The Green Forest tribune., 1913-04-25
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.
Domestic

Senator Sherman of Illinois intro duced a bill providing for an appro- priation of $500,O00 to be expended to perfect the levee system at and near Cairo, Ill.
 Seven persons are known to have pershed, several are missing and five were injured seriously in a fire which destroyed the Hotel de Wilson, at Ma lone, N. Y.
 As a mark of appreciation for the work of the boy scouts in acting as guides at the inaugural March 4, Pres ident Wilson accepted the honorary presidency of the Boy Scouts of Amer ica.
 w. J. Bryan and Champ Clark have buried the hatchet. The secretary of state and the speaker, who have been at odds since the Baltimore conven- tion met at luncheon given by a local newspaper editor and formally wiped out the past.
 Jacob Furth, millionaire Seattle banker was found guilty of conspir- acy in connection with the insolvency of the Schricker bank of Laconner, Wash.
 President Wilson in company with other officials of the government at tended solemn high mass of requiem held in St. Matthew's Catholic church, Washington, in memory of the late President Manuel Bonilla of Hon. duras.
 Prof Willis l.. Moore, chief of the weather bureau, was summarily re- moved from office at the direction of President Wilson. It was announced in the executive offices that the req son for this action was serious irreg- ularities in office."
 Mrs. William Cumming Story of New York City, thrice candidate for the presidency general of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, was elected to that office. Mrs. Story s majority was 151. She received ex- actly 600 votes to 449 for Mrs, Horton Believing Joseph w. Martin of Mem phis, Tenn, met with no foul play, but has his own reasons for remain ing in hiding, William J. Burns, Amer ican detective, withdrew from active participation in the search.
 Robert M. Dearbergh, New York representative of Dearbergh Bros, inn porters of straw braid, pleaded guilty to charges of undertaking imports and was fined $2,000.
 Prof c. A. Johnson of the school of engineering at the University of Kan sas will depart May 1 for Panama. The government has engaged him to lay out the electrical power and con- trol circuit which will operate the canal machinery.
 Water from the breaks in the La conia Circle levee, on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi river, near the mouth of White river, is inundating a large section of southeast Arkansas. Election of saloon keepers by popu- lar vote became q reality in Elk Point, s. D. It is believed to be the first time in the country that the bal lot has been utilized to determine who shall operate saloons.
 s. l.. Heeter, superintendent of Pittsburg schools, was acquitted of charges made against him by Ethel Fisher, IS years old, a former house. maid in his home.
 Mrs. Augusta DietZ, widow of George Dietz, wealthy tailor, mysteri- ously murdered in Chicago, and George Nurnberg harness manufac- turer, her admirer were released un- der $10,000 bond each, following their arraignment on the charge of murder. Protests by representatives of great European syndicates against one phase of the California alien land holding bill, which would require stockholders in corporations owning
  can citizens or to have declared their intention, soon will reach Washington. A general shake-up in the person nel of the state department is expect ed to take place in the immediate fu- ture. Secretary Bryan, at the request of a Democratic senator, has read Justed the salaries of several clerks so as to give promotion to some pushed forward as good Democrats.
 Slow-working snake venom was the 2 cause of the death of Karl Hagen beck, the animal collected, at Hem burg, Germany. He was bitten seven years ago and the venom eventually affected his liver
 A statement issued by the Belgium ministry of the interior admits that 257000 men have joined the national political s3rike of the Belgian work