The Green Forest tribune., 1911-06-16
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ue war DelUSr over, CUHSti utllNCIS at least. the presidential campaign >began in Mexico when General Der 'hardo Reyes, who was recalled from Europe to aid in the establishment of peace. arrived at Vera Cruz by the steamer Fuerst Bismarck from Ha- vana.
 The sacrifice of Mrs. Anita Schmidt, of St. Louis, who barred her soul to the world in an effort to save Dr. HaIdane Clemenson of Chicago, convicted of a life sentence in the Illinois state penitentiary, proved unavailing.
 Miss Grace Dexter Bryan, youngest daughter of MT. and Mrs. William J. Bryan, and Richard Lewis Hargreaves, young business man of Lincoln, were married at Fairview, the Bryan sub urban home, before a company of nearly 100 relatives and friends.
 President Taft in his candidacy for the presidential nomination in 1912 will receive the unqualified indorse- ment of former President Theodore Roosevelt, (which will be uttered just as cordially as it was prior to the campaign of 190S
 Andrew Carnegie started for Sllibo castle by motor He read the London papers containing the reports of Judge Gary's testimony in the steel trust in- quiry. Then he wrote the following: Judge Gary's statement, as reported, embraces and settles the whole mat ter"
 The Canadian reciprocity bill will not get out of the senate finance com mittee without amendment according to developments. notwithstanding the insistence of President Taft that 1t should not be amended in manner or form.
 The cup of death"-the common drinking cup-at public fountains and all public drinking places, was abol- ished in Illinois. Governor Deneen signed the bill passed by the recent Illinois legislature, placing ban on the use of the common drinking uten- Sil.
 Inbound passenger train No. IT, with seven coaches, ran into an open switch in the yards of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific at Peoria, ill., demolishing two local engines which were standing on the track, besides totally wracking its own engine.
 gold strike is reported to have been made on Indian creek tribu- tary of the Kovokuk river, Alaska, 300 miles up the stream. Pay has been struck in two places. Miners are stampeding from Fairbanks and other points.
 w. R. Green of Audubon was elect ed congressman from the Ninth Iowa district to succeed Walter l. Smith, who recently was given a judicial ap- pointment by President Taft. Practi- cally complete returns give Green a majority of 1,192 over w. s. Cleve- land, his Democratic opponent.
 A United States investigation of conditions in the lumber industry looking toward the prosecution of the so-called lumber trust" began before a special grand jury in the United States district court at Chicago.
 Daniel OReilly, former assistant district attorney, was sentenced to five months on Blackwell's Island, New York, for receiving $S5,000 in se- curities stolen from the banking firm of Aaron Bancroft & Go. OReiily also suffered a harsh arraignment from District Attorney Whitman.
 Criticism of President Taft and de- nunciation of the Republican tariff plan were contained in the report on the wool revision bill, presented to the house by Representative Underwood (Dem), Alabama, on behalf of the Democratic majority in the commit tees
 General and Sonora Diaz arrived at Havana oI board the steamship Ypi- rangia of the Hamburg-American line. No one was allowed to go aboard the ship except United States Minister Jackson, Mexican Minister Godoy and Sonora Pasolodos, the presidents sec retary, who went off in a special launch to visit General Diaz.
 The thirty eighth annual meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, in Boston, has brought together nearly 2,000 men and women who have made study of the best means of caring for or reforming the incorrigibles and defective.
 It has been almost two months since the oil boom started at Carlyle, III. Now there are 50 drilling optfits in operation within radius of six one-half miles long, east and west, and a half mile wide.
 Lieutenant Luccia, an aviator, and lieutenant HeRnequin, who was fly ing with him as a passenger, were se- riously injured when their aeroplane fell 250 feet. Luccias legs were bro ken and one of Hennequin's was bro ken.
 President Taft promised Represen- tative Hardwick of Georgia chairman of the special house committee inves- tigating the sugar trust, that all infor- nation regarding the trust now in the possession of the executive depart ment of the government will be put at the disposal of the committee.
 The Commercial club of Hannibal, Mo. secured 60-day option on ths old Mark Twain homestead, located on Hill street The club learned that the property was about to be sold, the old building torn down and flats erected on the site,