The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-14
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Jaw. A test case against the Lehigh Vale railroad was filed in the United States court at Philadelphia
 Grain producers heaved a sigh oi relief when the record-breaking heat wave was broken and cooler weather with rains in some districts, pre- vailed. There is no doubt that the intense heat did much damage to ,le corn crop, but the cooler weather is expected to repair some of the dam age.
 Bob Harris, the negro who killed | Chief of Police A. B. Craig and proba- | bly mortally wounded Night Marshal Jacob Ripper, at Lajunta, Colo, was captured at Rockford and is now in troops A mob had threatened to l lynch the negro.
 Charles R. Crane, a Chicago manu- | facturing millionaire, who once was near-minister to China, has contrib uted $100,000, according to a report at Vienna, to relieve the condition ot the Albanians.
 Herman Mossner an amateur, at Chicago, broke all balloon records for first flights when he ascended 5000 l feet in a small balloon, alone. Moss her went aloft armed only with book of instructions. He read them care | fully and landed with all the ease of a professional.
 The senate agreed unanimously to l Dro1, i,, the morning instead of at noon, thus gaining an hour a day. An effort also will be made to hold the senate in session each day until 6 o'clock.
 The loss of the battleship Maine was caused by the explosion of her three magazines. No such effect as that produced upon the vessel could have been caused by an explosion from without. Such is the opinion of Gen. William H. Bixby, chief of engi- neers.
 One hundred and sixty white oxen. harnessed in 80 spans, drew chariot upon which James K. Vardaman of Mississippi rode through the streets of Meridian. Vardaman has been tour | United States senator.
 Approximately G00,000 acres of land have been opened to settlers under the registration plan through a proc 1 lamation signed by President Taft, 10000 being within the Fort Berthold Indian reservation of North Dakota, and 450,000 in the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian reservations in South Dakota
 Troops were called out in Manches- ter, England, to suppress the disorder of striking carters who had attacked wagons driven by strikebreakers, as sailing the drivers and dumping the cargoes into the streets The first mob, which had attacked wagons bear ing reels of paper for newspaper and overturned the wagons, was dis persed by the police.
 A flock of eleven racing aeroplanes, so closely punched at the finish that the daring drivers could hear the pop ping of one anotherS motors, flew across the English channel, complet- ing the first half of the 1,000-mile in | greatest air contest the world has | known.
 | Kingsley Olds, the prospector ac- cused of murdering Lulu and Myrtle Goswick, the two young daughters of his mining partner, who were found drowned in the Salt river thirty miles from Globe, Ariz., on June 25, was instantly killed as he lay in his cell in the county jail by snot fired from a window in the courthouse, thirty feet away.
 A sweeping investigation of all the express companies in the United States, affected by the interstate com merce laws was ordered by the inter- | stat commerce commission on it's owg motion.
 | San Francisco experienced the so. vereSt earthquake shocks since the great disaster of 1906 First came a | gentle shock, which lasted about five seconds, and then, after a brief inter- val, two sharp, twisting shocks that made the tall buildings sway and caused wooden structures to creak l ike d SLID III SlOTu.
 Julius w. Hopkins, former teller of the First National bank of Cleveland, O., indicted by the federal grand jury for embedding funds of the bank to- taling approximately $104,000, pleaded guilty before Federal Judge William L. Day
 A fast mail and passenger train on the Philadelphia & Erie railroad was held up five miles from Erie, Pa, by 12 masked men, The mail and eX- press cars were .rified and three of the crew, c. H. Block Of Erie, mail | clerk; H. D. Rooney of Erie, conduc- tor, and c. F. Bemis, brakeman, were injured.
 Foster V. Brown, attorney general for Porto Rico, recently nominated as l United States judge for that district, has declined the promotion. declaring | n letter to the president that he has worked upon several important cases in his present position which would come before him as judge. J. w Bonner of Nashville. Tenn, auditor for Porto Rico, has been recommended for | the Jud2eshlp.
 The Oklahoma law making it fel- ony to sell liquor to minors, punish able by from one to five years imprls- onment, was declared unconstitutional | because it increases the minimum punishment for the sale of liquor over that fixed by the constitution.
 Albert and Mart Gladmore were