The Green Forest tribune., 1898-06-16
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Pay lay for the Arkansas regiments will occur early in July.
 Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease has been se' rously i'll at Portland, Oregan
 The State Teachers Association will convene at Little Rock 29 inst.
 Another party will start out this ronth to discover the north pole.
 Up to date crop prospects are excep' tionallyAgood n all parts of the State.
 The Populists have nominated Buzz Saw Morgan for governor of Arkansas.
 It is thought that Col. Bryan's com pany will be assigned to the Philippines
 Twenty seven thousand soldiers are reported to have embarked for Cuba at Tampa.
 Public opinion in Spain is gradually drifting toward peace, but it yet lacks a mouthpiece.
 The Kansas City, Pittsburg X Gulf railroad has completed it's trunk line into Ft. Smith.
 The stars and stripes for the first time now float from Spanish flagstaff on Cuban soil.
 It is now estimated that the wheat yield in Eastern Washington will reach 9 5,oo0 oOo bushels.
 The United States government Will raise the Spanish vessels sunk by Dew ey in Manila harbor.
 The First and Second Arkansas regl- ments need 580 men to fill their quota under the recent order.
 On an average of 30000 two cent stamps are sold every day to the soldier boys at Chickamauga.
 A scheme is now on foot to form combine by consolidating all the thread factories in Eu1pe and America,
 Under late instructions from the war department a married man cannot 90 to war without first having his wlfe's consent.
 Eight hundred marines landed at
 
 Gauntan amo last Saturday and piched their tents about the smoking ruins of Spanish ports.
 The two Arkansas Regiments will be required to recruit their companies to 106 each, before the organization of third regiment will be considered.
 Tn Cuba they call buzzard ''Weyler's chickens. Weyler has fed them so long on the bodies of dead Cubans that the name seems quite appropriate.
 It is thought that Gov Jones will select aiiehtenant from each of the Arkansas companies to come home and secure the 65O recruits needed to fill the two regiments.
 Wm. Lambert, bachelor 30 years old, living near Mena, was shot and instantly killed while asleep by an un- known assassin, who shot through a crack in the door.
 The famous First Kentucky regi- ment has arrived at Chickamauga. It has kept up ts organization since 1885. This organization has the only army Masonic lodge in the camp.
 Arkansas negroes have been invited to join the army and Col. E. F. Wiley, Arkansas reci%iting agent for the inn mune regiments, has designated J. H, Sykes, coored, of Little Rock to en- roll colored men.
 Gov. Bradley of Kentucky is sadly in need of tNoops. His State guard has been swallowed up by the volun teers, and he had calls for soldiers to prevent bloodshed in court and the lynching of negro. Evapgelna Cisneros, the Cuban girl whose romatic escape from d Spanish prison few months ago attracted wide attep ton, was married the olher dav to c. F. Carbonell, who is said to have assisted in her rescue.
 Tom John, one of the most desperate counterfeiters the Federal authorities in Arkansas ever had to deal with, was one of the fifteen convicts who escaped last week from the U. $. pen itentiary at Levcnworth, Kansas.