The Green Forest tribune., 1893-09-07
The WEEKS news IN BRIEF.
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the tax on State banks repealed.
THE silver fight is to be pushed in the
S enate during the coming week.
TIE new bull pool in the Wall Street
market has SIC, 200, GOO behind it.
THE Equitable Mortgage Company of
New York has gone into a receivershp.
THE President arrived at Washington
Friday, and looks the picture of health.
THE Electric Light Plant at Camden,
this State, was sold by the receiver, Friday.
IT is said to be settled that Mr.. Glad
stone will visit America in the early future.
THEG. A. R. veterans began their
annual encampment at Indianapolis, last Mon
day.
IT is given out that ex-senator Ingalls,
of Kansas will try to be governor and then SEN
ator.
SENTIMENT in the House continues to
grow against an adjournment of the extra ses-
sion.
A BILL to repeal certain parts of the
Federal election law has been introduced in the
House.
NEAR Caddo, l. T., robbers killed Lou
Chochnauer, his wife, and another woman, Oil
Choctaws.
SECRETARY MORTON is expected to is
sue proclamation changing the quarantine line
in this State.
:. ANNIE BEsANT has come to this coun-
. try with several followers and will teach Theos-
ophy at Chicago.
BETWEEN 500 and 600 lives are
known to have been lost by Sunday nights storm
Off the Carolina coast.
THE Interior Department is contem-
plating the opening oftwo or three Indian reser-
vations to settlement.
THE Treasury situation is causing
considerable ALARM as deficiency of large pro-
portions is anticipated.
THE weeks total clearings for the
United States show q decrease Of S2.5 per cent
under the week last year.
IT is alleged that allotments on the
Cherokee Strip have been made to children some
of them only two years old.
THERE is quite q scramble among the
Cherokee Strip boomers to get locations near
Chief Bushyheads q allotment.
GOVERNOR ALTGELD in an interview
deprecates the newspaper talk about activity
among anarchists in Chicago
FIVE passengers were killed and 10
injured by the deraiment Of al electric street
car at Cincinnati last Saturday.
WARNING has been given in the Sem
ate that the iron hand of cloture may be applied
to force vote on the silver repeal bill.
The Western Kansas farmers need at
least go, 900 bushels Of seed wheat, but none OF
their eastern brothers have offered any help.
IT is now believed that there is now
amajority for unconditional repeal ofthe pur-
chase clause Of the Sherman law In the senate.
IT has been agreed that two Of the
nine condemned Choctaws at Wilburton, 1. t.,
shall be shot and the others gwen new hear-
ing.
CONTRACTS for levee work on the Ar
kansas side of the Mississippi between White
River and the Louisiana line were awarded Fri
day
THIRTY-FoUR of the l54 national banks
that suspended since January last have resum
ed and 62 are in a fair way to start up business
again.
A REPORT has gained circulation that
the President has recently been operated on for
cancer. but his friends say there is not word Of
truth in it,
THE Interior Department has nipped
in the bud a plan of certain schemers to obtain
marked advantage in the rush for land in the
Cherokee Strip
MRS. LUKE BLACKBURN, widow of the
Governor. has some damaging evidence to give
against Congressman Breckenridge in Miss Pol
n Vrd's damage suit.
GOVERNOR TILLMaN of South Carolina
says the attempt by Wall Street to establish
= gold standard is ''the most gigantic scheme Of
robbery ever attempted -
AS the facts come to light it is clearly
developed that a gigantic steal is intended in
connection with the Cherokee Strip allotments
unless the Government interferes.
y The application Of Governor Tillman
ol south Carolina to have the sobriquet of the
state, Palmetto, registered as trade mark
iof dispensary whisky'has been denied.
4 IHE rapid resumption of business by
banks that have been compelled to suspend as
SHOWN by the reports at Comptroller Ecklcs'
o'lce' indicates general revival of business.
lHE announcement that postoffices
on sne strip are to be- established only at land
olce towns is very dispieasing to settlers, who
10y 'ney VIII be greatly inconvenienced thereby.
CIRCUMSTANCES go far to prove that
s.e yarn about Mr.. Cleveland being afflicted
day S,sS cancer was inspired by VIM R. Grace, the
OSsss;snsl sa;ssnslea New York auti-snapper whom the
-ss'oent tnrned down.