The Green Forest tribune., 1893-06-15
the WEEKS NEWS IN BRIEF.
MANYIMclDENTS REDUCED FROM COLUMNS
TO SHORT, SPICY PARAGRAPHS.
Everything Eliminated But Facts For the Special
Convenience of Readers of The Tribune.

LAST Thursday was Nebraska's day
at the World s Fair.
EIGHTY-sIx fourth class Postmasters
were appointed Saturday,
r 1cH gold deposits have been found
in the mountains OF Wyoming.
The Arkansas building at the Worlds
Fair will be dedicated to-day
THE great tragedian, Edwin Booth,
passed Off life's stage last Thursday.
VIRGINIA Populists a,e making prep
arations for an active campaign this fall.
THE names of many members of
Congress are to be found on the pension rolls.
THE Hudson, (Wis.) Savings Bank
has closed with nearly 500, 900 due depositors.
r. w. WALLACE has been acquitted
of murder at Texarkana, after an interesting
trial.
A STRANGE wild human covered with
long woolly hair has been discovered near Padu
cah, Ky.
IT is believed that the problem Of
making State out of the Indian Territory is far
from solved.
THERE are 1850 candidates for the
s97 seats in Germany Rechstag to be filed by
election to-day.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT of the New
York Herald was thrown from a carriage, in
Paris, and seriously injured.
WASHINGTON news say the pension
examining boards are to be given an overhauling
in the near future
THE Ohio Republicans nominated all
the present incumbents for reelection, headed
\ by Governor Mckinley.
TREASURE worth 81, ,000, 900 and secret
ed in the City OF Mexico by Emperor Maximil-
lian has been unearthed.
The belief has come to be general
one in Hawaii that a protectorate will be estab-
iished by the United States.
THE bank Of Mascoutah, ILL.,, control
led by j. N. Hagins, of the collapsed Columbia
National of Chicago, has suspended.
r. &. DUN's weekly review says that
trade is slightly improving and that there Is a
material improvement in the financial situation.
CHOLERA is increasing at Mecca, and
deaths have occurred in France and Hamburg.
England has redoubled her quarantine precau-
tions.
ROBBERS held up Santa Fe train
near Cimeron, Kan :, last Saturday and relieved
the express agent of deal of the company's
money.
LATE developments in the Borden
case show evidence strongly in favor of the de-
fendent, The trial is calendered to last two
weeks.
THE Worlds Vegetarian Congress
was held last week at Chicago, with most Of the
distinguished vegetarians of the country in at
tendance.
AN important order has been issued
by Commissioner Louchren ON the subject Of ad-
Indication of the pension claims under the disa-
bility act.
THE Duke of Veragua was at Colum-
bus, O., on Thursday and was given a cordial
reception by the city which was named for his il
lustriOus ancestor.
AN amusing circumstance has devel-
oped at the Treasury Department at Washington
in connection with the application of two men OF
the same name for office.
Mr.. CLEVELAND says he will not call
Congress in extra session until early in Septem-
ber, unless the financial situation, which he re-
CARDS as threatening. warrants it.
A ROBBERY of the Mobile & Ohio ex-
press car at Forest Lawn, ILL.,. was perpetrated
by cool and daring gang who made complete
success of the job, last Thursday.
Two out of three Federal Judges at
Chicago granted the Injunction closing the
Worlds Fair on Sunday, but an appeal has been
taken that may reverse the decision.
A TERRIBLE conhagrat ton on Wednes-
day of last week devastated the city of Fargo,
N. D., burning hundreds of buildings and rem
dering thousands of people homeless.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER Of the United
States Supreme Court has suspended the injunc-
tion of the United States circuit court, closing
the gates OF the Worlds Fair on Sunday.
A BRILLIANT female swindler who
utilized matrimonial papers and the mails to en-
gage herself to 40 different men from whom she
obtained money has been arrested at Albany,
NY.
THREE hundred or more Western cow
boys propose to start on Sunday, June %, from
Chadron, Neb., for a race of about 700 miles for
money, no man being allowed more than two
horses.
IT is authoratively announced that
should the Directors of the World Fair at
tempt to open on Sunday in defiance Of the courts
decision the Government will use force to pre-
vent it.
A PITCHED battle took plac between
strikers and employees ofcontractors-on the drain
age canal at Romeo, ILL.,, Friday afternoon.
Several men were killed and about dozen
wounded.
THE official records show many more
designations of fourth class postmasters under
this administration than under Harrison during
the same leugth of time, but removals have been
spuch less