The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-17
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 was made more notable by the pres ence of President Taft as the guest of honor and of many other distin- guIshed citizens from various parts of the country.
 Mrs. Zeralda Samuels, mother of Frank and Jesse James, fell dead in the stateroom of Pullman on a north-bound Frisco train as it neared Oklahoma City.
 The Jim Crow law, under which the state of Oklahoma compels railways and separate waiting rooms for negro passengers, was upheld by an opinion handed down by the United States circuit court of appeals in St. Louis.
 According to the London Evening Times, Miss Ethel Clare Leneye, the former sweetheart of Dr. H. II. Grip pen, who was executed for wife mur- der, was one of 200 women who sailed on the Royal Edward for Quebec in response to an advertisement by farm CTS for wives. Miss Leneye sailed under an assumed name, and every effort was made to keep her identity concealed It is said she is already engaged to wealthy Ontario farmer.
 A crowded street car on the Eighth street line in Sheboygan, Wis, plowed into an open draw and plunged into the Sheboygan river, causing the death of five persons and injuring many others.
 A body has been stolen from the prl- vate vault of the family of the late Congressman William L. Scott in the Erie (Pa.D cemetery. The family is retieent but it is known that the body is that of Mrs. McCollum, sister, in-law of the late congressman.
 President Taft notified congress through Senators Crane and Carter that there must be a vote on the reel procity agreement with Canada, or he would call congress in extra session almost immediately after March 1.
 At Wheeling, ". Va. Attorney J. B. Handlan, for John o. Schenk. the mil Iionaire packer, filed a bill of particu- lars in the divorce suit against Laura Farnsworth Schenk, who was accused of attempting to poison her husband with arsenic.
 After being out of work for ten months, striking machinists reached an agreement with the Atlas Portland Cement company, in Hannibal, Mo-. The men will return to work at once.
 Ten shop employees of the Missouri, Kansas G5 Texas railroad were torn to fragments and seven others were tn- jured when an engine under repair ex- ploded in the Smithville (TeX) yards. Besides the loss of life railroad prop erty valued at $20,000 was destroyed.
 The county option bill was defeated in the Nebraska senate.
 The question, Shall Chicago be- come an anti-saloon territory" will not be voted on the April election. This became known when James K Shields, secretary of the Local Option Campaign league, admitted that less than one-half of the 74,000 signatures required to place the question on the official ballot at the spring election had been secured.
 A Northwestern passenger train was wrecked two miles east of Cedar Rap ids, Ia. Two were fatally injured.
 Prussia now has a population of A0,157,573, @ gain of 5,685.064 in the past ten years, according to the cen sus report
 Twelve negro men and three negro women were terribly beaten and threatened with lynching in race riot which broke out in an aristo- cratic part of Hyde Park, Chicago. The negroes had recently moved into the neighborhood and their intrusion into the exclusive portion of the sub burb was objected to.
 The machinery of the National Grange, an organization claiming a membership of 100000 farmers in So states. has been started to defeat the ratification by congress of the Cana dian reciprocity treaty.
 Colonel Rabago and his command of 300 federals entered the city of Jaurez, Mexico, unmolested by the in- surrecto forces, and were received with joyful acclaim by the people of the city.
 England S nobility was enriched by the addition of several more millions of American dollars when Miss Vivien Gould, aged IS, second daughter of MT. and Mrs. George Jay Gould, be- came the wife of Lord Decies, a mid dle-aged English nobleman.
 Amid all the traditional pomp and dignity of past centuries, King George V. and Queen Mary opened parliament in London. No detail that would add to the splendor of the oc- casion was omitted, and it was the most important social and political event preceding the coronation.
 Seven residents of Pekin, Peoria Eureka and Bloomington, H., were injured when two passenger motors on the Peoria Electric Terminal rail way collided on an open switch al South Bartonville. broken switch device was the cause
 At Aurora Ill, George Karasee con fessed shooting Florence Salvolm. He said that he pointed revolver at hel in fun, and that it went off and that he was so confused he fired three more shots. He admitted planning tc elope with the girl, but denied robbing her.
 Ruth Stewart, IS years old, young est daughter of the late John T. Stew art of Wellington, Kas., long reputet to be the wealthiest man in Kansas committed suicide by hanging at tn,