The Green Forest tribune., 1911-03-03

1 tented tnemSGINeS Wltn expressing = their solicitude They interposed no objection to ratification and it was accomplished without a roll call.
 James Stout, known throughout Illi- nOis for activities in the abolition l movement before the civil war, is dead. lie was editor of the Pontiac Sentinel for many years, and became i famous through his connection with the freeing of a slave from jail at Ottawa
 The Canadian government decided ! 5a ataa tho incarceration Gf negroes from the United States and halted at the boundary a party which intended to go to western Canada. The negroes were stopped because they were re- sarded as undesirable citizens.
 Gen. Manuel Bonilla. the leader of the revolutionary movement, has with drawn formally as a candidate for the provisional presidency of Honduras and there is prospect of an early agreement with the government.
 The postofiees at Carthage and Charlottesville, Ind, were entered by yeggmen. They blew the safe at Car thaza obtaining $200 in money and $10 in stamps The robbers escaped with stolen horse and buggy
 Sweeping decisions as to freight rates or virtually every known variety of merchandise transported by rail- roads, have been issued by the inter-
 
 | roads are denied the right to put into effect their proposed increases in rates and can take no further step in that direction for two years. The decis- ions, marking the end of the great rate cases and affecting every railroad in the country. mark a complete vic tory for the shipping public in their ong fight for lower tariffs. Minister of War Rrun dropped dead in Paris. France Death was caused 5y embolism of the heart The minis ter was stricken while seated at his iesk, e9nferring with his chief of cab met
 Fire, which started in the timber yard of the Belmont mine in Tonopah l NeV., still sends up volumes of smoke from the three compartments of the main shaft, and it is admitted by the mine authorities that between ten and twelve men in the 1,166,foot level are lead. The number of men in the mine is not kn9Wn.
 The jury in the Frank J. Gardner case in New York returned verdict of not guilty.
 The police made sudden descent on the offices of the Westinghouse Electric company in St. Petersburg, l Russia, and seized all the books and documents relating to the St. Peters i burg electric street railway. The af- fair has caused a sensation in foreign commercial circles.
 Premier Asquifh WAS the recipient of a tremendous ovation from his sup 3ertars in the house Of CORRIDORS when l the parliament bill, otherwise known as the veto bill. a measure designed to curtail the power of the lords. was passed on it's first reading by the gov ernments full majority of 124, the vote being 351 to 221.
 Gen w T. Cabell. former eomman- der of the trans-Mtss,ssippi department of the United Confederate veterans, and one of the best-known former Con federates in the south, died in Dallas, Texas after long illness. lie was more than so years old.
 Charles w Fairbanks. former vice president of the United States, was snow-bound in the mountains of New Mexico, between Fl Paso and Corona, N M MT Fairbanks was to have spoken in Fl Paso, Texas, on Amer ica and Missions" but was delayed.
 A storm of protest throughout San Francisco has been engendered by the new treaty with Japan, which Presi- dent Taft has sent to the senate for ratification The objection is based on the absence of clauses definitely restricting Japanese immigration.
 Four persons are dead aad one is dying as the result of drinking wood alcohol by mistake at Horton, N. Y. The dead are; James Kelly, 36 years old Thomas Kelly, 38 Mrs. Thomas Kelly. 34, and Thomas Harvey, 40.
 The new German cruiser Xon der Tam sailed for months visit to South American ports to demonstrate 10 South American governments the advantages of German warship con struction.
 Representative RaineY of Illinois had read in the house a statement and accompanying affidavitsi which charged the Bethlehem (Pa) steel works with acts to deceive naval inspectors after the latter leave the plant for the day.
 Dick Watson of Omaha sold his wife and 1S-months-old baby girl to Charles | Roosevelt for 25 cents. Roosevelt bor- rowed the quarter with which to pur- chase the couple, took them home with him and all parties seem satisfied
 Mrs. Edna Henry Mann, young matron, was convicted of horse steal | ing in Long Island City. She is be- l lieyed to be the first woman horse