The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-09
NJ MS OF THE WEEK
.rEsT EVENTS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Happenings in Foreign Lands and Throughout the Nation Chron-
 icIed in Paragraphs.

The taking Of evidence in the trial of Genkyo Mitzunga. the Japanese boy accused of murdering Mrs. Katherine Wilson in her home on Capitol hill, | Denver, Colo, last May, has begun. The little Japanese, who admits that he was in the Wilson home when the murder occurred, but declares a white man was the murderer, was the pie ture of fear as he sat in the court room Many Japanese of prominence are attending the trial.
 Seven or eight persons are reported to have been killed and many injured in the wreck of the Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 4, bound from Kansas City to St. Louis, seven miles west of Lamont, Mo-, December 2.
 The first intimation as to the senti- ment among members of the Brother hood of LoctOmotiye Engineers on siXty-one western railroads came when it was announced the Southern Pacific engineers at points on the Pacific coast had voted to strike.
 Mammals on fire, the 4-year-old son of Mrs. Tennie Whitaker, at Mem phs Tenn, told the firemen who re sponded to an alarm from the home. They found the woman burned to crisp in front of an open grate.
 The initial step in adding to the navy the four submarine torpedo boats au- thorized at the last session of con- gross will be taken February 6, when proposals for constructing these yes , sels by contract will be opened at the navy department
 The Pullman Sleeping Car Co.,, in hearing at Pullman, H., before Inter state Commerce Commissioners Lane and Clark, offered substantial reduc. tions in it's present rates for both lower and upper berths to satisfy the public demands for lower fares. | The population of the United States A and it's possessions, unoffieially esti- q mated by the census bureau to be 100, f O0O,0OO, may fall 5,O00,0OO short of these figures, according to careful computations.
 During a sudden tempest in the Cas- plan sea, landing stage at Asrak- han, Russia, on which were 300 Per sian dock workers was dragged from it's moorings and swept out to sea. The storm was so violent that at tempts at rescue were futile, and all were lost.
 His right foot caught in the frog of railroad switch an unidentified man lost his life at St. Louis when a Frisco train passed over both of his ankles in the Frisco yards. The mans right arm also was pulled from it's socket. He was dead when discovered by a track walker.
 The conference of governors in ses- sion at Frankfort, Ky, has received a request from the committee on conSes- tion of population of New York city that methods of distributing popula- tion be taken up for consideration. Mrs Russell Sage has given Vassar college $150000 for the construction of a new residence hall or dormitory It will be called "The Olivia JasseIyn Hall," after Mrs. Sage's paternal grandmother.
 The population of the state of Hi nois is 5,63S, ,591, as against 4,S2l, ,55o in 1900, according to the enumeration report issued by the census bureau In his annual report to the secre- tary of the interior, Walter E. Clark, governor of Alaska, handles the coal land situation in vigorous language. In view of the widespread and bitter discussion of Alaska coal lands, fol- lowing the charges of Louis k. Claws, resulting in the Ballinger-Pinchot con troversy, the opinion and recommen- dations of Governor Clark are de- claNd timely.
 safe containing $16,000, stolen from a sub station Of the Wells Fargo Express company in Muskogee, Okla, was found under residence porch. All the money was in the safe when it was opened at police headquarters.
 George J. Macklin, saloon keeper of Columbus, O., obtained verdict or N $1,S00 against Chief of Police Carter Wand six uatrolman who wrecked his .A' A'Saloon in a raid February 27. Macklln Sk asked for $10,000.
 firemen barely escaped a, ,sath in a fire which destroyed the 0keneral merchandise establishment or EyA. Lurie & Co.,, at Chicago, with loss v of $50,000
 Almost million dollars damage Ia was done, and the entire town of Rum ,yAmelsberg, Germany, was Illuminated Kwhen four huge tanks containing gN2 300 000 gallons of gasoline exploded. The entire town was threatened with destruction.
 Because the Western Union Tele- graph company failed to transmit a message from Detroit, Mich, to Kan sas City, Mo-, after accepting It, the court held the telegraph company na- ble for more than $500 damages. The company received 40 cents to send the message.
 A bill in equity to dissolve the American Sugar Refining company known as the sugar trust because 1t is a monopoly conducted m re straint of trade, has been filed Tn tue
 United States circuit court TOT the southern district of New York.