The Green Forest tribune., 1911-05-12

seph kemper a farm hand, whose body he dismembered and buried on his farm, is without lawyers to de fend him. Both attorneys withdrew from the case and it is reported that Poole has taken the stand that if he must hang, there is To use spending his $60,000 estate through the hiring of lawyers.
 Conditions ill Mexico far worse than reported at any time previously were revealed in dispatches received at the state department. More than a dozen important cities and towns were re- ported about to fall into the hands of the revolutionists.
 State Senator George K. Cetone. l. E. Huffman and L., R. Andrews, Rep resentatives A. c. Lowry and George B. Nye and Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Rodney J. Liegel (Ohio), under indict- ment for soliciting bribes, were ar raigned before Judge Kinkead in the criminal court and pleaded not guilty
 Nearly a score out of 100 miners in the Hartford mine of the Republic Iron and Steel company, at Negaunee, Mich, were cut off from escape when the timbering of the mine took fire, and at least seven men are dead.
 Harvey McFarley, 56 years old, was taken from a shack in which he was living on a small farm near Paynes- town, 14 miles southeast of Blooming ton, H., stripped of his clothing and severely whipped by Whiteeaps. After the whipping McFarley was warned to return to the shack and say noth- ing about the affair.
 Members of the Grand Army of the Republic say they object to being made 'the tail end of a horse show on Decoration day. Washington post, G. A. R. (Chicago). has taken the matter up and other posts are ex pected to follow suit
 Chicago bomb outrages were trans ferred to Gary, and, as a result, two men were killed and a score injured when unknown persons dynamited two box cars standing in the Kirk rail road yards, in which number of Italian laborers, employees of the American Bridge company, were sleeping.
 Reports that have reached the White House and the state depart ment on the Mexican situation within the last 4S hours are far more discour- aging than any since the dispatching of the American troops to the border.
 It is asserted from Galveston that l. Hito, a Japanese, who served as steward on several of the naval yes sels of the United States, was an off cer in the Japanese navy, with rank about equal to commander in the American navy.
 Announcement is made that the Mexican armistice has been extended for five days more. It is insisted that Judge Carabajal has full power to act for the government in the peace negotiations and that the doubts ex- pressed by Madero are without basis.
 The jury in the trial of A. J. Bass at Springfield, Mo, returned verdict of murder in the first degree Bass will have to serve 99 years in the state penitentiary for killing his wife, unless an appeal is taken and the case beaten in the higher court. He is al. legged to have slain his wife the morn. ing of January IA and to have burned the home to destroy evidence of the crime
 An order was issued by Judge Farm. CT of the supreme court of Illinois staying the execution of the judgment of the court in the case of Dr. Hal. dane Cleminson of Chicago. sentenced to life Imprisonment for the murder of his wife by poisoning
 Edward Tilden appeared in the court of Judge Adelor J. Petit at Chi. corpus by which it is hoped to pre- vent further investigation by the Helm committee of his alleged con. nection with a $100,000 Lorimer cor. ruption fund.
 Developments indicate that a great bribery scandal is to be exposed in the Ohio legislature by the Franklin county grand jury. which began an investigation. Burns detectives, whc have been conducting secret investiga. tion, declare at least twenty members of the legislature are already in. volved in the boodling.
 A boy was killed and a woman prob. ably will die as the result of injuries suffered in terrific windstorm which swept a patch a mile wide across northern Johnson county, Mo The tornado extended from Fayetteville to Valley City, a distance of ten miles. and was accompanied by heavy rain. fall
 Industrial disputes affecting approx. imately 50000 workmen in Chicago were ushered in the 1st day of May, known throughout the country as strike day" In other cities where the freight handlers are organized, from Minneapolis to New Orelans, a vote was taken, and reports showed that il stood about g 5per cent in favor of Q strike.
 The Weekend Speciai' for Cuerna vaca, 75 miles south of Mexico City was shot up and wrecked by rebels at Fl Parue, few miles from it's des tination. Three passengers and a ne gro porter were killed and several others injured. The engineer is miss ing.
 Charges that Isaac Stephenson United States senator from Wisconsin served two terms in the legislature of that state before he became cit izen of this country, will be laid be fore Senator Blaine, chairman of the Stephenson inquiry committee.