The Green Forest tribune., 1912-08-23
The senate committee Investigating

uduSntef, NlNldH, at venice, Cdl., q seaside resort, was captured in Cuca- monga Pass, a cleft in the mountains in San Bernardino county.
 John Jacob Astor's posthumas child, boy, heir to $3,000,00O, has arrived. The baby weighed "A pounds at birth. He is the fourth of the line to bear the name John Jacob Astor.
 The senate passed the army ap- propriation bill, carrying $94,000,000, a bill replacing that originally vetoed by President Taft
 Eleven hundred Mexican rebels at Palomas Mexico, on the international boundary line, are threatening United States troops across the border un- der command of Maj. Sedgewick Rice He fears they will cross the border, he says, in a report to the war de- partment.
 Because f0 men employed in the Oakhill colliery at Pottsville, Pa, did not wear union ?-made buttons on their overalls and jumpers, 600 men and boys in the mine went on strike.
 Four American officers of a ship of the Pacific Mail company, now in the harbor of Panama, are reported to have been attacked and severely beaten by the local police.
 Gaby Deslys underwent an opera tion at Doyen's sanitarium at Paris. It is said her condition is not serious
 The president announced that he would commute to life imprisonment the sentence imposed on Hattie Lo- max, a negro woman, convicted of murdering her husband, and the first woman held in the District of Colum- bia under the death sentence since Mrs. Surratt, one of the Lincoln con- spirators.
 The high cost of living has not yet reached the canal zone. While house wives in the states are paying record prices for meat, Uncle Sam's commits sary on the zone is furnishing steaks, roasts and chops as cheaply as year CT so ago.
 A man shot dead by the police in street fight in Los Angeles, Cal, was identified as Lonidez Guitierez, Mex ican, reported to have been involved President Taft and President Daz when they met at Fl Paso.
 The cause of woman's suffrage re- ceived a check in the senate when ob- jection was made to the publication as a public document of Representa- tive Taylor's Colorado speech on that subject
 Agents of the department of com merce and labor have begun a study of conditions in the Chicago cattle impending problem in the shortage of beef cattle.
 The crumb of comfort to be tossed to William Lorimer has been definite ly fixed by the special committee at $35000. This is to cover the ex- penses incurred by him in twice de- lending his title to seat in the sen ate. It is a shaving down of $90,000 from the sum Lorimer declares he expended.
 Harrison Ingram, 109 years old, is
 
 dead at Hoppeston, III. His father gram was said to be the oldest pen sioner on the government roll. He was a tobacco user from youth
 Bernard C. Murray, son of former fire commissioner of Hartford, Conn, confessed to having set fire to thirty hotels and public buildings in Con- necticut and western Massachusetts in the last four months
 As a mark of his sympathy for the victims of the mine disaster at Gerthe the kaiser abandoned further partici- patton in the Krupp centenary cele- bration at Essen. The bodies of 99 miners have been taken from the missing.
 Springing the sensation in the city council graft scandal that he has promised for two weeks, Prosecutor Hugh Shepherd put out dragnet and as a result IF aldermen were lodged in cells in police headquarters in De- troit, Mich, charged with Suspicion of conspiracy to get bribes from the Wabash railroad"
 Discussion of the postoffice appro priation bill was enlivened when Sen ator La Toilette, speaking pn house provision granting to employees of the postal service the right to organize, deliberately charged officials of the postoffice department with rifling his mail in an attempt to delve into the postal service.
 The combined rebel forces under Gen Luis Mena, the secretary of war recently deposed by President Diaz, and Gen. Zeledon, one-time war secre- tary in the cabinet of former Presi- dent Zelaya, began a bombardment of the Nicaraguan capital.
 Francis B. Milliken, state entomol- ogist, declares Kansas is suffering this year from the worst invasion of grasshoppers the state has experi- enced since the celebrated invasion of 1874
 Secretary Fisher has 3 plan to allow government coal lands to cities, which in turn may operate them under cer- tain regulations to supply municipal needs as well as those of citizens.
 The highest price ever paid for cat tie in the United States, was given at the Chicago stockyards when beef on the hoof brought $10.40 hundred pounds.