The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-03
NEWS IF THE WEEK
HAPPENINGS OF THE PAST SEVEN DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
 PRESENTED.
ALL AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For. eign Countries Are Here Given
 in Short Meter for | Busy Readers.


 nese republic, with Gen. Lii Yung Huang as it's first president, has thrown the imperial court into terror. Manchu officials are departing for the north in droves. There are reports that the baby emperor has been snug gled from Pekin.
 The committee in charge of mis- sion work among the Eskimos at Cape York has refused to accept the pro- ceeds of the lecture which Dr. Fired erick A. Cook delivered at Copenha- gen Tuesday night.
 Conditional appropriations aggregat- ing $635,000 were granted to six col leges and universities by the board of trustees of the John D. Rockefeller fund for education.
 Three Mexican ministers were eliDl- mated from the De la Barra cabinet through the acceptance of their res ignations. Their dismissal was di- rect outgrowth of the futile campaign against Emiliano Zapata.
 A statue of Robert G. Ingersoll was unveiled in Glen Oak Park, Peoria,
  ing of his admirers.
 Judge Bordwell, presiding at the trial of Jayes B. McNamara on the charge of blowing up the Los Angeles Times building, struck what many re- gard as a blow to the defense when he ruled that the holding of an opin- ion as to the cause of the Times ex- +, ;oI, ,nd ing newspapers and which would re- quire evidence to remove, is not in it. self sufficient to disqualify juror.
 The skids worked perfectly in the Illinois legislature when the Deneen. Johnson compromise deep waterway bill was sent to it's defeat by a vote of 65 to CO., The result of the roll call marking as it did the end of one of the greatest legislative strug gles in the history of the state.
 Persistent reports in Wall street are that the United States Steel cor poration is planning to divest itself of the Tennessee Coal and Iron com pany, control of which it assumed in the 1907 panic.
 Bulgarian and Turkish troops have clashed on the frontier, and the cas- ualties are reported to have been heavy on both sides.
 The rebels overwhelmingly defeat ed the imperial troops at Hankow, ac- cording to a message received here from the scene of the battle, by way of Kiu Kiang. Direct telegraphic communication with Hankow still is interrupted and few details are known. It is said the imperial forces losses were heavy and that the rebels are in control of Hankow.
 A sensation was caused in political circles in Texas by the report, which came from Houston, that former Con- gressman T. H. Ball has withdrawn from the race for United States Sen ator. The fact that MT. Ball was geenrally regarded as Senator Bailey's candidate for the office leads to the general belief that the latter may have decided to reconsider his determina- tion not to seek reelection.
 Miss Lucinda Casey, an aged spins
 
 charging her, with poisoning her broth er-in-law, James R. Edwards, the wealthy proprietor of the Beecher Dairy company at Chattanooga, Tenn.
 The identity of the Niles (Mich.) Mystery" who has posed as George A. Kimmel, was revealed when two men who worked with him for years identified him in Niles as A. H. White, alias Turkey White.
 The result of balloting in the Mex ican electoral college in all of the principal cities and number of the principal towns indicates the election 1. of Jose Pino Suarez to the vice-presi- lNency by a scarce majority.
 Edward R. Wright of Chicago, pres ident of the State Federation of La bor. was reelected for the ensuing year by the vote of 196 to 93. He was opposed for the office by Joseph w. Morton of Chicago.
 Steps looking to precinct organ ization of the state in the interest of the candidacy of Senator La Fol ACttC AOs@ Ii>O Pi CoiuShSy hoNO pSSh taken by the Nebraska La Toilette league.
 . A gift by Andrew Carnegie of $600,- J900 to Norway's "hero fund" was an- nounced at Christiana.
 Dispatches from Pekin declare that four Chinese imperial warships, under command of Admiral Sah, have sur rendered to the rebels.
 ! Returns received from statewide primaries indicate that George w. P. Hunt of Globe has been nominated for governor by the Democrats and Judge E. w. Wells of Prescott by the Republicans. These returns show Hunt running far ahead of any other Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
 Railroads connected with the Gen. tral Passenger association are plan ming to attack two-cent fare laws in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. The deci- sion of Federal Judge Sanborn in the Minnesota rate case, it is understood, will be made the ba tis of the attack.