The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-10
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England is stirred as rarely before by the announcement that Dowager Queen Alexandra, widow of the late King Edward, would not attend the coronation That is the latest move in the battle for social supremacy being waged by Queen Mary and the Dowager Queen Alexandra.
 One of the hardest blows received by William Lorimer of Illinois was de- livered when Senator Root (Rep), New York, spoke in the senate in support of the contention that Lori mer was not elected properly.
 The trial of State Senator Stanton c. Pemberton and former Representa- tive Joseph s. Clark in Springfield, H., has been continued until the March term of the Sangamon circuit court. The special venire of 90 men ordered by Judge Thompson to ap- pear in court was discharged.
 Abdul Hamid, former sultan of Tur- key, has gone violently insane, has killed two of his wives and is con- fined in irons.
 Evidence of the new spirit of deter imitation which has been aroused in the Vermilion county Qll) grand jury by the premature elation of the vote traffickers of it's failure was afforded by it's call for the names of every voter at the election of last spring and primary of last fall. Joseph H. Barnhardt, chairman of the board of election commissioners was served with subpoena duces tecum and ap- peared with the records.
 Discovery that hundred thousand pounds of unexploded dynamite is in the ruins at Jersey City wrought by the blowing up of 35000 pounds of explosives, in which from thirty to forty persons perished and upwards of 500 were injured, caused experts in explosives to declare that lower Manhattan had escaped one of the greatest calamities of modern times.
 In China two and one-half millions are affected by famine. In the rural districts the unburied dead line the roadways. The famine is due to the flooding of the valleys of the Hwai river and it's tributaries.
 The Memphis special between New York and Memphis, on the Southern, was wrecked at Lime Rock, Ala kill ing Benjamin Jenkins of Chattanooga and William Billings of New York. Fifteen others were injured, one ia tally. Officials of the road believe the train was wrecked by persons who wanted to rob the express and mail cars.
 prison sentence of one year was imposed upon Edward F. Mylius in London after he was found guilty of criminally libeling King George. Myl- jus had published in the Liberator an assertion that the monarch, while Prince of Wales, had morganatically married daughter of Admiral Sey- mour, and that several children had resulted from the union.
 While the house was marching double quick to pass the Longworth- Dalzell compromise tariff board bill, President Taft issued an official threat to convene the SiXty-second congress in extra session soon after March 4 unless both the tariff board measure is passed and his Canadian reciprocity pact is ratified during the life of the expiring congress. The bill provides for board of five mem bers The measure passed the house after a long evening session.
 Near Charleston, Ark, Dick Wagon CT, farmer, shot and instantly killed Andrew Johnson. The trouble grew out of a dispute over the construc- tion of partnership rail fence sepa- rating their farms.
 Admitting he had murdered IS per sons, two of whom were women Bi- oksco Martinez, who has been hunt ed 25 years by two nations, and who led outlaw bands on both sides of the Rio Grande, killing several off cers, and was himself shot several times, was jailed in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
 The house passed, by vote of 259 to 43, the Kahn resolution designating San Francisco as the site for the Pan anna exposition. The resolution must lsSp concurred in by the senate to set tie the question finally, but it is not believed much opposition will be en- 1Eatered in the upper body.
 Charles Melodrowsh will spend the rest of his life at Saltwater and Al got Johnson will spend 30 years there for the shooting of Policeman Harry Chessmore, from whom they escaped on a street car in Duluth, Minn., on the morning of January 6.
 The Gallinger ship subsidy bill pro viding for South American and trans pacific subsidized mail routes had close call in the senate, passing both the committee of the whole and the senate proper by votes of 40 to 39. The deciding vote in each case was cast by Vice-President Sherman. H President Taft commuted the sen |E ence of Fred D. Warren, of Girard, MI as, Socialist editor of the Appeal to Heason. Warren was sentenced to six .\,qonths imprisonment and fined $1,500 Eylor sending libelous matter through K he mails.