The Green Forest tribune., 1911-10-13
NEWS IF THE WEEK
HAPPENINGS OF THE PAST SEVEN DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
 PRESENTED.
ALL AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For eign Countries Are Here Given in Short Meter for
 Busy Readers.

Alfred Schroeder, captain of the 400 ton schooner Elviera, says as his yes sel neared Bosgoslay, in the Arctic, a burst of vapor rose above the island i; dust rained upon the sea, stirring it to boiling mass and as the vapor cleared new land was in sight. ''. During the recent eruption of Mount Asam, Japanese named Sershiro committed suicide by throwing him self into the crater of the volcano.
 Dissatisfied with conditions near the Memphis, Tenn, shops, Illinois Gen. tral strike breakers struck and rail- road officials assert 100 were sent to Chicago.
 William B. Mcclure, a politician, was arrested on charge of attempt ed bribery preferred by Mayor Lewis P. Kniffen of Wilkesbarre, Pa. It is alleged that Mcclure laid on the mayors desk $4,000 in bills and $25, ,000 in bonds in an effort to get a franc chise granted for a new electric light company signed.
 The prevalence of typhoid fever ev- cry summer has forced the bureau chiefs and Secretary Wilson of the de- partment of agriculture to adopt rule insisting that all field men of the department be vaccinated with anti toxin for the disease. There are about 10000 field men.
 A temporary injunction, preventing strikers from picketing the Southern Pacific shops, was granted to the Har rinan official at Houston by United States District Judge Willer T. Burns. Frank Tullis, a strikebreakers guard, who was shot, is in serious condi- tion.
 Plans to organize Minnesota for Taft delegation in the next national Republican convention will be set on foot by the State League of Republi- can clubs, October Il. The league has an organization extending over the state, and it is the intention to organ ize Republican clubs by towns and counties this winter.
 St. Georges Church and three large
 
 fire at Leicester, Eng. The loss is es- timated st $1,250,000.
 Prosecution of the leaders of the railroad strike under the Sherman antitrust law is the next step under contemplation by the railroads. Hi nois Central and the Hartman officials admitted counsel are delving into the decision of the United States supreme court in the Danbury matters case, and that suit may be instituted against the strike leaders.
 Circular letters announce the can- didacy of Tom L. Lewis as national president of the United Mine Work CTS. Lewis was defeated year ago for reelection to that office by Pres ident White of Iowa.
 Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, hero of Santiago and retired from active service, fell dead on Forty fourth street, near Fifth avenue, New York. The admiral had been a suf- ferer from heart trouble.
 Dr. Harry Elgin Webster, bigamist
 
 H., for wife murder. has been mar ried three times, instead of two. He killed his third wife.
 The trial of Gen. Harrison G. Otis and associates on the Los Angeles Times on the charge of publishing in- decent matter in the Times regarding the Beattie trial was definitely post poned.
 Using several big rolls of wire as a barricade, four robbers exchanged shots with an armed posse of citizens at Noel, Mo-, and stood them off, while another robber footed the Bank of Noel of about $6,000. Y ,Dr. Harry Elgin Webster, Rush Medical college graduate, student and interne at the Polyclinic hospital, Chi cago, in a confession to the police admitted that he murdered one of his two young wives, Bessie Kent Web ster of Chicago, in the woods of Ogle county, ten miles from Dixon, H., September 16
 By decisive majority, Atlanta, Ga, decided against changing it's form of government to a modified commission system. The vote was 4,965 against and 2,967 for, a majority of 1898 Mine children of MT. and Mrs Will liam Dias, who lived near Heshbon, Pa, lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the Dias home. Every DOT tion of the building was burned and nothing but the charred bones of the victims was found. These were gath cred together and placed in one coffin. It is believed in London and at the great continental capitals that the war over Tripoli will not last much longer Turkey, it is considered cer- tain, will yield Tripoli but will get tolerably liberal terms from the Ital. ian government.
 The British steamer Hatfield, from Huelya, Spain, for Rotterdam, was in collision in the English channel with the British steamer Glasgow, from Rotterdam for Dundee, and sunk. All the members of the Hatfield's crew, numbering about twenty men, were drowned.