The Green Forest tribune., 1911-01-27
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That Secretary Nagel of the depart ment of commerce and labor has sup pressed much of the reports of the agents of the labor bureau because of their revelations concerning the private lives of peop1e in North Caro- lima and other southern states was asserted in the senate by Senator Overman.
 Four hundred miners were en- tombed alive and 40 instantly killed by an explosion in the Casimir coal mine at Sosnowice, on the Russo Prussian frontier of Poland. Fire broke out following the explosion, cut ting off escape by the main shaft, but 3G0 cut their way through a wall separating them from a cross tunnel and came out alive. Rescue parties that were able to enter the mine after the fire had ragged for several hours found 40 men dead, their bodies ter ribly mutilated Negligence of the mine owners to apply proper safety devices was responsible for the dis aSter.
 A combination of all the interurban electric railways in the state of Ill nois and a plan for utilization with trction lines in Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana were discussed at meeting of traction magnates at the Great Northern hotel in Chicago. Warfare on steam roads is the ob- ject of the gigantic combination and battle for government mail con- tracts is predicted.
 There are 8,000,0000 young people between the ages of ) and years in the United States who are not Sun day school pupils. This is the report made by Rev David G. Downey, cor responding secretary to the board ot Sunday schools Of the Methodist Epls- copal church, which has completed session at the national headquarters in Chicago.
 Official reports of several small en- agreements between revolutionlsts and federal troops in Chihuahua have reached Mexico City. They said that in a fight at Baquirichic, in the south ern part of the state, 15 revoluuon- ists, two of whom were leaders ill the rebellion were killed, while the federals did not lose a man. Three soldiers were slightly wounded.
 The last will and testament of the late Mrs. Baker G. Eddy, together with two codicils, was probated ln Concord, N. H. There were present Henry NJ. Baker, eXecutor, who was accompanied by counsel, William A. Morse and Samuel J. Elder of Boston, Josiah E. Fernald of Concord, James H. Dickey and Archibald Mcclellan ot Boston, trustees under the deed ot trust which Mrs. Eddy executed by which she gave her fortune into their keeping, were also present.
 In his inaugural address delivered before the legislature Gov. Emmett O'Neal declared Alabama's prohibl- ton laws to be an invasion of indi- vidual rights and constitutional guar antees, and declared the attempt to insert a prohibition clause in the state constitution to be an offspring of intolerance and bigotry.
 A boiler explosion on the towboat T. N Davis blew First Engineer Will liam Byerly into the river. His body has not been recovered. The acci- dent occurred six miles north of Cairo, H., on the Ohio river. Substantial reductions in the prices of staple foodstuffs were reported in -to cery sections in the department stores in the loop district of Chicago, follow ing the decline in South Water street market quotations on these commodl- ties consequent upon the breaking up of the food trust and the diSgOrglnS from cold storage of large quantities of butter, cheese, eggs and poultry.
 Senator Purcell of North Dakota introduced a resolution in the senate declaring Secretary of the Interior Rallinger to be an unfaithful servant and asserting that he should no longer be retained in that office.
 Preferring death to physical kelp' lessness, Henry R. Whitmore, 6S years old, former assistant secretary of the MGFcudulS SACllduSG stHU et pio-iN~A business man of St. Louis. Jumped from an eighth-foor window of the Marquette hotel in that city. note explained the deed and that it was due to paralysis.
 Four persons were killed and four injured in an explosion which oc- cured in Niobrara, Neb., and the fire which resulted from the explosion burned to the ground the three-story frame hotel owned by Michael Ken dall.
 Eight men met almost instantane- ous death and one was so severely burned that he probably will die as result of a boiler explosion aboard. the battleship Delaware, the cause of which is yet unexplained. The ac- cident occurred about 200 miles south east of the Norfolk navy yard.
 One man was killed, one fatally, two seriously and four others slightly injured in Chicago by the fall of scaffold on which plasterers were working inside the auditorium of the Columbia theater, on Clark street, near Madison.