The Green Forest tribune., 1911-10-20

Woman suffrage has triumphed in California Struggling returns wiped out the majority previously recorded against the amendment, and since this turn the margin in favor of the amend. ment has increased steadily.
 Two hundred members Of the Inter- national Workers association quit work at the Burnside shops of the Hi nois Central railroad because they were asked to work with strikebreak- CTS.
 United States Senator Jeff Davis and Miss Leila Carter were married at the home of the brides parents at Ozark, Ark. They departed for west ern tour and will be at home Novem. Der 1.
 A blizzard, the first of the winter, ragged in Montana. For nearly 36 hours Buttes wire communication was cut off, and that city struggled with one of the worst snow storms in it's history.
 James Dygart confessed to the mur- der of Mrs Amelia Bolton and her cousin. Frank E. Rhoades, on the Bol- ton farm in Anoka county, Minn., on September 12.
 James Wilson, secretary of agricul- ture, declined to take seriously the pe- tition of the food committee of the Ma tional Consumers league, that he be removed from office by President Taft for alleged laxity in the enforcement of the food and drug act.
 England's most powerful, though
 ot largest, battleship, the King George ", was launched at Ports mouth Princess Christian of Schles- wig Holstein christened it with Aus tralian red wine.
 Major Armando Andre, editor of Fl Dia, and Dr. Manuel Mencia, director of customs, fought a duel with sabers at Havana, Cuba, Dr. Mencia being severely wounded.
 Incomplete returns from 2,337 pre- cincts, in California, with 793 still be De heard from, give on women suf- frage amendment: For 102,726; against 104,62S; majority against the amendment, 1902.
 The arnlstice between Italy and Turkey, for which German diplomacy has been striving for some time, it is said has practically been conclud- cd, although not yet announced as official" It is understood the trans Ne petition will not be interfered with, but that hostilities in all quarters will cease.
 Edward M. Grout, former comp troller of the city of New York, and president of the defunct Union bank, and James T. Ashley, cashier of the bank, were indicted by the Kings county grand jury.
 Efforts to have the Ohio State Fed eration of Labor go on record against the political ambitions of Gov. Jud- son Harmon of Ohio met with repudi- ation after a warm debate.
 James Pauley, a negro boy 10 years old, was captured at Beckley, w. Va, with stolen horse which the boy had ridden at top speed for fifty miles.
 The flood from the Hatfield dam is now sweeping the country just north of La Crosse, Wis, and is in creasing the height of the Mississippi river there at the rate of an inch an hour.
 Late but incomplete returns indi- cate woman suffrage has been defeat ed in California, and that the reform amendments, initiative and referen- dunn and recall and employers liabil- ity have been adopted by large ma ioritics. The reform measures have been indorsed by three to one vote, while the suffrage result wlii De closer.
 The first part of the Franco-G German negotiations concerning the status of Morroco has been finished and the agreement is ready to be initiated" by both parties as a sign of accept ance.
 A terrific battle between the rebel forces and the government troops, which resulted in the capture of the city of Yachau, near Chung-tu, is re- ported in official dispatches to Pekin
 Railroad telegraph operators of the New York Central, Big Four and Bal timore & Ohio lines have made de- mands for an increase in wages from 14 to 20 per cent.
 Mrs. Ida von ,Claussen, otherwise the Baroness ven Claussen, famous for her $1,000,000 damage suits against Colonel Roosevelt, was con- mitted to Bellevue, N. Y, for exami nation into her sanity.
 Serious international complications are threatened by the action of the group of Frenchmen who have hoist ed the French flag over fort at Az adir, Morocco. The flag raisers an nounced that France had proclaimed a protectorate, and that Frenclsmen were holding the fort and defying the Caliph of Agadir, who had ordered the flag lowered.
 Southwestern Colorado and north ern New Mexico are devastated as result of the most severe floods that section has experienced since 1884. Miles of railroad track, several rail-. road bridges, many scattered houses and at least two towns have been washed away.
 Governor Noel of Mississippi has asked the governor of fourteen states affected by the Illinois Central strike to meet in joint conference with rep resentatives of the railroad and the strikers in an effort to end the dis.