The Green Forest tribune., 1912-03-01

The Postal Telegraph company filed suit against the Western Union with the interstate commerce commission, accusing the Western Union of using oppressive competitive methods.
 An investigation may be made by the senate into the methods employed Republican senator from Delaware. in the election of Henry A. Dupont, Republican senator from Delaware. The inquiry will be based on charges preferred against Cornelius P. Swain, recently appointed marshal for Della ware, on the recommendation of Sen ator Dupont.
 The congressional investigation searchlight swung full on the war de- partment when the house unanimous ly adopted resolution calling upon the secretary of war for all informa- tion regarding the retirement of Ad- jutant General Ainsworth.
 At Hot Springs, Ark, Max Free man, saloon keeper was shot and killed by George Compton, a deputy sheriff and postmaster of Pearcy, Gar land county.
 After four set speeches at a mass meeting at St. Petersburg, Russia, resolutions were read in support of the Nationalist proposals for the to- tai exclusions of Americans of the Jewish faith from Russia and for tar if reprisals.
 Suit demanding $25,Ooo, directed at the Chicago Examiner and the Chi cago American, alleging libel, was filed by Attorney Frank J. Quinn at Peoria, Ill. Roger c. Sullivan of Chi cago is the plaintiff
 President John H. Patterson of the National Cash Register company of Dayton, Ohio, and other officials of the company were indicted at Cincin- nati by the federal grand jury. It is charged that the defendants entered into conspiracy in 1902 to restrain competition.
 It was announced officially at Bo- gota, Colombia, that letters of recall have been dispatched to Senor Pedro Mel Ospina, Colombian minister to the United States.
 A bronze statue of George Wash ington by Pompeo Ceppini, the gift of the American residents of Mexico City, in commemoration of the cen tennial of the Mexican republic, was unveiled in the presence of President Madero and the members of the Mex ican cabinet.
 Two reports from the house com mittee on interstate commerce, one favoring free passage of American ships through the Panama canal and the other system of pool charges to apply to American as well as foreign ships, were presented by members of the committee.
 Secretary Of State Philander Knox sailed from Palm Beach, Fla, on a five weeks diplomatic trip to the Spanish-American countries that bor- der on the Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
 The abolition of the present tariff board is confidently expected at the capital following the introduction in the house of a bill by Congressman Peters to create bureau of tariff statistics"
 Eight persons were killed and a score injured by tornado that swept the western outskirts of Shreveport, La. The dead are all negroes except a two-months-old white baby. Two white men were seriously injured
 The Star paper mill, near Kansas City, an independent manufacturer of print paper, owned and operated by w. R. Nelson, owner of the Kansas City Star, has been closed down in- definitely and nearly 500 men thrown out of employment.
 Governor Dix of New York or dered the suspension of all proceed ings before him in the case of Folke l.. Schiff until the legality of the writ of habeas corpus granted by Justice Gerard is decided by the court of appeals.
 President Taft told Mayor Fitzger- aid of Boston that he would pin a shamrock to the lapel of his coat, look around for good shillahlah and ride at the heaa of the St. Patrick's day and evacuation day" parade when he visits Boston March IS.
 Secretary Knox will not visit Co., lombia during his proposed tour of the countries bordering on the Carib- bean sea unless there is special in- vitation from the Colombian govern ment.
 The mystery of the eight deaths of infants hospital was solved, the po- lice say, by the confession of Wini- fred Ankers, kitchen woman in the hospital. She admitted she had placed oxalic acid in the babies milk bottles.
 Owing to the dangerous anti-foreign feeling pervading Mexico, United States Ambassador Wilsan is prepar ing to send his family to the United States.
 President Taft will make his reply to Colonel Roosevelt's charter of democracy" in a speech to be deliv- cred in Tolio, Ohio, March 8, accord ing to an official announcement from the White House.
 Henry Watterson, in an editorial in the Courier-Journal, reviews the liar vey-Wilson controversy and calls Gov. Woodrow Wilson "coiled serpent of interruptions ambition"
 Three railways, two railroad off cials and two theatrical managers
 C.. T jury at Chicago for an alleged con