The Green Forest tribune., 1893-05-04
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THERE is disposition to shut down
-four mills because of the dullness of the market
THE Arkansas Bankers Association
held it's annual meeting at Hot Springs last
week.
THE gold situation con tinues to grow
easier and the trea sury is now in fairly good
shape.
THE subject Of reappo1n tment is in
danger of being reopened by the Hin ois Legis-
lature.
THE historic old Liberty Bell has been
taken down in Philadelphia and shipped to the
Worlds Fair.
ARRANGEMENTS are nearly complete
for the transferring of the Cherokee Strip TO the
Government.
THE civil service reports show
public service
THE Missississippi River is high and
rising rapidly, and repetition of last years
floods is feared.
PITT Boss INGLE, of TIE Eureka mines,
near Little Rock was shot down in cold blood by
striking miners.
WILLIAM CowEN of Monmouth, Ill.,,
veteran of the Seminole War, has just been
granted a pension.
THE President has announced that
he will call congress together in extra session
early in September
JAMES G. THOMAS proposes to bring
suit for the recovery of the title to the entire town
of Nashville, this State.
THE Mississippi River is very high in
the vicinity of Alton, ILL.,, and it is feared that
much damage will be done.
A NEGRO woman, aged 80, at Comden,
this State, was brutaly beaten and outraged by
roustabout aged 20 years.
In panic caused by fire in
church in Naples, Italy, eight women and five
children were crushed to death.
ENORMOUS damage to crops has been
done by floods along the Red River OF the North
in the Dakotas and Minnesota.
THERE is great excitementin Southern
Oregon over the discovery of rich fields of gold
in the Willow Springs district.
NEAR Ponca, l. T., the house of Jack
Keithley was destroyed by tornado and six
persons were killed, Saturday.
NEAR Gainesville, Tex, cyclone de-
stroyed several towns and many houses, on the
26th ult. Sevaral lives were lost.
IT is now believed that Hon. James
H. Blount, commissioner to Hawaii, will sue
ceed Mr.. Stevens as minister there.
CONSIDERABLE damage and great
deal Of delay was caused to farm work by the re-
cent storms throughout the country.
VIM. A. KRUGG, aged 102 years, died
at Charlottesville, Ind, wnere ne had lived over
50 years. He had voted for 21 Presidents.
HEAVY rain falls in Missouri, Illlno ois
and Iowa have caused the streams. of those States
to rise rapidly and serious floods are threatened.
A SEVERE tornado visited the vicinity
of Wabash and Gas City, Ind, ON Wednesday
evening, doing great deal of damage to prop
erty
DEMOCRATS seem to be in dilemma
about how to cut down the tariff and at the same
time raise enough revenue to run the Govern
ment.
AT Rockport, Wis, William Burke
has confessed to the murder of his mother and
given himself up. He says he is willing to be
hanged.
WILLIAM G. CoUDY, the we'll known
Chicago lawyer and Democratic leader, dropped
dead in his Office on Thursday last from heart
disease.
GEORGE WILLIAM CARucH of this State
has been appointed as Minister to Portugal
This the first National plumb falling within our
borders.
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER claims that
leading Democrats are harmonious in regard to
the changes which they desire made in the Nc
Kinley bill
THE strikes of the iron workers on
both the Santa Fe and the Union Pacific rail-
ways have been declared off and the men have
gone back to work.
In battle between bandits and Mex
lean soldiers at San vicento last Thursday, the
entire gang of robbers were killed, but 23 officers
and soldiers also fell.
THE seat of Government is practical
ly deserted, the President and his Cabinet OFF,
GERS being gone to Chicago to witness the open
ing ofthe Worlds Fair
AT Philadelphia, on Tuesday of last
week, there was held a reunion of the famous
''3O6'' who stood firm for Grant in the Republi-
can national convention in 1870.
BY the collapse of a defective wall a
number Of bricklayers in Cincinnati were pre-
c'pitated four stories to the ground, ole being
3Aied aud several fatally injured.