The Green Forest tribune., 1911-04-14
NEWS
 OF THE
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snail De started. Omana was Con- testant and San Francisco and St. Louis were also considered.
 The Republican majority in St. Louis was reduced One-half and five Democrats elected to the house of delegates at the recent municipal cleo tion. The political complexion of the house remains the same as the last two years.
 Charles s. Lambert was elected mayor of East St. Louis, H., on the Progressive Citizens Independent ticket, defeating Maurice V. Joyce, candidate on the Greater East St. Louis party ticket, by 1,077 votes. There were six candidates.
 Under instructions from war depart ment in Washington submarine mines will be laid at the mouth of the Co., lumbia river. The work will start April 30. The approaches of Portland harbor also will be mined at the same time.
 Consul c. A. Miller, at Tampico, Mex, telegraphed the state depart ment that George Critichfeld of New Jersey was shot from ambush near his ranch at Tuxpam. It is said he can not recover. The department or dered an immediate investigation.
 The navy department formally an- nounces the promotion of Civil Engi- neer Robert E. Peary to the rank of rear admiral and his retirement from the navy on full pay, $6,000 a year, from April 6, 1909. the day on which he reached the north pole.
 A lone bandit held up A. R. Lowry, a steward on dining car of the Texas Flyer Iron Mountain train No. s, be- tween Carondelet and Tower Grove stations, St. Louis, and robbed him of $40. He jumped from the train.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks, Fort Worth (Tex) society leader wife of a rich attorney and prominent in church cir cles, charged with murder of Mrs. Mary Binford, January 16, was acquit- ted on the grounds of temporary in- sanity.
 A shortage of S8,500 was reported in the wholesale stamped envelope de- partment of the Chicago postoffce. At the same time Postmaster Campbell said the head of the department, John J. Daly, had not appeared at the post office since the shortage was called to his attention.
 Reports from Monroe county, Ala, say two lives were lost and great damage to property by cyclone. At Jones Mills, stephen Byrd and Alex ander McCrory, farmers, were killed and a score injured.
 Two persons are reported dead and many severely injured in a cyclone which struck Shelby county, Indiana Houses were demolished and the high ways strewn with telephone poles, trees and other debris
 In brief statement Joseph G. Can non formally withdrew his name from consideration for the minority leader ship in the Sixty-second congress, which will assemble In extraordinary session at noon on April 4.
 In accordance with an Atlantic fleet of 21 battleships after July 1, 1911. the batleships Maine, Missouri and Ohio were ordered in commission June l. They now are in reserve in the navy yards.
 Lost in the darkness, Munroe High, 222 years old, son of a wealthy busi- ness man of Clinton, Ky, fell 200 feet over precipice to his death, accord ing to information received at Lamar, Colo. The accident occurred near Two Buttes, 45 miles southwest of Lamar.
 George w. Jackson, incorporated, one of the biggest contracting con- cerns in the United States, and the largest in the west, capitalized at $6,OOO,000 was taken over by com- mittee of Chicago creditors The lia- Utilities will amount to millions.
 Members of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, who struck the name of their fellow townsman, Dr. Frederick A. Cook, from their roll year and half ago, have present. ed Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary with certificate of honorary mem- bership in the institute.
 Four robbers blew open the vault of the First State Bank at Broken Arrow. Okla, and escaped with S4O8, but failed to get $7,000 locked in an inner vault. It is presumed their supply of nitro-glycerin ran out, as an emptv bottle was found.
 Miss Katie Scalapino, 21 years old. died at her home in Kansas City. Kas. from injuries received in 1907, when an explosion of dynamite in the Outer Belt Railway cut near her home hurled her from her bed against stove.
 The entire population of New York Is blamed for the death of IA victims who went to death in the Washington square fire a week ago. In resolu- tlons adopted at the Metropolitant Opera house the entire community is censured for not forcing the officials of the city to act.
 Keen disappointment prevailed near the supreme court of the United States in Washington when that tri- bunal finished its weekly task with out touching on the dissolution suits against the Standard Oil and Tobacco corporations.
 A new death-dealing device for use in aerial warfare has been patented by the Krupps, German gun manufac turers. It insures the explosion of protectile on impact with the delicate resistance afforded by gas bag of a balloon or light canvas covering of onrnpIona