The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-04-10
MARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and MIddIe statea.

Wages of operatives in the Pacific mills at
Lawrence Mass, have been reduced ten to
fifteen per cent.
A. s. Boyer and O. Selors, late officers of
the Dime Savings Bank, Of Reading, Pa, have
been held in $4,000 bail each on a charge
Of conspiracy to defraud.
The list of failures in New York has been
swelled recently by several heavy suspensions
notably those Of s. II. Mills & Co., prominent
Wall street brokers and spectators in Stocks
whose liabilities will reach nearly $500, 00O
and Henry S..Wells, a large contractor who
has been adjudicated a bankruptsupon his own
petition, with liabilities amounting TO 1926, 000
The Democratic State executive committee
OF pennsylvania met in Harrisburg and de-
eided to hold the next convention in Pitts
burgh, May %.
number of students belonging to Dart
mouth College, New Hampshire, have been
arrested for hazing. The faculty expelled or
suspended several.
The Rhode Island State convention of the
new National party was held at Providence.
A ticket headed by William Foster for governor
was nominated.
The Calais (Me) Savings Bank has sus-
pended.
Election returns from all the towns in New
Hampshire for governor give Prescott, Re
publican, 39,977 and Mexican, Democrat,
S7S63. The House will stand: Republicans
2O5; Democrats, 165.
bill to grant female suffrage has been de-
feated in the lower house Of the Massachusetts
Legislature by 1877 to SO.
James E. Coll, well-known in New York
insurance circles, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head. He was at one time
wealthy, but met with Ieverses, had family
troubles and became dissipated.
The Tarrytown On. Y.) First National Bank
has failed. The liabilities are estimated at
ha of
Ohemung, at Elmira, N. Y.-a private institu-
hon-has also suspended.
The Rhode Island Democratic State con-
ventlon, held in Providence, resulted in the
nomination of ticket headed by Isaac Law
renee for governor.
Leading New York bankers had a conference
Ia that city with the House committee on bank
lug ana currency regarding the resumption Of
specie payments. General Ewing, of the COM
mlttee, made inquiries to draw out the views Of
the bankers, who expressed the opinion that
resumption was practicable. After the meeting
General Ewing said that the statements of the
bankers had strengthened his own opinion that
the secretary of the treasury was not able to
carry out the resumption act.
Western and Southern states.
The verdict Of the jury who found General
Thomas Q. Anderson, Of the Louisiana return
ing board, guilty of forging election returns.
has been set aside by the Louisiana supreme
court and the prisoner ordered to be discharged
from custody. The decision states that the re-
cord of crime offered in evidence did not con-
form with that mentioned in the information:
that the consolidated election returns, in re-
gsrd to which forgery was charged, are not
legal instruments by which frauds may be COM
mltted, and thier alteration cannot be construed
into a crime.
A house occupied by farmer named Harley.
living few miles north of Adrian, Mich, was
destroyed by fire, and his wife and two children
we're burned to death.
building in Cleveland, Ohio, occupied by
non-explosive lamp company, was DESTROYED
by fire, together with its contents, and total
loss incurred of $165, 900.
band of four expert counterfeitors who
have been operating extensively in the North
west, were unearthed and arrested in Chicago
by a special government detective. The whole
OF their apparatus and some of the spurious
coin were captured.
The Rhode Island Republicans met in con-
vention at Providence and renominated the
present State officers by acclamation. Follow
ing the usual custom, no political resolutions
were passed
An appalling disaster occurred in the sawmill
OF Hall Alvis, about seven miles from Rich
mond, Va. Without moments warming an
explosion took place which hurled the building,
lumber, sheds and persons standing around in
every direction. The boiler had burst and five
men were killed, and one was fatally and five
dangerously wounded. Among the killed were
two sons of the manager of the sawmIll, Mr..
Hall, who was also injured.
Reports from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and
west Virginia give flattering prospects OF the
wheat crop. The average increase over last
years crop is estimated at twenty-five per cent.
Alarge tobacco warehouse, several factories.
q colored church and six tenement houses were
destroyed by fire in Danville, Va, entailing a
loss OF $50, ,0O0 on which the insurance is $50.-
900.
From Washington.
The nomination of Mr.. Beard to be collector
Of the port Of Boston has been confirmed by
the Senate without opposition. Senatorial
courtesy prohibits opposition to a nomination
supported by both Senators from the late in |
which the appointment is made as in Mr..
Boards case.
The House judiciary committee has. by |
majority vote, decided to report bill repeal
ing the bankrupt law.
Secretary Sherman was sent for bv the
Senate committee of finance, the other day. to |
get bis views in regard to the bill repeating the
assumption law and he informed the COM
nlttee that specie resumption upon the day |
nxed was practicable and that the silver b il |
would be an aid rather than an obstacle to re- |
sumption.
The national council of the sovereiens of !
inousry met IN convention at Washington |
And erected an organization. Delegates from |
. large number Of States were present.
A majority report of the House committee |
pa civil service reform says that Doorkeeper |
Polk, who was charged with making more ap- |
pointments to office than was allowed by law. |
should be removed. minority report. signed |
By four of the committee, dissents from the |
views of the majority.
-Four men and a boy were drowned near
IIOIFaTQgVilla A Ia Ua
while attempting TO cross a river in a fraii |
canoe after dark. Two families, consisting of
thirteen women and children, were left with
put single full-grown male to support them.
The number Of bills introduced in the House
up to the 2lst is 8, $3.50, and Of joint resolutions
l62
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions
has agreed to report bill allowing pensions
Of S72 per month to soldiers who have lost
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