The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-02
After a deliberation of two hours


 han, E. P Pierce, F. O. Melcher and E. E. Wright brought a verdict plac- ing the blame on the l. c. Railroad company, the operator at Edgewood and the fagman of the ill-fated train. The engineer was exonerated.
 It was reliably reported in Wash ington that President Taft, tefore had offered to Secretary Knox an ap- pointment to the supreme court bench to succeed the late Justice Harlan
 On the ice hills covering Lake Erie an auto party of six fearless men made round trip to Catawba island off the Ohio shore between Lakeside and Port Clinton, near bennington, Ontario.
 Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson, who is under sentence of death for the murder of his former sweetheart, Avis Linnell, was expelled from the Bap- tist church. This action was taken at the regular monthly meeting of the Immanuel Baptist church of Cam bridge, Mass, of which Richeson was pastor at the time of his arrest.
 Rear Admiral Louis C.N Heilner, United States navy, retired, died at the naval hospital in New York. He was 60-odd. years old and was gradu- ated from the naval academy in 1870.
 Thirty-iye original margin sheets of the National Packing company for shipments made to eastern cities be- tween January and August, 1910, and referred to as red handed things" by Special Counsel Pierce Butler, for the government, were read to the jury in the packers trial at Chicago as important links in the prosecu- tion's circumstantial chain of evi- dence.
 A bridal couple and eight relatives died of poisoning at Polgoicze, Sla- vonica, after eating cake filled with arsenic. Paul Mhovac, a baker, ad- mitted placing the poison in the we'd ding cake because he had been tilted by the bride.
 One hundred dollars each was the reward sent to 7-year.old Aileen Mar tin and her 14-year-old sister, Alma, who prevented a Southern Pacific passenger train from being wrecked by broken, rail near Alta, Cal, Jan uary 13.
 James J. Hill denied the report that the Burlington railway is considering the purchase of the stock and bonds of the Denver & Rio Grande railway, together with the Rick Island and the Missouri Pacific.
 Arnold s. Reninger, who was arrest ed ill Chicago for sending threat ening letter to George M. Reynolds, president of the Continental and Com mercial national bank demanding $1,000, was sentenced to five years in Leavenworth prison by Federal Judge Landis. He pleaded guilty
 Opponents of the Detroit city ad- ministration and of the Thompson Hally street car ordinance granting cisive victory they scored when the measure at a referendum was defeat ed by vote of 30,64S to 22,259
 Emphatic denial that the United States Steel corporation is a "monop oly as charged" was made to the Stan
 ley Investigating committee of the house by President J. J. Farrell in continuing testimony. He declared it was not the purpose of the corpora tion ito gobble the export trade of the world at any cost"
 A fine of $55,000 was imposed on the Standard Oil company of New York at Buffalo for violating the FL kins act in accepting rebates from the New York Central and the Penn sylvania railways on shipments of oil from Clean, N Y., to Burlington, Vt. during 1904 and 1905.
 Counsel for the government sprang a surprise on the defense in the pack duced 35 original weekly summary margin sheets for shipments made by the National Packing company into eastern territory between Janu ary and August, 1910.
 The board of inquiry that investi gated the Kinmundy' Qll) wreck on the Illinois Central railroad, in which J. T. Harahan and three other rail road officials lost their lives, placed | the blame for the accident upon Con- ductor John H. Brainerd and Flag man Henry Broecker of train No. 25 and Engineer Robert Stewart of train No. 8. All were found guilty of negli- gence in the performance of duty. A protest agalnst producing the cost sheets of the United States Steel cor | poration before the Stanley steel com mittee was made by James J. Farrell, | president of the corporation. He said | if such a plan were carried out, for | eign competitors of the trust" would ! ascertain all the business secrets of | the corporation and be in a position | to destroy it's foreign business. Two thousand imperial troops sta | toned at the city of Slang Yang in | the province of Hu Pah to the north | west of Hankow are reported to have revoked in favor of the republic.
 Three hundred soldiers of the Eff
 teenth U. s. infantry arrived at Tien | Tsin, China, in special train to | guard the United States legation and other American interests. They were
 equipped for field service.
 Nellie Prince 43 years old, alleged | by Pittsburg police to have had a part in the robbery of jewels valued at $10,000 from Mrs. William Thaw, | Jr., was arrested in Chicago. | :11..