The Green Forest tribune., 1913-07-25


 Constitutionality of the Indiana em. ployers' liability law was upheld by the United States Supreme court in the suit of Haynes L. Hackett against the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louis vile Railway company
 Application of the Southern and Union Pacific railroads to extend the time for dissolution of the railroad merger, as ordered by the supreme court of the United States, was granted by that court. The Japanese navy department has contracted for three battleships of 30,500 tons each, to be built in Japan. They will be sister ships to the Fuso, now building in the naval dockyards at Kure.
 Authority for Philippine courts to review orders of the governor general deporting aliens was affirmed by the United States supreme court in test cases brought by II Chinese ordered deported by former Goyernor-Gene Forbes.
 Uncle Sam has discovered another Corregidor for the defense of his is land possessions in the form of a saucer-shaped crater near Diamond Head, in the Hawaiian Islands
 
 An attempt by the Alaska terri torial legislature to enact a law dis. eliminating against Japanese fisher men has been blocked by the gov ernor's veto, according to a telegram received by Secretary of the Interior Lane.
 Twenty-Five murders committed in the last three years in Missouri, Kan sas, Colorado, Iowa and Illinois by means of blows from al ax are ascribed to Henry Lee More, who is serving a life term in the Missouri penitentiary.
 Twenty-Five silk mill strikers were arrested at Paterson, N. J, following a disturbance in front of the Dough erty & Washburn mill by crowd of 300 men and women. Only men were arrested
 Francis Landey Patton resigned as president of the Princeton, N. j., The ol0gical seminary at the annual com mencement meeting of the board of directors.
 The United States army transport Sherman. carrying 5,000,000 rounds of small-arm ammunition and small ar- tillery ammunition and large qquan- tity of powder sailed from San Fran, cisco for Manila.
 "Pistol-toting" was made a felony Hams bill passed by the recent legis- lature Violation may be punished by Imprisonment for three years.
 President Wilson, by an executive ordered issued, makes it plain that he is going to learn in advance of final action on the tariff whether there is any basis for the claims made by some manufacturing industries that the Underwood bill will ruin them.
 The last case to be argued before the supreme court of the United States until next October was heard. The court will take a recf ss from Monday, May 12, to Monday, May 26, in order to prepare opinions in cases already taken under advisement.
 Four thousand skilled workmen en. ployed by the Macbeth Havens Glass company have received a voluntary increase of wages. It affects employees ill factories at Charleroi, Pa., Toledo, O.. Marion and Elwood, Ind.
 Advices from Avlona say the situa- tion there causes great anxiety. The army of David Pasha, encamped few miles from the town, is starving. 
 H. c. Baseler, a paying teller of the Third National bank, St. Louis, was turned over to the United States au- tleorities following the discovery of a $15,OO0 shortage in his accounts.
 King Nicholas will abdicate the throne of Montenegro in the near fu- ture, according to a telegram received by the F'rankfurter Zeitung from it's correspondent at Constantinople.
 The will of the late Judge William G. Hawkins, Jr., probated in Pitts. burgs Pa, disposed of an estate esti, mated at $1,5O0,0O0 in a concise state ment of TAO words.
 Foreign
 Aleko Shinas, who assassinated King George of Greece at Saloniki, killed himself by flinging himself out of window of the public station in that city. Shinas killed the king of Greece on March IS.
 China is preparing to follow Japan in protesting against the California alien land bill.
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 The expedition under Knud Mas. mussen, the Danish explorer, after a three years absence in Greenland, has returned to Thorshaven, Farce Islands.