The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-13
the WEEKS NEWS IN Brief
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in very encouraging condition.
AN adjournment of the extra session
of the senate is looked for this week.
A BIG robbery of registered matter
ae occurred in the New York post Office,
DANGEROUS forest fires in Souther
Ohio have been extinguishcd by heavy rains
1t seems to be doubtful yet whether
Martin of ofKansas will hold his seat in the g. S.
Senate.
Mr.. CLEVELAND has declared that per-
sistency will not increase the chances of office
seekers.
REPUBLICANS triumphed in the ma
iority Of the municipal elections in Missouri and
Kaneas.
NIMRoD SHEPPARD, who is wanted at
Rosers, this State, has just been arrested at De-
'catur. Ill.
CYRUS P. WALDRTDGB, Republican, Of
ST Louis, was elected mayor with Z majority of
over :, 900.
MANY deaths by earthquake are re-
ported in servia, several villages having been
destroyed.
A CHURCH at Cudria, Russia, collaps-
ed during storm and one hundred worshippcrs
were killed.
THE races at Little Rock have been
grand success. The attendance was the best for
several years.
JOE BERLIN, well-known stockman,
committed suicide at Pine Bluff while temporar-
lily deranged.
Hon. ZApocK P. FREEMAN, Republi-
can, was elected mayor Of Eureka Springs by
large majority
Mr.. CLEVELAND recognizes another
''ex' in his appointment of Caleb B. West as
Governor OF Utah.
AS predicted, Judge William Lochren,
of Minnesota, has been nominated for commits
sioner ofpensions.
A GENERAL crusade against incompe
tent clerks has been 'inaugurated in the depart
ments at Washington.
A REMARKABLE increase in manufac-
turing plants for the first quarter of 1898 is shown
by the southern States
CARTER HARRISON, the Democratic
candidate for mayor of Chicago, was elected by
a handsome majority.
D. G. BELL, independent Democrat,
was elected mayor at Pine Bluff, over Brewster,
regular Democratic nominee.
,piicants for Governor of Oklahoma, and the re-
suit is very much in doubt.
ALI the arrangements for the remov-
al of JEFF Davis remains from New Orleans to
Richmond have been completed.
IT is said that in few days steps
will be taken in New York toward the construc
tion of an underground railroad,
Two farmers at Stanberrv, Mo-, fired
the Jail in which they were prisoners to effect
their escape, but were burned to death.
HANS HEIDR1CK, who slew Glenn In
graham, near Pine Bluff, last January, has been
convicted of murder in the first degree.
THE organization Of a 100000, 900
steel manufacturing syndicate to compete against
the Carnegie plant is said now to be the go.
Up to date AZ ,57S packages contain
ing foreign exhibits for the Worlds Fair have
passed through the New York custom-house.
The grand Mormon temple at Salt
Lake City was dedicated Thursday. 1t has been
building more than forty years and cost over
81, 200 000
COMMISSIONERS BLoUNT has reached
Honolulu and reports that the majority of the
people favor annexation and that che sentiment
is growing
Rev. JAMES RoDMAN and wife, who
were separated during the Chicago fire in 1873,
each believing the other dead, have been strange
ly reunited.
Mrs. CLEVELAND will not be able to
attend the opening exercises Of the Worlds
Fat, but she will take part in them by pushing
hu tton at the White House.
THERE are nearly 1000 Polish resi-
dents in Trenton, N. j., SEQ of whom afforded
snceting to protest against the PRONUNCIATION OF
the new treaty with Russia.
IT is regarded as practically certain
that Governor Lewelling of Kansas will call an
extra session OF the Legislature n res ponse to
The urgent demands of the Populists.
CHARLES PATE, a constable OF Conway
county, this State, was killed by negro whom
he was Attempting to arrest on Tuesday OF last
week The .legro was captured anf has narrow
ly escaped lynching.
at tue Mormon Conference at Salt
Lake City, Utah. on Wednesday of last week,
Brigham Young, Jr., declared that the Mormon
church waa, in the future, destined tc play an
important part in the roitics of the country
The prospects of the chief wheat
crops Of the world may be summarized as fol
lows: North African, bad; Spanish, rain wanted;
Austro- Hungarian, locally damaged, gcneraily
satisfactory; italian satisfactory, s; French sat
lsfactory; Russian, satisfactory; United states
ef Aila@rica, s.oabtsal; l4stiaa, iar.