The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-17
NEWS IF THE WEEK
HAPPENINGS OF THE PAST SEVEN DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
 PRESENTED.
ALL AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For egn Countries Are Here Given +.g in Short Meter for
 Busy Readers.

Rev. w. A. Kimmons, the preacher convict, was released from the Geor- gia prison by Gov. Hoke Smith. Kim mons shot down and killed Carter Lingerfell, moonshiner, when the latter invaded his church during service.
 ,C The Canadian Pacific liner Empress Sdf Britain arrived in Liverpool after collision with the steamship Calch- faen off the Chicken rocks. The Ca nadian Pacific vessel was badly dam aged How seriously the Calchfaen suffered is not known.
 In the elections for the chamber of representatives for the principality of Schwarsburg,- ,-Rudolstadt, Germany, nine Socialists were elected. The chamber is composed of sixteen mem- bers, and the Socialists therefore are ill the majority.
 The English royal yacht Medina, with King George, Queen Mary and the royal suite aboard, left for India, where the king and queen will be
 
 press of their Indian dependency at the Dunbar ceremonies at Delhi De- cember 76 to 16.
 Sir Thomas Bood Crosby, M. D., was inaugurated lord mayor of Lon don with the time-honored street show, which is a never-failing attrac- tion for the Londoner and his cousin from the district outside.
 The will of Edwin Austin Abbey. artist, who died in London, August 1, as filed in New York, leaves all his property, both in this country and England, to his widow, Mary Gertrude Abbey. The value is said to exceed S1,000,000.
 A Chinese report that Pekin has fal- len and the emperor has fed, has caused sensation at Shanghai, but telegrams from Pekin fail to confirm the rumor. It is thought the report was intended to assist the rebels
 Dr. Wu Ting Fang, former Chinese minister to Washington, definitely an nounced himself as the supporter of the new Chinese republic. The doc tors selection as minister of foreign af- fairs under the provisional govern ment was given out, but considerable doubt was felt whether he would care, by accepting the post to commit him. self to the new regime while yet at so early stage. Wu set at rest all such doubts by his latest statement.
 IT T, derer, was removed from the city jail to the Virginia penitentiary, where he will eXpiate his crime in the electric chair on November "A unless Gov ernor Mann interferes or the state court of appeals grants him a new trial
 Dr. Frederick A. Cook, explorer, was a passenger on the North German Lloyd steamer George Washington, which sailed from Southampton, Eng land, for New York.
 John Smith, presiding patriarch of the Mormon church for the past thirty years, and nephew of Joseph Smith, founder of the church, is dead of pneumonia. He was 79 years old.
  port of his investigation of the Ma tional City bank case virtually charges the National City company with being an embryo money trust" controlled by the National City bank for holding stocks in other financial institutions, in contravention of the national banking law.
 A hu al on both sides before the senatorial Lorimer Investigating committee to terminate the present series of hear ings in Chicago November 24, and to reassemble again in Washington December 5. The date set for adjourn ment is only tentative, and the com mittee hopes to conclude hearings be- fore that time.
 Receiving "dry" majority of 1,580 three years ago, Columbus county, Ohio, went "wet" by majority of more than 1000 votes.
 Because of the criticism resulting from his marrying John Jacob Astor to Miss Madeline T. Force at New port, R. l., September g, Rev. Joseph LdmOCil hdo lCoi5HSu PetoeOi VI the Elmwood Temple Congregation aD church, and will leave the minis try to go into business.
 J. F. B. Atkin, a lawyer connected with the Columbian Publishing com. pany, publishers of the Hampton-Co- lumbian Magazine, was arrested, charged with using the mails to de- fraud in selling stock of the publish ing company.
 The books and records of the Inter- national Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, over which such terrific fight has been waged in the Indiana courts, in connection with the McNamara trials at Los An geles, are now in the hands of the United States authorities.
 Sensational reports that 1000 per sons had been killed at Juchitan, Mex ixo; that the streets were filled with dead, and that hundreds of wounded were dying from lack of attention are carried by portion of the Mexico City press