The Green Forest tribune., 1893-05-25
the WEEKS NEWS IN BRIEF.
MANY INCIDENTS REDUCED FROM COLUMNS
TO SHORT, SPICY PARAGRAPHS.
Everything Eliminated But Facts For the Specis
Convenience Of Readers Of The Tribune.

THE contract for the purchase of the
Cherokee Strip has been signed.
WHILE the weather CO nditions have
largely improved crops are still backward.
A CANADIAN commission is investi-
gatipg the working of the prohibition law in
Kansas.
DuN's trade review notes slow collec-
tions and undertakings affected by doubts about
the future.
THE latest news from Hawaii shows
waiting one.
JUDGE THOMAS of Missouri has been
appointed Attorney General for the Post Office
Department.
SAGINAW, Mich, was devastated by
million dollar fire that destroyed the heart Of
the city. Saturday.
BY an accident the largest capture of
green goods on record was made on Wednesday
at bridgeport, Conn.
Miss ROSE CLEVELAND returned to
this country Saturday after two years spent in
travelling In foreign lands.
Mrs. CHARLES BERGo of Nodaway
county, Mo-, beheaded her baby with a razor
and then cut her own throat
Four life-saverS out of q crew of sew
Ell were drowned at Cleveland while trying to
rescue two boatmen, who were also lost.
UNION teamsters and laborers Of In
dianapolis, to the number 1000, went out ON q
strike last Wednesday for shorter hours.
Mrs. HARE, supposed to be insane,
poisoned her 9-yearold son near Lansing,
Mich, to prevent him growing up thief.
Cumberland Presbyterians at the
Little Rock Conference voted, Saturday, in ia
vor OF the eligibility of women as members.
The Woman's Congresses were the
feature OF the Fair last week, the greatest inter
est Henterny in the advocates of dress reform
THE Cumberland Presbyterians in
general assembly, at little Rock, elected Rev.
W. s. Ferguson Of Petersburg, ILL.,, as moder-
atOr.
The receivers of the Winner Building
Company at Kansas City have sued the Kansas
City directors OF the company. Other suits are
to follow.
months Of the fiscal year is over ST 900 900 in ex-
cess OF the amount collected during the same
time last year
ATTORNEY GENERAL OLNEY made the
statement Saturday that the Government would
take the necessary steps to prevent the Sunday
opening Of the Fair.
The same mob that lynched Terrill,
vi af Un1fn
Iud., went to Brownstown and also lynched Lou
Trenck. another murderer.
BENJAMIN NJ. McCULLoCH. teller Of the
State bank at St. Louis, was murdered at his
home early Saturday morning, after a desper-
ate struggle with burglar.
GRAVE charges are being made
against the Cherokee representatives at WASH
ington in connection with the purchase and
opening of the Strip to settlement.
SECRETARY GRESHAM is authority for
the statement that the Government will pay
all bills contracted for the entertainment Of the
Duke Of veragua the country's guest.
Miss SICKLEs' charges of rottenness
regarding Cherokee Strip matters and proposed
grab OF 800 900 created CONSERVATION at Table
quah, l. T., where Miss Sickles is we'll known.
JOHN E. RIsLEy, the recently appoint
ed United States minister to Denmark has been
sued for an accounting ofjoint counsel fees earn
ed in conjunction with the late Senator McDon-
aid. +eaN
TIE Oglethorpe National and tn e
First National banks of Brunswick. Ga, have
closed their doors and President Ullmaa of the
frst-nam committed suicide by shooting him.
self.
IT is said that EX-Secretary John w.
Noble will soon take up his residence in Oklaho-
ma having in view his elevation to the United
States senate when the Territory is admitted to
Statehood.
THE storm which RACED last week
with such fury along the lake shores. upper Ohio
and Western Pennsylvania did immense damage
by floods at many points. y score or moIe Of
lives were lost.
ALL the members of the cabinet and
many leading Democrats are urging upon the
President to make strong recommendation Of
the income tax special feature Of his first mes
sage to &C ngress
THE General Assembly, of the Pres
byterian Church in the United States met in its
ono hundred and fifth annual session at Wash
ington, ID. G. Rev Willis q. Craig OF Chicago
was chosen moderator to succeed Rev. Mr..
Young
SATURDAY. while an immense throng
OF women were waiting at the doors OF the
Washington Hall, in the Worlds Fair grounds
the entrance gave way and many were precipi-
tated to the ground below distance of twelve
feet. Several were badly injured, but none IA
tally.