The Green Forest tribune., 1913-07-25
06e WORLDS NEWS In Tabloid Form
Domestic


 amounts to SG,S52 tons, carrying d gross bullion value of $1,194,232 This production is 32,000 tons in excess of the previous month.
 Th anty-five persons were drowned when the steamer Concordia, running out of the Tensas river into the swol- len waters of the Mississippi, dashed into bridge pier.
 A packet of upward of 500 love let ters of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning was bought at a London auction for $32,750 by New York dealer. The bidding started at $3,0oo and rose rapidly by bids of $250.
 When a jury acquitted Benjamin Rake, 16 years old cn the charge of having murdered Marvey Marshall, spectators in the courtroom cheered the verdict
 The plan advocated by Senator Works of California to prevent the publication of all newspaper matter relating to crimes, tragedies and acci- dents in the national capital does not meet with approval of the District of Columbia authorities.
 That the Illinois senate vice con- mission would have more opposition in Springfield than in any other city ;.,+ T three of the four local papers came out in direct opposition to the vice probe.
 An equal suffrage amendment. was defeated in the Florida house by vote of 26 to 38 after lengthy debate.
 The Russian minister to Montene- gro presented a curt note to the gov ernment, urging immediate compli- ance by Montenegro with the de- mands of the European powers for the evacuation of Scutari and estimat- ing that a policy of defiance was likely to lead to the ruin of Monte negro.
 Denying reports that he was plan ming an uprising against the Huerta provisional government, Gen. Felix Diaz declared he would never take arms against the present government or violate any of the conditions of the pact made with President Huerta.
 
 Forty-nine employees at the Colo rado Fuel and Iron company's mine at Rouse, Colo. were buried alive when a cave-in of thousands of tons of coal filled the mine entries for 400 feet None of them was killed and all were recovered.
 Milo L. Lyon, Chicago night watchman, acquired a niche in the divorce court hall of fame for having succeeded in leading double life for seven years on salary of SIP a week.
 She British government, according to announcement made by Premier Asquith, will provide an annuity of $500 for the widow of Capt Robert r. Scott, head of the British Antarctic expedition, who perished while re- turning from the south pole, in addi ton to her admiralty pension of $1,000
 A penny, or cents in United States money, will bring letter from the south pole to London. Two jet ters with only one-penny stamps on each have just been received in Lon don. They were mailed by the late Capt Scott of the British Antarctic expedition.
 The New York Chamber of Com merce adopted resolution protesting against action by any state in the union tending to dishonor the United States by impairing treaty obligations with foreign state to which we are bound in terms of amity"
 Heavy rain soaked the north woods and put out most of the brush and timber fires. The fire got into Bovey, Minn., and men had to fight for hours to keep the flames out of the resi- dence district
 The United States Steel corpora tion in it's report for the quarter end ing March 31, announced, showed net earnings of $34,436,S01, against $35,- 1855, ,557 for the quarter ending Dec. 31, and $17,826,973 for the quarter ending March 31, 1912
 A strike vote of the 100000 con- ductorS and trainmen on railroads in Eastern territory was ordered by the men representatives who have been in conference with the railroad man. agers in New York over demands fer increased wages recently submitted by the employees.
 Michael Kane, a Joliet, H., barber, displayed in saloon $5,000 he had in- herited from his fathers estate Later his body, with the skull crushed as by stone, was taken from the pes- plaines river.
 Gov. Tener signed the Sheatz bill, establishing a system of mothers pen sions in Pennsylvania, The bill ap- propriates S200,000 from the state treasury, to be apportioned among counties according to popuiation,