The Green Forest tribune., 1910-02-04

Nick Nolan and Luther Williams, the three men sentenced to ninety days in jail for contempt of the supreme court of the United States for their connec- ton with the lynching of the negro Johnson in Chattanooga, Tenn, in 1906, finished their sentences anil were discharged Saturday morning.
 One of the most serious railway ac- cidents in England since the disaster to the steamer train at Salisbury in July, 1906, when many Americans lost their lives, occurred at Stoats Nest Station, near London, on the London and Brighton railway, Saturday. Eight dead and about thirty injured were taken from the wreck.
 '. The army appropriation bill was complete by the senate committee on military affairs and was reported Mon day. It carries about $95,000,000.
 One of the largest manufacturers of shirt waists in Philadelphia, whose operatives are on strike, applied for an injunction to restrain the Ladies' Shirt-Waist union from 'picketing" :" The manufacturers assert that the girls who preferred to work are in dan ger of assault whenever they appear on the streets and that the strikers have transgressed all bounds of de- cency in their attacks.
 Attorney General Wickersham and District Attorney Wise at New York discussed the decision rendered by Judge Hough dismissing the Panama libel suit case because of want of ju- risdiction. It is said at the depart ment that the decision is one from which the government has the right of appeal The expectation is that MT. Wickersham will talk over the matter with the president before de- ciding whether or not to carry the case to the supreme court
 Tom L. Johnson who, after being mayor of Cleveland for eight years, was defeated for reelection last Mo- vember, is severely, if not critically, i'll in or near New York. He is suf- fering from cirrhosis of the liver, a dispatch from Cleveland stated.
 Riotous scenes occurred in the Ger man reichstag during the debate on the army budget. The estimates sub mitted by the kaiser's officials were bitterly opposed by the Socialists. Herr Won Oldenberg, Conservative mem- Der, precipitated the row by making a plea for absolute government.
 hn I,.ic maker who caused stir in Chicago at the time of her trial last summer on the charge of stealing lace from her former employer, has been mar ried in Lalne, Ireland
 Rear Admiral Nehemiah Mayo Dyer, honored for distinguished service in two wars, died at his home in Melrose. Mass, Thursday, following an attack of acute indigestion. He was Fl years old
 Honest John Kelly says he has been asked to referee the Johnson Jeffries fight, and that it is quite like ly that he will act in that capacity.
 Fire which threatened to destroy the business section of Baker City did damage amounting to more than $200,000 Thursday
 Jose Santos Zelaya, former presi- dent of Nicaragua, announced Fri day that he intends to leave Mexico City February 1 for Vera Cruze, where he will take steamer for Belgium.
 At Chicago the federal grand jury ceased the examinations of witnesses in the beef investigation long enough Friday to inquire into charges that the big steamship lines are in a combina- tion in restraint of trade.
 More indictments in connection with alleged Chicago city hall grating" :" including those of the linen higher up," were predicted by States Attor- ney John E. w. Wayman. He said the true bills voted against Paul Redleske, former deputy commissioner of public works; M. H. McGovern, a wealthy contractor, and nine others were un- important as compared to what was coming.
 The reply of the German foreign of flee to the United States that the ap- plication of Germanys general tariff on American imports be deferred un- til March 31 is understood to be a nonacceptance of the suggestion for delay.
 President Taft agreed to find job for Charles Van Kuren, a 19-year-o old New York boy. Van Kuren, after fruit less efforts to find employment in New York, wrote the president, saying 75-year-old mother.
 Secretary Ballinger, in communi- cation to Speaker Cannon, Thursday asked that the usual appropriation of $30,000 for the annual expenses of the tribal council of the sage Indians in Oklahoma be increased to $50,000.
 Mrs Sol Smith, the retired actress, was knocked unconscious in an auto mobile collision in New York On account of her age-she will be so in March4-it is feared that her injuries will prove serious
 Hubert Latham, the French aviator, fell 150 feet while making a flight at Heliopolis. The monoplane was wrecked, but Latham was not injured.
 Senator Gore Thursday introduced a resolution directing the committee on postoffices and post roads to inquire into the cost of transporting second class mail matter.
 The Widow of John Farson, the Chi cago broker who died week ago, Mrs Mamie A. Farson, will receive, in ad- dition to tho Se5O 0nn his narSonal