The Green Forest tribune., 1911-12-08

lllOhCy olid uldhS c GSICl HilhCd SllOl to land the Democratic national con- vention for that city.
 Diphtheria is raging in Berlin. More than 1,200 cases have been re- ported within the last two months, with 150 deaths. The authorities say the deaths are chiefly among the poorer persons, who refuse to obtain antitoXin.
 Twelve loaded revolvers and two sticks of dynamite were found inside the 30-foot wall surrounding the Unit ed States penitentiary at Leaven- worth, Kas., by guard whose atten- tion was directed to bundle by a convict.
 Leases in the name of Thomas F. Ryan and John Hays Hammond have been taken in the last few weeks on more than 500,000 acres of oil lands in the Tampico, Mexico, territory.
 For the second time within SO days the price of beer has been raised in Chicago. Beer that October 1 sold for $4 a barrel, sells for $450. All grades of the malt product are sim ilarly affected.
 David BruceBrown, young New York millionaire, won the 408-mile grand prize automobile race at Sa- vannah, Ga, in a whirlwind finish. He duplicated his performance of last year when he crossed the tape win ner in the same contest
 In reply to an inquiry, the British foreign office says that Great Britain and the United States and Japan are in close communication regarding the situation in China, and they would be glad to offer mediation should the op- portunity arrive.
 The Missouri supreme court sus- tained the motion of the International Harvester company reducing the fine against the company from $50,0O0 to $25,000. Judges Woodson and Graves dissented.
 With the declaration that no in- stances of vote buying were discov- cred, but with words of censure for the use of large sums of money in
 
 which investigated the election of United States Senator Isaac Stephen son is expected to report shortly after the opening of congress.
 Another desertion from New York's famous Park Row was announced when the management of the Sun gave out the information that it ch 1 c4D ing on West Forty-sixth street.
 Resolutions indorsing Governor Marshall of Indiana for the Demo- cratic nomination for the presidency were adopted unanimously by the state central committee.
 The well known Socialist, John La Farge, and his wife committed sui eide in Paris. La Farge left let ter saying he felt the approach of the infirmities of old age. which threaten ed paralysis, and determined to die while still in possession of all his faculties. His wife refused to sur vive, preferring to share his fate
 Ralph Mulford, driving an American made Lozier, won the seventh Van derbilt cup race, covering the 2S6 miles in 236 minutes, with an average speed of 73.2 miles an hour, a new worlds record.
 That the relations between France. Germany and England still are "seri- ous and delicate" was admitted in the British house of commons by For eign Secretary Grey in making his long-heralded speech regarding the Moroccan situation
 Publicity as a means of solving the trust problem was urged by Seth Low, former mayor of New York, before the senate committee on interstate commerce.
 Judge Parker, aged 55 years, said to have been the largest man that ever resided in Texas, is dead on his farm near Decatur, in Wise county. He weighed 457 pounds.
 The battleship Maine was blown up from the outside. This will be the finding of the joint army and navy board of inspection which is now in session at Havana.
 After selecting Rochester, N Y., as the place for holding the next annual convention in 1912, re-electing for next year all it's officers and adopting without amendment the reports of several committees, the thirty first annual convention of the American Federation at Atlanta, Ga, has ad- journed.
 In addition to choosing a meeting place for the next Republican national convention, the Republican national committee, on December 12, is ex- pected to go on record regarding the presidential preference primary.
 Samuel Gompers has been presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor too long for the good of the interests he represents, the United Mine Workers Journal says in it's last issue.
 Mrs. J. F. Morgan has become an arden anti-suffragist. Her conversion took place last spring, when she spent a week in Colorado and saw condi- tions due, she was told, to the en- franchisement of women.
 Three young men were killed and a girl seriously injured when the au- tomobile in which they were riding was struck by Norfolk & Western passenger train at Asheville. o.
 Miss Alice Fairbanks, 40 years old, niece of former Vice-President Fair