The Green Forest tribune., 1911-05-05
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 Edward Tilden, head Of the beef trust, w. c. Cummings and George M. Benedict were arrested in Chicago on warrants charging them with con tempt of the Illinois state senate in refusing to produce documents de- manded by the Lorimer Investigating committee in the investigation of the alleged bribery in connection with William Lorimer's election to the United States senate.
 With 30 soldiers, a second lieuten- ant, little more than a boy, engaged in battle with 400 rebels at Cajones, Guerrero. At the conclusion of the brief encounter the lieutenant and 26 soldiers were dead and the remaining two of his men were prisoners.
 The selection of Fl Paso as the place for holding the formal peace conference and the naming of Judge Francisco Carbajal of the Mexican su- preme court as the federal commis- sioner were important developments ill the peace situation.
 The reported declaration of Ramon Corral, vice-president of Mexico, that Americans were fomenting trouble in his country in order to force interven- ton, has encountered the disfavor of the United States.
 A dispatch from Prentice, Wis, in the north central part of the state, says the town was practically de- stroyed by fire. Prentice has nearly 1000 inhabitants.
 Two internal machines, made of 50 pounds of dynamite, fuse and caps and tin cans wrapped in ordinary sweat CTS and packed in suit cas. with the fuses sticking through hole in the side for immediate touching off, were discovered in union station at St. Louis. It is estimated the dynamite would have wrecked the building and perhaps killed or injured all the occu- pants had it been exploded
 Senator William P. Frye resigned as president pro tenn of the United States senate, and Jacob H. Gallinger is chosen in his stead.
 France notified the signatories of the Algeciras conference agreement that prompt and energetic interven- ton in Morocco by France had be- come necessary to protect foreigners at Fez, re-establish order throughout the country and safeguard the sover- eighty to the sultan
 Seventeen indictments were re- turned by the federal grand jury that has been Investigating alleged rebat- ing by Ohio railroads to subsidiaries of the New York Steel corporation, the roads involved being the Lake Shore, the Pennsylvania, the Nickel Plate and the Bessemer & Lake Erie.
 Dr. B. c. Hyde, under a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of Col. Thomas H. Swope, was released from the county jail on writ of habeas corpus granted by the seven judges of the circuit court.
 Spain, through her minister to Mex ico Bernardo de Cologan Cologan, made formal protest to the foreign office against the assa ssination of six subjects of King Alfonso in the state of Puebla.
 Edward Tilden, Chicago, president of the National Packing company and reputed custodian of the alleged $100,- 900 bribery fund used in connection with the election of United States Senator William Lorimer, was charged with coDsempt by the committee for refusal to produce firms financial records.
 Detective Burns was served with warrant charging him with complicity in the alleged kidnaping of J. J. Me Namara, secretary-treasurer of the h. ternational Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. Three at- torneys, arraigned on the same charge, spent two hours in jail at Indianapolis because of delay in obtaining bonds.
 Judge Landis, in the federal court in Chicago, sentenced Sedudino Mag zone the maximum penalty, ten years in the Benitentiary for white slaving. Mazzone is 21 years old, and married.
 Edward Tilden and William c. Cum mings and George M. Benedict, presi- dent and cashier of the Drovers' Trust and Savings bank of Chicago, were or dered arrested on contempt charge by the Illinois state senate. The vote was 40 to '.
 Governor Deneen sends a lengthy special message to the Illinois legisla- ture, recommending an appropriation to further the progress of the deep waterway plans; and the appointment of a commission to cooperate with the national government to carry on the work.
 President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor has taken a defiant attitude in his reply to the Central Federated union, who had requested him not to speak at a peace celebration from the same stage with Andrew Carnegie.