The Green Forest tribune., 1910-09-23


 the Eleventh congressional district Of Kentucky.
 Several passengers were slightly in- jured and a mail clerk was badly hurt in a head-On collision of passenger trains OH tbe Chicago & Northwestern railroad in the Fremont (Neb.) yards.
 Two years Imprisonment in the Atlanta prison and a fine of 5000 was the penalty imposed by Federal Judge Martin of New York on Ernest W. Gerbraeht, former superintendent of the Williamsburg refinery of the sugar trust, who was recently con- victed of conspiracy to defraud the government.
 Four individuals and three corpora tions, known as the brick trust, were indicted by the federal grand jury in Chicago
 In futile attempt to escape con- victs in the Joliet Qll) penitentiary fired d prison warehouse filled with excelsior and the building was de- sroyed. The prison fire brigade w2s unable to cope with the fire and ths Joliet city fire department was called
 By purchasing the entire apple crop handled by the Hood River Growers Union of Oregon, commission firm of New York is said to have made the biggest apple deal on record. One miner delu, one fatally injured and five seriously hurt is the l. of a gas explosion caused by min CTS defective lamp in Vandalia mine No. 10, nine miles from Linton, Ind.
 Dr. Haldane Cleminson, convicted of murdering his wife with chlorOform, under surveillance by the district at torneys office in New York, pending an invest 'ation of methods used to secure $200,000 from New York banks, has been arrested. A formal charge of grand larceny was made against him and he pleaded guilty.
 The Zeppelin VI, one of the most successful of the eight giant airships constructed by Count Zeppelin, was destroyed by fire at Baden-Baden, Germany.
 By decision of the state supreme court, the Oklahoma bank guaranty fund is relieved of the responsibility of some $200,000 in state and county deposits held by the Columbia Ma tional Bank and Trust company when the institution failed for $3,000,000 last year. Surety companies which backed these deposits must pay tho losses.
 The Flid' has been tilted in the federal grand jury investigation of the Chicago packers, and a smashing blow dealt Ten heads of Chicago packing companies are hit by indict- ments charging them with violation of the Sherman antitrust law. The indicted men are directors of the Ma tional Packing company, and are also connected With other packing con- cerns
 It is apparent that the Democrats have carried Arizona. The constitu- tional convention will contain about 35 Democrats, 12 Republicans and 5 Laborites. The sole issue was the initiative and referendum recall, strongly opposed by Republicans as something that would insure rejection of the constitution when it reaches the president.
 Shortly before tine Texas legislature adjourned, the last official act was the signing by the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of the law making radical changes in the conduct of the state penitentiary. Whipping of convicts in what is known as the third, or incorrigible class, was restored.
 Jay Harbison, 26 year sold, shot Dr. Boyd Clinite, a young dentist, and murdered his 19-year-old fiance, Adele Riser, in the home of the young wom- ans parents in Rcdfield, $. D. He then turned the gun upon himself.
 The Ions list of Workmen killed ill the construction of the New York, Lake Erie & Western railroads new open cut through the Bergen hill was increased by ten with the cave-in of section of the adjoining old tunnel
 
 just west of Hudson boulevard, be- tween Hopkins avenue and Elm street, Jersey City, N. J.
 In scorching statement Gov Nal colm R. Patterson withdrew from the race as The Democratic nominee for the governorship of Tennessee, fur nishing a sensational climax to long and bitter preliminary campaign.
 Thirty lives were lost when the Pere Marquette car ferry No. Is, bound from Ludington to Milwaukee, went to the bottom of Lake Michigan half way across the lake. The dead include Captain Peter Kitty of Lud- ington; s. F. Sezepanek of Worces- ter, Mass, purser and wireless opera tor, whose signals of distress brought assistance to the sinking vessel, and two members of the crew of car ferry No. IT, who lost their lives in an ef- fort to rescue the crew of No. IS.
 The federal investigation into the Pere Marquette ferryboat disaster, in which more than score of persons perished, has been begun in Luding- ton, Mich.
 E. s. Cole and H. B. Honeywell, who went up in a balloon at Topeka, Kas., landed twenty miles north of Tangier, Okla. The distance from Topeka to Tangier is 375 miles.
 Joseph w. Folk was indorsed with out opposition by the Democratic con uontinn in IefferSnn City Mo- as the