The Green Forest tribune., 1912-05-03
Representatives of soft coal mine

recent referendum vote of the miners.
 Twenty persons were injured, one of thm, James Davis, perhaps fatally, when a cyclonic wind struck Union Pacific passenger train No. 35 one mile west of North Loup, Neb.
 Warned by telephone operator that the Mireyille dam had broken, 300 persons residing in the Valley Millbrook, Essex county, N. Y., fled to the hills and then watched the torrent wash their homes away.
 The house passed the Henry bill, requiring publication before conyen- tions or primary elections of the sums contributed to the campaigns of presi- dential and vice-presidential candi- dates and the sums expended by their managers.
 The United States cruiser Maryland was struck by torpedo during tor pedo practice near Los Angeles, Cal. | The torpedo is said to have pierced one of the plates, flooding a compart- ment
 | Iowa Republicans in their state and congressional conventions at Cedar Rapids increased President Taft's list of delegates to the national conven- l tion from Iowa to sixteen and rejected | the 'tfavorite son" candidacy of Sen ator Albert B. Cummins. This was accomplished by a majority of Al votes.
 Justin Mccarthy, novelist and histo- rian, and for many years member of parliament, died at Folkestone, Eng land. He had been i'll throughout the winter and spring.
 The 50 eastern railroads accepted I the offer of arbitration made by Labor Commissioner Neill and Judge Knapp Of the commerce court. The engineers previously had accepted the offer. When the house committee to inves- | .igate the money trust" takes up it's
 work, no witness testifying before 1t will be granted any special immunity. | The tender of the Friendly offices"
 of representative of the federal gov arnment called at least a temporary | lalt to strike of railroad engineers
 Il all the territory east of Chicago
 md north of the Potomac river, in
 which it is estimated that 52 per cent | of the railway traffic of the entire country is handled
 The convention of the Irish Nation alist party in Dublin voted unanimous | ly to accept and indorse the AsQuith home rule bill, proposed in the house of commons by the Liberal govern ment
 The squadron of Italian warships which has been operating recently iii the Aagean Sea and near the entrance to the Dardanelles has seized the Turkish island of Stampalia and has established it's base there. | By a vote of 27 to 15 the house adopted the Puje resolution giving the banking and currency committee power to investigate the money trust.
 An appropriation of $1,50,000 for closing the crevasses in the Missis- | sippi river ievees in anticipation of further rises in June was voted by the senate.
 Missouri will send eight delegates at large, each with half a vote, and uninstructed, to the Republican na- tional convention in Chicago. The United States supreme court, in an opinion Monday, held the $50,000000 Terminal Railroad associ- straint of trade. It ordered the arbi- trary within the 100-mile zone abol- ished and outlined plan of reorgan- ization which the Terminal associa- ton must adopt or suffer dissolution. The Anchor Line steamer Gamer onia, which arrived from Glasgow en- countered large icebergs in latitude 41:27, longitude 4S:0S, on April IS. The total absence of dispatches from Fez, where the Moroccan troops have mutinied against increased French intervention, led to the belief that the uprising has assumed serious proportions and that the French troops may be in danger of losing con- trol of the situation
 While rescuing flood sufferers and
 their stock from a knoll near Jack
 sons Point, Miss, the steamer Con
 cordia struck a snag, tearing large
 hole i'll her side. She sank in a few
 minutes in about ten feet of water
 Corrected tabulations of the Ne
 braska presidential preference 0ote
 including returns from $50 precincts
 give Roosevelt 31,242; aTft, 10,692;
 La Toilette, 10,279; Clark, 14,031;
 Harmon, 11,241; Wilson, 9,860.
 Forty-seven passengers, all but ono citizens of the United States, who ar rived at Galveston, Tex, from Vera Cruz on the steamer Texas, tell of tor tere and assassination of Americans in Mexico.
 At Rock Island, H., grand jury indictment was returned against May or H. M. Schriver, charging him with assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury on John Looney, pub fisher of the Rock Island News.
 Many of the life boats which bore the survivors of the Titanic to safety were only half filled. This statement
 was made by M. E. Luce, | Pennsyl vania business man, who stood at the rail of the Carpathia and saw every one of the sixteen boats arrive In honor of the Titanic's dead, the house adjourned for day. This ac. tion was taken by the adoption of a resolution by Underwood. Six lives are known to have been lost by the breaking of the Mississippi