The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-15

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the attack at II r. NJ, which ended in death
the next morning. Mr.. Orton was born in
Cuba, N. Y, June IA, 1926, graduated at the
State Normal School in Albany, and was at
various times printer, school teacher and
bookseller. In 1862 he was appointed internal
revenue inspector for the sixth New York
district, and in 1865 he was made internal
revenue commissioner at Washington. Soon
after he retired from the government service to
become president ofthe United States Telegraph
Company, which was merged i'm the Western
Union line in 1865. In the following year Mr..
Orton was elected president of the Western
Union Company and held that position at the
time of his death. He was considered an un-
usually efficient officer He leaves wife and
eight children.
The Erie railroad was sold at public auction
in New York and was bought for SO, 0OO 600
by i. ID. Morgan and two others, acting as
trustees for the reconstruction committee Of
bondholders.
Another savings bank crash in New York
The IeutOuta Savings Bank has been eniOined
from doing further business, deficit Of S14s,-
404.63 having been discovered. The loss is
due to poor investments.
The President and Mrs. Hayes, Secretaries
Sherman and Schurz, and others were enter
tanned in Philadelphia by the Union League
club.
The recent suspensions Of the Sixpenny aud
Teutouia Savings Banks in New York has led
east side of the city.
President Hayes, accompanied by prominent
Washington officials, visited some of the lead.
ing industrial establishments of philadelphia
and in the evening held public reception at
Independence Hall.
Wescern and Southern States.
While q p-rty o; men were engaged in cut
ting the ok OF p levee peer The lower end of
Lake Bolivar, in Bolivar county, Miss, to let
OIL the heavy body OF wafer caused by un-
precedepted rains, the whole party were caught
in the sluice, and with the exception Of Captain
Briscoe all were swallowed up in the vortex.
Captain Briscoe was rescued after being
more than an hour in the water and qucksand.
The lost are Captain Fortley, a planter, two
brothers named Moran, and labOrer.
Galesburg, ILL.,, and surrounding country,
has been visited by an unusually heavy storm
OF wind and hail which did great damage te
property Of all kinds. One of the hailstones
is said to have been eight inches in circumfer-
ence.
The daily rush into the court of bankruptcy
by Chicago business men is great. Many vol
untary petitions are filed every day, some of
thelembarrassed petitioners having heavy labil-
ties and small assets.
o. G. ZeIler, cashier CT the National Ex-
change Bank, Of Tafip, Ohio, absconded with
$45,5O0 OF the institutions funds. He was
treasurer Of the city's school funds, and had
speculated with tho money in his hands, losing
$4,000. The bank suspended temporarily.
Parker Hanaway, real estate dealers at
indianapolis, Ind, have failed for 1918. 600
assets, about one-half.
Indian raids from Mexico into Texas have
taken place recently, and great quantity of
STOCK has been carried of and several persons
killed, In Duval and Falls counties Indian
and Mexican raiders broke up all the ranches
killing four men and two children.
dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla, saws that
Judge McLin, secretary of state under ex-C Gov
ernor Stearns and er-oficio president of the
returning board, and l.. G.. Dennis, prominent
politician of the State, have made confessions
disclosing the means anG methods bv which
Florida was carried in 1876. The confessions
have been forwarded to Washington.
Reports from the Mexican border indicate
that twenty persons were killed by the recent
Indian raiders from Mexico.
Portions of the Western and Southern States
have recently been visited by terrific tornadoes
causing some loss Of life and immense destruc-
lon or buildings and other property. Near
Rome, Ga, houses, churches, barns and whole
forests were laid low by the fierce elements
ten dwellings, and many outhouses having been
destroyed. At Wartrace, Tenn, two churches
we're demolished, while in other portions of the
State the damage done to houses and farms is
incalculable. In Bellaire. Ohio a manufsctorv
was struck by the heavy squall, and two work.
men were killed and several seriously iniured
by the destruction of the building.
large loss Of life by the heavy storm in the
West is reported from Iowa. AT Carroll a
child was torn from its mothers arms by the
hurricane, and botn were found dead half a
mile apart. William Hollen while irving TO
drive cattle from his barn, was borne up into
the air with his cattle and barn and killed AT
Sac City William Beach and two sons were
killed, while a like fate befell six persons near
Ida City. Heavy loss of life and propertv is
al fad
Crawford county.
c. E. Parker, New York druggist, was
killed and five men were wounded by a col
lision between passenger and a freight train
on The Richmond and Danville railroad near
Piney Creek Va.
Thirteen business houses were totally de-
stroyed by fire at River Falls, Wis, causing
a loss on buildings of $25,0O0.
From Washington.
recent official statement of liabilities and
assets of the treasury shows the liabilities to
be Si4l, 1885, ,6S6; these embrace treasurer's
general account and balance, including bullion
fund, $69, ,676, 907, and in currency, $78, ,848,-
355 including fund for the redemption of GER
hhcates of deposit, June 8, 1872, S25, 395, ,000 |
and $4,000, 900 special fund for the redemp
ton of fractional currency. The assets are
coin and bullion, $116, 1885, 603; gold bars, $S,-
567 7l3; standard silver dollars, $810, SOL |
silver coin and bullion, SIC Ol2, ,O15; gold GER
sifcates, 81, 179, 200; and deposits held by ma
tiOnal bank repositories, $3,O35, ,027; and in |
currency, 7S 848, 755, including deposits held |
BY national bank repositories, 60 221, ,689, |
United States notes, SAT, 1927, ,341, and United |
States notes for redemption of fractional cur |
rency, $40, 100000,
Simon Wolf, for long time recorder of |
deeds for the District of Columbia, has been |
requested by the President to resign He was |
offered consul-generalship in Germany, but |
declined
The statement of Samuel B. McLin, late |
q member Of the Florida board OF State can |
yassers, in regard to alleged fraud in counting |
the presidential vote of 1876. has reached |
Washington. McI4in specifies that about 393 |
votes were manufactured and added to the re-
turns, and his statement closes with an attack
upon President Hayes.
The bill repeating the bankrupt law. as |