The Green Forest tribune., 1913-07-18
NEV|5 IF TIE WEEK
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
 PRESENTED.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For eign Countries Are Here Given In Short Meter for
 Busy Readers.

Personal purity courses will be part of the high school curriculum in the Chicago public schools, wher the fall term opens, despite tne pro tests of delegation of parents, the board of education announced.
 Bulgaria has appealed unres5rved ly for Ru-aian intervention in the Bal kans, in order to prevent further bloodshed Roumania has declared war on Bulgaria and has recalled her minister.
 Petitions for universal eight-houI statute were filed In every county Of California under the initiative law More than 50,000 signatures to the pc titions were secured by the Socialist party.
 The Borah bill, allowing entrymen under the enlarged homestead act to make $240 worth of Improvements an. nually as a substitute for putting a specified number of acres under cul- tivation in the second and third years, was passed by the senate
 Secretary Bryan made apology to the Paraguayan government through its minister at Washington, for the insult to the Paraguayan flag in San Francisco July 4.
 Three hundred Moors and 70 Span tribesmen upon the Moroccan city of Lacazar. Thousands were wounded.
 Maxim guns were mounted on all tiIe public buildings in Johannesburg, $. A, because of a threatened renewal of violence in the gold mine strike. Guns have been placed in position to sweep all the principal streets.
 Forty-five Democratic senators rose in their places as their names were called in the Democratic caucus and pledged themselves absolutely and un. conditionally to support the tariff bill, as approved by the caucus, and to vote for no amendments unless they were approved by the finance commit tee or the caucus.
 A Hobby" investigation by the house to cover particularly Martin A. Mulhall's charges that the National Association of Manufacturers "infiu- enced present and former congress- men" but broad enough to cover all alleged lobby activities before con- gross, was provided by a resolution from the house rules committee.
 Sturgis, Ky, a town of about 2,000 people, on the Illinois Central rail- road, was practically destroyed. It is estimated the property loss will be $300,000 or more.
 Triplets born few days ago to MT and Mrs. Andrew Gunderson of Val ley City, N. D., were christened Mar. garet, Jessie and Eleanor, in honor of President Wilson's three daughters.
 Lobbying at Washington by Amer. extraordinary interview given by Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall while on visit to Philadelphia.
 The International White Slave con- gress at London held it's last sessions under the presidency of Sir John Brun. ner. The congress closed with prayer offered by the bishop of Win. chester.
 I The sound steamer John T. Wilson 'ssprung leak off Belden's Point, City Aland. She headed at once for the sy dock at City Island and sank i, been taken off.
 The First-Second National Bank of Pittsburg, a recent consolidation of the First and Second National banks, was closed by order of the assistant comptroller of the currency The bank is owned largely by the J. s. and w. S. Kuhn interests and is the second largest in Pittsburg Deposits of ap- proximately $30,000,000 are tied up by closing the bank.
 William P. Roland, president of the Marion Coal company who brought the impeachment charges against ex- Judge R. w Archibald of the com merce court, admitted that he had asked congress to investigate the "mysterious" influences back of the railroads in their fight to crush him. N
 E Miss Zelie Emerson, the Jackson, Nich., suffragette, arrested in London D a charge of obstructing the arrest Miss Pankhurst, was fined $10. She Aused to pay the fine and was sent
 kail
 n. Armando Riva, chief of the
 Mal police, was shot and probably Fly wounded during pistol
 l Havana Cuba Gen. Ernesto
 governor of Havana province;
 3 Vidal Morales and Represent.
 As were involved in the fight
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