The Green Forest tribune., 1911-10-27

of the Independence league.
 The Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson, pastor of the Baptist church in Cam bridge, was arrested at the home of his fiancee, on a warrant charging him with first degree murder, in the case of Miss Avis Linnell, his alleged former fiancee, who died of cyanide poisoning at the Y. M. C. A. home in Boston.
 There was no official welcome for President Taft at Butte, Mont. Lewis city, refused to receive the chief ex- ecutive or to attend the breakfast in his honor.
 Eugene Ely, noted Curtiss aviator, was killed by fall from a short height while giving an exhibition at the state fair at Macon, Ga.
 Bulgarian and Turkish troops have clashed on the frontier, and the cas- ualties are reported to have been heavy on both sides.
 Buried beneath hundreds of feet of water, F miners were drowned in one of the Wharton Steel company's mines near Hibernia, N. J. The victims had no chance to escape. With roar the water was upon them
 Replying to the latest note of the powers, Turkey has refused to be more explicit in regard to the details of her proposals of mediation. The Porte says the maximum of Turkeys concessions has already been stated.
 The memory of John H. Morgan, the noted Confederate cavalry leader, was honored at Lexington, Ky, by the unveiling of statue erected in the courthouse square by the Ken lucky chapters of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
 The discrepancy or S3,000,000 shown by the books of the Washington navy yard between the material on hand and the amount called for by the ac counts has been reduced to $925,000, according to the navy department.
 Five drownings were reported from eastern Ohio as result of the swci- len conditions of streams following heavy rains. At Steubenville, Mrs. John Mezeum, her sister-in-law, and the latter's daughter, Mary, 10 years old, were drowned when their buggy overturned in Short creek. At Bridge port, Mrs. Louis Vincent and a 6-year- old boy lost their lives in the same way
 Former United States Senator Abram Pease Williams, who was appointed by Gov. George Stoneman in 1886 to fill the unexpired term of Senator John F. Miller, who died ill office, died at San Francisco, aged 79.
 Former Senator Nelson w. Aldrich of Rhode Island submitted to the na- tional monetary commission, of which he is chairman, revision of his plan for monetary legislation. The com mission may use it as basis for it's recommendations to congress.
 Eight hundred Manchus have been massacred in Hankow alone, according to arrivals at Shanghai from there There were similar slaughters at Wu Chang and Han Yang. Refugees doubt if Manchu remains alive in any of the three cities.
 What is pronounced by Sheriff Nat Stewart of Santa Barbara county, Cal, and w. F. Wines of San Fran cisco, special ageent for the Southern Pacific railway, to have been de- liberate attempt to dynamite an 800- foot bridge, 25 miles north of Santa Barbara, over which the presidents special train passed, was frustrated by the vigilance of a Mexican bridge watchman.
 The first real battle of the Chinese rebellion has ended in a victory for the imperial troops, who, in decisive engagement north of Hankow, held their entrenchments against a vastly superior force of the rebels, inflicting heavy losses. The rebel forces, after several hours of sanguinary conflict,
 ere forced to retire, the soldiers hay ing no ammunition with which to continue.
 Seven court days after the begin ming of the McNamara trial at Los Angeles, the state was given it's first opportunity for the examination oi prospective jurors. Attorney Clar- ence s. Darrow, chief of counsel for the defense, turned over the full jury box, reserving the privilege of ex- amining one man further.
 The coffee market at New York reached the highest price, with No. Rio at 1G cents, since 1895, the year of the coffee famine" in Brazil
 Preliminary gliding tests made by the Wright brothers at Manteo, ". C., developed the fact that there is noth- ing radical in the design of the ma chine used. Six glides were made, the longest of them being 250 yards, while the maximum time in the air was 26 seconds.
 The beginning of the end of the work of the national monetary com mission will be marked by meetings which have opened in New York These, like those in other cities, are to afford final opportunity to financial and comercial bodies to be heard on the Aldrich reserve plan before the presentation of the commissions re- port.
 The Arkansas supreme court af- firmed the deat sentence against Syl- vester Thomas, the Phillips county negro who attacked white woman, Mrs. J. H. Lindsey, last April.
 With the delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada in line and with the apostolic delegate riding with Cardinal Gibbons. Balti- nor was given over to the celebration