The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10


 Paris. Germany recognizes Frances right to a protectorate over Moroc- co. In turn, France cedes about 250,- 900 square kilometers in the Northern French Congo to Germany The ter ritory is peopled by 1,000,000 negroes and has a commerce valued at $2,- 500,000 annually.
 Premier Kokovsoff has modified the governor of Yetaterinoslav's order for wholesale expulsion of the Jews from the province. He says only those of less than five years residence need go. Anti-Semitic agitators are fu- rious.
 Rear Admiral Bower, U S. N, was placed on the retired list Up to last spring he had been superintendent of the naval academy at Annapolis. He was relieved on account of ill health.
 Mrs. Barton Harpe, her tyo little children, aged 3 and 4, and her sis ter, Miss Lena Hughes, all heavily wrapped to protect them from the cold, were killed by a Louisville & Nashville Train. They did not ear the whsle because of their earmuffs.
 Incomplete returns from 225 pre- cincts out of 243 in Los Angeles, Gal, give the following vote for mayor in the municipal primary: Job Hartman (Soc), 9,703; George Alexander (Rep.. Good Government), 9,205.
 1icDofnh from EJanlyOur ct ri torious imperialist troops massacred the natives and set fire to the prin- cipal buildings of the town.
 Fire, which destroyed the powder factory of the Imperial Powder com pany at Chehalis, Wash, caused seven young women employed in the fac tory to lose their lives, and an eighth probably will die.
 The war office at Pekin issued a report that the imperialist forces have recaptured Hankow and massa- cred the population. No details are given and communication with the stricken city impossible.
 The successor in Washington of Apostolic Delegate Diomede Falconio, soon to be elcvated to cardinal, prob ably will be Mgr. Agius, a Maltest Benedietine, who is now the apos- tolic delegate to the Philippines.
 Twentyfour persons were drowned when the French steamer Diolibah sank at sea. The Diolibah was tow ing the French steamer Liberia for Marseilles when the latter fouled her off the coast of the Canary Islands.
 For the first time since 1883 the postoffice department has operated for fiscal year, that ending June 30, 1911, at profit. In "A months the conduct of the postal service has resulted in changing a deficit of $1,- 49,770 for the fiscal year 1909 to a surplus of $219,118 for the fiscal year 1911.
 An edict was issued In which the Chinese throne, after humbly apolo. gizing for it's past neglect in this matter, grants an immediate consti- tuition to the country with a cabinet from which all nobles are to be ex- cluded. The edict also grants pardons to all rebels and all political offend CTS.
 Joseph H. Choate, representing the 6 per cent bondholders of the Ameri- can Tobacco compeny, announced tS the circuit court judges at the tobacco hearing that if there is incorporated in the reorganization plan the sugges- tion of Attorney General Wickersliam that the government be granted the right to appeal to the court for fur ther relief at any time within five years, none of the bondholders would consent to the dissolution plan, and that it would surely fail.
 Twenty-Five thousand dollars in gold and bank notes, identified as part of the loot stolen from the local branch of the Bank of Montreal, at Westminster, B. C., on September 16 was found by workmen under side walk few blockc from the scene of the robbers.
 The postoflce department has re- scinded the ban on Santa Claus mail Postmaster General Hitchcock direct ed that any letters addressed to Santa Claus" may be delivered tc charitable organizations or benevo- lent persons that ask for them, in- stead of having such mail returned to the senders or destroyed
 Missouri volunteered to aid Oregon in defending the constitutionality of the initiative and referendum Through Elliott w Major, attorney general, Missouri obtained permission in the supreme court to file brief in the Oregon case in which the in itiative and referendum is attacked by the Pacific Telephone company.
 That the Italians have suffered heavy reverse i'll Tripoli and that the army of occupation there is in danger is indicated by messages at every i'm portanut capital in Europe.
 A day of thanksgiving and prayers on Thursday November 30, was pre- scribed to the whole county by Presi- dent Taft in his Thanksgiving prccla- nation.
 In a desperate attack upon the Italian cordon surrounding Tripoli, the Turks drove the former into the city in disorder, according to dis patch to the newspaper Sabah. The message said 5000 Italians were killed and 700 wounded. They are said to be penned in the city now and in imminent danger of annihila tion.