The Green Forest tribune., 1911-05-05

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 An entire family of eight were burned to death when fire destroyed the home of Mrs. J. H. Mum. The vic tins are Mrs, Nunn and her seven children.
 King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena opened the International h. dustrial exposition at Turin, Italy. Two hundred thousand persons were present including the members of the cabinet, all the ambassadors and min isters, as well as the foreign commits sioners. The big American exhibit is a feature.
 Exciting controversies are going on between fashionable London dress makers and their customers over Queen Mary's ultimatum that hobble or ultra-tight skirts must not be worn at court.
 Li, the taotai of Canton, has been assassinated by the rebels, who are again strong. The gates of the city have been closed. The loyalty of the troops is doubted and this fear has caused excitement among the peaceful inhabitants of Canton.
 Following a two-hour conference of Attorneys o. N. Hilton and Job Harri- son with John J. and James R. McNa- mara and Ortie E. McManigal in the lat!er's cells, Hilton issued formal statement denying that McManigal had confessed the Los Angeles Times 6ynamiting plot and that Mrs. D. H. sngersoll had or would identify James McNamara as James Bryce.
 Victor Berger of Milwaukee, the So- eialist member of congress, in a reso- lution introduced, not only proposes to abolish the senate, but aims to strike from the hand of the president the veto power, and take from the courts authority to invalidate legisla. tion enacted by the house of repre- sentatives.
 Unity and the Way to It. was the principal topic under discussion ill the third congress of the National Fed eration of Religious Liberals which opened in the Church of the Divine Paternity in New York city. The con: gress will be addressed by many prominent clergymen.
 Two Americans giving their names as Richardson and Fletcher and their residence as California were arrested at Tokio while photographing the Maizuru naval station, and are con fined while the government is inves- tigating to ascertain if they are spies.
 Home rule for Ireland won victory in the house of commons when a reso- lution offered by J. B. LonsGale to eX clude any bill to establish a separate parliament and executive for the island for operation under the veto measure was defeated.
 Twenty-four miners were entombed in the Ott mine of the Davis Coal and Coke company, near Elk Garden, w. Va. An explosion caused cave-in and all the mine entrances closed.
 General Francisco Madero invited the independent leaders to Fl Paso to participate in the impending discus sion of peace terms. The telegraph, the mail and in some instances cou- riers were used by the insurrecto gen. eral to send the call.
 President Taft sent to the senate nominations carrying into effes sev- erad changes recently announced in the diplomatic service. They include the following: Henry s. Boutell of Illinois, as minister to Switzerland. Edwin V. Morgan of New York, as minister to Portugal Maurice s. Swenson of Minnesota, as minister to Norway.
 William s. Kenyon of Iowa and Nathan P. Bryan of Florida took the oath of office in the senate as mem- bers for their respective states.
 Federal Judge Charles Wolverton, at Portland, Ore, decided that the Southern Pacific and the Oregon 6 California railway companies must forfeit to the United States govern ment about 100000 acres of land, which is valued at $40,000,00o to $75,- 0O0,000
 An armistice of five days, ending at noon April 2S, and affecting the district between Jaurez and Chihua- hua, and west of the latter, was made effective in an exchange of identical letters signed by Francisco l. Madero, Jr., for the rebels and General Juan Navarro for the government
 Capt. John M. Bowler, United States navy, superintendent of the naval academy at Annapolis, will formally apologize to Prof. Henry A. Beers of Yale university and Miss Katherine Beers, his daughter, for the recent in cident at Annapolis in which Miss Beers was involved.
 In 90 closely typewriter pages, Ortie McManigal, one of the men ar rested for alleged complicity in the blowing up of the office of the Los Angeles Times in Los Angeles, recited in detail how 112 lives were sacrificed and $3.500,000 worth of property was destroyed in long fight of organized labor against the principle of the open shop. McFanigal was arrested with John McNamara of Indianapolis, sec retary of the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers.
 General Madero asked that the Mex ican government formally name com missioners empowered by state au- thority to represent President Diaz. The rebel ehieftain declares that if more time is taken than the present armistice allows he would readily con sent to an extension.
 The National Civic federation through a committed of nine prom- nent lawyers will undertake the task of making digest of all the trust