The Green Forest tribune., 1893-08-31
the Weeks NEWS IN BRIEF.
MANY INCIDENTS REDUCED FROM COLUMNS
TO SHORT, SPICY PARAGRAPHS.
Everything Eliminated But Facts For the Special
Convenience Of Readers Of The Tribune.

FRIDAY was "Colored Folks Day" at
the Worlds Fair.
in New England mills
HAT standstill.
AN electrical storm played havoc at
Rome, N. Y, Sunday.
RECENT rains in Texas, it is said, in
sure good crops.
IT is stated but denied that yellow
fever has appeared at Memphis.
ENGLAND is wrought up over re-
ported case of Cholera at Hull.
GRAssHoPPERs are doing great dam
| age to crops In Iowa and Kansas.
The demand for free seed wheat in
4 Kansas is greater than the supply.
SERIOUS trouble between strikers and
! negroes is threatened at Wier City, kas.
SENATOR HILL made significant
speech favoring bimetalism last Saturday.
The horse and cattle show at the
Worlds Fair is growing in popular favor.
IT is reported that France intends to
annex New Hebrides and will do 80 within
month.
THE Harrison Howard wedding is to
| September
GoyENoR BoIEs and Lieutenant Cover
nor Bestow have been renominated by the Iowa
! Democrats.
w. K. VANDERB1LT's million dollar
yacht, the Valiant arrived in New York Har-
Dor Saturday.
i THOUSANDS of settlers are camped
! 1ionx Che Strip border ready to make the run on
September l6
HUNDREDS Of people are being robbed
by colony and town site schemes for entering
the Cherokee Strip.
A METHODIST revival meeting near
Parsons, Kas., was broken up last week by a
swarm of potato bugs.
A REMARKABLE operation has been
performed on the brain of George w. Lively of
Paragould, this State
DELEGATE JOSEPH will push the ques-
tion of admitting the Territory OF New Mexico to
Statehood in Congress.
FIFTEEN persons were killed in rail-
road horror and many more or less injured on
Long Island last Sunday.
Much dissatisfaction is found with
the registration requirement by intending set
tiers in the Cherokee Strip.
THERE are 5000 boomers now at Ar
kansas City and |, 600 or more at Caldwell ready
to enter the cherokee Strip.
THE shops Of the st. Louis South.
western Railway in Pine Bluff, this State, re-
opened with full force Monday.
MASKED train robbers held up a
Northern Pacific train in Montana, went through
the Goa ches and robbed the passengers.
NEARLY 20 lives, so far as known,
were lost in the storm of the Atlantic coast,
"Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
The total weeks clearings for the
United States were 1914, PIP, ,Sc9, a decrease of
Ss1s per cent under the same week last year.
THE London Standard says it is time
to check the given conviction prevailing In Paris
that France may do what she pleases in Siam.
Ten million dollars in gold guarded
by 10 United States Deputy Marshals, was ship
ped from San Francisco to New York last week.
JOSIAH QUINCY, assistant secretary
of State has resigned in order that he may take
charge of the Democratic campaign in Massa-
chusetts
GOVERNOR FIsHBAcK does not favor
the suggestion of calling an extra session of the
the State.
RATHER than pay premium on cur
rency with which to pay their employees, the
United Knitting Company, Amsterdam. N.
! has closed down
YuNG YU, the new Chinese ambassa-
dor to the United States, says there will be no
retaliation for the Geary act until it's provisions
are actually enforced.
SECRETARY MORTON is constantly de-
8pFciating the department over which he pre-
upst1,s and the impression is growing that he is
hot big enough for the job.
n PEOPLE living near the Cheyenne res
ervation in the Indian Territory, have been uu-
neces sarily alarmed over their ghost dance, as
the Inaians meant no harm.
WISLE the pension bureau is cutting
off pensions at the rate of l 600 day the pen
sion officials are trying to keep it secret and
r ARE making misstatements in regard to the
facts
THE people of Brunswick, Ga, have
issued an appeal for aid to relieve the necessities
of those who are destitute Oh account OF the yell
low fever scare, which has completely prostrat-
cd all business
A MOVEMENT is on foot in this State
to have the Governor call an extra session OF the
Legislature. The Legis lature abolished the
convict lease contract last session and only ap-
propriated $50, 600 TO maintain the penal institu-
tlons for the next two years. This tnud is likely
70 besoon exhausted the state unable to hire the
convlcts The session is to be calle'i to enact
Special legislation that will enable the State to
use the convcts to- build railroad to be owned
aAa controlled by the State.