The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-07
sixty-fye love letters, professing

be featured In the Sl00, 900 breach or promise suit Mrs. Hamer has insti- tuted against Gilbert.
 A hot wave struck Nebraska, send ing the thermometer above 100 de- grees and doing much damage to corn. Tn ecool weather had been scheduled by the weather bureau to continue for several days, but the temperature reached 101 degrees.
 Mrs. Helen D. Jenkins will go to the office of Henry A. Wise, United States district attorney, to tell what she knows regarding the large snug gling operations, of which she has given information to the government, and in which Nathan Allen of Keno sha, Wis, and John R. Collins of Memphis, Tenn, have been mentioned
 The report of the bureau of cor porations on the investigation of the steel trust" was referred to Presi- dent Taft by Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith and by the president re- ferred back to the commissioner
 Two negroes were killed by an in- furiated mob at Monroe, Ga. Tom Allen, accused of assault, was seized while in the custody of officers and shot to death. Later the mob collect ed again, stormed the jail and dragged forth shivering negro who was hanged to a nearby tree.
 No apology will be made by the of ficials of the American Federation of Labor despite the adverse report of the Investigating committee regarding the alleged contempt of court of Com pers, Mitchell and Morrison
 The financial district heard that John D. Rockefeller, who, it was said, came from Cleveland to attend to some matters regarding his estate in Tarrytown, was at his offices in New York for the first time in several years.
 The senate rejected the Root amendment to the wood pulp and pa per section of the Canadian reef procity bill. The result was reached after several hours debate. There was no roll call. The vice-presideat simply put the motion and upon the viva voce response the amendment was declared defeated.
 The senate committee on territo- ries voted to 3 to report favorably the house resolution admitting New Mexico and Arizona to statehood, with the provision that the Arizona consti- tuition containing the judiciary recall shall be resubmitted tn the people.
 In view of the improved Mexican situation the United States Pacific fleet, which has been assembled at San Diego, Cal, since early in March, it's steaming trials.
 Benign of face. mild of voice but fierce of beard, Prophet Joseph E. Smith, head of the Mormon church. holder of several thousand shares of stock in the UtahI Idaho Sugar com pany, appeared before the Hardwick sugar trust committee.
 Widely celebrated for his interview regarding the "Lorimer slush fund.- Clarence s. Funk, manager of the In- ternational Harvester company, ap- peared before the Lorimer investigat- ing committee at Washington.
 Hope of the deep waterway advo- cates for friendly legislation at the present extra session of the Illinois general assembly went glimmering when the senate, by a vote of 20 to 16, adopted 13 amendments to the al ready clouded Johnson waterway bill, transforming that measure into flat power-site act.
 Predicting an all-summer session and declaring that the house will not adjourn sine die until the senate acts on the general tariff revision bills, Speaker Champ Clark said: We are going to shoot tariff bills over to the senate just as fast as we can frame them properly and secure their pass age in the house,
 That Hug hWhitney, the Idaho out law, is safe in the wilds of the noun tains near the daho-Wyoming line, is the report received from the posses, which have abandoned the chase in the Willow Creek country.
 A newspaper photographer has a right to take a picture of any one in a public street, according to a de- cision by Judge Stearns in the supe- rior court at Newport, R. l.
 The assertion that John Peffers, his secretary, was told by State Senator Mccormick that Mccormick was of fered $2,500 to vote for Lorimer, was made before the senate Investigating committee by former United States Senator Albert J. Hopkins of Illinois.
 James Gayley, former vice-president of the United States Steel corporation, took the stand for the fourth time before the Stanley committee investi- gating the Steel trust, and members of the committee immediately re- sumed their questions regarding the agreement as to price of BPS on steel rails.
 Fourteen secretaries of lumber deal CTS associations throughout the west and middle west, all members of the Lumber Secretaries Bureau of lnfor- nation, were indicted by the special federal grand jury at Chicago on two criminal conspiracy in restraint of trade.
 Alleging unlawful combinations to restrain interstate trade and foreign commerce in magazines and other pe- riodical publications, Federal District Attorney Wise at New York instituted proceedings under the Sherman law against the Periodical Clearing House and a score of other defendants.