The Green Forest tribune., 1914-03-20

company voted to distribute to stock holders April 20 the 360,729 deferred ordinary shares of the Imperial To- bacco company. On the basis of the present market value of the stock the melon will amount to nearly $4,000,0
 Tt was our first quarrel" said Shered Fields, 19 years old, when ar rested at West Fork, Ark, charged with killing his twin brother Benja- min. Shered told the officers he had fallen out with his brother over a trivial circumstance, that his brother had drawn a knife and that he, in self defense, had seized a shotgun and fired
 Edward Smythe of Peoria, rll., one of the A members of the iron york CTS union whose conviction in the dynamite conspiracy cases tho United States supreme court refused to re- view, returned voluntarily and unac- companied to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth.
 
 Attorney-Genefal McReynolds de. cided to preTare suit against the Metropolitan Tobacco company of New York, under the Sherman anti. trust act.
 By a vote of 16 to 10 the Maryland Senate voted down motion to abol. Fish the racing at Havre de Grace
 Five days at hard labor on the city rock pile was the sentence for speed ing given to w. c. Barker, millionaire clubman, in the Portland, Ore, mu- nicipal court.
 Dr. Jacob Hall, charged with per forming an operation that caused the death of Meta Took, a 16-year-old high school girl, was acquitted at Kansas City.
 During scuffle with her husband over a gun, Mrs William Chambers, wife of a farmer near Rosedale, Ark, was killed. Chambers is in jail at Purcell
 Seven cars of the Manhattan linn ited train on the Pennsylvania rail- way left the track at Pierceton, Ind. The cars did not overturn and no one was injured. A broken rail caused the accident.
 Lieut.. Esner, military aviator, and non-commissioned officer, who ac- companied him as a passenger, were killed at the Aspern aerodrome, Vien- na, Austria, when their aaroplane fell. The accident was due tC a broken motor.
 Sixteen strikers are under military arrest in connection with the alleged murder of Neil Smith, a Forbes non- union miner, whose mutilated body was found on the Colorado & South ern tracks at Suffield Siding, Colo.
 President Frank J. Navin of the De- troit baseball club announced that Ty Cobb had signed a two-year contract with the Detroit club at figure that makes the Georgia Peach the high est-priced player in baseball.
 Fire in the husinass building of the Boatmen's Bank at St. Louis also oc- cupied by the Missouri Athletic Club, as headquarters, resulted in the death of seven, 16 seriously injured and 30 missing. It is almost certain the miss ing men perished.
 Two babies were cremated and third narrowly escaped death at Con- way, Ark, when the residence of Jack Smith, near Alma, was destroyed by fire while MT. and Mrs. Smith were absent.
 New York city's birth rate for the year 1913 was the lowest since 1903. The number of births as set forth in report issued by the health depart ment, was 135,134, equivalent to a birth rate of 25.12, against 135,666 and rate of 26.22 in 1912, or a decrease in the absolute figures of 532 births and in the rate of 1.07.
 The congressional committee, after four weeks investigation of the Colo rada coal miners strike, departed for Chicago for brief joint session with the committee taking testimony in the Michigan copper miners strike.
 Texas rangers crossed the interna- tional boundary line, exhumed the body of Clemente Vergara, buried in the Hidalgo, Mexico, cemetery, and brought it across the Rio Grande to American soil.
 Predicting that the Mexican situa- ton is matter with which the United States shall be forced to deal in some decisive way, and that very soon," Senator Works (Rep.) of Cali fornia criticised the Mexican policy of the administration in speech in the senate.
 With the awarding to the Pennsyl- vania Steel company of a contract for the steel superstucture, assurance is given of the immediate erection across the Mississippi river at Mem phis, Tenn, of one of the longest can tilever spans in the world.