The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-27
The Weeks news IN Brief.
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failed with liabilities OF 500 o00, 900.
TIE Little Rock Street Railway has
been placed in the hands of a receiver.
CoTToN as we'll as fruit was greatly
damaged by the recent storms and rains
EDWARD STANLEY, earl of Derby, one
of the most noted English statesmen is dead.
THE Transmississippi Congress, about
600 strong, assembled at Ogden, Utah. Tues
day
EDWIN BOOTH, the world renowned
tragedan, is at the point of death in New York
City.
THOUSANDS of applications for Office
are still pouring into the departments at Wash
ington.
THE Arkansas Y. M. G. A. Conven-
tion met at Pine Bluff, Friday. Abont 100 were
present.
REPORTS from six leading winter
growing States indicate crop much below the
average.
. THE programme is now complete for
the grand naval display which will be given at
New York
WooD's Opera House at Fayetteville,
Washington County, was burned on thy night
of the goth. -
HEAVY rains and snow in Minnesota
are prevalent and the people are apprehens+~.
of heavy floods.
THE town of Boles, this State, was
struck by "a tornado on Tuesday of last week kill
ing seven people.
SENATOR ORv1LLE PLATT Of Connecticut
is looming up as a Republican Presidential possi-
biity in 1896.
Work at the Worlds Fair is being
rushed night and Gay in the effort to get the ex-
hibits in shape.
AN extra session of Congress may be
called sooner than was expected to act on the
financial condition.
FRANK JAMES and Bill Dalton have
formed partnership and will shortly open up a
big saloon in Chicago
GENERAL EDWARD BEALE, a veteran
oftwo wars and an intimate friend OF General
Grant died Saturday
THE Austrian premier has notified
Minister Grant that Max Judd will not be receiv-
ed as consul to Vienna.
TIE House committee on territories
will soon begin an investigation into their quail
ifcations for statehood.
EARNEST LEWIS, an Indian Territory
desperate and one of the Wharton train rob
bers have been captured.
PRINCE FERDINAND, of Bulgaria, was
welded to Princess Marie Louise, the daughter
of the Duke OF Parama, Italy.
The trial of Min Shepard, the young
desperate, at Bentonyille last week, resulted in
giving him one year in the pen.
TROUBLE is expected at Coal Hill,
Tenn. soon, when the free miners will make
another attempted to drive out the convicts
On last Saturday the Paris and the
new steamer Campania started upon race across
the ocean which is expected to break the re-
cord.
Mrs. Al MIRA HANCOCK, widow of the
late General Winfield Scott Handbook, died at
New York last week. She was buried in ST.
Louis.
THE gold reserve was broken into
Friday but was made whole again Oh Saturday
through gold turned into the treasury by western
banks.
By fire which broke out in the Sill
yer Bow mine at Butte, Mont, Friday morn
ing, nine miners lost their lives, escape being
cut off.
A TORNADO in Mississippi Wednesday
of last week caused fearful havoc with property
and several lives were lost. Several people were
roasted alive
THE Islands of Zante, off Greece, was
visited by an earthquake that killed many peo-
pie and completed the work of destruction of
previous shocks.
THE Mississippi Sanitary Association
has urged the Treasury Department to rc-estab-
lish the cholera quarantine and immigration i'll
spection service of last year.
AT Camden, this state, woman step
tancc of 20 feet, her neck was broken and she
died instantly, Oh Monday OF last week.
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER has thorough
lyinvestigated the situation as regards the open
ing of the Strip and says that settlers may
consider themselves fortunate if they get in by
fall
A CROWD of men at Monroe, a station
on the Midland r. r., in this State, drank
fighting beer and engaged in a three handed
cutting atfrav eday last week. One Was killed
while the other two were horribly nlangled
The storm of "Wednesday night and
Thursdav extended from the Gulf to the great
Lakes and varied from rains and hail in the
South to heavy snow lhe North, accompanied
at all points with cyclones, gales or toraa-
does In Mississippi and Oh the lakes, espec-
tally at Milwaukee, the loss of life was very
heavy.