The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-24

A fire at Ogden, Utah, entailing a loss of about $750,000 and resulting in the fatal injury of two f1remen, wrecked the Eccles building. The fire started in the basement and rap idly spread through the six-story stone structure
 The Russian government has decid- ed to order an immediate advance against Persia, in consequence of not having received satisfaction in the dispute over the administration of Persian internal affairs.
 Thirty thousand troops in Hung Chow have revolted, defeated the i'm perialists in pitched battle and are now marching on Nankin, swearing to put all Manchus there to the sword in revenge for the massacre of Chi nese there.
 Bishop Alexander Mackay-Smith, head of the Protestant Episcopal dio- cese of Pennsylvania, died at his home in Philadelphia of heart disease
 The cruiser Cincinnati, commander Samuel s. Robinson, left Mare Island navy yard for China. The Cincinnati was under orders to relieve the New Orleans, but it is understood now that the New Orleans will remain on the Asiatic station until the Chinese situ- ation clears.
 Deceit and conspiracy are charged against Thomas N. Honan, attorney general of Indiana, in a motion filed in the Indiana superior court here by Edgar A. Perkins, president of the Indiana State Federation of Labor and other labor leaders.
 The earthquake, which was felt in a wide area of central Europe, severe ly damaged the castle of Hohenzol- fern, on the steep Zollerberg, near Hechingen, Prussia. Statues were disfgured and great cracks appeared in the towers.
 The Chicago agent for the Yale Corporation of New Haven, Conn.,, which conducts the Yale university, refused to rent residence property owned by the corporation in Chicago to Jews.
 Chinese republican leaders are de- lighted over the plea of Wu Ting Fang, former minister to the United States, that the worlds powers rec ognize the newly organized republic.
 The American Federation of Labor, in annual convention at Atlanta, Ga, decided to urge congress to pass workmen's compensation act, giving a minimum of five years wages when an employe is killed in service.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Atchison of Sydney, N. s. w, lays claim to the land upon which Atchison, Kan, a city of nearly 10000, is built. The land, she says, was given before the Louisiana pur- chase" to David T. Atchison, of whom she says she is a descendant.
 The indicted Chicago meat packers, by precipitating a federal court de- cision on the constitutionality of the Sherman antitrust law, when they surrendered themselves and asked for writ of habeas corpus, merely took steps necessary to carry the fight be- fore the United States supreme court without the cost of a delay of a trial, it was announced.
 One of the largest private gifts ever made through or to a Catholic church in Baltimore came to Cardinal to be wealthy Philadelphian, placed in the prelates hands $50,000 in cash for the founding of chair in the new Gibbons Memorial Hall of the Catholic University of Washington.
 Doc Cook, the Peerless Polar Peek er," is with us again. He arrived at New York on the steamship George Washington, still glowing with the triumph achieved during his recent featuring experiences at Copenhagen.
 Mrs. Martha Toltin, mother of the late Father Augustine Tolton, who was the first American negro or dained a priest in this country, is dead at her home in Chicago at the age of 85 years. Mrs. Tolton was born slave in Kentucky.
 Fred D. Warren, the Socialist ed itor of Girard, Kas., who was par doned by President Taft on the oc- casion of his conviction for using the mails improperly, was indicted sec ond time by the federal grand jury. The charge is circulating improper matter in his newspaper.
 That Turkey is in no mood to ac- cept mediation or stop the war with Italy was shown when the grand vii zier issued a sweeping order that ev- cry Italian within Turkish boundaries must be expelled from the country.
 It is understood Secretary Fisher will shortly approve the contract made with Pat" J. Hurley of Tulsa, Okla, by Governor Locke of the Choc taw nation, to serve as special attor ney for the tribe at $5,00n year.
 Betrayed at the last minute by the machine he trusted so long, Galbraith Rodgers, transcontinental aviator tumbled 300 feet out of the clouds on the last lap of his flight from ocean to ocean. He is seriously injured.
 The jury in the case of Ella B. Mertes at Cannelton, Ind, brought in a verdict of manslaughter, and the woman punishment WdS HAeu dt from two to tewnty-one years in prison.
 One man prostrated by heat and another frozen to death within nine teen hours is the contrast provided by the most remarkable temperature in the history of Chicago.
 Italian victories following on Turk. ish and Arab attacks on the Italian entrenchments were reported to the Italian embassy at Washington from