The Green Forest tribune., 1912-05-24


 cisco. The Thomas arrived with a number of companies of troops that have been stationed in the Philip pines.
 H. Marchind, who had operated a motor rescue boat for days near IT. winville, La, and was credited with having saved more than 100 lives dur. boat overturned.
 Speaker Clark and Representative Underwood have mapped out a pro gram by which the house may com plete the legislation that is absolutely necessary and stand ready to adjourn June 15.
 A strike of about 500 employees of the Baltimore copper works for an increase of wages of 50 cents a day all around resulted in the closing down of the plant, which employs about 1900 men.
 Republicans of Washington split and held two state conventions, sup porters of Col. Rooseve elt's candidacy for the presidency controlling one and adherents of President Taft the other.
 A fast train on the Queen & Cres- cent road was held up and robbed eight miles south of Hattiesburg, Miss, by two robbers, and reports say they got from $t50.000 to $250, ,000.
 The charred bodies of seven persons were found in the ruins of the home of Christian Peterson near the town of Lund, s. D. The bodies are SUD- posed to be those of Peterson, his wife and five children.
 Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, RRepublican leader of the senate, while riding in Rock Creek park, was thrown violently to the ground when his horse stumbled His arms and shoulders were bruised.
 King Frederick VIII, who succeeded his father, Christian K, on the throne of Denmark on January 29, 1906, died Tuesday night. He had been ill for several months and was on his way home from the Riviera. He was the brother of Queen Alexandra of Eng land, the dowager empress of Russia and King George of Greece. He was the father of King Haakon of Norway. He was born in 1S43
 After holding 2,000 police and troops at bay for eight hours, Octave Garnier and his companion, Valet, the last two members of Frances notorious | auto bandits, were eliminated as a menace to society, when charges of Melinite liveled their villa at Nogent by the sea and Garnier was found dead and Valet fatally wounded. George s. Wilson, manager of the savings department of the Stamford l (Conn.) Trust company, and De Forest Moore, teller of the same institution, were arrested, accused of defalcations to the amount of nearly $5S,000. Dr. Hansen, the Danish astronomer, notified the Greenwich Observatory that the tail of a comet of intense | magnitude was observed at a. m. | May 10, in the constellation Cygnus. Robbers who held up a Queen & Crescent express train near Hatties- burg, Miss, got at least $200000, ac- cording to the best information ob- | tainable.
 A near-riot was caused by the con tests of nine ministers for four places as bishop at the A. M. E. conference at Kansas City, and the police were called. For two hours Bishop Flip per cajoled 2,000 delegates in vain Representative William B. McKin. | ley, Tafts presidential campaign man. ager, formally charged that the in terests" have put $1,O00,O0O into the Roosevelt campaign fund for third | term.
 | Christian X was proclaimed king of Denmark from the balcony of the pal | ace in the presence of a huge con course of people who had gathered in the square in front of the royal resi- dence.
 Arguments favoring the preserva- ton of the integrity of the denomina- | tion at all points and resisting every effort to break it down through un- | denominational and interdenomina- tional organizations featured the ses- sion of the Southern Baptist associa- | tion convention.
 Trouble is threatened between the United States and Ecuador unless the Ecuadorian government comes to time lp needing the state department rep resentations regarding the Guayaquil- Quito railroad, an American corpora ton.
 With the bureau of chemistry still without chief, possible hereditary successor to Dr. Harvey Wiley arrived in Washington when the former chief chemist of the United States became the father of boy, his first born. Dr. Wiley, who is 67 years old, was mar ried to Miss Anna G. Kelton a year ago.
 J. A. Plumley, cashier of the People National bank at Cbecotah, Okla, was arrested under federal indictment charging false entries in the books and misappropriatiCns of the funds of the bank.
 James Spell. 12, near Clinton, N. G., shot and killed himself rather than work in the fields to aid his widowed mother.
 Peter Brahnan, laboreT, was run over by an automobile on a business street in Fort Madison, Ia. He arose unhurt and apologized for having got ten in the way of the machine. Thomas Jones and his wife were the motorcycle on which they were riding near Kansas City. The House completed the process whereby, in so far as Congress has the power. all United States Senators will be elected by direct vote of the naonla inctoad nf hu tha stnto looic.