The Green Forest tribune., 1910-08-19


 commuted the sentence of Marcellus Rheinhart, the Montgomery county night rider, to life imprisonment. Rheinhart was convicted of the mur- der of Rufus Hunter and sentenced to death.
 The discovery of a new comet was announced at the Harvard college ob servatory. The discovery was made by Rev. Joel H. Metcalfe, at Burling- ton, Vt.
 On charges of kidnapping her own 4-year-old child, Mrs. Louise Wipfie of Moline H., is under arrest in Den yer.
 Joseph A. Proctor, the wealthy lum- herman, who has been missing from Peoria, H., since July 21, was located by officers at Chillicothe, Mo-, and is being detained
 The grand jury Investigating the lynching of Carl Etherington, the dry" detective, in Newark, Ohio, re- turned 39 indictments. Fifteen indict- ments charge first degree murder.
 Exploding a stick of dynamite be- hind Tom LenoX, night guard of the state convict camp at Bigelow, Ark, and blowing him into the timber, three long-term negro convicts made their escape.
 The home in Delaware, O., In which the late President Rutherford B. Hayes was born in 1882 was de- stroyed by fire. The owner will erect
 By the overturning of small launch in Canandaigua lake, two men, Jacob Echler and Richard Hogan, each about 35 years old, of Canandai qua, N Y., were drowned. Five other men in the launch were rescued.
 The enlisted strength of the army the coming year has been fixed at S7000 men by Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood and approved by President Taft
 Figures showing the operation of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law for it's first year are announced with a total of $20,214,02G to it's credit in the sur plus of receipts over expenditures, which is nearly fifteen millions of dol lars greater than was recorded fer the previous record year of 1907. The total ordinary receipts for the year ending August 6, 1910, were $67S, S50.S16
 A specific and positive denial that he had made any sort of confession to the solice authorities at Quebec has been cabled by Dr. H. H. Crippen, the l,;a fN Belle Elmore, to Attorney Newton, Crippen's attorney, and was made public in London.
 vigorous prosecution to reclaim title to a vast amount of Indian land in Oklahoma is being planned by the department of justice for the coming autumn. One of the principal actions in prospect is to overcome the effect of an ingenious joker" which was written into the Indian appropria- tion bill just before that measure was handed to the president for his sig give interested parties a right to re- move coal and oil from public lands without molestation for a year or Is months.
 William Davis, 52 years old wealthy farmer of Braymer, Mo-, shot and killed his sistar-in-law, Mrs Mat tie O'Dell, widow, in rooming house in Kansas City and killed him. self
 In Cleveland, Ohio, William l.. Rice, a millionaire attorney, was murdered by gang of assassins acting out of revenge. At least, that is the police explanation of the crime.
 Former Governor J. w. Folk of Mis- souri was injured ill an auto smash up near Muscatine, Iowa, when, to save the machine from turning turtle, the driver took a ditch and hit a tel egraph pole.
 Miss Lulu Schaffer, aged 16, of Bloomington, H., swan two miles in the Kankakee river in one hour as the result of a dare" by her girl friends, who doubted her ability to cover the distance named.
 Because of race riots at Gary, Jones county, Ga., Governor Brown was re- quSolCu IO oCiio tiOOPo NO liie'S 'iSANA ity, the request coming from the sher- if of the county
 Seiba and TruXillo, two of the lead ing cities of Honduras, have been cap tured by the revolutionists and the entire EICnduran coast between the two towns is now in the hands of for mer President Bonilla.
 Revenue officers raided an opium still in a Chinese den in the heart of Kansas City and seized $25,000 worth of opium.
 Eva Goldberg. of Memphis, Tenn, was indicted on a charge of murder in the first degree by the grand jury in connection with the killing of Edwin Boysen, a banker, at her home. She was released on bond after pleading not guilty before magistrate.
 Incomplete returns from every part of Tennessee indicate that the Inde- pendents have defeated the regular Democratic ticket, headed by Patter- son men, by majorities ranging from 35 ,000 to 50,000. East Tennessee, the Republican stronghold cast 30,000 ma jority for the Independents.