The Green Forest tribune., 1914-01-30


 lola, Kan, of charge of the murder of her husband, George w. Ray. He was shot and killed by his wife last fall in a quarrel after she had made application for divorce.
 Mrs. Goelet filed suit for divorce in Newport, R. l., against Robert Goelet, one of the wealthiest young men iii the country, son of Ogden Goelet and master of $35,000,000
 The gunboat Nashville was ordered from Port au Prince, Hayti, to Cape Haitien, on the north coast of the is land, where recent rebel success is threatening the government of the is- land republic.
 After cabinet meeting Secretary Wilson of the department of labor an nounced that he favored a congress sional inquiry into both the Colorado and Michigan strike situations. The secretary said he had discussed the subject at length with President Will son, but declined to say what his atti- tude was.
 Gen. Beufesse Laroche and several other leaders of the Haytien revolu- tion arrived in Kingston from Cape Hayti on the steamship Albingia. Aft. CT an unsuccessful fight with the gov ernment forces the men took refuge n Prince, whence they sailed for King ston.
 The latest reports seem to indicate that the British cabinet is likely to be split into factions over the forthcom- ing naval estimates, with Winston Churchill, the first lord of the ad- miralty, leading the fight for big program and Chancellor of the EX- chequer Lloyd-George opposing it.
 Dispatches from northern Michigan declare that a strike of the miners of the iron ranges probably will be de- clared within two weeks by the West ern Federation of Miners, in hope of forcing congress to intervene in the copper strike.
 Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, high commissioner for Canada, died at London.
 Mrs. C. R. Aired, her two children aged and 2 years, were burned to death in fire that destroyed their home at Paris, Tex. Mrs. Aired was building a fire to cook dinner when coal oil exploded.
 Robert Higgins confessed he mur. dered his wife at N,eaY Henderson. H. Jan. 3, so he would be free to marry his stepdaughter, Julia Flake, 15 years old. He was arrested after the girl told of her infatuation for Hig- gins.
 Mrs. Virginia Bland, widow of "Sil- yer" Dick Bland of Lebanon, Mo, has been given a clerkship by President Wilson in the office of Mark Sinner, internal revenue collector at Denver.
 The task of obtaining greater se- curity for ships at sea and their pas sengers was dealt with in thorough manner by the international confer ence on safety at sea, which came to an end at London. The delegates of IA nations signed a convention laying down regulations for the future.
 
 Mrs. George c. Lee, widow of a Bos- ton banker, died at Brooklyn, Mass, aged 80. Her daughter Alice was the first wife of Col. Theodore Roosevelt and the mother of Mrs. Alice Roose- welt Longworth.
 All the bishops of Italy have forbid den the dancing of the tango and are establishing penance for Catholics not complying with the order.
 Ty Cobb was offered a five-year contract at $15,000 year in a tele- gram sent to him at Augusta, Ga, by President Gilmore of the Federal league.
 After the hottest campaign ever waged in Trenton, Mo-, the voters of that city adopted local option by a majority of 2O9
 Preliminary estimates by the de- partment of agriculture show that of the 1,140000,000 acres of tillable land in the United States only p per cent of it is actually under cultivation.
 The nomination of John Skelton Williams to be comptroller of the cur rency was ordered favorably reported to the senate by the committee on banking and currency.
 Aaron Donaldson, convicted in the Christian county, H., circuit court three years ago of defrauding J. H. Downs and daughter, Mrs. Belle Ridge ley of Assumption, out of $S5,G00 on fictitious mining stock and properties alleged to have been owned by Don- aldson in the Ozark mountains, was paroled from Chester penitentiary
 The United States navy ranks third among the naval armaments of the world, according to the figures given in Pulsifer's Navy Yard Book, pub liShed as senate document