The Green Forest tribune., 1912-03-29

Swedish legation that w. A. F. Eken- gren, now charge d'affaires, has been promoted to be Swedish minister to the United States in succession to Count Albert Ehrensvard.
 A resolution declaring that Sen ator Isaac Stephenson (Rep), Wis. consin, was not legally elected and that his seat should be declared va cant was offered by Senator Jones (RepD, Washington.
 Initiating their Western sisters, Chi nese suffragettes went upon a win dow smashing campaign in Ranking, beat up Chinese policemen and had a large section of the city terroriZed be- fore they were subdued. Several wom- en were arrested.
 A battle between the revolution aries and the government forces of Buenos Ayres in Paraguay has been going on for some time and is still raging, according to telegrams re ceived from Ascunsion.
 The police in Pacific coast cities are facing a renewal of the long war among the Chinese population, fol- lowing a series of five murders in San Francisco, Sacramento and Oak land.
 A sudden exodus of troops from Juarez, leaving only a handful of sol diers to guard the customs house, led Washington war department officials to believe a decisive battle will be fought in Mexico within a week.
 Representative D. J. Foster of Yer mont died after an illness of three weeks. He was stricken with grip, which developed into pneumonia and terminated fatally in few hours. He was 54 years old.
 A bill reducing the duty on wool, identical with the measure vetoed by President Taft last summer, was in- troduced in the House by Majority Leader Underwood.
 The Pacific Mail liner Manchuria left for the Orient carrying eighteen Chinese recently smuggled into San Francisco on the launch Morning Star.
 valuable discovery of soluble pot ash salts has been made in the Mo jave Desert South California, by field representatives of the Bureau of Soils and Geological Survey.
 Theodore Roosevelt was successful in cutting down Senator Robert NJ. La Follette's majority in the North Da- kota presidential preference primary to between 1000 and 12,000.
 A temporary suspension of work in the soft coal mines will begin April 1, according to John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica.
 Plea for aid for wounded Ameri- can held by Mexican rebels at Chi huahua came in a telegram to Sen ator Stone from Arthur Jenkins of Dexter, Mo. He said A. c. Smith was captured and faced death, though he had taken no part in the Mexican af- fairs. The state department is inves- tigating.
 The New Jersey State Senate de- feated a resolution providing for an amendment to the constitution extend ing the right of suffrage to women. The resolution received three votes.
 Frank Talcott, chairman of the North Dakota Republican state com mittee, and John Bass of Chicago, manager of the Roosevelt campaign in North Dakota, notified Senator Joseph M. Dixon at Washington that in their opinion Senator La Toilette had car ried the North Dakota presidential primaries.
 general national coal strike in- volving 600,000 miners in both anthra- cite and bituminous fields, if the an thracite interests should fail to reach an agreement by April l, was predict ed by Chairman Wilson of the House labor committee.
 Increase of 15 per cent in wages and abolition of the fine system were de- manded at a mass meeting by the weavers, comprising more than half of the 1000 operatives who struck at the Lancaster gingham mills.
 Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa, an announced progressive Re publican candidate for the presiden- tial nomination. introduced a primary election bill which would make un- lawful and prohibit both the Repub- lican and Democratic national conven- tions fin June.
 In spite of the strikers denial, the strike spirit apparently is growing weaker in Westphalia, Germany. An important miners meeting at Bochum caJx Mo IiSnrdnrC are reported anywhere. A meeting of the miners delegates at Sewickau has reached a decision to strike.
 The maimed hulk of the ill-fated battle ship Maine, once the pride of the American navy, was sunk at 5:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the deepest part of the Florida Straits. She went down with the national flag floating from her mast.
 At least 32 men were killed and parts of their bodies strewn for blocks around when a big passenger engine in the Southern Pacific shops blew up at San Antonio, Tex.
 Latest advices from Swatow. China, which has been the scene of serious fighting during the last week, say that the German consulate has been burned
 The Standard Oil company of Indi- ana declared a stock dividend for the benefit of it's stockholders of $29,0O0,O0o
 The American Red Cross Society sent $5.000 to China for the relief of the famine sufferers in the new re-