The Green Forest tribune., 1911-09-15

talked over various interesting" sub jects, but denied that the call had any political significance.
 Besides the announcement that the Illinois Central shopmen have been notified by their union heads to hold themselves in readiness for strike, there are no developments in that railroads labor situation.
 The Wiley case is once more occu- pying the attention of President Taft and a decision is likely before the president leaves for his western tour It also became known that the presi- dent intends to make a thorough in vestigation and diagnosis of Secreta- ry Wilson's boards.
 In the Christian county court at Ozark, Mo, Fred Ball, a young farm CT, pleaded guilty to killing his wife, and was sentenced to life imprison- ment in the penitentiary. The jury already had been summoned for the trial of the case, and the plea of guilty was unexpected.
 Horace Gibbs, white farmer, was killed in a battle between five white men and five negroes near Caddo, Okla. The white men declare they were fired upon while passing the home of a negro named Daniels. The negroes say the whites threw stick of dynamite at the hut and then be- gan firing.
 Through six weary hours In a crowded and stuffy court room ill Vir- ginia Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., indicted for the murder of his wife, battled for his life. A lone figure was young Beattie in the crowd that surrounded him on all sides, even windows and trees commanding the court room be- ing thick with staring faces.
 SeVenty-nine walking days from where he started in New York City, to lower Edward Payson Weston's record across the continent, John Henry Mooney, a member of New York City's fire department, has ar rived in Oakland, Cal, practically completing his task and winning the S10,00e prize.
 Baffled in every attempt to capture the murder and arson fiend, who, un- molested, has spread terror in the community of Oldbridge, N. J., for years, the inhabitants of the village were thrown into a panic when it was learned the big insurance companies have cancelled all policies on Old bridge property.
 The Zeppelin dirigible balloon Schwaben left Baden-Baden, Ger air voyage to Berlin. The airship is scheduled to make a stop at Gotha, about half way between Baden-Baden and the German capital. The dis tance of the proposed flight IS ap- proximately $50 miles.
 Paul Beattie, cousin of Henry Clay Beattie, IT,, who was the common wealths star witness against the ac- cused, and Beulah Binford, the "other Woman," who has been held as a ma terial witness against Beattie, were ordered released from the Henrico county jail by Judge Watson.
 After hiding iii the woods for a week, Harvey Osborn, 15 years old, who killed George Rellis, IA years old, in jealous rage over a 20-yearold girl, has been captured. The lovesick boy, whose home is in Warren coun- ty, N. J., near Stroudsburg, Pa, was almost exhausted from long exposure.
 The route along which President Taft will thread his way for 13,00O miles in a tour of the West, is deti- nitely mapped. The line runs through "A states, while over 100 cities are red dotted, showing pauses for speeches on tariff, reciprocity, arbi tration, conservation and Alaska.
 The nervousness over the protract. ed Franco-German negotiations with regard to Morocco, seems to have iD creased with the resumption at the German foreign office of the conver- sations between the French ambassa- dor, M. Cambon, and the German for eign minister, Herr von Kiderlen- Waechter.
 The season for lake excursion steamers now closed has been the most profitable experienced by the five transportation companies operat- ing passenger boats out of Chicago. It is estimated more than 100000 passengers make lake trips each sum- mer.
 Over a tri-state, diamond-shaped course, forty miles to leg, to Nashua, Worcester, Providence and return to the aviation field at Boston, distance of 160 miles, for a purse of $10,000, for monoplanes, Earl Owing ton won the biggest purse of the meet.
 A car 40 feet above the ground whizzing 35 miles an hour around a curve on the Giant Racer at Coney Island, jumped the track and turned bottom up. The cars six occupants four women and two men-were caught under it; two women were killed.
 Chicago police are looking for George Gilmore, the most beautiful man," whom his wife, Juliet Gilmore, in the Harrison street police court, asserted was wanted in Omaha in connection with the killing of man run down by an automobile.
 Anthony Comstock, or New York, who is spending his vacation at Stam- ford, a western Catskill mountain re- sort in New York, has thrown the na- tives and summer visitors into fer ment because of his action in stop ping the raffle of an automobile to help the finances of a church.
 Paul Geidel, IT yaers old, slayer of aged William II. Jackson. at New