The Green Forest tribune., 1912-12-27
NEWS IF THE WEEK
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
 PRESENTED.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For eiqn Countries Are Here Given In Short Meter for
 Busy Readers.

The president granted pardon to Capt William H. Van Schaik, who commanded the steamboat General Slocum, which burned in 1904 in East river off New York City, resulting in the loss of 1,030 lives, mostly women and children
 Clifford Wood, a Des Moines, Ia sign painter, chose the exit of a crowded street car as the place to shoot his divorced wife Esther and then kill himself. Physicians extract ed three bullets from the womans body, but she will recover.
 Sixteen members of the crew were lost when the steamer Northern, Pen saeola to Santos, went down off the coast of Brazil. She was loaded with lumber. Eight of the crew were res cued by a passing vessel.
 An inquiry into the death of Dr. Helen knabe, Indianapolis physician, whose body was found with her throat cut October "A, 1911, has been re- opened by the Marion county grand Jury.
 In order to meet the recent demand for coppers, the mint authorities have decided to issue coins to the extent of S250,000, winch IS equivalent to oUU tons ill weight.
 John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of America, has been reelected, according to informa- iioa given at headquarters of the lS-on, based or unofficial returns of VI 4Gse 4GseeIsss1,eY. Iss1 iGi6 5}}oa{i9is.>, .~. sonvill welcomed relatives at
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 IS and the courts, were blamed T the McNamara dynamite plots at tbe outset of the governments argu- mept to the jury at the trial of the 40 accused "bomb plotters."
 Thirty-fve men were reported killed md many more seriously injured in mine explosion near Bochum, Prussia. boycott on butter to force down
  of the Cincinnati Housewives Coop eratiye Buying Lea que January 1. The women plan to do without butter, using a cheaper substitute until the price is forced down to what they term a reasonable figure.
 Sergeant FoelferlHg of the German Forh ess of Thorn was sentenced to I,ss years imprisonment and fined $4.000 for treNson, and the $19,O0O he fscated.
 SiXty-five thousand persons daily at tend the motion picture shows of Kan sas City, and one-fifth of the pictures presented are objectionable, according to a report announced by a commit tee of 30 club women who have inves- tigated carefully conditions in Kansas City.
 President-elect Wilson's life again has been threatened by letter writer The letter was mailed in New York December 12, received by the governors secretary at Trenton, N. J., the following day and turned over to the postal authorities.
 The wreck of the hydroaeropIane in which Aviator Horace Kearney and Chester Lawrence started from Los Angeles for a flight to San Francisco was found on the rocks half mile off Topango canyon near Santa Monica. Tony Jannus, the aviator, arrived in New Orleans, completing the longest hydroaeroplane flight on record, dis tance Of approximately 1,500 niles Jannus came from Omaha, down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
 The ship Westhinder was rammed and sunk by steamer off the Belgian coast. A report to the Lloyd marine agepAY at Ostend, Belgium, stated th4x number of persons had per A Christensen, Vice-president of tlkI lw York Centra! lines, and three eHLsidiary railroads of the system, were indicted by the federal grand jury at Chicago, charged with having given rebates to the O'Gara Coal com pany, amounting to $60,000.
 The Elgin Board of Trade, known as the butter trust" and the Ameri can Association Creamery Butter Man ufacturers were attacked by the fed eral government in civil suit filed here for the dissolution of both con- cerns.
 The Socialist candidate for congress from the First South Dakota district, Ed N Jacobson of Sioux Falls, spent 2