The Green Forest tribune., 1893-09-28
The WEEKS NEWS IN BRIEF.
MANvINcIpENTs REDucEDFaoM COLUMNS
TO SHORT, SPICY PARAGRAPHS.
Everything Eliminated But Facts For the Special
Convenience Of Readers Of The Tribune.

ST, JOSEPH, Mo-, was visited by q
million dollar fire, Sunday.
Two more cases of yellow fever were
reported Saturday at Brunswick, Ga.
THE total clearings for the week were
s7ss 1907, ,299, decrease of 33 per cent under last
year
CARTHAGE, Mo-, was visited by the
heaviest storm known there for years, Friday
night.
TIMBER fires did large amount of
damage in the Black Hills of South Dakota last
week.
THE executive committee Of the Fair
have decided not to extend it beyond the time
originally set.
By the sinking of yacht off Chicago
IA Worlds Fair excursionists narrowly escaped
drowning Friday.
The admission of the various terrific
ries to Statehood will likely engross Congress
In the near future.
AN organized movement has been
started by the Government against soOners in
the Cherokee STRIP
THE Ubina volcano in the Peruvian
Cordillera has become active, after being IN
quiesoent state for years.
THE Democrats of the House have
decided that the Tucker bill shall be debated
two weeks and then passed.
WILLARD MORGAN, moonshluer OF
West Virginia who has defed the authorities for
Is years, has at last been captured.
A DEED of trust for $55, 900 was filed
Friday by the Memphis Appeal Avalanche
Publishing Company at Memphis, Tenn.
AFTER bitter partisan fight the bill
to repeal the Federal election laws vas reported
to the House on Wednesday of last week
FEVER is adding to the horror of the
situation on the recently storm swept Sea Is
lands, off the coast of South Carolina.
VIM. H. HORSEPOWER of New York
has been named by the President to succeed the
late Justice Blatchford on the Supreme bench
THE Hecla Coal Mining Company, OF
darlington, Hopkins county, Ky, made gen
eral assignment Friday for the benefit ofcredit-
ors.
CONGRESSMAN BRECKENRIDGE has filed
his answer to the charge made by Miss Pollard
in her suit for damages. He enters general
denial
ELEVEN cases Of smallpox We're re-
ported to the New York health officers last
Thursday. 1t is the greatest number OF any one
day this season.
The Democratic leaders in the House
were forced to resort to the party lash to get
the members into line for action on the Tucker
bill, last week.
AN International complication has
arisen between this country and Mexico over the
alleged kidnapping of absconder Whitman OF
Springfield, ILL.,, from that country.
AN enterprising firm in Palestine has
sent a circular to clergymen throughout Great
Britain, Offering them water from the River Jor-
dan sat moderate price, for use at baptisms.
THE remains of James Knox Polk,
tenth President of the United States, and his
wife were reinterred at Nashville, Tenn, at
the State Capitol, with military pomp, last
Wednesday.
THE State Department has been in-
formed by the United States legation at Bogota
ofthe issue of decree by the Columbian gov
ernment declaring the city OF Barranquilla un-
der martial law.
In the Senate Thursday a lively de-
bate was provoked by the efforts of the repeal
men to force the question to an issue, and the
silver men plainly showed their intention to
fight to the last ditch.
STATISTICS gathered at Washington
show that $50 State banks suspended from Janu-
ary to September of this year, and IA have re-
sumed. In the same time 155 national banks
have failed and n resumed.
In order to more effectually break up
the smuggling of opium and Celestials into the
United States in the vicinityOf Puget sound,
Secretary Carlisle has decided to send two more
)revenue cutters to that point
The reports as to an outbreak among
confirmed, and there is no longer any question
but that the savage natives intend to attack the
British post at Fort Victoria
New YORK millionalres are being con-
siderably annoyed by Anarchists threats, and
in many instances private watchmen have been
employed. Superintendent Byrnes, however,
anticipates no demonstration by the reds.
A RoUsING Statehood convention was
held at Albuquerque, N. NJ, last week, with
600 delegates in attendance. Speeches infavor
of calling on Congress for the immediate admis-
sion of New Mexico were made by prominent
citizens of the Territory.
A VERY peculiar condition of things
exists just now in Europe. Russia does not wish
France to be too demonstrative over the visit of
the Russian squadron to Toulon, while France
wants to make notable occasion. and at the
same time the French papers are warning Eng
land that the visit of her Mediterranean squad
ron to Italian ports will. be looked upon as
proyocation to be remembered.