The Green Forest tribune., 1912-03-29
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 of the Week S News


 ueht' With a reduction of the men. bership of the house to 300, is pro posed In a resolution Representative Llndbergh of Minnesota will intro duce
 Sldna Edwards, nephew of Sidna Al len, and one of the mountainers want. ed for the murders in Judge Massies court room, was captured at Lambs burg, N. C..
 The Japanese antarctic expedition returned to Wellington, N z. They report having seen nothing of the British polar expedition of Capt. Rob. ert F. Scott.
 A jury in common pleas court al Cincinnati awarded Miss Lillian Such CT S15,OO0 damages against William Burger, merchant. The girl, whe formerly was employed in Burgers store, sued for $25,OO0, charging breach of promise.
 The third joint ballot taken in the New Mexico legislature on the United States senatorships failed to break the deadlock. There were no material changes in the ballot.
 The pope received in private aud fence Maj. Archibald w. Butt, per sonal aid to President Taft. Mai Butt presented to the pontiff an autograph letter from President Taft, with which the pope was greatly pleased.
 Charges that at least 20 clerks of federal district courts throughout the vi uIo made in the House by Representative Clayton oe Alabama, by authority of President Taft.
 Seventy-fve bodies had been taken from the San Bois mine, at McCuT- tain, Okla, wrecked by au explosion Fourteen workers were taken out alive in the morning, making total of 25 \rescued.
 Mrs. Blanche Carson of California; who was arrested in New York for smuggling several thousand dollars worth of jewelry, on her arrival from India, committed suicide by hangin,s herself out of the window of her hotel
 That too great pressure of steam caused the explosion of the locomd- tive which wrought such havoc in the san Antonio, Tex., yards of the Sum frn rnMRoute will be the finding of the l.. of citizens, railroad men anli x.Ny officials taking testimony.
 Nine persons were killed, several of them children, and one was seriously injured in an explosion caused by a gas leak in a house in Dunmore, Pa
 One hundred and five lives is ac- cepted as an approximately correct es innate of the human toll taken whel mine No. of the Sans Bois Coal comE pany, at McCurtain. Okla, was wrecked by an explosion.
 Damage to the extent of $250,00G has been done by floods at Logans. port, Ind, and at nearby places along the Eel and Wabash rivers. Further damage is feared if ice gorges break up suddenly above Logansport.
 The womens suffrage bill, after a victory in the lower house of the New York Legislature, met defeat in the Senate by a vote of "A to IT. The en- acting clause was stricken out, ef- fectively killing the measure.
 The Taft forces swept everything in the First Iowa district and got enough delegates to insure easy con- trol of the district convention at Keo- kuk. This gives Taft four of the first five congressional districts in Iowa and eight of the 26 delegates to be se- lected to the national convention.
 The Republicans of the house ways and means committee introduced a substitute wool bill for the majority measure. It is based upon the tariff
 ards wool report and makes reduc- ms of about 40 per cent. Raw wool put at 35 per cent. Representative Fordney (Rep), Michigan, said he would not support their bill. = A united demand for flat de- crease of 10 cents ton from the fig ure now being paid for the mining of screened bituminous coal and an ab- solute refusal even to consider the in troduction of a run-of-the-mine system of digging coal, is the stand the 32 operators took in relation to the de- mands of the 32 representatives of the United Mine Workers.
 Sidna Edwards, nephew Of the All lens, was run down in the mountains, si.S miles from Hillsville, Va. He was armed, but lost his gun when the posse ran up on him, and his capture was accomplished.
 Gov. Francis E. McGoyern of Wis consin has issued a call for an extra session of the legislature to be held beginning April 30.
 Luke E. Wright, Secretary oi War under Roosevelt before the House in vestigating committee, passed respon- sibility for Maj. Beecher B. Rays escape from the court-martial to the former chief of staff, Gen. J. Franklin Bell
 Dr. Ottoman Ear Adusht Hanish, \. leader of the Sun Worshippers IIihroughout the United States, was in liticted on two counts by a federal isfrand jury at Chicago One indict- hent charges Hanish with sending 1. Improper matter-his book, Inner ntudies through the mails. Rumors that the explosion of the locomotive boiler in the Southern Pa lE fic yards at San Antonio, Tex,
 hich cost the lives of 30 or more VI ersons, was brought about by a M harge of dynamite or nitrogen are I| couted-