The Green Forest tribune., 1913-04-18
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
 PRESENTED.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For eiqn Countries Are Here Given In Short Meter for
 Busy Readers.
Domestic


 The legislature of New Jersey has passed d law providing that widows with children under 16 years of age shall be paid $9 month for the first child, $5 for the second and $4 for each additional.
 There will be no strike of telephone operators in Boston. This was de- cided after representative of the New England Telephone company and their operators had conference.
 Negotiations for the merger of two of the most influential Baptist churches in New York, the Fifth ave- hue and the Calvary Baptist churches, have been concluded.
 The Sedalia, Mo-, presbytery, in ses' sion at Holden, removed Rev. w. T. Logan, known as the fighting preacher from the Knobnoster Pres byterian church.
 The St. Francis levee broke at q point about one mile below Wilson, Ark, 25 miles south of Csceola. The break occurred at point where it was least expected, and soon 8 stream 150 feet wide was running through the crevasse and rapidly widening.
 Yaqui Indians, partisans to neither side in the Sonora revolt, have taken the warpath between Mermosillo, the state capital, and Guayraas, the gulf port.
 William W. Borden, the 25-year-old nultimiIionaire who put aside the temptations of life of luxury to be- come missionary, died at Cairo, Egypt, of spinal meningitis
 The Connecticut legislature passed au amendment to the federal copsti- tuition for the direct election of United States senators. Connecticut is the thirty-sixth state to ratify the amendment, which now becomes ef- fective.
 Victor H. Hedquist, Cook county, H.. patient at the Kankakee insane asylum, was killed on the institution grounds by Seymour Peck, also from Cook county.
 President Wilson announced that he would visit New Jersey some time after May 1 to speak in behalf of the jury reform bill, which failed to pass at the last session of the New Jersey legislature and for which there is to be an extra session.
 Chester ". Hill, collector of the port Gf Philadelphia, has been asked to resign. His administrative meth ods have been criticised by the gov ernments
 The marked improvement in the condition of Pope Plus X. continues. and the oapal physicians were con fident convalescence would be rapid. unless there are complications.
 The strike of motormen and con- ductors of the International Railway company of Buffalo, N Y, was settled through the mediation of Mayor Fuhr. mann
 Twenty-Five persons were injured, pine seriously, by bolt of lightning which entered hotel lobby at Inde. pendence, La.
 A minimum wage of not jess than $9 week for women aht: girls and prohibition of the employment of girls less than 15 years of age in manufac turing industries was proposed ill a bill introduced by Senator ChiltCn of West Virginia.
 Bennett Clark, son of Speaker Clark, has been appointed parliament ary clerk of the house to succeed Charles R. Crisp of Georgia, who now is representative. Clark is 23 years old, a graduate of the University of Missouri and the youngest man who has ever served as clerk at the speak CTS table.
 
 A quintet of infants was born re. gently to Mrs. Charles Smith of Dan by, N. Y. The five are we'll and healthy and the physician expects them to live.
 The stiffest inheritance tax ever suggested in congress is proposed by Senator Jones of Washington. All inheritances to direct descendants up to $25,000 are exempt. From $25,000 to $50,000, the proposed rate is l per cent, progressing upward to 35 per cent on all above $30,00O,000.
 According to estimates of the ways and means committee, the Underwood tariff bill will yield for the coming fiscal year $2S5,412,OoO in revenues, as against $3O4s5s1, ,O00 revenues from the Payne law, which is now in effect
 Rumors among legislators in Okla. homa City that the blind United States senator, Thomas P. Gore, would resign, got additional strength