The Green Forest tribune., 1914-07-31


 half of the $2,329, 9,731,S44 of domestic exports from the United States dur ing the fiscal year 1914 Their total value was $1,065, ,6SS,460, or about $3S, S,000,000 more than during 1913, ac- cording to figures made public by the department of commerce.
 Eddie McGoorty, the American pugilist, has accepted an offer cabled him from London to fight George Carpenter in London in October for purse of $10,O0O.
 Charges by Benjamin L. Dulaney of Bristol, Tenn, that the Pennsyl- vania system and it's allied lines have bottled up southern coal fields in the interest of the "coal trust" will be investigated by special senate com mittee headed by Senator Flynn.
 Raw cotton exports reached a new high record during the fiscal year 1914, when $610,000,0 ,000 worth was sent abroad. The exports were worth 25,000,000 more than the high record If 1911.
 The seventh case of bubonic plague was announced at New Orleans after health authorities had diagnosed the illness of Philomene Glapoin, 15 years old.
 Miss Ethel zisbat, 23 years old, was arrested ir Chicago for rocking the boat in which she and three young men were rowing in Jackson park.
 A long-contested fight over a line A1lingdale, Nicholas county, Va, in which three men were killed and an other wounded seriously.
 In one borough of Greater New York alone-Manhattan- absolute di- vorces were granted during the six months ending June 30, as against 372 during the same period last year. totA 6tA To iAOo III c peIhiS when fire destroyed the main build ing of the state home for girls at Ge- noa, III. Twenty-Five girls took ad vantage of the excitement to elude their guards and escaped.
 Representative Webb of North Car olina was chosen by the house Demo cratic caucus to succeed Representa- tive Clayton of Alabama as chairman of the judiciary committee, Repre- sentative Clayton leaves the house to become federal judge.
 Favorable action on a bill to regu- late and control the diversion Cf Wa ter for power purposes from Niagara Falls was recommended to the house by the foreign affairs committee.
 
 After months of deliberation, the senate judiciary committee agreed upon final revision of the Clayton antitrust bill, which is to supplement the Sherman law.
 Eight members of the Stefansson Arctic expedition, who were believed to be on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Alaska, with the rest of the Karluk party, which was reported safe more than a month ago, are now thought to be lost.
 Civil suit to separate the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- road company from it's subsidiary rail- trolley and steamship lines will be brought by Attorney-General Mickey holds in the United States district , court at New York the next few days
 Seven miners were killed in the Bal kan mine at the Alpha location near Iron River, Mich., when sliding sand caused cave-in. Crews of miners are digging for the bodies.
 The London Globe says Jack John son and Sam Langford have been def nitely matched for a boxing contest at the end of October.
 Between 5000 and 4,000 carloads of apples will be shipped this fall from the Ozark apple growing region, ac- cording to Ashleigh P. Boles, horti- cultural agent of the Frisco railroad.
 Four persons were probably fatally shot in Omaha, Neb., during two lights between rival gangsters, in one of which 300 men and boys engaged. The four wounded are: Nels Lind, 16 years old; Fred Schroeder, 35, former city councilman; Peter Schroeder and William Rapp.
 Foreign commerce of the United States during the fiscal year which ended June 30 aggregated S4,25S,795, 735, being $2O,096,64S, or less thar one-half of 1 per cent, below the high record of 1913 ard $401, ,208,392 above the highest record in any earlier year
 An inquest was held at Whitney Ore, over the body of an unidentified man who was lynched after he had al tackled the S-year-old daughter of J B. Hardman, farmer. No clew tc the identity of the lynchers or theil victim was obtained.
 
 Exoneration Of all senators con cerned in the charge of misuse of of ficial letter paper for promotion of { North Carolina gold mine Is containef in the findings of an investigatin. committee which completed it's re