The Green Forest tribune., 1893-09-14
The WEEKS NEWS IN BRIEF.
MaNYINclDENTS REDUCED FROM COLUMNS
TO SHORT. SPICY PARAGRAPHS.
Everything Eliminated But Facts For the Special
Convenience Of Readers of The Tribune.


IT is thought the repeal bill will be
passed about the 25th inst.
The World s Religious Congress
opened at Chicago Monday
THE general condition of crops in
Missouri is the worst of the season.
Ten thousand people at Yonkers.
suburb of New York City, are starving.
IT seems to be on the books that the
Federal election law is doomed to defeat.
THE estimated cotton crop for 1893 is
6,717, ,142 bales, the smallest since 1857.
THE details for the opening of the
Cherokee Strip are practically completed.
THERE were $4,000 men in line at the
e. A r. parade at indianapolis last week.
Dr.. P. O. HOOPER, for eight years
Superintendent of the State Insane Asylum, has
resigned.
INSPECTOR SwINFoRD has issued notice
that prospective strip settlers can take only one
lot each.
CUSTOMS receipts are unusually light
this year and large deficit is expected by the
Treasury.
COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE
~
are taxable
THE attendance at the Worlds Fair
is assuming large proportions, running nearly
200, 900 daily.
The home rule bill was defeated in
the House of Lords last Friday night by an
overwhelming vote. -
REGISTRATION of intention to file en-
tries in the Cherokee Strip began Monday. The
race is next Saturday.
BRAZIL is on the verge of another
bloody revolution and martial law has been de-
cl ared at Rio de Janiero.
"RATTLEsNAKE" RALsToN, snake
charmer, was bitten by rattler in chicago
dime museum and is dying.
R. G.. DUN's Weekly Review of Trade
says that the business and financial outlook un-
doubtedly shows great improvement.
AT Delta, Colo, last Friday, three
men robbed bank killed the cashier, and in
getting away two of themwere killed. a
THE Memphis banks have been notl-
fed from New York that they can have all the
money necessary to moye the cotton crop.
THE trouble between France and Siam
is still far from settled and may lead TO grave
complications between European naions.
THE scheme to obtain seed wheat for
the farmers of Western Kansas through the
Railroad Commissioners has proved, a failure.
THE anti silver men in the Senate are
not as confident. as they were a few daystago and
there is now great deal of talk about compro-
mise. .i.ta r. E Z tEFqs .nf,-
Mrs. CLEVELAND gave birth to
bouncing baby girl exactly at noon Saturday 1t
is the first child of President born at the White
House. ye
RIOTS among the striking English
miners growing more serious and in many
instances property at the collieries has been
burned 9zts
AN enormous petition on canvass
asking that the Sherman law be not repealed
has been received by the Senate from the women
SOME of the women boomers at Hen
nessey will make the race into the Cherokee
Strip wearing divided skirts and riding bronchos
man fashion.
THE Grand Army Encampnent at
Indianapolis elected Captain Adams Of Massa-
chusetts, Oommander-i Chief. vice Weissert,
term expired
JOHN BRAcKEN, who was riding to the
World IS Fair from his home at Putnam Ill, on
bicycle, fell into the. drainage canal at Romeo
and vas drowned,
SEVEN persons were killed and Is in
jured by cyclone in Lafourchc, last week. The
storm in Louisiana damaged property to TIE
amonut OF $500 COO, ti--- 2t
- HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State
-adcr the Grant administration, died at his
home, Garrison, N. Y last Friday, Of heart
failure. He was 81 years old.
The Delta, Colo, bank robbers have
been identified as the notorious McCarthys Of
oregon, father aad two SONS, for whom a re-
ward $40 ,Oc0 is outstanding
THE President will send message to
] congress recommending the coinage of the bull
lion inthe Treasury and will urge the removal
OF the 10 per cent tax on State banks.
CHIEF HARRIS, of the Cherokee Ma
uon, has forwarded to Washington vigorous
protest against the Strip allotmehts as decided
upon by the Secretary of the Interior.
TWELVE people were killed and 90 in
Jared in wreck on the Pennsylvania roa1, near
'ne indiana-nlinos Stat. line, Friday The
wreck was caused by blundcr IN train dis
Patcher's office, .gs,.a-se.s s,l -.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has planted
himself squarely on the platform of mo COM
siohilse' and will not even admit that any re-
oosa1eon shall be given to. silver after the re-
PeatNNl has been passed. 4&
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