The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-14

ceed himself, but the nomination caused a split in the party and he withdrew from the race, hoping there by to unite the party.
 Bisobedience of orders is the yer dict reached by members of the Hi nois railroad commission who inyesti- gated the head-on wreck of two Me kinley interurban cars, with the loss of 3G lives, near Staunton. H. Aftel an inquiry General Manager Chub. buck issued an official statement in which he said that Motorman John w. Herman of the northbound car was alone responsible for overrun ming a siding.
 A Wabash freight train left the track at the curve near Wright City, Mo. Twelve cars were ditched and the track badly damaged.
 Jim Hatfield, member oy the ia | nous Hatfield feudst family, was shot to death in a saloon in Henderson, Ky, by John Puckett, a fisherman. The men quarreied over the payment l for drinks.
 Dr. Haldane CIemenson, recently sentenced to the penitentiary for life | for the murder of his wife in Chi eago, was granted a stay of sentence by the state supreme court.
 Florian Kengerski, a clerk, was ar | rested on charge of taking rings from the fingers of his dead sweet  he sat up at night.
 The celebration of high mass by Archbishop John M. Farley, head of the archdiocese of New York, was the beginning of two days religious festival for the dedication of St. Pat rick's cathedral in New York to the uses of religion, unencumbered by debt. The conservation Of the great Catholic place of worship at Fifth avenue and Fifty-frst street brought | together an assembly of prelates only little less notable than that which gross in Montreal.
 The Standard Oil company, through it's official publicity representative, ]. l. c. Clarke, has announced that the | company has inaugurated cam paign to increase the worlds con sumption of refined oil,' and is lower ing prices of kerosene in Europe and the far east. This action follows that of August last when the Standard Oil company reduced refined oil in bar rels 1 cent a gallon from 9$4 to S$4 cents at the refinery, and refined oil in tanks from 61a to 51a cents a gal lon. In part the statement reads: '"The Standard Oil company has inau- gurated a campaign to increase the worlds consumption of refined oil. The level of prices for refined oil to- day in the United States is lower than at any time during recent years, and as a direct result of these prices the consumption of refined oil in this country is increasing. The same pol icy is now being actively parsued abroad"
 Twelve persons were injured when an outbound traction car on the Lo- gansport division of the Indiana
 
 in taking a curve near Broad Ripple, a suburb of Indianapolis.
 In pistol duel Mrs. Temple Smith, wife of Dr. Temple Smith of Lake Charles, La, proved quicker on the draw" and slew her husband, ac. cording to the statements of wit nesses at the coroner's inquest.
 wi raculous manner, several were fn- jured and it was reported at least one fireman was caught in the ruins when fire destroyed a five-story factory building in New York. It was esti- mated by Chief Croker the damage resulting from the fire was between $200,000 and $250.000.
 Pearl Jones, a 17-year-old negro student at the Holy Rosary Catholic school Galveston, Tex, was shot and instantly killed going into church by Robert Grant, a young negro, who then turned the revolver on himself, firing a shot which caused his death. The two were sweethearts, the at tentions of another man causing the tragedy.
 Federal officers in New York are making strenuous efforts to locate some part of the $5,000000 the curb brokerage firm of H. B. Scheftels & Co., is said to have gotten from it's customers on it's many western min ing schemes.
 A bold attempt was made to rob the bank of McClelland, Iowa. A man giving the name of Tom Kirby, whose home is said to be at Oakland, Iowa. entered the bank and, presenting revolver, demanded that the cashier Walter Julius, turn over the banks cash Instead, Julius opened fire. Both men emptied their revolvers and the robber was slightly wounded in the arm. Julius was not hurt.
 At least 60 people were injured. many seriously, when reviewing stand for the Priests of Pallas parade at the northeast corner of Eleventh street and Troost avenue, Kansas City, collapsed.
 A state convention that will SC down in history as one of the most remarkable in the history of the Dem- ocratic party in New York closed by nominating John A. Dix, chairman of the party's state committee and wealthy Washington county business man, to run on a progressive platform g .!. !.oo widest type.