The Green Forest tribune., 1912-11-29
NEWS
 OF THE
 WEEK

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 John D. Archbold and other Stand ard oil heads are not yet safe from arrest under criminal proceedings for alleged conspiracy in restraint of trade in Texas, it was authoritatively stated at the department of justice.
 The Ottoman government has re- jected the terms offered by the allied Balkan nations. Nazim Pasha, the Turkish commanded-in-ch chef, has been ordered to resume operations
 The American cruisers Montana and Tennessee arrived at Gibraltar and will proceed toward Constantinople as soon as they have coaled.
 Future ex-presidents of the United States are 70 be pensioned in the sum of $25,000 each annually by action of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The grant is provided for with the idea of enabling former executives of the nation to devote their unique 1 knowledge, gained in public affairs, to the public good, free from pecuniary care.
 Mrs. Hetty Green, probably the worlds richest woman, celebrated her seventy eighth birthday in the offices of the Westminster company, the Green corporation, in the Trinity build ing, in New York
 Stating that the money was to be used for the relief of the wounded in the Balkan war, without regard to race, creed or color," John D. Rocke- feller sent letter to the American Red Cross in Washington, enclosing a $5,000 contribution.
 By agreement of counsel the second trial of Clarence $. DarroW for alleged | bribery of a juror in the McNameba trial has been postponed to January.
 Five persons were kIiied and 20 in- jured in head-on collision of two Sea board Air Line fast express trains, near Granite, N. c.
 The surgeon general of the United 1 States army estimates that $S5,000 will be required for the purchase of artificial limbs and apparatus during the coming year. Last year 94 arti- l fieial legs, one foot and five arms were distributed to afflicted soldiers.
 John Schrank is insane. The man who pleaded guilty to an attempt to slay Col Theodore Roosevelt at Mil waukee, Wis, the evening of October 14 will be sent to an asylum for the | criminal insane, where he probably l will pass the remainder of his days.
 Two masked men robbed passengers and trainmen of several hundred dol lars worth of cash and jewelry on the observation car of the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul passenger train l No. F, between Mystic and Ottumwa, Iowa.
 Suit was brought in the United States district court in New York by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Runyon on behalf of the goveIslment for the recovery from the Federal Sugar Refining company of $119,080,9S.
 Compulsory military service for Ger man women is the remedy suggested by Prof. Witzel of Dusseldorf in order to safeguard the health of the army men engaged in active service. He advocates women be trained for nurses duty and cooks.
 Another rich strike of placer gold has been made in the Bay State group, opposite claims 4 and 5, below Anvil creek, Alaska, adjoining the ground on which pay" was struck a few days ago.
 A. A Truskett was acquitted at h. murdering J. D. s. Nicely, Lima | (Ohio} oil promoter, and was held by the jury to have been insane at the time he shot and killed Nicely.
 Grand Duke Alexis, the 8-year-old cZarevitch, who has been ill since he was injured at hunting lodge at | Spala, early in October, has suffered | a relapse and grave rumors are cur rent.
 That Chinese troops are being con- centrated near Pekin in preparation for march northward to sweep the Russians out of Mongolia was report ed at Shanghai, China. The whole country has the war fever, and Presi- dent Yuan Shi kai was said to have yielded to popular clamor as the only means of preventing the overthrow of his government
 The Merchants Limited, the finest train on the New York, New Haven & Hartford road, jumped the track east of Greens Farm station, CSnn., ditching three cars and injnring 19 persons
 Edward Smith and James k. Ray, both of Peoria, H., defendants in the
 
 rendered by their bondsmen during their trial at Indianapolis, Ind. The pair were at liberty under $5, 1000 bond each.
 Diphtheria has broken out in Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. Nine sol diers were said to be down with the disease. but the authorities would not admit that more than three men were stricken.
 Carmi Thompson, secretary to the president, has been appointed treas urer of the United States, to succeed Lee McClung, and has assumed his new duties.
 A great tidal wave is reported to have practically destroyed the towns of Savanna La Mar on the southeast coast and Lucea on the northwest coast of Jamaica.
 A fight between Mexican rural guards and rebels for the control of a raillwad train cost the lives of a lieu tenant and three rural guards and two civilian passengers in the vicinity of Ponjamo, state of Guanajuato.