The Green Forest tribune., 1893-07-20
THE WEEKS NEWS IN BRIEF.
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Everything Eliminated But Facts For the Special
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THE Bank of Commerce of Springfield,
Mo, has failed.
DUN's trade review notes a better
tone, but with waiting policy
THE execution of the Choctaw pris-
oncrs has been suspended until August 4
TIE flour output for the past week
was very light. The market remains quiet.
THE big Llgin smelter at Leadville,
Colo, has shut down, owing to the low price of
silver
POSTMASTER GENERAL BIssELL has de-
cided to abandon three sizes of the postal cards
now in use.
THE wife of Little Rock gambler at
tempted suicide Mouday because of alleged mis-
treatment.
Four persons we're killed and seven
badly injured last Saturday by an explosion of
fireworks at Chicago.
THE Baptist Young Peoples Union of
America met in international convention at In
danapolis last Thursday.
THERE is fund of $l3 600 900, amass-
ed by sales ofcotton seized during the late war.
lying idle at Washington.
A PARTY Of hunters discovered few
days ago near Weston, w. Va. what appears
to be an incipicnt volcano,
TWENTY hundred pensioners
have already been suspended since IIoke Smiths
famous order went into effect.
GOVERNOR FIsHDACK granted res
pite to William Smith, who was to have been
hanged at Camden last Thursday.
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railroad has recently made record of 1l2 miles
per hour-cxceeding any on record.
THE Silver Convention at Denver,
the 18th inst, issued strong appeal to the
country at large in behalf of silver.
THE meeting of silver men in st.
Louis next week viii not take the form OF con-
vcntion, but will he merely conference.
AT Yalta, Russia, mob attacked the
jewish residents of the town and killed many,
besides taking all the Jews belongings.
THus far this month, the Government
has purchased but small per cent of the silver
which must be bought every month under the
Sherman law.
The Worlds Fair directors by de-
cssive vote last Friday decided that after Sun
day, July Is, the Fair will no longer be kept
open on Sundays.
Hon. R. 7. KERR, prominent attor-
ney of Ft Smith. committed suicide by shooting
himself last Thursday morning. No reason can
be found for his act
DEMOCRATS Of New York City who
are opposed to tho domination of Tammany have
organized the Citizens Democracy which will be
hostile to the machine.
New YORK bankers say that the
financial situation throughout the country is
certainly improving because currency is begin
ming to come back to them.
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, Mrs. F. H. Nc
Intosh, who had been thought to be dead. sud
denly recovered consciousness, said she had been
in heaven and now would live.
YOUNG G-MAN-AFRAID-o FIJI S. HORSES,
the head chief of the Sioux Indians, died sud-
denly while on visit to- the Crow agency. He
will be succeeded by Little Wound.
Mrs. DR.. MYER was arrested last
Thursday at Detroit charged with having muir
dered several men she had married and then
poisoned to get the insurance on their lives.
In fight with 600 pirates in Chinese
waters. recently, 60. Government soldiers were
killed, three gunboats routed and the ships they
were guarding captured by the freebooters.
SPECIAL examinations of applications
for pensions, in which the first payment would
ordinarily have been allowed, have resulted in
the saving to the Government in two months of
$ll2, 600.
On Monday of last week l8 or more
fremen met horrible death while trying to
save the Cold Storage building at the Worlds
air, which burned up covering some of them
20 feet in the debris
CoRBErT and jackson have signed an
agreement to fight June '94 for the largest purse
ever offered by any reputable athletic orYaniza-
tion. Corbctt is also to fight Mitchell in Sep
tember of this year.
TIE beautiful crystal fountain which
the ladies OF Hot Springs donated to the Arkan-
sas building at the Worlds Fair fell from its
pedestal one day last week and was broken be-
yond repair. Itcost S4O0.
A NEW comet has been discovered II
is called Roredame's Comet, after James Rore-
da.re of Salt Lake, Utah. who di scovered it
first at 10 O'Clock on the night of the sth inst.
1t was quite visible here on Wednesday and
Thursday nights Of last week.
THE International Railway commits
sion. appointed to make surveys for line for a
railroad connecting the systems OF the three
Americas, has completed it's work and is pre-
pairing report showing the feasibility of such
project, which will so before Congress.
THE National bank of Kansas City
has suspended 1t has assets of between g.
COCOON and 81, COO, o0G and liabilities of about
81 ,oo0, 900. Heavy and protfactcd Withdrawals
cfdeposits caused the bank to suspend. It had
capital OF 81, ,oO0 900 and was the pioneer bank
VI haGsas City,