The Green Forest tribune., 1911-09-08
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issued a warrant for Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, editor of the Los Angeles Times, charging him with publishing improper articles in that newspaper Warrants also were issued for Harry Andrews, managing editor of the Times, and R. Whitney, telegraph edi- tor.
 Lawyers representing the Southern Wholesale Grocers' association, which the government is prosecuting as a trust under the Sherman law, has practically agreed to concede to the demands of the department of justice.
 Count Oresti Del Noce was ar raigned in the Harlem police court at New York on charge of abduction, preferred by officials of the Children's society. He was arrested in his apart ments here on a charge of having ab- dueted Doris Weigle, 15-year-old girl, from her home in Cleveland.
 A sensation that made the crowded courtroom, where Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., is on trial for his life, at Chester field Courthouse, Va, gasp, was sprung when Eugene Henshaw told of seeing a tall, bearded man" near the scene of Mrs Beattie's murder for a week before the crime. His descrip- ton fitted that given by Beattie in his story of the killing.
 Unable to support his wife because he is prisoner i'll the county jail, Louis A. Weiss at Lawrenceburg, Ind, every day for the last several weeks has been passing out ts his spouse his jail breakfasts, dinners and suppers, eating only the tiniest part himself.
 John Gibbons of Bayonne, N. J., has received $65 to repay him for simi- lar sum which he lost 9 years ago. He carried the money in pocketbook which was returned to him without the money shortly after he lost it.
 Director of the Census Durand has announced the corrected location of the center of population in the United States as longitude 86 degrees, 32 minutes and 20 seconds west-or in the western part of the city of Bloom ington, Ind.
 Meat reached topnotch price at New York. Vegetables, too, have gone up in the local market. Potatoes are $250 to s4 bushel, as against $2 and $3 last year at this time. Western dealers are buying in the New York market because the early crop in Michigan was a failure and the late crop is in doubt.
 The conference at Chicago between President and General Manager w. L.. Park of the Illinois Central rail way and the representatives of the nine unions employed in the shops re- suited in check to the employees, and the strike appears to be imminent, un- less the employees recede from their position.
 Fifteen men were killed and twen- ty-seven others seriously injured when a railroad bridge which they were erecting near Brant, Switzerland, col lapsed.
 Harry Brolaski, who has been wag- ing a gambling crusade at Chicago for months, during which he charged tudI d SdulDllHS u uoI lo pOiAS Pi " tected by the police, filed suit for $25,- 900 damages against Mont Tennes, al legged gambling king.
 Processions of women. some of them numbering 2,000, marched in the cities and towns of northern France protesting against the high prices of provisions.
 w. H. Toms of Palmyra, Mich., found 912 pearls in one Raisin river clam and as proof of his remarkable luck brought the shell with the pearls to Adrain. While many of them were small, more than 100 of them were large enough to be marketed, and at least 50 were perfect specimens Of river pearl.
 Walter s. Dickey and Lawrence M. Jones, both of Kansas City, sent Gov ernor Hadley of Missouri their resig- natS5ns as members of the Missouri Waterways commission. They plead that their business interests occupy their time and they cannot give the matter it's proper attention.
 The express on the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain railroad, en route from Portland, Me, to Montreal, was derailed by washout east of St. Johnsbury, Vt., 75 passengers be- ing injured, some seriously.
 Charles Tindall, 3S years old, su preme director of the Court of Honor and an orator, was fatally shot at ShelNYille, Ind, by Edward Van Pelt, 60 years old, brother-in-law of United States Senator Works of California. The shooting occurred on South liar rison street, a crowded thoroughfare
 An order by the interstate com merce commission, June 19, suspend ing new individual and joint rates on cotton until February 23, 1912, was cancelled, effective September l. The railroads affected were the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain.
 Thomas w. Lawson. millionaire f. nancier, was found guilty in the dis trict court at Plymouth, Mass, oi conducting lottery to induce at tendance to the Marshfield Fair" He was fined $100, but appealed to the superior court and was liberated op $200 bonds.
 John Payton of Lexington, Ky, g retired stock raiser. found the famous old race horse, Starlight, drawing . laundry wagon in Los Angeles, Cal The racer is to be shipped back te the stock farm and will never worH again.