The Green Forest tribune., 1911-09-22
EVENTS IF A WEEK
QUARTERS OF THIS WORLD OF OURS.
THE NEWS IN A NUT SHELL
Noteworthy Happenings From Every Coasf and Cline Gathered To- 9ethcr for Delectation of Our
 Numerous Readers.

The newly appointed committee of three governors to present on behalf of 24 states plea to the federal su- preme court for protection of states rights held a short executive session at Spring Lake, N. J., discussed a preliminary line of action and de- cided to get copies of the briefs of other states in the half dozen or more interstate railroad rate cases now pending in federal courts.
 A property loss of $20,O00,000 has been caused by the present eruption of Mt Etna, according to estimates compiled. Clouds of smoke and streams of ashes, cinders and lava continue unabated.
 Death removed another of the few remaining generals of the Confed- crate army, Gen. William R. Bogg, 83 years old The end came suddenly at Salem, N. c. He was native of Augusta, and graduate of West Point.
 Laura Burns of Morrisville, N. Y, ' years old, was hurt fatally by lion at the state fair at Syracuse, N. Y. The lion reached it's paw through the bars of the cage, caught the child and pulled her to the cage.
 The river of lava from Mount Ee- na is still advancing, sweeping all before it. Thousands of people have been driven from their homes.
 Two sailors died aboard the battle ship Michigan and from 70 to 90 others were seriously ill from pto- maine poisoning, after eating canned meat or chicken, when the battle ship was on the drill grounds off the Virginia capes recently.
 The officials of the New York state fair here, who have given unusual recognition to the suffragists at this years meetings, allowing them a prominent position on the grounds for their tent headquarters, have voted to Dr. Mary Walker the annual prize for being the best dressed woman on the grounds.
 The first woman to enter the dip plomatic service of any country in the world is Miss Clotilde Luisi wno has been appointed by the president of Uruguay as an attache of the Uru- guaan legation at Brussels, Belgium.
 One man was killed and five in- jured, one fatally, when gasoline motor car used on the tracks of the Iron Mountain in the yards at Dupo, H., ran at the rate of 50 miles an hour into a part of a freight train.
 Fire that for a time threatened the Company, at Kansas City, Kas, was controlled after it had destroyed the fertilizer building and damaged the hog killing plant. The loss is esti- mated at $75.0O0.
 John J. Johnson, otherwise known "Dogskin" Johnson, confessed to the abduction and murder of Annie Lem berger, ' years old whose body was found in Lake Monoa. He was i'm 1-ediately sentenced by Judge An thony Donovan at Madison, Wis, to life imprisonment and railroaded to the penitentiary.
 Ten thousand New York dressmak CTS and women's tailors walked out when they learned the demands for better pay and improved hours were refused. It was declared by the strike leaders that theyswill win, but if they don't 18,000 workers in allied trades will all strike.
 Mrs. Mary Wallace Baker, widow of Lieut.. Col. John P. Baker, U. s. army, died at her home in Spring field, III. Her mother was sister Of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.
 Between 500 and TOO Moroccans were killed in the Kert river engage ment with the Spanish troops, accord ingrfo latest advices to the war min istry from King Alfonso's commander at Millila.
 Prof Cappello returned to Naples, Italy, from descent into the crater of Mount Vesuvius. He succeeded in descending many hundred feet below the mouth.
 The. executive committee of the In ternational Machinists' union decided to put the question of a strike ben eft for Illinois Central shopmen up to the convention to be held in Dav- enport. The committee refused, even as ~ Mwhole, to take the responsibility for Voting the strike benefit
 Mrs. George Brown, wife of a rich farmer near Brownwood, Tex, waf, attacked while asleep on her porci and brained. She died without re gaining consciousness. Her husband was arrested. He claims robbel Filled her.
 After he had been shot three times by his son in quarrel over cattle Hiram Bansing, ST, was driven 2 his orders to a Cherokee. Okla, bani He then summoned an attorney ar, made will, disinheriting his E. children and leaving all his propert to<a sister.
 Twentyfour innings of fast bas ball were not enough to decide game between the Portland and S ramento teams of the Pacific coz league at the latter place and wh darkness closed the contest the, sco. was a 1 to 1 tie.