The Green Forest tribune., 1893-08-24
THE WEEKS NEWS IN BRIEF.
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TExARKANA had a $4,000 fire last
week.
OF the 356 members of the Congress
2o7 are lawyers by profession.
THE new lands about ready for settle
ment comp rise IA, $50 600 acres.
DuN's trade review notes bettering
tendency in the business world.
NEW YORK Populists have named
State ticket and howled down fusion.
CHEAP rates from the east are bring
ing enormous crowds to the Worlds Fair.
A WOMAN and three children were
drowned in the Missouri River last Saturday.
The p,ice of seal skins has advanced
fvedollars each since the Bering Sea decision
THE agitation for the removal of the
capitol of Kansas from Topeka has been renew
ed.
The use Of certified checks instead
OF cash is being tried with success in Little
Rock.
THE proclamation opening the Chero-
kee Strip to settlement is now In the Presidents s
hands.
THE Presidents proclamation open
ing the Cherokee Strip is expected during this
week.
The Worlds Fair is making money,
and expects to not only pay out, but declare q
dividend.
THE past week has been intensely
hot throughout England, causing many deaths
by sunstroke.
The army worm has appeared in the
cotton fields Of the Arkansas and mississippi
River bottoms.
fITis now stated that the Cherokee
Strip will be opened to settlement between Sep
tember IA and 20.
Much damage is being done along the
Mississippi River near New Orleans by the cav
ing in of the banks.
IT is said that many former ardent
silver men are now wavering under the influence
of the administration,
THE Standard Wagon Works, the
largest plant In the United States, has nled an
assignment at Cincinnati.
A PossE captured two supposed rob-
bers near Winslow, this State, after wounding
both Of them, one fatally.
CONGRESSMAN BRYAN of Nebraska
made mastery speech In advocacy Of bimetsll-
ism on Wednesday Of last week.
THE wholesale grocers of Memphis,
Tenn, have issued notice that they will sell
hog gproducts for cash only hereafter.
IT is believed that in lieu of currency
Southern banks will adopt clearing house certif-
icates to aid in moving the cotton crop.
The State railroad commissioners of
Kansas have taken hold of the seed wheat prob
lem to handle 1t in q non-partisan way.
THE total weeks clearngs for the
United States were s7s2, ,542, ,so7, adecrease Of
27.6p per cent under the same week last year.
IT was reported Saturday that soldiers
and band Of sooners had fought on the Strip
and that three of the sooners had been killed.
The deadly anthrax, which has been
raging for several weeks among the herds and
docks of southern Illinois is spreading rapidly.
Both silver and anti-silver men are
making claims of strength, but 1t is believed a
free coinage bill at 20 to l will ultimately be
passed.
THE importation of hay and straw
from Russia will be prohibited after September
l. This action is taken to prevent the spread of
cholera
ARTHUR and Harry Plum, farmers
from near Hannibal, Mo-, were asphyxiated by
blowing out the gas at Worlds Fair hotel on
the GOTH
New YoRx Republicans are talking
uished lawyer. as candidate for the Court Of
Appeals.
SENATOR VOORHEES,, whom the advo-
Gates Of free coinage counted on to aid their
cause, has arrayed himself on the side ofthe ad-
fninistration.
SECRETARY GRESHAM is not satisfied
with the Bering Sea decision, because it will nut
! the United States to good deal of trouble and
expense in guarding the seals.
THE Peace Congress at Chicago sent
congratulatory telegram jointly to Queen VIC
toria and President Cleveland on the happy re-
suits Of arbitration on the Bering Sea matter.
HoKE SMITH has now decided that in
the future all pension boards must be composed
Of all Democrats in stead oftwo Of one party and
one Of the other, as has always been the prac-
tice
The gates of the Worlds Fair were
open Sunday, but the attendance was
slim. The dress parade of the West
Point cadets attracted great deal of atten-
tion.
THE American Agriculturist, in it's
annual review Of the crop situation, says that
while the output will be less than the aver
age the net returns will be as much as
usual.
AN express car containing consign-
ment of gold for Chicago was wrecked on the
Fort Wayne, at Whiting, lad on Friday night
and the coin was scattered in the road, but was
all saved