The Green Forest tribune., 1912-05-17

Missouri river and increasing the house appropriation for the lower Mis- sissippi from $s,500,000 to $6,000,000, was passed by the senate.
 Early returns from the referendum vote taken by miners in central H. linois on the acceptance of the new wage scale indicate the proposition has been defeated.
 Five men were killed and II injured at Cleveland, O., when an explosion of gas wrecked blast furnace of the American Steel and Wire company
 Strike ballots have been sent to 300000 members of the Federation of Federations to determine whether shopmen employed on forty-seven rail strike in sympathy with the men now out on the Hartman lines.
 With the 36 delegates from the Bay State divided equally betEeen Presi- dent Taft and Col. Theodore Roose- welt and the Vlft organization prepar- delegates at large, word was received from Oyster Bay that Col. Roosevelt had conceded the delegates at large to- the president.
 Two Republican state conventions were held in Arkansas by the Taft and Roosevelt factions Each had a large representation, and harmony prevailed.
 Gen. Pascual Orozco has refused to recognize the provisional government established by Emilio Vasquez Gomez at Juarez.
 A strike of all bartenders. in Kan sas City is expected if the brewers employ nonunion men to take the places of 1,500 brewery workers who are out
 Mrs. Mary F. Hodgson has just eele- brated her one hundredth birthday at Wenham, Mass. She says she has never attended a dance, has never ridden in an automobile and does not believe in woman suffrage.
 Because she used phrases from the Bible to advertise her hostelry, Mme Waldvogel of Zurich, Switzerland, has been fined $10.
 Eighteen thousand Indiana bitumi- nous coal miners are out in strike. following the failure of the join con ference of miners and operators to set tie district differences.
 Six hundred rebels were killed and the remainder of force of 1,500 were sent scurrying to Cuatro Clenegas, during a fight with 600 federals under Col. Pablo Gonzales, according to re- ports received by President Madero
 Representative Dyer (Rep), Mis- souri, introduced a bill appropriating 30,000,000 for protecting levees of the Mississippi river and it's tributaries against "the impending and future floods"
 The will of John Jacob Astor, dis posing of an estate valued roughly at $10O 100000, was summarized by Lew is Cass Ledyard, the lawyer who drew it. MT. Astor, following the example of his father and grandfather, did not split up his estate. He left it almost intact to his son, William Vincent As tor, who is net yet 21 years old.
 Six or more passengers and four trainmen were killed and at least 25 passengers were hurt when the first section of the Texas Confederate re- union special train en route to Macon, Ga, was wrecked at Gunn's Mill, on the New Orleans & Northeastern rail -ix ~E Miss.
 Suspected of having poisoned six of her nine children who have died under mysterious circumstances in the last two years, Mrs. Patrick Me- Gee is under arrest at Charlottetown, P. E. I.
 Philip T. Dodge, president of the Mergenthaler Linotype company, is in Reno, New, with the avowed intention of securing a divorce He says he will keep open house for the divorce colony
 An idle anthracite miner was shot to death and two otherS and a woman critically wounded by state troops while juelling mob violence at Miners vile, Pa. All the victims are foreign CTS.
 Five men were killed and 10 or 12 others perhaps fatally injured in Cleveland, O., when an explosion of oil demolished barge No. SS of the Standard Oil company, in the Cuya- hoga river.
 The stars and stripes were torn down and trampled under foot and a red flag substituted during a fierce fight at May day meeting of the So- cialist party and affiliated unions at Union Square park New York. With the returns from the interior and southern part of the state coming in slowly, it was apparent that the Democratic delegates to the Baltimore convention will cast their votes for Oscar Underwood, at least on the mi tial ballot.
 Demand that all records since 1904 in the harvester trust case he pro duced by the department of justice was made in a resolution introduced in the senate by Lea of Tennessee.
 The Canadian government is expect ed to withdraw it's approval of the pro posed international fisheries treaties within few days. The failure, of the United States senate to ratify the proposed arrangement is the cause
 Grand Duke Georges of Leuchten- berg, an uncle of Emperor Nicholas of Russia, is dead.
 Early consideration of resolutions in