The Green Forest tribune., 1911-04-28

A ISSOIutIOil. CdllluS OH HTeSlu60L Taft for all the information available concerning the resignation of Dr. Da- vide Jayne Hill as ambassador to Germany was introduced in the house by Representative Lever Dem), South Carolina.
 Mrs Matthew T. Scott of Illinois was declared reelected president gen. eral of the Daughters of the Ameri- can revolution for the next two years at their twentieth continental con- gross just closed at Washington.
 The senate regular Republican lead CTS formally refused the one-fourth representation on committees demand ed by Senator La Palette for the pro- gressives, after a heated debate.
 Mai George E. Pickett died while on his way from Manila to Nagasaki, Japan. Major Pickett was AZ years old, native of Virginia and the son of General Pickett, famous in the civil war as the leader of Pickett's charge against the Union troops at Gettysburg.
 Evidently believing that his recent experience has bettered him for the position, the University of Chicago E. Merriam, defeated candidate for mayor, full professor of political sci ence
 The formal launching of the boom of Gov. Judson Harmon of Ohio for the presidency, took place in the rooms of Senator Pomerene of Ohio in the Senate office building, Wash ington.
 Twelve election officials of the city of New Orleans who recently pleaded guilty in the so-called ballot box stuffing cases to charges of violating the state election laws were sentenced to eight months imprisonment each in the parish prison.
 dacks has begun unusually early, with start in the foothills of the Catsllill mountains this week. A large num- Der of volunteers are out fighting the flames.
 By a resolution offered in the sen ate, Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin calls upon the secretary of the interior to explain an incident which may in- volve another sensational chapter in the Alaskan scandal" involving the Guggenheim interests.
 A six-year controversy between the state of Kansas and the Pullman Car company was ended when the com pany paid a $550 charter fee to the secretary of state.
 c. A. Barber, 8 subcontractor, who was separated from his wife, hid in the basement of the house where his when she went to feed the chickens shot her three times, killing her, and then killed himself.
 As a result of the Mexican situa- tion the war department cancelled all orders which have been issued for United States troops in this country to be transferred to the Philippines.
 The interstate commerce commits sion suspended until August 15 the proposed advance in rail rates on cot ton over the Missouri Pacific and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain 6 Southern roads.
 Robert L. Lincoln, president of the Pullman company, is about to retire as head of the $120,000,000 corporation. He will be succeeded by John s. Run nells, now yice-president of the com pany.
 That the final report or the feder- al tariff board on pulp and news print paper will be laid before the president for transmission to congress in two weeks, and that the board will be ready to report comprehensively to the next congress on the cotton and wool schedules of the tariff law was indicated by Henry s. Emery, chair man of the board.
 Carl M. Spencer assistant cashier of bank in Des Moines, la, was re- leased on parole from the federal pris- on at Leavenworth, Kan. Spencer was convicted of misuse of banks money.
 Theodore Roosevelt returne,F.kome from a several weeks tour of the WSoI dud WSot. Ao ue SIeDpEQ off train from Chicago he came into contact with crowd of outgoing Eastor visitors many of whom greet ed him with cheers
 The long-expected strike of the fur niture workers of Grand Rapids, Mich, which has been hanging fire for sev- eral weeks and which involves about 6,000 men, has been officially declared.
 A heavy frost caused serious dam- age to large part of the Delaware fruit crop.
 The United States soon will spend nearly S2,000000 in fitting up officers ana canal for housing 6,300 troops that the war department will dispatch to protect the canal. This force will be known as the canal guard.
 J. B. Aswell, leading candidate for governor of Louisiana, announces he is opposed to statewide prohibition and favors local option.
 Fire in the Toledo (O.) Blade office did damage estimated at between $150,- and $200,000. The entire building was gutted.
 Because of a decision handed down by the supreme court of Iowa scores of saloons in the state will have to go out of business The law in question is the Moon law, which prohibits more than one saloon for each 1000 inhab-