The Green Forest tribune., 1893-05-18
the Weeks NEWS IN Brief ,
MANY INCIDENTS REDucE0FaoM COLUMNS
TO SHORT. SPICY PARAGRAPHS.
Everything Eliminated But Facts For the Special
Convenience Of Readers of The Tribune.
THERE is another crisis in Spain.

SrupENDous pension frauds have been
unearthed in Virginia.
The Director of the Mint, Mr.. Leech,
has rendered his resignation
THE Columbus Caravels have left
New York for the Worlds s Fair.
WARNER, the patent medicine man
of Rochester, N. Y, has failed.
A DISASTROUS drouth is playing havoc
with farm products in England.
THE levee broke at Lake Port, Ark,
and large section of country was flooded
THE United States Supreme Court is
expected to adjourn for the session, this week.
A RUMoR that Attorney General Olney
contemplates rcsigning is again in circulation.
SOME 400 to 500 Jews from Poland
have arrived in New York during the last few
days.
THE taking of evidence in the Broun
murder case at st. Charles, Mo-, was concluded
Friday.
FRANK H. JONES of Springfield, H.,
has been appointed First Assistant Postmaster
General.
THE Gould family are making prep
arations to erect a church in memory of the late
Jay Gould.
The country house to be occupied by
Mr. and Mrs Cleveland this summer is almost
ready for them.
THE programme for the rein terment
of JEFF Davis remains at Richmond, Va, May
81, has been con. plcted.
The gold in the Treasury, according
to statement issued recently. is within $780,
900 of the 800, ,000, ,00e reserve.
THE Chemical National Bank, of Chi
cago. the Institution which had the World s Fair
concession, has closed its doors.
THE attendance at the Worlds Fair
thus far has far exceeded that for the CORES
ponding period at the Centennial.
ADvIcEs from Nicaragua are to the ef-
feet that the in insurgents are gaining ground
daily AID becoming more aggressive.
THE Local Worlds Fair Directors, by
a vote of % to7, Friday night decided to open
the Fair on Sundays, beginning May2l.
JOHN I. CARLISLE and Charles Lut-
trell were hanged at Sherman, Tex, Friday, for
the murder year ago of w. T. Sharman.
LIZZIE BORDEN, charged with the
murder of her father and step-nother at Fall
River, Mass will be placed on trial June 5.
/. Ward H LamoD, private secretary to President
sNincoln, and one of his most trusted friends
The Republican League of Clubs in
convention at Louisville elected William w.
Tracy, of Illinois, to succeed James S. Clarkson.
In a factory at Bridgeport. Conn,
several girls have been made i'll or driven in
sane by foolish practical jokes of their compan-
ions.
THE national committee on Sunday
closing is taking active steps to fight the propos-
ed opening of the Worlds Fair on Sunday,
May 2l.
A SECRET teetotaler order called the
e'Anti-Saloon Army has been organized at
Clinton, Mo. 1t proposes to make it national in
character.
A New York paper says that 1000
policy shops are doing business in that city, and
that s25, 900 a day is being dropped by the
''suckers.' ~
Ex-CoNGREssMAN BLouNT, who was
sent as special commissioner to Hawaii, has
been appointed Minister to that country in place
of Mr.. Stevens
Hon. ROBERT L. LINCOLN, late Minis
ter to England, arrived in New York Saturday.
He will go at once to Chicago, where he will re-
sumo the practice oflaw..
IMMIGRATION INSPECTOR CoNKLIN, who
has been investigating violations OF the alien
contract labor law uses strong language in show
ing how they get around it.
AT Frankford, Pike county, Mo-, AL
bert Stotwell, 81, aud Elizabeth Stotwell, 70,
and members of one of the wealthiest families in
that county. were married last Friday.
Two children of colored man named
Alexander were bitten by mad dog at Little
Rock on Tuesday of last week, The dog has
been killed. The fate ofthe children is doubt
full
A PARTISAN ruling of ex-Presldent
Harrison regarding examinations for positions
as Postmasters at free delivery post Offices is
soon to be carried out in Missouri by the Civil
Service Commission
THE four things which Democratic
leaders have planned to accomplish in the next
Congress are Repeal of the federal elections
and Sherman laws; repeal of the 10 per ceat TAX
on State banks; levyng of an income tax, and
general revision OF the tariff.
THE ship Countess Evelyn was sunk
in collision off Cornwall and l6 sailors and niEe
passeng ers We're drowned. An unknown snip
was also sunk with all on board OIL CardiH On
the river Mesta, Russia, ferry boat crowd was
seized with panic, lurched the boat and dozens
were drowned.