The Green Forest tribune., 1911-12-15

and is making plans for an overland advance on Pekin in the event hos tilities are opened again.
 The worlds altitude record for diri- gibles was made in France by the Adj. Reau, which ascended to a height of 7,053 feet The former rec ord of 5.085 feet was made in 1903 by the French dirigible Clement Bayard. Assistant Attorney General Fowler announces that proceedings will be filed in Los Angeles against the West ern Wholesale Plumbers association within the next week, alleging mo nopoly in restraint of trade. Chairman Sulzer of the house com- mittee on foreign affairs declared at the White House that congress would force the abrogation of the Russian treaty of 1882, under which American Jews travelling in Russia are discrim- mated against.
 Something over S200,000 was raised" said Frank Morrison, secre- tary of the American Federation of Labor and custodian of the McNa- Marara defense fund. Approximately all was turned over to attorneys at Indianapolis and Los Angeles" Speaker Clark of the house of rep. resentatives announced that he would | take no action on the petition for the | impeachment and expulsion from the | house of representatives of Martin | w. Littleton of New York. A mob of 300 New York women, survivors of the Triangle Shirt Waist company fire, in which 146 girls lost | their lives, attacked Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, proprietors of the waist | court to stand trial.
 | Another conservation movement was created. when, at the National IT, 1 rigation congress, in Chicago the del egates interested in drainage of swamp lands directed to form sepa- rate organization to urge the federal l government to care for the overfiown lands of the country, as it is doing for the arid lands.
 In a 200 page book published in New Orleans, Juan E. Paredes, for mer special minister of finance of l Honduras, declares the state depart ment at Washington encouraged the l Bonilla revolution in Honduras last winter in an attempt to force the 1 Honduran government to accept the Morgan loan agreement.
 | The supreme court of the United States took under consideration the application of counsel for the Chicago beef packers for stay of their trial | in the United States district court at 1 Chicago on charges of criminally vio- lating the Sherman antitrust law. A stay and bail was asked until the court could pass on the constitution ality of the Sherman antitrust law as a criminal statute
 The will of Eugene F. Ware, the Kansas poet, "Ironquill," was filed in | the Wyandotte county probate court. MT Ware provided that the entire es- tate, estimated at $2OO,O0O, should be | disposed of within ten years. Judge Hazel in the United States district court at Buffalo, N. r., de- ferred sentence until December p in the case of the Standard Oil company of New York, found guilty of accept | ing concessions from railroads on shipments of oil from Clean, N. Y., to Burlington, Vt.
 With magnificent ceremonies, set amidst the most gorgeous scenes that | the Orient can furnish, King George and Queen Mary, who will be crowned emperor and empress of India during the Dunbar, arrived at Dehli India.
 The first direct and uncensored news received at Pekin from Sian Flu since the recent outbreak there was l brought there by messenger. It con | ststs of letters to the British and American legations and the director of posts. The letters say 5000 Man chus were slain by Chinese, and that there was much footing.
 An effort to bring about a volun- tary dissolution of an alleged combi- nation of dealers in hardware and l plumbing supplies on the Pacific coast, through civil suit, and the termination of the grand jury inves- | tigation of the matter a. Los Angeles was begun in Washington.
 Turkey, in response to Russia's ac. tion in Persia, is preparing to send the Sixth army corps toward the Per. sian frontier. Turkey has been long endeavoring to establish hold on northwestern Persia, near Urimiah, in the prvoince of Azerbaijan, because of desire to share in the eventual partition of Persia, which Russia re- gards as a strategic menace. A plea for the free use by all na- tions of the completed Panama canal is made by John Barrett, director gen eral of the Pan-American Union, in | a statement published in the official bulletin of the Pan-American Union. Russia's advance guard arrived in Teheran, coincident with the resigna- tion of the Persian cabinet. A com pany of Cossaks, ostensibly to protect the Russian legislation, marched in without any warning.
 The charges against Senator Lori mer of Illinois will be disposed of by the senate committee comparatively early in the session of congress if present expectations are realized.
 Lee Smith, 45 years old; his son. Clyde, 8, and his mother, 75, died within few hours of each other at heir country home near Pennington,
 Mo.
 Chinese rebels are reported to have