The Green Forest tribune., 1912-03-08

Gov. T. l.. Oddie of Nevada de- clared himself in favor of Theodore Roosevelt in a statement in connec- tion with the meeting of the Repub- lican state central committee at Reno.
 That they would strike April 1 un- less an agreement was reached be- between the miners and operators was the stand taken by the convention of the United Mine Workers of Hi nois just preceding adjournment.
 The miners, operators and consum- CTS of coal in the Kansas City, Okla homa, Missouri and Arkansas fields are preparing for strike. A month ago both sides said they expected little difficulty in agreeing on con tract for another two years.
 The American Woolen company, the trust" notified it's agents in all of it's 33 mills in New England and New York state to advance wages , per cent The order affects about 90,000 operatives, and is regarded as an opening wedge toward settling the Lawrence strike.
 Navy orders established new fleet with headquarters in Pugent Sound, Wash. The fleet will be known as the Pacific reserve fleet at first and will consist of the battleship Oregon and the cruisers Pennsylvania, Ra- leight and St. Louis.
 Maj. Beecher B. Rays djsmissal from the army will be recommended by the house committee on expendi- lures in the war department, which is completing an investigation of the political paymaster's" record.
 That the social functions knowns as Gary dinners" control absolutely the prices in the steel industry, and that the United States Steel corpora tion is operating in restraint of trade through this price control and it's dom- ination of raw material, were the con clusions reported to the Stanley steel committee of the house by Farqua har J. McRae, the committees expert ac- countant.
 The house committee on foreign af- fairs favorably reported the Sulzer resolution which, in effect, would rec ognize the new republic of China.
 At Los Angeles, Cal, Superior Judge Hutton entered an order directing Dis trict Attorney Fredricks to furnish Da-row with a complete transcript of the grand jury testimony, upon which the grand jury indicted Darrow.
 In a cablegram received by the board of foreign missions of the Methodist church in New York from pr. H. H. Lowry, president of the Methodist college at Pekin, it is an- nounced that President Yuan will guarantee religious liberty through out the great republic of China.
 The appearance of new puhlica- | ton at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville resulted in the expulsion of thirty-six students, and in retalia- tion the entire undergraduate body wnet out on a sympathetic strike. Rates of the American Express company are substantially three times | the first-class freight rates of rail- roads. This fact was developed at the Investigation by Commissioner Lane into the rates and methods of express companies instituted by the | interstate commerce commission. Mrs. Lena Cusumano, mother of several children, and her admirer, En- rico Mascioli, alias Harry Marshall, must die in the electric chair in Mas sachusetts for the murder of her hus- band, Frank c. Cusumano.
 Bert H. Franklin, formerly chief in- vestigator for the defense during the trial of the McNamara brothers on charge of dynamiting the Los Angeles Times, pleaded guilty to an indict- ment charging him with bribing Nc Namara jurors.
 Colonel Roosevelt plunged into the thick of the fight for the presidential equivocally that he was in the fight to the end and was glad of it. He replied to the charge that he would be breaking his third-term pledge if he accepted another nomination, and asserted that whether or not he should be the choice of his party at the Chicago convention he would abide by its decision.
 Three Chinese warships were or | dered to Java to protect Celestials against attacks by Dutch residents. Unless the alleged atrocities cease and heavy indemnity is paid, all Dutch trade will be excluded from | China
 , Fl Paso. Tex, is in a state of panic as the rebele>surround Jaurez for bat | tie and following the firing upon a small detachment of Company K, Tex as militia, by parties concealed be-
 hind box cars just across the Mexi- can line.
 Federal control of big business | through a trade commission" of three members, with authority to stop | the watering of stock, "bust all trusts and to eliminate cut-throat competi- | tion," is provided in a bill introduced | by Senator Cummins (Rep0, Iowa. For the first time in the history of | Nashville, Tenn, liquor sales have been stopped as result of raids by | Sheriff Borum on 700 saloons in five | days.
 Three Pennsylvania trains were | wrecked at Unionville Center, twenty
 miles northwest of Columbus, O., and l although two passenger coaches and an engine were thrown into the ditch
 nobody was hurt.
 I The New York assembly judiciary | committee reported fayorably the