The Green Forest tribune., 1910-05-27
Five men were killed by an explo


 for A. Jones, leper, who escaped
 from the isolation hospital there.
 Jones, who is a native of Hawaii has
 been at the hospital for two years.
 Dick Beatt, alleged by government
 authorities to have been a member of
 the Mabray gang of swindlers, was ar
 rested in Woodward, Ok. His bond
 was fixed at S10,000 which he was un. able to furnish.
 Guilty of murder in the first degree
 was the verdict returned in the case
 of George Peppoon, on trial for pois,
 onng his wife at Northport, Wash, Aug. 19, 1909
 The Standard Oil company may be busted from Minnesota. This is one of the possibilities resulting from a decision handed down by the state su- | preme court. In an opinion, written by Justice T. D. O'Brien, the order of
 Judge George l.. Bum, Romsey county
 district court, sustaining the demur-
 Ter to the complaint interposed by the
 oil company's attorney, is reversed,
 and the case remanded back for a
 new trial
 After denying the women delegates | the right to have a woman chairman of the meeting, at Chicago, the So- cialist congress adopted a resolution | incorporating woman suffrage as part of it's platform of Socialism. Councilman Fernstrum, at special
 meeting of the Salt Lake City coun- cil, withdrew his charges of corruption insofar as they apply to Mayor Brans- ford but still insists that he was ap- preached with bribe.
 Will Loes, negro, who attacked Mrs. John Miller, wife of a prominent planter of Gilman, Miss, was shot to death by her husband, who pursued | the negro for II hours.
 Miss Helen Gould has given S10,000 to defray the expenses of sending five Christian workers to the Orient to
 conduct a series of bible conferences
 with missionaries in China and Japan,
 Harry Payne Whitney and Paul
 Rainey, both known the world over as sportsmen, have purchased the steam
 CT Roosevelt, with which Peary sailed to the north pole They will sail from Brooklyn, June 20. for hunting and
 exploring trip into the Arctic regions.
 It is said here that Rainey has am bitions to reach the pole. Commander R. E. Peary's lecture
 in Vienna was attended by the cabinet
 ministers and many persons promi-
 nent in Austrian life. At the close of
 the lecture the gold medal of the Inn
 perial Geographical society was pre- sented to Commander Peary and a banquet was given in his honor. Daring thieves took S32 GOO from the Oil City office of the Adams Express company and left no clew behind. The theft is one of the most daring ever committed in Pennsylvania. It was taken from the office in the absence of Night Manager Truby. He left the office unguarded for a few minutes about a. m. When he returned
 there was no trace of the money Thirty-six negro convicts lost their lives when the stockade of the Red
 Feather Coal company at Lucille, Ala,
 was destroyed by fire set by one of the prisoners in an effort to gain his | freedom. Thirty-five of the convicts
 were burned to death and another was | fatally shot by the guards while at tempting to escape. Among the for
 mer is the negro who started the | blaze.
 John A. Ryerson, president of the
 Ideal Electric Co.,, son of the Rev. Dr.
 J. s. Stone, rector of St. James Epis- | copal church, prominent clubman and
 athlete, plunged headforemost from the thirteenth floor of the Chicago chamber of commerce building and
 was dashed to death on the stone flooring in the corridor below. John Webster Courlay vice-consul
 at Jaurez, Mexico, opposite Fl Paso, died at the Fl Paso county eruptive hospital of smallpox
 Commander Robert E. Peary's lee ture was given before the Geographi-
 cal society in Rome. King Victor
 Emanuel and the duke of Abruzzi, the latter coming from Venice; Marquis di San Giuliano, minister of foreign affairs, and host of distinguished people were present
 Noah T. Shaw, inventor of a cool ing board and known to undertakers | throughout the United States, died at his home in Columbus O., of the in firmities of old age. He was 80 years old.
 Commander Gilmer of the United
 States gunboat Faducah has served | notice on General Irias, who is in | command of the Venus, that ho---- | not permit a boabardment of the city of Bluefields, Nicaragua, and he has | also notified General Estrada and President Madriz that he will not per
 init any armed conflict within the | city.
 Bloodshed and threatened Indian war were averted when the rebelious redskins at Taos, N. M, were persuad- ed to declare truce pending a settle
 ment of their differences with the ter ritorial authorities. For a time war between all of the Indians of northern New Mexico and the United States troops appeared to be inevitable. W. Cooper Morris, former cashier Of the defunct Oregon Trust and Savings
 bank of Seattle, Wash, convicted last
 week of the embezzlement of s175,000 from the bank, was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary.