The Green Forest tribune., 1893-10-19
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ESn ver-strcken Brunswick, Ga.
ARKANSAS ex-Confederates held re-
union at Paragould last week.
THE entire Republican city ticket was
elected at indianapolis last week.
SENATOR VOORHEES, says that the re-
peal men have only begun to fight.
SIX hundred horses were burned up
in barn in Chicago last Thursday.
IT is proposed to make the close of
the Worlds Fair memorable event.
THE Tucker bill repeating the FEEDER
al election laws has passed the House.
THE strikes of miners in England and
Bel gum are nearing an end. Riots are still in
pr gress in France.
THE gold reserve in the Treasury is
steadily decreasing and is now at the lowest
point ever reached.
LAST weeks bank clearings show
|heavy falling off compared with the correspond
ling week year ago.
A CAR filled with exhibits from Plac-
er county, California, burned with its contents
/ at Kirksvile Mo-, Friday
THE University of South Dakota at
2a loss to the State of SlO0O00
ROBBERS had planned to hold up a
milwaukee train near Chicago Friday night, but
. were discovered and driven Off
The cotton supply to date according
10 Hester's report is ,376, 600 bales against l.
BOZ 200 for the same time last year.
BILL DALTON and two pals walked
Through the streets of Saltwater, Ok, Saturday
and the officers did not dare arrest them.
By proclamation Governor Stone of
NIissouri has raised the cattle quarantine against
IA number of counties in North Arkansas.
A BITTER political campaign is an
|ticipated as result of the refusal of the Demo-
Gratis of Alabama to fuse with the Populsts
COMPROMISE measures in the Senate
are taking definite form and it is confidentially
believed that the end of the long stuggle is in
tsight.
ACCUSATIONS made against the former
Peruvian minister of finance have been declared
not proven. The minister escaped on te clinical
grounds.
CHocTAw schools will soon have to
CLOSE as the funds necessary to support them
have been swallowed up by the McCurtain
Shortage.
FRED MARKHAM, 12-year-old lad of
opeka, was on Thursday enticed from his
home by some unknown man and has not been
been since.
The attendance at the Worlds Fair
Continues to be phenomenally large and if it
keeps up the stockholders may get some of heir
money back.
NEAR Tulsa, l. T., two robbers, be-
ieved to be part of the Dalton gang. held up a
etorekeeper and several customers last Thus
aay and looted the place.
DEMOCRATIC members of the Ways
ana Means committe are making haste to COM
plete the tariff bill, whick they hope to be able
TO report within month
DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARsHALs
and the Woodland gang of outlaws had fight
near Fifty-two Spring. I. T., last Thursday,
and one outlaw was killed
THE terrible gale which swept the
Atlantic coast Friday night did a vast amount
OF damage to property, but so far as has been
Learned no lives were lost.
BUNGLING work of the surveyors who
plated the town has caused great confusion at
faWnee, Q. :, and many fights have resulted
irom the numerous contests.
HOLMAN, as chairman of the COM
mite on Indian affairs, declares that he is in
favor OF opening all Indian Territory lands to
settlement as soon as possible.
A PROGRAMME has been outlined for
the house this veek which will keep it busy.
The McCreary bill extending the provisions
of the Gcary act will undoubtedly pass.
: A WRECK of serious character oc-
|rred on the Wabash between st. Louis and
Chicago last Monday night, injuring many peo-
pie who were on their return from the Worlds
Fair.
AT Jackson, Mich, Friday, World
Fair express train on siding was telescoped by
another passenger train, and thirteen people
We're killed. five fatally injured and several
seriously.
TIE steamer Dean Richmond was
lost on Lake Erie, of Dunkirk, in the terrible
storm of Satul day night and her crew Of eighteen
are reported.
IT is understood that petition has
been sent.in secret to Rome from Montreal ask
ing that papal ablegate be appointed for Cana
ola who shall have the same power as MOnsig-
nor Satolli exercises in the United States.
COLORADO authorities have received
communication from Attorney General Olney
asking that arrangements be made between the
Government and the State Of Colorado for the
purpose OF conflning the Government prisoners
in Canon City penitenti~ry instead of sending
them to Detroit