The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-11-17
TIMELY TOPICS

A terrible tale has been brought from
the Arctic regions by the revenue cutter
Oorwin, that at st. Lawrence island,
in the Behring sea, 500 out of the ZOO
inhabitants were found dead from
starvation. This tragedy is believed TO
have been largely the result of liquor
which had been supplied to the natives
by traders, the use of which caused
them to neglect. storing up their usual
supply of provisions.
The army in Great Britain and Ire
land is estimated ut normal strength
of about 1900 non-commissioned Off
GERS and men, about $4,000 of whom are
in England. For the refractory there
are six military prisons provided in Eng
land and ireland. In 1879 these were
occupied by 1,120 prisoners, 1,106 of
whom we're treated ON the separatist
principle. There are also six other
military prisons at various foreign sta
tions. In 1879 there were 1901 men
discharged from the British army for
bad conduct as compared with 1,S11 in
1878 and 2,003 in 1877. At the begin
ming of November, 1879, there were
1852 soldiers imprisoned in England,
297 in Ireland and 1877 in Scotland.
Travelling by stage coach in Nevada
is enlivened frequently by incidents.
For example, Freid and Moody sat in
the same seat of crowded coach on
the Bodie line. Moody surlily said that
Freid was taking more than fair share
of the space, and when Freid replied
that he couldn't move any further,
coolly shot him. "I never take any
nonsense" he remarked, as Freid fell
dead from the seat. The driver got
down from the box and told the mur-
derer to get out. A defiant refusal and
a flourish of the weapon were the an
swer. The driver jumped up on the
wheel, seized Moody by the collar,
dragged him out through window,
and threw him to the ground so forcibly
,hatlhis arm was broken. The passen-
gers helped to tie him with rope, and
he was slowed away with the trunks be-
hind along with the body of Freid, after
which the journey was continued.
The surgeon-general of the United
States army has given notice that the
appropriation for supplying artificial
limbs during the year ending June 80,
1880, is nowssso far exhausted that no
more orders, either for limbs in kind or
for communication, can be issued until
further provision shall have been made
by Congress, the small balance still un-
expendedibeing required to pay claims
already approved.
The aged emperor of Germany is de-
scribed as looking very imposing, when,
with his wife ON his arm, he emerged
from the venerable cathedral at Cologne,
followed by long train of princes and
generals. He took his place in a pa
vilion prepared on the platz, and signed
record which, after having been also
signed by sixty-seven German princes
and notabilities, was placed in long
silver tube and given over to the work
men to be deposited in the principal
stone cross at the top of the cathedral
spire $50 feet above.
The moment before the dropping of
the trap door that is to launch the
criminal into eternity must be an age of
terror. The only parallel for this mo-
ment of supreme agony is the terrible
situation of man whose foot is held in
the frog of railroad track. Hardly a
week passes that we do not read of some
one killed in this way, and the mad and
Intellectual struggle before death makes
the fate all the more appalling. John
Powers, at st. Paul, Indiana, was the
latest victim of the fatal frog. He saw
the slowly-approaching train back down
on him, while he wildly struggled to
free himself. The cars were just stop
ping as they crushed him to death Is
it not possible for some inventor
to make railroad frog that will not be
human death trap?