The Green Forest tribune., 1913-05-23
N EWS
 OF THE
 WEEK
Domestic

Domestic
 A tornado which took Il lives, in- tured 30 persons and destroyed moro than third of the town swept Sew ard, Neb. Twenty-two residences, 1n- cluding several of the best in the town. were destroyed, and many more were wrecked. The business portion of the place was not seriously dam- aged.
 Atlanta will entertain the next Shriner convention This was decided at the convention at Dallas, Tex
 The appointment of George w. Guthrie of Pittsburg, Pa, to be am- bassador to Japan, was approved by the senate committee on foreign rela- tions.
 The resolution of Senator Chamber lain of Oregon proposing woman suffrage amendment to the constitu- tion was ordered reported favorably by the senate suffrage committee. |
 Hereafter no woman who works in Utah will receive no less than 90 cents a day; no girl worker will receive less than 75 cents per day, and no woman or girl will work over 54 hours a week.
 The British cruiser Gloucester is at full speed for Smyrna, after the receipt of an urgent summons from that city, where disturbances are threatened. |
 The state board of pardons decided not to recommend the parole of Rev. | Clyde Cow, the Methodist preacher who is serving a four-year term in the penitentiary for his part in a crim- inal operation performed on a school teacher, from which the young wom- l an died.
 Action which, it is said, may ulti- metely operate as a dismissal of the remaining indictment against Clar- ence s. Darrow, Chicago lawyer, ac- cused of jury bribery in the McNa- mara dynamiting case, was taken by Assistant District Attorney Ford at Los Angeles.
 
 The London trades council, repre- senting 50,0o0 trades unionists, regis tered a protest against the appoint ment of Walter H. Page as American ambassador to England.
 German military aviators will be punished by minimum penalty of two weeks in the guardhouse should they cross foreign frontier in their aeroplanes or airships.
 A bill providing for the construc- tion of government railroads in Alas ke to cost $35,O00sO00 or more will be reported by the committee on terri tories as soon as official reports from the several departments can be col lected to be included in the evidence with which the committee will defend its bill.
 Jack Johnson, champion heavy weight prize fighter, was found guilty Of violating the Mann law in trans porting Belle Schreiber from Pitts burg to Chicago in 1910.
 A solemn Te Deum was celebrated in thanksgiving for the recovery of the pope. Thousands attended.
 Former King Manuel of Portugal has incurred the wrath of Emperor William, it is said. The emperor has withdrawn his invitation to the king to attend the wedding of the Princess Victoria Luise to Prince Ernest of Cumberland this month.
 Saying any partnership should be as easy to dissolve as to form, Mrs. Harry Houston, director of the Parent. Teacher Federation at Los Angeles, advocates divorces for a $2 fee.
 
 Former Senator Cullom of Illinois Is ill in Washington and his friends are exhibiting some anxiety as to his condition. He Is suffering principally from the increasing debility of old age, and Deeps to his bed much of the time.
 Princeton won the varsity boat race by quarter of a length. Harvard second. Pennsylvania third. Official time: Princeton, 10m. 18s., Harvard 10m, 22s., Pennsylvania 10m. BPS.
 Poison administered in his food caused the death, on May 2, of Presi- dent AugusHe of Haiti, according to a dispatch from Kingston, Jamacia. One man was probably fatally in 5ured and three others were hurt wher the first clash between the employees of the Gin cinnati Traction Company and strikelss and their sympathizeri occurred
 Within less than 24 hours after she obtained a divorce from her second husband, M. Durrieux, it was re ported n Paris that Baroness Vaug han wo nld soon marry again Baron