ever held in this hemisphere was opened in Montreal, Quebec, with a special midnight mass. The pope's legate, Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli, was present. Much pomp and impress siveness have marked the sessions. The attendance is very large and the city of Meatreal has done it's utmost for the entertainment of the visiting hosts.
 In Minneapolis the combined Dem- ocratic and insurgent members of the Ballinger congressional Investigating committee stole a march on the stand pat members and secured the passage of a resolution declaring the secre- tary of the interior unfaithful to his trust, and demanding his removal
 The century-old fisheries dispute, the source of constant diplomatic friction between the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Newfound- land, was finally closed with the award of the international court or arbitration largely in favor of the United States.
 In Plattsburg, Mo, Rev. Clyde w.. Cow was found guilty of immoral con duct in connection with the death of Miss Elizabeth Gleason of Lincoln county, and was unfrocked and dls- missed as a member of the church by the Missouri conference of the M. E. church, south.
 Judge McPherson of the United States district court, in Red Oak, Ia.. denied the request of c. w. Post of Battle Creek, Mich, for an inJunc- ton to restrain the American Fed eration of Labor and it's officers and the Bucks Stove and Range company of St Louis from carrying out their agreement by which the stove con- cerns plant Is to become union shop instead of an ouen shop, as It has been for the past four years.
 The Lucas Bridge and Iron con- pany's large plant in Peoria, H., was completely wrecked by dynamiters. Three terrific explosions reduced the plant to ruins and six adjacent build- ings, including three saloons, were wrecked Robert Gebhardt, a night watchman, was dangerously injured.
 Two nine-year.old boys, William Grummitt and Earl Fender, arrested by Sheriff Hirstius, according to the officers, confessed the murder Of Mrs. Walter l.. Rayner the night of Au- gust 27, while she was on her way to her home near Rockport, O.