The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-09
Epitone
 of the Week S News

Brandt, former valet of Mortimer l.. Schiff of New York, was denied by i Governor Dix who had devoted the | greater part of two days to considera- 1 tion of the case. 1 The Woodstock plant of the Acadia Sugar Refinery company, Halifax, N. S., was totally destroyed by fire, with a loss of more than q million dollars.
 The jury in the trial at Hermann, Mo- of the suit of E. G. Lewis and the Lewis Publishing company against the Pulitzer Publishing con- pany, publishee of the Dispatch, for $750,O0 damages for alleged libel, returned verdict for the defendant. The Rockefeller Institute announces that it has succeeded at last in pro- ducing pneumonia experimentally- thereby proving, so the experts of the institute say, that pneumonia is caused by germ, the pneumonia coccus.
 The destruction of a 2o-mile wall partially surrounding the city of Can- ton, China, was begun by soldiers of the republican government, according to a cablegram received by the Ching Sai Vat Pc, a Chinesese daily news paper.
 The garrison of Juarez, Fl Pasos Mexican neighbor across the river, rose in revolt and in half an houR was in possession of the city. Loot, ing and promiscuous shooting prer vailed for hours. The commander of the garrison was thrown into prison and the chief of police locked in with him, while previous prisoners were released.
 The secret of raising the fragrant and beautiful Elkins rose was lost when John Oscar Hedlund, Philadel. phia horGculturist, was killed by a train. He alone knew it.
 The will of John R. Walsh, the banker, who died within a week after his release on parole from Leayen- worth penitentiary this winter, was refused probate by Judge Cutting at Chicago on the ground that the wit ness to the document refused to say that the testator was of sound minC when the will was signed.
 Joseph Holub, chief gunner uD| Admiral Dewey at the battle of nila Bay, is dead at the Great naval station at North Chicago was caused by pneumonia.
 At Pekin, China, Gen. Liar high Manchu official and form mandant of the imperial qua injured perhaps fatally, by thrown by an unidentified
 in military uniform. The projecsed Portuguese $2,500o00 has been rejected bourse because of the insu guarantees which were offered curity for the loan.
 Joseph J. Ettor of New Yt tional organizer of the Inc Workers of the World and lea, the woolen operatives strike at rece, Mass, was arrested on ch of being an accessory to the mu of Annie Lopizo, the Italian striA who was killed during riot
 An unsuccessful attempt was ma to assasinate Gen. Chang Huai Tz at Tien Tsin, China A man threw bomb at the general in the railroad station, but the general was unin- jured and the assailant was arrested.
 The British consul at Codeida has sent a request to his government for the dispatch of warship to that port. His action was due to the therats by the Italian vessels to bom- bard the town.
 Among the bills introduced in the Kentucky legislature is one requiring that cold storage eggs be stamped with date of storage, and one taxing bachelors between the ages of 35 and 60 for the benefit of the school fund.
 Edward Throckmorton, a son of the late Governor Throckmorton of Texas and principal witness for the proseeu- tion in the case in which J. B. Snead is charged with the murder of Al G. Boyce, Sr., father of the man who ran away with Sneed's wife, is ( in a Fort Worth hospital of a In rious illness.
 A three-fourths vote of jury suffice for conviction in any case t. ale by jury if a constitutions amendment now before the New York legislature meets the approval of the people.
 After vainly trying to get a priest to marry them, Lily Bell, Catholic, and John Helverson, Mormon, were married at Denver, Colo, by a Con gregational minister.
 Edward Throckmorton, princip; witness for the prosecution in u trial of J. B. Snead for the murd of Al G. Boyce, Sr., father of the ma who ran away with Snead's wife, dieo in Fort Worth hospital of a myste- rious illness.
 Alone in his big mansion on Eas' Sixtieth street, near Central ps New York, where he had lived in tary state for many years,
 Hawley, whose rise from
 clerk to master of millions
 of the most remarkable
 history, died, a victim of 1 ,oh