The Green Forest tribune., 1894-02-22
The WEEKS NEWS IN BRIEF.
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WILLIE ErRIE, boy died of hydro
1bobia near Beutonvtlle, Ark. last week.
THE Senate Subcommittee on Finance
is making considerable progress with its Wilson
bill.
CONGRESSMAN w. L. WILSON'S health
;s bctt er and he intends to start for Mexico
Thursday.
RoBERr PURDy and his little sister ate
Wild parsnip root at Gsllipolis, O., and died in
great agony.
THE leader of gang of Erie Railroad
thieves il. Pennsylvania was arrested at Little
Rock Thursday
IT is reported that thousands Of cat
tie are perishio og il the Tcxas Panhandle as re-
suit OF the recent storm.
TIE body OF Charles Crawford was
found hanging in his ba!n near Marion, Ind
Deb, and la grippe was the trouble.
THE Senate Judiciary committee has
agreed to support the nomination of Wheeler II
pcckham without recommendation
Mrs. MYRA BRADwELL, editoress of
the Chicago Legal News, ard the first woman to
he admitted to the bar IN the u. s. died i'll Chi
cago.
W. H. WILLIAMS, principal of pub
lie school in Kansas City, was beaten almost in
seasible Thursday by the father of one OF his
pupils.
THE fund started by Mayor Gilroy of
New York for the relief ofthe poor now amounts
to $50 900 and much more is expected to be con-
tributed.
A Mrs. FRANKLIN, who had been
shipped in car Of goods from Decatur, ILL.,, to
Omaha. was removed at Atchison, kas. She
was nearly frozen.
DISPATCHES from various states show
the damages ard fatalities of Sunday nlght S
storm to be very great In Oklahoma, FARMER
named Stone cut the throats OF his wife ana hVe
children to end their suffering rom the cold.
Thirteen other people reported frozen
TIE Tonkawa Indians are reported
to be destitute and on the border Of starvation.
CASE of smallpox communicated
from infec ed rags has broken out at De Pere,
Wis.
SECRETARY MORTON was hanged IN ef-
agv at his home in Nebraska City, Neb., last
Friday.
THE. crew of the wrecked man-of-
war Kearsage are expected to reach ew ofK
tomorrow.
JAMES E, STONE, the murderer of the
Wratten family near Washington, Ind, was
hanged Friday.
THE New York Board of Health
has taken steps to prevent the spread of pulmo-
nary tuberculosis.
A LARGE number of vessels are over
due at the port of New York, as result of the
recent heavy gales at sea
THE iron steamer Alert sank IN
storm ell route from Port Albert to Melbourne
last week and IA lives were lost
JOHN MlLL1GAN, the negro who MUIR
dered an old couple near Kansas City, has been
sentenced to be hanged on April 6.
THE National Woman's Suffrage
Association met in twenty sixth annual conven-
tion at the national capital last week.
THE friends of Governor Lewellng OF
Kansas have made desperate but vain ef-
sort to effect compromise with Mrs. Lease.
THE opponents Of the Bland seignor-
age bill have brought matters to standstlll IN
the house by iilibustering against motion to
close debate.
BY exercising his prerogative for the
first time, Vice. President Stevenson saved the
Oklahoma townste railroad bill from defeat in
the Senate.
YELLOW fever has become epidemic
at Rio de Janerie and has broken out on board
the English, American, Portuguese and ustrian
warships in the harbor.
THE nomination of Wheeler H. Peck
ham to be an Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court was rejected by the
Senate last Friday, the vote being yeas u