The Green Forest tribune., 1912-08-23
NEWS
 OF THE
 WEEK

new high record the fourth since the recent sharp advance, when they sold at theA union stock yards at $10.50, 10 cents above the former record.
 Dissolution under the Sherman anti trust law of the Elgin board of trade was asked in a suit filed by United States District Attorney Wilkerson. This action, it is said, will be follow ed by criminal procedure against members of the quotations committee.
 Charles D. Hillies, chairman of the Republican national committee, is sued statement claiming thirty-four states, with a total electoral vote of 384, for the Republican ticket, and conceding ten states, with an cleo toral vote of IA, to the Democratic party, and listing four states, with an electoral vote of 34, as doubtful.
 William B. McMaster, United States vice-consul at Cartagena, Colombia, was killed while on a hunting trip, according to state department dis patches. There is some suspicion that he was victim of foul play.
 By a vote of 36 to 19, the senate passed the house bill revising the cotton schedule. Only one change of importance was made in the measure an amendment by Senator Gronna of North Dakota, repeating all of the Canadian reciprocity agreement eX- cept the section relating to wood pulp and print paper.
 Gen. Booth of the Salvation Army is critically ill., He has been in failing health for a long time, but seemed bet ter lately. q regret" said his doctor, that the improvement has not been maintained"
 Following a bitter debate, in which Senators Root and La Toilette passed acrimonious words, the senate voted, 49 to ', to permit postal employees to organize, but to prohibit the affiliation of their organization with others that countenance strikes or lockouts
 By vote of 37 to 21 the senate adopted the senate substitute to the house provision in the postoffice ap propriation bill extending federal aid to states in the improvement of high ways. The amendment creates a com mission to investigate the feasibility of a comprehensive system of good roads work.
 The United States collier Justin ar rived at Corinto, Nicaragua, from Panama with a detachment of $50 To inf ho r,; can bluejackets of the gunboat An napolis, stationed in the besieged city of Managua.
 Jules Massanet, the opera composer, fell dead at his home in Paris.
 The battleship Nebraska ran on an uncharted shoal near Newport, R. l., and was so seriously damaged that she has been ordered to dry dock at the Boston navy yard. The flagship Connecticut, about the same time, broke her starboard crank shaft, and has been ordered to Philadelphia for repairs.
 Senator Mark Smith of Arizona has a new plan for forcing an early ad journment of congress. If we could only abolish the Congressional Rec ord, we would not be here five min utes," said he. If men want to make speeches, let them hire a reporter and pay for having them printed"
 The call has been issued by L. A. Ellis of Kansas City, chairman of the Progressive state committee of Mis- souri, for the state convention at St Louis Sept. 8, to nominate a full state ticket.
 Congress is about to terminate session that has run more than 250 days. Since the organization of the government there have been but seven continuous sessions of greater length.
 Senator Overman's amendment to the postoffice bill to appropriate $250,- 900 for highway work in each state, to be available when a state apppro- priated like sum, was defeated.
 Representative Gardner of Massa- chusetts (Rep) in the course of a speech on the house steel trust" in vestigating committees report, chal- lenged Col Roosevelt to make plain his attitude on the trust problem.
 Three hundred more Amerlcan ma rines were landed at Managua, Nica- ragua, it is reported here, as a result Of Gen. Mena's bombardment of the city.
 Showing a friskiness his years be- lie, Uncle Joe Cannon, at dinner of the Congressional Dog Days Club" defeated all rivals by high kicking 4 feet inches.
 President Taft has removed from office w. K. Landis, postmaster at San Juan, Porto Rico, and has nom- mated R. H. Todd of Porto Rico in his place.
 President Taft sent to the senate the nomination of Jacob Gould Schur man, president of Cornell university, to be minister from the United States
 Thirty-six soldiers and more than twenty passengers were slaughtered by Zapatistac in a canyon one kilo- meter north of Ticuman, no miles southeast of Mexico City, when a pas senger train south bound from Mexico City was attacked from ambush
 Prince Henry of Prussia was chosen by the kaiser to represent him at the late Mikado Mutsuhitor's fu- neral.