The Green Forest tribune., 1912-11-22
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ALL THAT IS GOING ON
Gist of Weeks News Stripped of On- necessary Verhia9e and Prepared for Quick Consumption ny
 Busy People.

Turkey and Bulgaria have agreed | definitely on an armistice, according to message from Sofia by way of Bucharest.
 Stirred by the report that Japan has been negotiating for the purchase of 500 acres of land on the shores of Manzanillo harbor, Mexico, the state department directed consular agents along the west coast of Mexico to in- vestigate and inform Washington inn mediately concerning the truth of this rumor
 Gov Woodrow Wilson announced 1 that immediately after his inaugura- tion as president of the United States l he would call an extraordinary session of congress. to convene not later than April 15. for the purpose of revising 1 the tariff
 A man who said he was Jeff Dow l dell of SilverWoad, Ind, a miner, was arrested al the White House because of his insistence that President Taft and Ambassador Bryce confer with him on plan to reduce the high cost of living.
 King Peters Serylan army has cap tured the Macedonian city of Prilep after a bloody battle. in which S,500 Servians and Turks were killed. The Servians lost 2,500 men and the Turks i 6,O0A
 Former Governor William Larrabee is gradually approaching death at l Clermont, la, according to the attend | ing physicians. He is unconscious. All of the members of the family are at the home.
 President Taft swung into the lead by small margin in the presidential race in Idaho. Wilson is running close and it will be impossible to say who has carried the state until the official count has been completed
 For a few hours about 5000 team sters were on strike in Chicago, and it was feared that the trouble might ex- tend to 24,000 more and assume seri- ous aspects The employers of the striking men granted all of their de- mands
 Either for military reasons or on ac- count of cholera which is spreading rapidly at Hademkeui the govern lIGLlI lo pISpdl Cd u lhSAhS isSA SS SOiA7 sessions in order to prevent the Bal kan armies from entering Constanti- nople.
 Fifteen persons were killed and 15 seriously injured when a C., H. & D. passenger train ran into an open switch and crashed into a freight train at Arlington avenue, Irvington, a suburb to Indianapolis.
 That Manuel Pardinas Zarrate, who killed Premier Canalejas of Spain died at police headquarters in Madrid some time after he shot him. self, was asserted in Lisbon positive ly by men whose information concern ing revolutionary developments in Spain generally is correct.
 Minnie La Valley, the 19-year-old girl who claims that on the night of August 80 last six men of West Clarksfield, her home village, stripped her and covered body with black roof paint, told her story to jury in court at Norwalk, o.
 Larz Anderson of Washington. now minister to Belgium, has been named ambassador to Japan to succeed Charles Page Bryan, whose resigna- tion was announced few days ago.
 The resignation of Lee McClung, treasurer of the United States, is ex- pected shortly, if not already in the hands of President Taft. Carmi Thompson, secretary to the president, is slated to succeed MT. McClung as treasurer.
 According to tabulations made by Socialist leaders in New York, the So- cialist vote showed an increase of more than 100 per cent over the vote ;n the last presidential election, which was 420,793.
 James McCrea, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, resigned, to take effect January l. The resigna- ton was presented at a special meet ing of the board of directors. The di- rectors immediately elected Samuel Req to the position.
 Julius A. Wayland founder of the Socialist paper, the Appeal to Rea- son, committed suicide at his home at Girard, Kan, by shooting Fred War ren, editor of the paper, said that Wayland worried over the meeting of the federal grand jury in Fort Scott.
 The Capper-Hodges race for gov ernor of Kansas still see-saws back and forth. Hodges, Democrat, leads by twenty-two votes. Eighty-nine out of 105 counties have reported to the secretary of state.
 Count RomanCnes was appointed premier of Spain, succeeding the late Jose Canalejas, assassinated Tuesday. The count is 2 Liberal who has not been prominent in political life.
 Sir Reginald Lister, British minis ter to Morocco since 1908, died at Tangier He was born in 1865 and served in many of the British em- bassies and legations.
 According 10 an unofficial compila- ton by the clerk of the house of rep resentatives, the next congress will be made up of 297 Democrats and 13S Republicans, Progressives and inde. pendents.