The Green Forest tribune., 1912-08-30
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and providing for one dreadnaught to cost not more than $15,000,000
 Thirty thousand 1aborers were sent from Chicago to meet the demand of wheat growers in the west and north west for harvest workers, according to estimates of immigration agents for several railroad companies.
 Republican leaders in China started a strong movement in favor of an immediate national election Their plan is to vote President Yuan Shi Kai out of the office of provisional president
 The Dublin prison officials are feed ing Mrs. Mary Leigh and Miss Gladys Evans forcibly. The two women are the suffragettes sentenced to five years penal servitude for trying to burn the Theater Royal They start ed hunger strike in prison.
 Scores of arrests were made in Rio de Janeiro, following a battle between troops and striking stevedores, in which more than 200 were killed or wounded More fighting is threat ened.
 Senator Penrose, replying to a let ter recently published, purporting to show that John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil company had sent him $25,000 in 1904, declared in speech in the senate that the monuey was part of a contribution of $125, ,000 made by the Standard Oil company to the presidential campaign.
 Anna Held, the musical comedy actress, was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce from Florence Zieg- fried, Jr., in the supreme court.
 Fire destroyed the main tent of the Ringing Brothers circus at Sterling, H., causing a loss of $200,000. The tent, poles and seats were destroyed.
 Unconfirmed rumors in San Fran cisco that Dr. Sun Vat Sen, first pro- assassinated in Pekin by the soldiers of President Yuan Shi Kai, caused wild excitement in Chinatown.
 A second injunction suit to stop the certification of Roosevelt electors on the general election ballot of Kansas was granted by Judge Smith McPher son of the federal court at Red Oak. '-saWa.
 lia, Fl Paso-Juarez port was open. ed by the United States troops, fol lowing the occupation of Juarez by 2,000 Mexican federal troops. Crowds were allowed to cross to Juarez with~ out the formality of passports.
 Seventy-five persons were injured, some seriously, when the grand stand behind the speakers platform gave way and sank to the ground during the Marshall notification exercises at Indianapolis.
 A mass meeting of Montenegrins at Cettinje protested against alleged atrocities committed by Turks in the Albania district of Berana, on the Montenegrin frontier, where many Christians have been massacred.
 Monroe Franklin, negro, accused of attacking white woman, was taken from the Russellville, Ark, jail by mob and hanged to telephone pole a block away.
 A special committee appointed by Gov Harmon to investigate and rec ommend revisions in the Ohio state laws effecting children, reported urg- ing the establishment of pension system for widowed mothers.
 Roosevelt presidential electors were chosen by the Republicans in nrir in, " a plurality of 34,000 over the Taft cleo tors, according to official figures com pleted by the secretary of state.
 A substitute for the Bourne-Bris- tow parcels post plan, inserted by the senate in the postoffce bill, the house by vote of 143 to S6, adopted zone pareels post scheme by Representa- tive Moon of Tennessee.
 Several revolutionary leaders near Vera Cruz, with some of their men, have surrendered to the federal gov ernment thus taking advantage of the amnesty offered by President Madero to those who would lay down their arms.
 John Jacob Astor's posthumas child, a boy, heir to $3,000000, has arrived. The baby weighed "A pounds at birth. He is the fourth of the line to bear the name John Jacob Astor.
 Clarence s. Darrow, the Chicago lawyer, who was found not guilty on the charge of having bribed a pros pective juror in the McNamara case, must stand trial on a second indict- ment, according to an announcement made by District Attorney Fredericks.
 Fifteen or twenty tsamps were said to have been burned to death in a fire which destroyed the old Panorama" building inChicago.
 It Is said l2,000 Albanians have seized Uskub and are preparing to march on Salonica. A detachment of 5000 has advanced as far as Kuprili which has been occupied.
 Action in the house assures provi- sion for the construction of one bat tie ship. The fight for two battle ships was lost ill the house as a re- suit of the resolution passed in the Democratic caucus, declaring for one dreadnought only.
 The American Meat Packers asso- ciation will hold it annual convention in Chicago Oct. 14-16, it was announc- ed by Benjamin w. Corcoran, presi- dent of the organization.
 The health of Gen. William Booth, commander in chief of the Salvation Army is gradually becoming more Se.