The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-11-26
SUMMARY OFNEWS.
Wnslarn and souIhern slales.


The American Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton in annual session at Cincinnati, elected
the following officers for the ensuing year
| President, Henry b. BLACKWELL of Boston ;
vice-presidents, 4. w. Higginson, Rhode
Island; Mrs. Rebecca N. Hazard st. Louis [;
Mary A. Livelmore, Illinois; George William
Curtis, New York; George w. Julian, In
diana; Theodore ID. Weld, Massachusetts,
! Celia Burleigh, New York; Margaret V.
Longley, Cincinnati and the chairman OF the
executive committee, Mrs. Lucy Stone. Cor
responding secretary, Myra Broadwell, Hi
| nois Foreign corresponding secretary, Julia
Ward II I'VE. Recording secretaries, Miss
Matilda Hndman, New Jersey, and Amanda
Way, Indiana. Treasurer, Frank b. Sanborn,
Massachusetts. A resolution was adopted to
appoint a committee who shall in proper
manner present memorials to all churchor-
CARNATIONS asking that equal rights be granted
to all members irrespective of sex.
81 The Odd Fellows building and four adioin-
ing stores were burned at Helena Ark. Loss,
$l00,000
At San Francisco Joseph L. Bowman, fish
dealer shot Mrs. j. II. Hays and her daugh-
ter Annie Carr, inflicting slight wounds, and
then blew his own brains out. Miss'Carr had
refused him.
William Davis was executed at Lockhart
Texas, for the murder OF Dolly Hudspeth on
October 20, 1878. He acknowledged his guilt
from the scaffold, and suffered death without
evincing any emotion. A large crowd wit
messed the hanging.
A house-to-house inspection has been COM
menced at Memphis under the auspices OF the
national board OF health.
As the two hundred hands mostly boys
and girls-employed in the cracker and candy
mandatory of j. f. Corle & Son at Kansas
City, Mo-, were returning to work from dinner
one of the walls of the building suddenly fell
in with r terrible crash bucying in the ruins
nearly one hundred persons. Then the rest
of the walls gave way in rapid succession.
From within the huge, tumbling wreck issued
the terror-stricken occupants, who mingled
their screams and shrieks with the crash of
falling timber and masses of bricks. Hardly
had the house fallen before the ruins took fire.
The furnaces were in iull blast at the time oi
the accident and the dry building material was
like tinder. in the meantime the scene within
and about the building was terrifying in the
extreme. In the second story about thirty
girls were cut off from the stairs by timbers
blocking the doorway. They ran TO the win
dows, and before any one could stop them
several had jumped to the ground, receiving
terrible wounds. At last the door to the
stairway was battered down and the girls were
released, but not before eight persons had
been killed and several more badly injured.
The accident is supposed to have resulted
from the heavy stock on hand causing the
walls to crumble. The building was three
stories in height, but of brick, and was erected
in 1862 1t was considered perfectly safe, and
had been IN use by the Messrs. Corle two
years.
Governor Bishop, OF Ohio, has sued the
Cincinnati Gazette for libel, claiming S60, 900
damages for falsely charging him with cor
rupt bargain and conspiracy to obtain control
OF the Cincinnati police board.
Captain Hall with squad of rangers and
several citizens, anticipating an attempt to
plumber one Campbell's store, in Atascosa
county, Texas, concealed themselves in order
to capture the robbers. During the night five
men rode up and entered the store. Two OF
them secured the clerk, while the others be-
gan plundering the store. Hall and his men
appeared and demanded the surrender of the
robbers. The latter, however, fired on the
rangers, wounding one citizen. Halls men
returned the fire, killing one robber, mortally
wounding another, and slightly wounding a
third. The others escaped.