The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-23
NEVIS IF THE WEEK
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN PAST DAYS Al BRIEFLY
 PRESENTED.
ALL AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For eIgn Countries Are Here Given in Short Meter for
 Busy Readers.

Because of insulting letters" writ ten to the secretary of war and the chief of staff of the army, Mai. Gen. Fred c. Ainsworth, adjut.nt general of the army, was relieved of his du- ,ies and held to await orders and disciplinary measures.
 Indictments against three important men on charges of conspiracy in con- nection with the case of Foulke E. Brandt, now in the Tombs, awaiting the disposition of habeas corpus pro- ceedings, is the goal toward which District Attorney Whitman of New York is working in the grand jury 1 inquiry.
 An investigation of the money trust will be made by the senate committee on interstate commerce. It will be far-reaching and comprehensive. Such was the declaration of Senator Cum mings of Iowa, prominent member of the committee.
 Declaring that further naval defense s absolutely necessary for the Pa eific coast, Representative Hayes Hayes (Rep), California, asked the naval affairs committee to provide 50 additional submarine torpedo boats for the western coast.
 In speech carefully prepared for | him by his cabinet, King George op- ened the third parliament of his reign. The address from the throne proved to be one of the most important to which the British legislators have lis tened for years, forecasting home rule for Ireland, separation of Church and State in Wales, reform of franchise laws, and other measures of vital pub. lie interest.
 China has joined the sisterhood of he worlds republics. In three impe- rial edicts the Manchu dynasty changed 400,0o0,000 subjects from an absolute rule, which ran through 36 1 dynasties, to citizens of the largest self-governing nation on earth
 Vandalia train No II, fast mail, west bound, was held up at Liggett, Ind The bandits were frightened away.
 That the traditional objection to a presidential third term was to third consecutive term is the argument set forth in an editorial printed in the | Outlook.
 | Whoever asks for relic of the Maine will have to pay all expenses of packing and shipping and assure the navy department that the me- mento will not be sold, according to blanks sent by the department to those making requests.
 The German foreign office an nounced that an investigation of the murder in Mexico of German subjects I has been ordered. strong demand was made by the Post that the gov ernor interfere immediately to secure reparation for the murder of E. Hans Engleman, German subject.
 Thirty women representing many of the leading social and other clubs of Columbus, O., met and inaugurated a statewide movement which is in- | tended to offset the campaign being waged by the advocates of equal suf- | frage.
 Secretary of State Sanguily for warded an amended draft of the treaty between Cuba and the United States ceding additional lands at Guantanafo to the latter in exchange for the lands originally ceded to America for coaling station at Bahia Honda, which are to be re- turned.
 The interstate commerce commits sion held that railroads may be re- quired to carry certain classes of freight at loss if economic condi- tions would be injured by allowing profit. The decision was in connec- tion with an order refusing to permit railroads to increase rates on small packages, though the railroads proved that the present rates gave them no profit
 Folke E. Brandt, former valet os Mortimer l.. Sclsiff, who has served five years of a 30-year sentence in Sing Sing for robbing the apartments of his employer, will get new trial.
 The White House temporarily was transformed into moving picture eheater. An exclusive audience-the president and his cabinet-witnessed the movies" The films depicted Taft signing the Arizona statehood procla- nation.
 The Sherwood so-called "dollar-a- day" pension bill was rejected by the senate committee on pensions and an other measure, which would involve an annual expenditure of $24,000,000. proposed as a substitute by Senator Shoot of Utah, was adopted.
 Charles E. Doud, business agent of the Maachinists' Union, Rochester 10 cal, at Rochester N. Y., was arrested by United States Marshal Viehmann, on an indictment found by the feder- A grand jury at Indianapolis, charg- ing him with transporting dynamite in the labor union cases.
 That the general strike of othe coal miners throughout England and Wales is certain to take place on March 1 was indicated when 12,000 Welsh and S2,0Q0 Nottingham miners handed in their notices, as required by law, tha. they will quit work February 29