The Green Forest tribune., 1911-05-19

ton IS 95 years old.
 "A dream of dreamers" was the characterization given to the talk of arbitration and disarmament by Major General Leonard Wood, who appeared before the house committee on mili- tary affairs in opposition to the Hay bill to change the term of enlistment from three to five years.
 Four daring bandits drove up to the Chicago & Northwestern station at Ridgefeld Ill., and flourishing re- volvers, robbed the ticket seller of several hundred dollars.
 A delegation of nine representing the Minnesota State Grange appeared before the senate finance committee to protest against the ratification of President Taft's Canadian agreemen, .n Mexico's provisional government be- came an established fact with the naming of a cabinet by Francisco I. Madero, Jr., provisional president, and with the establishment of a capital at the captured city of Juarez.
 Members of the diplomatic corps resident in Mexico City met in the United States embassy upon invita- tion of Henry Wilson, the United States ambassador, to plan concerted action for the protection of aliens in the event that the situation in the cap- ftal reaches a stage necessitating the taking of measures to defend them selves.
 It is rumorred that the grand jury could connect members of the Ohio legislative Investigating committee with the bribery scandal and that a report including indictments against these members would be returned in order to stop any intervention on the part of the senate or legislature.
 An entire family was wiped out near Luther, Mich, whom Casey Van Lieren, a farmer, shot and killed his wife, his two children and himself Van Lieren and his wife had been separated five weeks. He left a note directing that all four be buried in one grave and that his property be given to his brother.
 Ill an interview, Bishop Earl Gran ston of the Methodist Episcopal church said he had not formed an idea as to what will be the result of the meeting of representatives of three M. k. churches in Chattanooga, Tenn, as to unification. All the commissioners, as well as himself, are in favor of the union, but the ques- tion will be left for final decision to 6,000000 Methodists represented.
 Chicago physicians united in prais- ing the action of council in outlawing the common drinking cup. Under the terms of the ordinance public drink ing cups must disappear by August 8.
 A search of more than a month for Elsie Paroubek, a 5-yearold child of Chicago, thought to have been kid naped, ended with the recovery of her body in the drainage canal near Lock- port, III. The identification was made by her father, who recognized the clothing
 Just as a speeding train was about to crush the life out of little girl trapped in the mile of 8 long trestle over the Scioto river, near eKnton, O., J. w. Smuck, a brakeman, crawled risking his life, snatched the little ono from death.
 The independence of the Philippine islands is contemplated in a joint res olution introduced by Senator Gore of Oklahoma. The resolution declares it to be the purpose of the United States to surrender sovereignty of the islands at the first practical moment.
 There was introduced in the Ohio senate a resolution seeking to have a committee appointed by the senate and house to inquire into the alleged grating which has caused the pres ent general assembly to be termed the most crooked in the history of Ohio.'
 The farmers free list bill passed the house ky vote of 236 to 109. Twenty-three Republicans voted with the Democrats, as did Representative Berger, the Wisconsin Socialist, and Representative Akin of New York. The surprises of the roll call were the votes of Representatives Anthony of Kansas and Morgan of Oklahoma for the bill.
 The action of Judge Petit of Chi cago in granting writs of habeas Cor pus to Edward Tilden George Ii. Ben edict and William c. Cummings, there by letting them out of giving testi- mony regarding the existence of fund for the purchase of Senator LOT imer's seat, is accepted by the anti Lorimer men in the United States senate as convincing reason for re- opening the case.
 Charged with attempting to poison the family of Johnson Pearson, for whom they worked, two negroes, Cliff Jones and Bruce White, half brothers, were taken from officers near Louis vile, Miss, by a mob and hanged.
 Mrs. Frank Dorman, of Bath, N. Y, confessed to Coroner Herbert Smith that she shot her husband. Dormap's body was found with shotgun beside it, and the coroner decided he had killed himself.
 Attorney General Dawson reluctant ly admitted that he expects to ask for militia aid in enforcing the prohi- bition law in Crawford county, Kan sas. In Pittsburg one joint is in ashes and GO men, mostly foreigners, have armed themselves to resist any effort to close other saloons.
 A. M Winters, a dentist, and his wife, are near death from eating the