The Green Forest tribune., 1911-09-22

food expert in the government serv- ice, will not be asked for by Presi- dent Taft despite recommendations that it be requested, made by the per sonnel board of the department and indorsed by Attorney General Wick erSham.
 The biggest 'haul'' in the history of modern bank robberies, and one of the largest in all history, was made at New Westminster, B. C., when three masked cracksmen blew the safe of the branch of the Bank of Montreal there and escaped with $315,000 in gold and bills. Besides this sum, they left $100,000 in gold in the safe and on a couch in the banking room, because it was too heavy for them to carry.
 Proposed increases in freight rates by the Burlington and the Chicago & Great Western railroads on traffic between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers were suspended by the inter- state commerce commission until De- Cember B.
 
 well, Kan, called on the county attor- ney to ascertain if it is possible to get rid of their woman mayor, Mrs. Ella Wilson, and the obstinate council at the same time.
 Falling from a great height while participating in the flying maneuyers at Hericourt, France, Jules Vedrines, hn x,,i,, SNf o,.;e, fr rid flight, is believed to be fatally in- jured.
 A strike of ladies' tailors in New York threatened to tie up the big fall output of fashionable gowns just at the height of the tailoring season.
 The strike threatened for several days by the shopmen of the Illinois Central railroad, because of refusal by the railroad to recognize the Fed eration of Mechanical Employees, was finally averted and the federation will reorganize.
 Lieut.. Choutard, pupil of the mi litia aviation school, was killed while making a flight at Villa Coublay France. A gust of wind capsized his machine and he fell 300 feet
 It appears from the face of returns in Maine from town and city clerks in all but 196 towns and plantations that prohibition was not defeated in the special election, as indicated by early returns.
 Unofficial and partly revised re- turns from 499 out of 521 cities, towns and plantations in Maine give a majority of 904 for repeal of the prohibitory constitutional amend ment.
 A momentous meeting of the French cabinet was held to consider Frances reply to Germany's counter proposals in the Moroccan negotiations. The terms and rough draft of the docu- ment were laid before the ministers by Foreign Minister de Selves, and were discussed and scrutinized from every aspect
 The transcontinental flight of Rob- ert Fowler came to disaster at Alta Cal, when the aviator fell from an al titude of several hundred feet and his machine was demolished. Fowler was probably seriously injured.
 The report of the vice commission of Chicago has been barred from the mails on the ground that it is inn proper. One thousand copies of the report, which is book of nearly 600 pages, are being held at the Chicago post office, awaiting orders from Washington as to their disposition.
 In round numbers the cost of the Roosevelt expedition to Africa under the auspices of the Smithsonian insti- tuition was $S0000. The expenses of the actual hunting were divided, the Smithsonian institution paying aDout three-fifths and Col. Roosevelt about two-fifthS.
 An address by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General H. " DeGraw, III which he strongly favored the parcels post, featured the opening session ot the national convention of the first class postmasters at Omaha.
 When William Fisher opened fire on wedding party near Springfield, l CIl., III Oli tStCihPI to piS'Sie SAAS wedding of his niece to Benjamin Manlo, Manlo returned the fire, kill ing Fisher instantly.
 The Russian premier, P. A. Stoly- pin, was shot and mortally wounded while attending gala performance at the opera at Kiev. Emperor Nich- olas, who was in the audience, wit messed the assassin's deed.
 Judge Moves in the United States circuit court at New York City, de nied a motion of the American To bacco and other defendants to strike out a paragraph setting forth conspir- acy to monopolize the tobacco busi- ness in a complaint brought by E. Locker & Co.,, tobacco jobbere of Brooklyn. The suit is brought to re cover triple damages of $300000 un- der the Sherman antitrust law
 One of the most signal victories American suffra gists have scored was recorded when the house of governors at Spring Lake. N. Y., granted to Dr. Anna Shaw permission to address the assemblage for 30 minutes. The victory was due Tn large measure to the efforts of the governors of five equal franchise states.
 Although making it clear he did not approve of the plea, Judge Hough let Frank J. could of New York on with a fine of $f,000 when the millionairl pleaded nolo contendere to the in dictment charging him with participa tion in the Steel Wire pools in viola ton of the Sherman law.
 Fourteen men were drowned in the sinking of the schooner Whisper of lhe Nicaraguan coast The schooner