The Green Forest tribune., 1911-08-11
A sso,ooo, 900 slump struck the curb


 extent of s23,O00,000 in two hours of trading and American Tobacco de- clining $13,000,000 in the same length of time.
 A. J: Balfour at London has or dered demonstration in force against the government in the house of commons on Monday, in the hope of reconciling the warning factions amongst the Unionjsts and giving thl ministerialists final shake-up before the veto bill passes into law.
 Matt G. Reynolds, former circuit judge, was appointed receiver of the enterprises of Edward G. Lewis, the University City promoter. by Judges Smith McPherson and D. P. Dyer in the United States circuit court at St. Louis. Reynolds filed a bond fo1 $100,000, which was approved.
 After IS hours, Imprisonment in the workhouse for violating the Sun. day laws prohibiting the playing of sports, Upton Sinclair, writer, and nine of his fellow members of the single tax colony of Arden, near Will. mington, Del, were given their lib. erty
 A plot to recall President Diaz and re-establish him as dictator of Mex ico in the event of a cabinet crisis has been discovered at Mexico City and many arrests are being made.
 Secretary of the Navy Meyer will sail for Europe. 1t is understood he is about to make personal inspection of some of the European dock yards with view to picking up suggestions for the improvement of the civil ad- ministration of American navy yards.
 Eight bodies have been taken from the ruins of the Hamilton, Ontario. insane asylum, which was burned. It is feared there are many additional bodies in the ruins, which are being searched.
 Attorneys for the defense of the Mo Namara brothers have filed bill of exception at Los Angeles to the rulings of Judge Bordwell on the motions and pleas made by the defense prior to the pleadings of the prisoners.
 The revolutionary crisis in Hayti, with the fall oS President Simon's gov ernment apparently inevitable, caused the navy department to order the scout cruiser Salem, sister of the Chester and one of the fastest boats in the navy, to Port au Prince, to re- enforce the American warships pa trolling the coast of the republic.
 Combined in the same alliance that resulted in the passage of a compro- mise woolen tariff revision ill the sen- tae last week, the democrats and re- publican insurgents of that body passed a compromise farmers free list bill. The original house bill first was defeated and then re-offered in modified form by Senator Kern of Indiana.
 The capital of Haiti has been con- pletely invested by the revolutionists, and it is probable that they will re- fuse a delay of three days asked by President Simon to effect plans to se cure the capital from pillage, and will enter the city immediately.
 As climax to the unprecedented
 
 drouth the Carolinas is experiencing, 152 cotton mills in North and South Caro- ina shut down because the water in Catawba river is so low the South ern Power company cannot supply the plants with power.
 It was announced that the New York Central railroad is planning to consolidate all of it's lines under one company. Negotiations between the company and it's bankers have been progressing for weeks, it is said An immense bond issue to take over eX- isting bonds and provide working cap ital is contemplated
 Leading railroads throughout the country are preparing to combat the widespread demand for general slash in the express. Their position, which, heretofore, has been subject of speculation, was made clear at the second days hearing of the express charges and express companies meth ods before the subcommittee.
 Nine rioting miners were shot and 32 wounded in the streets of Fl Orc, Mexico, by troops in a battle waged by the military armed with bullets on one side and the malcontents hurlins chunks of gold-bearing ore from tho cars in front of the mills.
 Miss Hazel Schmidt, daughter oi former Alderman George Schmidt, of Vandalia, H., was awake for five hours and ate three hearty meals. T .Jo lxyf fnT 105 days. Miss Schmidt, said she could not realize that she had slept so long, and that she didn't feel the least bit i'll from it.
 In an automobile accident at St. Paul, in which truck filled with 36 men and women returning from days picnic plunged over 2O-foot embankment, one man, William F. Block, was perhaps fatally injured, and two others, one of them girl, were badly hurt. All in the party were seriously injured and bruised.
 Fifty persons were hurt, some SC riously and one woman probably ia tally, when Big Four excursion train bound from the west for Atlantic City was derailed on the Lheigh Valley railroad near Burdett. N Y.
 The eleventh parliament of Canada has passed out of existence and upon the political complexion of the new one to be selected September Fl will depend the fate of the reciprocity agreement between the United States and Canada.
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