The Green Forest tribune., 1893-10-05
THE WEEKS news IN BRIEF.
MANYiNciDENTs REDUCED FROM COLUMNS
TO SHORT, SPICY PARAGRAPHS.
Everything Eliminated But Facts For the Special
Convenience of Readers Of The Tribune.
IT is possible that Utah and Nevada


marke d by an unusually large crowd.
OWING to a big deficit in the Post Of
flee Department the penny postal service will be
abandoned.
THERE was marked advance in the
price of zinc ore the past week and slight de-
cline in in lead
IT begins to.appear probable that a
compromise will be reached on the.silyer ques-
ton in the Senate,
r. G. DUN & Co.'S. trade review says
4.hope deferred'' explains the course of last
week in business.
SENATOR FAULKNER has introduced a
bill for the admission Of the Territory of New
Mexico to Statehood.
FIRE destroyed Wolff & Goldman's
mercantile house at Newton, this State, last
week Loss $50 600.
IT is alleged that protectionists of
Pennsylvania and silver men Of the Senate are
trying to form an alliance.
The postal revenues have fallen Oft
80 RAPIDLY that there will be a large deficit at
the end of the fiscal yesr.
CHICAGO day at the Worlds Fair will
be celebrated by the payment of the last dollar
of the Exposition's debt.
BRADsTREEr's s notes discouraging ef-
feet on speculation due to the long delay of the
Senate on silver legislation.
;. STRONG pressure is being brought to
I bear to have the Senate confirm James j Van
Allen as ambassador to Italy.
BRADsTREEr's says the business fail
ures for the nine months Of the year numbered
LIZA, 81 per cent more than in 1892.
OWING to new rule adopted by Mr..
Cleveland, it is difficult matter to gain
access to the chief executives Office.
JUDGE J. J. KING was indicted Friday
at Boston, Tex, for the murder of Captain W.
j. Allen, on August 4, at Texarkana.
A NEW system of regulations restrict
ing immigration from Canada will be put into
force by the United States Government.
EFFORTS are being made to have the
comm mercial relations between this country and
Mexico improved by revision of the tariff.
ALBERT B. SHEPPERsoN, an authority,
makes careful estimate of this years yield of
cotton at $500 900 bales, 400, 900 more than last
year.
KANSAS farmers have been taken in
by swindlers who sell compound alleged to
double the amount of butter from given
amount Of cream
MARION HEDGEPETH, the Glendale,
Mo- train robber, failed to make deal with the
court at ST. Charles, and was sentenced to twen-
ty-fve years Imprisonment.
REPRESENTATIVES, COOPER has intro
duced in the Honse resolution looking to OBJ
tanning direct vote of the people OF every State
on the question of free coinage.
THERE is about $40, 900 gold in
the New York banks, SO that the threatened ex-
ports will not touch the Treasury deposit, which
is already below the 800 900, ,0oOmar
ACCORDING to r. G. Dunn & Co. there
about 4, 200 failures, with aggregate liabil-
tiles Of $3.50 OO0 OOO in the quarter year ust end
ing.
TwENTY-EIGHT miners were drowned
by the cave-in of the Mansfield mine, Upper
Michigan, last Friday. The mine ran under
river.
TEXAS is short of cash and Governor.
Hogg has appealed to clerks of departments,
county and other officials to withhold their war
rants.
THE reunion of the ex-Confederates
of Arkansas at Bentonville had an immense at
tendance. Everything was in perfect order from
the start to receive and entertain the old sol
'diers.
LIVELY u0Udtc was tIO lulC III tIC
house last Thursday, the lie being passed be-
tween Mr.. Morse and Mr.. Fithian, and Mr..
breckenridge and Mr.. johnson of Indiana in
,dulged in some pointed language
In the Senate Saturday Senator
Chandler charged that President Cleveland had
been guilty of violating the Constitution as no
other President ever did, by making appoint
ments which he had no authority to make.
THREE skeletons were unearthed in
the middle of the street in North Little Rock,
last thursday They are supposed to be part OF
the remains of some thieves that were killed
there about 40 years ago, when the city was
only struggling village.
A Frisco train ran into an open
switch at Lyman, a side track four miles east of
Springfield, Mo. on Saturday night, causing
wreck and incuripg heavy loss on the company.
Engineer Hall and Fireman Robertson were
both instantly killed, while many others were
injured.
The Little Rock Democrat of recent
date says that the next campaign in Arkansas
will be red hot. There will he at least dozen
candidates for Governor, while the gentlemen
who feel that they can fill the other State offices
acceptably are too numerous to mention. 1t is
understood that Ex-Governor Eagle is already
preparing for the fray. Gov. Fishbacil, 1T is
said, will not he candidate for reelection. but
will enter the race for thp scat in the United
States Senate occupied by Senator Berry