The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-03
NEWS
 or THE
 WEEK

All paSSenSer-cdrrylnS derOpldne records were broken when Roger Sommer flew with five passengers from Douzy to Romilly, France, and return, a distance of 13 miles. Son. rsIr used a Farman biplane. Two 1the passengers sat astride the Atds.
 In Wheeling, w. Va, the jury in the trial of Mrs Laura Farnsworth Schenk, charged with attempting to poison her millionaire husband, John o. Schenk, was discharged by Judge Jordan, after making a second report that its members were hopelessly di- vided. The jury had been out 30 khours
 Harvey Wadleigh, a wealthy farm CT living near Kansas City, Mo, went insane suddenly and murdered his neighbors, MT. and Mrs. Bales, also farmers. Wadleigh went into the Bales yard and calling them to the dGor, shot them down without saying a word. A boy who was chopping wood in the yard saved his life by running and gave the alarm. Wad leigh was taken to the Mankota jail, where he raves in an incoherent man. her of fancied wrongs. He surren- dered without resistance.
 Owing to the existence of the plague, railroad traffic in the north of China has ceased, except from Tien Tsin to Pekin and between Pc kin and Hankow.
 Seven men were killed in the mine of the Erie Coal company near Pitts ton. Pa when a miner smoking a pipe, contrary to rules, shook live spark into quantity of black blasting powder, causing an explosion which destroyed portion of the mine. Fifteen other miners were en- tombed by the explosion, but were rescued.
 David Graham Phillips, the novel, ist, who was shot six times by Fitz- hugh Coyle Goldsborough, in Ora mercy park, New York, died at Belle vue hospital. MT. Phillips had been vomiting blood all during the day. This symptom told the physicians the perforaticn in the lung, caused by a bullet which had entered the right chest and had passed out of the body near the left shoulder blade, was not healing.
 Lee Christmas, the American sol dier of fortune, in command of the Honduran revolutionary army in the field, and General Bonilla have come to the parting of the ways. An old quarrel is declared to be responsible for the breach that may lead to the abandonment of the campaign by Christmas just as he is on the point of winning a decisive victory for the insurgents.
 At Wellsville, Mo-, Fred Lahr, 80 years old, committed suicide by shoot ing himself through the heart with a shotgun. Lahr had been in ill health for some time. He had been 8 resi- dent of this county 30 years.
 Capt. Charles Barr, the noted American yachtsman, died suddenly of heart disease in Southampton, Eng.
 Denjiro Kotoku, his wife and ten other anarchists, upon whom death sentences were passed by the supreme court, were executed in the prison in Tokio, Japan.
 In Anderson, Ind, Frank Ricketts, 29 years old, pleaded guilty to the murder of two women, one of whom was his wife, and was sentenced to prison for life.
 Albert J. McAdams of Superior and John Gordon of Mellen, Wis, are dead, following a street fight. Martin Miller, a woodsman, is charged with the killing.
 That Secretary Nagel of the depart ment of commerce and labor has sup pressed much of the reports of the agents of the labor bureau because of their revelations concerning the private lives of people in North Caro- lima and other southern states was asserted in the senate by Senator Overman.
 Four hundred miners were en- tombed alive and 40 instantly killed oy al explosion in the Casimir coal mineFat Sosnowice, on the Russo Prussian frontier of Poland. Fire broke out following the explosion, cut ting off escape by the main shaft, but 36o cut their way through wall separating them from cross tunnel and came out alive. Rescue parties that were able to enter the mine after the fire had ragged for several hours ' found 40 men dead, their bodies ter ribly mutilated. Negligence of the 4mine owners to apply proper safety 4aeyices was responsible for the dis resterAy
 N Gk. Hall, a contractor, was found ,dts.4 sst the door of his home in Gin cinnati. Evidently he had been mur- dered, for his body was hacked to shreds. He was known to have car ried great deal of money. This was missing.
 countrywide investigation which tAe treasury department has started hAs disclosed discrepancies in the wAapper and filler statistics of tobac- eol imported from Cuba which have deArived the government of between s9 A0Oo0 and $5,000,000 annually for thet last five years
 Al reciprocity agreement between tba limited States and Canada has beeM completed. The agreement is re- eardld as a fair exchange, and both ,he merican and Canadian negotia' torsS3 3express satisfaction with the resuH of the negotiations.