The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-10

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 In Evansville, Ind, Charles Messel, IT years old, confessed that he de- liberately killed his 11-year-old sister because she had told a story impli- eating him and his father.
 The commission recently appointed by County Judge Cantine to deter mine the sanity of Ewing Watterson, son of Col Henry Watterson of Louis vile, Ky, finds Watterson was in- sane on July 1 last, when he shot Michael J. Martin at Saugerties, N. Y., and is still insane.
 The existence of an alleged coffee trust has been called to the atten- tion of the department of justice. It is charged the marketing of Brazilian coffee is entirely in the hands of a committee which controls the market and is planning an advance of four cents a pound.
 The scientists at Mount Wilson ob- servatory, Los Angeles, Cal, have just taken photograph of a celestial body nearly six billion miles away. According to their estimates the body is 5,8G5, ,69G000 miles from the earth. The wonder of it is that the body pictured is a new world being born, thrown off from spiral nebula of 00,000000,000 miles in diameter.
 In his charge to the federal grand jury in Muskogee, Ok, Federal Dis tfiet Judge Campbell held that the grandfather clause" election law of Oklahoma is void.
 The Republican caucus voted to re- tain the membership of the national house of representatives under the new census at it's present figure, 391. By this arrangement Missouri would lose two members of the house, Hi nois and Indiana one each.
 In an opinion rendered by Judge Pattison of the Annapolis court of appeals, the law passed by the last session of the Maryland legislature, making the giving of trading stamps Illegal, was declared unconstitutional.
 Forty tons of dynamite exploded on the Jersey City water front in the midst of 5000,000 people. Seven are known to have been killed, seven oth CTS are missing, hundreds wounded and varying reports leave from 15 to 20 more unaccounted for. The prop erty loss is widespread and hardly will fall below $750,000. Two bodies, be- lieved to be those of members of the crew of the Catherine w., the barge on which the dynamite was being load ed, have been recovered.
 The eruption of Taal volcano and the accompanying disturbances in the Philippines killed TOO people in the town of Talisay, according to the re- port of the governor of BatanCas prov ince, cabled to the war departme by Governor General Forbes of the Phil ippine Islands.
 The Michigan legislature, by vote of A to 55, defeated a resolution call ing for the submission of the question of woman suffrage to the people in November, 1912 The measure re- quired two-thirds majority 67 votes, to pass.
 Charles H. Millman, former mem Der of the Missouri legislature and a well known politician, was shot and seriously wounded in his office in Kansas City, Millman said his brother-in-law, Charles Hayden shot five times at him. Three bullets took effect: Hayden has not been arrest ed. Millman was eXecutor of the es- tate of Hayden's father.
 Charles Boston, the wealthy New York Chinese who disappeared before customs inspectors made a raid on the .tea store" in Seventh avenue, in which S15,000 worth of opium and records in the Elsie Sigel murder case were seized, was arrested as he was coming out of the headquarters of the On Leon Tong, at No IA Mott street, by United States agents.
 MeXicali, Mex, the first border town to be captured by the insurrectos, is in full possession of the Mexican reb- els. It was taken by a band of IS. The only man to lose his life was the Mexican taller, who hesitated to release his prisoners. He was shot with a rifle through the window of his office and almost instantly killed.
 The London News of the World says that King Georges advisers have instituted criminal libel proceedings, with the object of ending once for all rumors freely circulated for years that his majestry when Duke of York, contracted a morganatic mar riage with a daughter of an admiral at Malta. The defendant is Edward F. Mylus, who is said to be connect ed with the Liberator, published in Paris, which printed the statements on which the libel charge is based.
 Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk, whose trial on the charge of poisoning her millionaire husband recently end ed in the disagreement of the jury, had a narrow escape from death in the flood-swollen Ohio river at Wheel ing when a skiff in which she was rowing upset and threw her into the water
 Two passenger trains on the MeXi- can Central railroad are in the hands of reyolutionists at a point between La Guna and Ojo Caliente, in Chihua- hua, according to telegrams received by government officials
 Joe McElroy, negro, who shot and killed Henry Sheers, a merchant at Wenter, Ark, after calling him to his front door, was captured by Sheriff Gean and rushed to the Pine Bluff jail for safekeeping.
 Leon Ling, the Christianized Chi, nese who killed Elsie Slgel in a room