The Green Forest tribune., 1911-09-29

who nave been negotiating With the American Sugar Refining company,
 and on the basis of sugar prices as they are today, it means approXi-
 mately $2O,000,O0O.
 Fifty persons have been killed and enormous property damage done by
 violent storm and flood in Naples
 and it's vicinity. Scores are missing
 and undoubtedly dead, Reports from the outlying districts are fragmentary
 owing to the prostration of the tele- graph.
 Utterly dismayed by the unprece- dented i'll luck that has beset every stage of his attempt to fly from New York to the Pacific coast, James J. Ward announced his retirement from
 the race for $50,000. His machine is ! wreck following his tumble after | flying eight miles from Addison, N. Y. Whirling about in midair, his body
 flaming torch, Frank Miller, an avi- ator, was burned to death and drop | ped to the ground eharred and life | less mass in the sight of thousands | of mortified spectators at the Miami county 1alr at Troy, Q.
 The strike of the Detroit street | railway employees was settled by ar
 bitration. The employees accepted a
 new wage rate schedule of 23 cents an hour for the first six months, 271a
 cents for the next year and 291a | cents thereafter
 The government is ready to permit the International Harvester company voluntarily to readiust it's organiza- | tion to conform to recent interpreta- | tions of the Sherman law, and avoid | prosecution, is a Washington rumor. Pending the result of conferences be- l tween Attorney General Wicker
 sham and attorneys for the company, the threatened dissolution suit is ~e- l ing delayed
 United States Judge Peter s. Cross cup fguratively tied a string to his | forthcoming resignation from the | bench by declaring that if any inter- est, organization or individual is now 1 Investigating his record and wants 1 further time to cloud his nineteen years public service by intimating l he is retiring under pressure he will
 not tender his resignation to Presi-
 dent Taft October as he announced | he would do.
 The Russian court influences are | mobilizing to control the government that shall succeed that of the late
 Premier Solypin. The impression pre-
 vails that the tenure in office of M. l Kokovsoff, the acting premier, will 1 be temporary. The Nationalists fear l they would be set aside if Kokovsoff
 remains at the head of the ministry. John w. Rosenbaum of Chicago
 was killed at Dewitt, Ia., when his aeroplane fell from a height of 50 | feet. He had been in the air only twenty minutes when he lost control of the machine.
 | Suit has been instituted in the
 United States circuit court at Tren- | ton, N. J., by the Buckeye Powder
 company against the E. I. Dupont De Nemours company to recover $1,119,- | 957S2 and reasonable counsel fee. | Suit was brought under the Sherman | antitrust law
 
 that former Congressman James | Tawney is to succeed the late Sen
 ator Carter as head of the interna- tion joint commission to settle the Canadian boundary dispute.
 Shipping companies engaged in the North Atlantic trade have nearly completed arrangements for an all
 round increase in passenger rates,
 in order to recoup their losses arising
 from the recent increase in wages.
 The French aviator, Bregi, arrived at Fez, Morocco, having made sue cessful flight from Casabianca, carry ing a passenger, in his aeroplane. The airmen and their machine were in eX- cellent condition. The Arabs exhib- ited wild enthusiasm when the men alighted. Bregi was received by the sultan.
 Twelve thousand Jews have left Kiev since the assassination of Pre-
 mier Stolypin, and the exodus con- tinues Acting Premier Kokovsoff, through a representative, informed deputation of the Jewish aristocracy
  ated alarm through their cowardice,
 but that fitting measures against dis
 orders had been taken.
 Divers have recovered $150,000 in gold from the wreck of the steamship Ramona which foundered on Spanish
 Island Alaska, recently. They have
 also brought up some of the baggage
 and mails.
 With 700 school children as a body
 guard, the funeral of Edmond H. Mad
 ison, representative in congress from the Seventh Kansas district, took
 place at his old home in Dodge City
 Toro Amarillo, village near Ala
 jeula, Costa Rica, has been destroyed
 by an earthquake Three lives were
 lost, including Alvez Duos, state Of
 ncial. A score of persons were hurt
 and 100 houses demolished.
 Statistics for the present year show
 that the French are becoming a beer
 drinking people. Since last January
 they drank 131, 1,250,000 quarts Of beer
 in excess of previous years. The heat
 wave is blamed.
 Thomas A. Edison's automobile ran
 over and instantly killed child of 12 at Lauf, few miles from Nurem
 burg Bavaria. There was no care
 lessness on the part of MT. Edison S chauffeur, but his party was detained for hearing. The party was later allowed to proceed.
 Fourteen men were drowned in the sinking of the schooner WhiSper off