The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-21
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 nection with the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times will begin Oct. 10. al r1ost exactly a year after the Times plant was destroyed.
 According to the tax appraisal re- port filed in the surrogate's court at New York, Samuel M. Clemens (Mark Twain) left an estate of $471,136. Of this, $296,746 is ill that state and the remainder ill Connecticut. It all goes to his only surviving oaugnIer, Mrs. Clara Clemens Gabrnow--scn.
 Undeterred by rain and high winds, Harry N. Atwood, the young Boston aviator, flew almost up to the door of the White House to receive from the president a gold medal voted by the Aero club in recognition of his cross country flights.
 Bud" Mars, the aviator, was per- haps fatally hurt when his famous red devil biplane fell 100 feet outside the aviation field at Erie, Pa, where he was giving flights under the aspices of a newspaper
 To learn who are the real forces behind the move to oust Dr, Harvey w. Wiley, the governments chief chemist, an immediate investigation was decided on by Chairman Moss 6Dem.), Indiana, of the house com mittee on expenditures in the agricul- tural department.
 Carroll G. Pearce of Milwaukee was elected president of the National Edu- cational association. In the meeting of the nominating com mittee Pearee got 27 votes to 20 for A. E. Winship Of Boston, >>the "old guard" candidate. Three were absent.
 Within a short time plans for reor- ganizing the Standard Oil company will be announced. It was learned that directors of the trust had decided on the scheme for taking apart the combination, with it's $500, 0,000,000, so as to comply with the dissolution de- cree of the United States supreme court.
 Dr. Harvey w Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry of the depart ment of agriculture and foremost pure food expert of this country, has been asked by President Taft to resign flor the good of the service"
 Edward Gardner Lewis, mayor of University City, Mo, and promoter of various enterprises, was indicted by special federal grand jury on charge of using the mails in scheme to defraud The indictment contains 12 counts.
 man giving the name of Raymond 4 old nd6 to the police and declared ne had embedded $600 from the Pacific Elec- tric Railway company, for which he was the agent at San Pedro.
 Thirteen persons killed and 42 in jured, and the wreck due to the engi- neer taking a crossover at speed es- timated at 60 miles an hour, when the time card limited the speed to 15 miles an hour, was the gist of state ment concerning the Bridgeport wreck, issued by officials of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad at Boston.
 The special committee created by the house of representatives to h. vestigate the affairs of the American Sugar Refining company and similar concerns will meet in New York next week, beginning Tuesday.
 So many bushels of letters and pe- titions for clemency for Mrs. Angelina Napoltano are pouring into the gov ernment that Sir Allen Aylesworth, minister of justice, has had an of- fcial letter of acknowledgement print ed.
 Details of the great storm on the Japanese coast June 20 were brought by the steamer Kumertic, which ar rived from the Orient. Several hun dred lives were lost, and many ships destroyed.
 The senat's record vote on the amendments of Senator Cummins to the Canadian reciprocity measure serv- ed only to increase the majority ages4ast them of 20 over the vote taken Saturday. Saturdays vote was 52 to IA against the free meat clause, and this was increased to 53 to 12 when Senator Curtis of Kansas voted against the amendment to place agrl- cultural implements on the free list
 At the proceedings of the interna-  Christian church, at Portland, Ore, R A. Long, the Kansas City millionaire lumberman, announced he would dur ing the next ten years give $1,O00,O0O for the establishment of a non-secta- rian national hospital to be located on tfs&t in Kansas City owned by the Christian church.
 With their heads crushed by double bitted ax yielded by an uniden- tified murderer, Archie Coble, 25, and hls 17-year-old bride, Nettie, were found dead in their bed in their home in Ranier, small town 30 miles from Tacoma, Wash.
 Hot, dry weather-drought-ha played something akin to havoc with the crop conditions during last month, was the statement made by Professor Murray, acting chief of the crop re- porting board of the department of agriculture, after the announcement of the report on grain and produce.
 Amid pomp and splendor second only to the coronation of King George and Queen Mary, Prince Edward, the 17-year-old. son of the British SOY. ereigns, was formally invested by his father as Prince of Wales at Car navon.