The Green Forest tribune., 1912-05-24
NEWS
 OF THE WEEK

Dr. Thomas S. Clyce of Austin, Tex, president of Austin college, was elect ed moderator of the Southern Presby terian church general assembly.
 Out of PA candidates, one man was elected bishop by the general confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal church. Homer c. Stuntz, assistant corresponding secretary of the board of foreign missions, New York, was the first of the eight to be elected.
 Bits of cork in their mouths and tooth marks on the cork and wood portions of the boat indicated that starvation killed the three Titanic vic tims whose bodies were in Titanic collapsible lifeboat picked up by the White Star liner Oceanic.
 Surrogate Fowler appointed Lang don P. Marvin, a lawyer, as special guardian for Vincent Astor, son of the late Col. John Jacob Astor, and at the same time named Henry A. Gill dersleeve as special guardian for Mrs Madeline Talmage Force Astor, the young widow.
 Iowa's 26 votes in the Democratic national convention will be cast for Champ Clark for president, despite the fact that eight district delegates are Wilson men.
 Seven men were burned to death and six square miles of timber, with two camps of the English Logging company, near Hamilton, was de- stroyed by a forest fire that swept Skagit county, Wash.
 A crevasse in the levee on the west banks of the Mississippi at Hymelia, La, which threatens S12,000,00 dam age and affects 60,000 persons, oc- cured, according to war department dispatch from Capt Charles, United States engineer.
 Tyrannical methods, alleged to have been practiced by the American Tin Plate company, an adjunct of the United States Steel corporation, were revealed at the hearing in the govern ment dissolution suit against the so- called steel trust before Examiner Henry T. Brown i'll the customs house at New York.
 While her niece slept undisturbed in the next room, Mrs. Minnie Mack, the wife of a young farmer near Secaucus, N. J., was strangled to death by rob- bers. After killing the woman, the thieves went to the niece's room, opened suit case beside her bed and took $7, all they found.
 Dr. Edward E. Speitzka, brain ex- pert of Philadelphia, says women have smaller brains than men and will therefore never be the equal of the latter.
 The retirement of two bishops and the establishment of six additional episcopal residences was recommend ed to the Methodist General Confer ence by the committee on episcopacy. This plan, if adopted by the confer ence, will necessitate the election of eight new bishops.
 Roosevelt and Clark carried Cali fornia in the presidential preference primaries and will have the states twentysiX votes in the Chicago and
 
 That $10,000,000 of the capital stock of the American Tin Plate Company was distributed among it's organizers was admitted by Daniel G. Reid, it's president, on the witness stand in the governments suit for the dissolution of the steel coropration.
 At least 20 lives were lost. 15 vii- lages were destroyed, a great area of timber was burned and thousands of cattle have perished in a forest fire which is sweeping the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
 A favorable report on the plan to fix the term of the President of the United States at six years and pro- hibit reelection apparently was as sured at meeting of the senate jE- dietary committee.
 The right to gamble for money in ones own home has just been sus- tained in decision handed down by the appellate court at Utica, N. Y.
 Approval of the idea of having the new congress elected in November meet shortly thereafter, instead of permitting another session of the old congress to intervene, is growing The proposed change will put power the more quickly into the hands of the peoples newly chosen representatives.
 Passage of a law authorizing the appointment of a commission to study the patent laws and recommend amendments so as to obviate the pat ent monopoly granted by recent su- preme court decision and to rehabili- tate the statutes in general was asked of congress in a special message from President Taft.
 Four wall paper manufacturers and four wall paper jobbers, charged with conspiracy in restraint of trade, un- der the criminal clause of the Sher, man antitrust law, were placed on trial in the United States district court at Cleveland, o.
 Attack upon the Morocco capital of Fez by rebel tribesmen is imminent. The message stated that the situation is hourly becoming more alarming.
 The Wyoming Republican conven- tion indorsed President Taft and in- structed the delegation to vote for him at the Chicago convention.
 Official denial was given in Rome of the statement made in the United States that the Turks were caring for 2,500 captured Italian soldiers.
 Shreveport, La, has made it's first use of the power of recall. Commits sioner w. S. Adkins was recalled for alleged incompetency,