The Green Forest tribune., 1914-03-20
Epitorne
 of the w Week's News

MISS I10lGu DluSuOfe I1uHtllSlC will be married to Vincent Astor in Staatsburg, N. Y., Thursday, April 30.
 The American Express company de- clared a quarterly dividend of 11R per cent, a reduction of one-half of 1 per cent from the last quarterly divi- dend, declared Dec. 3.
 The British cruiser Berwick left St. Lucia hurriedly, presumably for Bra gil, in order, if necessary, to protect British interests.
 Dispatch of two additional regi- ments of American infantry to Eagle Pass and Laredo, Tex, to allay fears of raids by Mexicans, and the appear ance in Washington of Gen. Felix Diaz and friends with a plan to solve the Mexican problem, were the chief developments in the Mexican situa- ion.
 Secretary of State Bryan said he hoped that not only would this coun- try borrow the initiative and referen- dup1, as it had borrowed the Aus tralian ballot, but that in time it would adopt the postal vote.
 / Dispatches from Ceiba, Honduras, said the city of Ceiba had been swept by fire that caused a loss estimated at $1,000,000. It was said that 2S city blocks had been destroyed.
 
 A grand jury in thefdistrict court at Omaha returned Indictments against six well-knowR attorneys, three charging extorfion and blackmail, two embezzlemenX and one subornation of perjury
 BecGuse she "kidnaped" her patient and/married him a week ago, Jacobe Terhofen, pretty nurse of the Agnes Ssa.Memorial sanitarium, Denver, was dis missed by Superintendent Holden.
 
 Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the militant suffragettes, was ar rested at a suffragette meeting in St. Andrgw s narr; tiafasg rsFft5t,ts-s fight \ with the police, in which score of women were hurt and several consta- bs bruised.
 Disorders incident to the general stake, which began in Rome, pre- vailed throughout the day. In the con- ctr and and police 30 persons were wounded.
 The final chapter in the iron work CTS campaign to destroy "open shops" with dynamite and nitroglycerine was written by the supreme court in re- fusing to review the penitentlary sen tences imposed upon Frank M. Ryan and 23 associates.
 Five filibusters, who landed at Men du, state of Yucatan, from Cuban ship, have been executed. Two of them were Paredes and Esquringa, rebel generals.
 j. w. T. Bright, a wealthy lumberman of Mendenhall, Miss, was killed by Don Anglin of Arbo, Miss, when the men fought pistol duel on Gulf & Ship Island railway train near Men ] aenhall Mrs. Anglin was the cause 2 of the affair."
 Four persons were burned to death and one is believed to 5e iyin5 at an ' Ashland, Wis, hospital as the result of fire which destroyed Patrick Aug. er's boarding house and saloon at Saxon, Wis.
 George w. Vanderbilt, 52 years old, multimillionaire philanthropist and sportsman of international renown, died in Washington after an operation for appendicitis.
 The income tax law bids fair to live up to the expectations of the adnlnis. tration by producing about $50,000,O00 annually in revenue paid by close to l25,000 individuals.
 J. H. Hooper, stock broker, 26 years old, was killed in Omaha while re- sisting two detectives who were ar resting him on charge of uttering false checks. Hooper was wanted in many cities on forgery charges.
 The Brazilian government pro- :. claimed a state of siege in the cities I. b SRio Janeiro, Nitcheroy and Petrop- tes. This is to remain in force until .itarch 31. The governments action Is taken as preventive measure.
 Augustus Hall ("Diamond Gus'O whose alleged common-law wife is suing him for separation, denied in New York that he had married the plaintiff with a kiss, or that he had married her at all.
 Bert w. Dickens, a carpenter, was arrested at Indianapolis, Ind, on an indictment charging conspiracy to kill Judge Charles M. Fortune, Felix Blankenbaker, special judge hearing election fraud cases, and Joseph Roach, special prosecutor in the fraud trials.
 Charges by c. H. Cooper, a Wash fngton, D. C., banker against Justice D. T. Wright of the district supreme i. court, asking for his impeachment, X were dismissed by the house judiciary ' committee as "uncorroborated."