The Green Forest tribune., 1912-08-30

WI Co anu SWCllly lhuS- sian noncommiSsioned officers and soldiers were tried by court martial in the Sappers camp in Asiatic Rus sia on the charge of mutiny. Fifteen of them were sentenced to be hanged, seven acquitted and 206 sent to jail for various terms.
 Hooper Alexander, the Prohibition candidate for governor, went down in overwhelming defeat at the polls in Georgia, when John M. Slaton was nominated for governor over three op- ponents.
 Unofficial notice has been given to the United States that Baron Henge1- muller von Hengevar, ambassador from Austria-Hungary, will retire from that post. The baron has been at Washington eighteen years and is the dean of the diplomatic corps at this capital.
 Protests, alleging that c. w. How ard, whom President Taft has nom- mated to be federal judge for the western district of Washington, has been a lobbyist and supporter of Judge Judge Cornelius P Sanford, whom he was named to succeed, were filed with the senate by Senator Poin- dexter.
 The plant of the Los Angeles Pack ing company which is affiliated with Swift & Co.,, was destroyed by fire. Four hundred horses and 800 sheep h1rnnh Gd00 mo
 President Taft sent to the senate the following consular nominations: Perry C. Hays of Montana, at Zanzi- bar; George N. Hanson of Utah, at Hobart, Tasmania; Walter A. Leon. ard of Illinois, at Stavanger, Norway.
 Charles Hilles announced that George R. Sheldon would be treasurer of the Republican national commit tee during the campaign. Sheldon acted in similar capacity in 1908.
 After stormy session of the Iowa Progressive state central committee, Chairman Carl Franke announced that the committee had decided to place a state ticket in the field, and the con vention would be held here Septem- Der 4, at the time of Col. Roosevelt's visit
 A Cossack who had been detached from his troop for breach of discip- linef entered the apartment of Prince Tumanoff at St. Petersburg and shot that nobleman dead.
 Premier Raymond Poincare was
 
 when he landed here from the French armored cruiser Condo on his return from his successful mission to Russia
 Nearly the entire detachment of 500 garrison of the city of Leon. to the north of Managua, was massacred by force of insurgents, according to reports which reached the Mexican capital.
 Senate and house conferees agreed to compromise on one $15,000,000 bat, tie ship in the naval appropriation bill, paving the way for termination of the long deadlock on that measure.
 In an S0-page book, just issued, the American Federation of Labor makes an accounting of the $236,105 fund col lected for the defense of J. J. and J. B. McNamara in the Los Angeles dynamite cases. The expenditures were $227, ,911S5, leaving balance of $8,15340.
 The Panama canal bill, providing for the free passage through the canad of American ships engaged in the coastwise trade, American reg istry for foreign built ships designed to engage only in the foreign trade, the admission of ship building mate rials free of duty, and containing prohibition against railroad owned ships passing through the canal, has been sent to the president for his signature.
 Progressive Republicans and Demo- cratic senators conferred informally as to the advisability of introducing a resolution ;n the senate directing the committee on privileges and elec- tions to investigate the title of Sen. Boise Penrose to his seat.
 Friends are rallying to the support of Councilman William Burke of Philadelphia, who resigned his of flee and publicly told of his former life as a convict, because, he said, he no longer could pay the blackmail an exconvict levied on him.
 Alderman Thomas B. Gilman, pres ident of the Detroit common council, and alleged receiver of bribe money, was bound over to the recorders court on $1,O0O bail.
 A band of Mohommedans, SUD- ported by Turkish troops, attacked section of the Christian population in the Berana district of Albinia. A fierce fight ensued and women and children were reported to have been murdered by wholesale. Many girls were made captives and carried off by the Mohammedans.
 The specific instance on which de- mand for investigation exists deals with the industrial commission. That organization was set at work about a dozen years ago to study the deal ings of great combinations. It de voted itself especially to Standard Oil.
 Between September and 20 Col. Roosevelt will make no less than forty-seven speeches through the country according to a schedule given out at the Progressive party head quarters.
 The federal government opened war upon the moving picture trust" by filing a suit in equity at Philadel. phia, for it's dissolution in the United States district court.
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