The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-26

Relief is asked for the locked out Braid
wood, ILL.,, miners, who are suffering from
hunger.
Warren is making an effort to get the
Sixteenth Regiment to encamp there this
Summer.
yellow fever case was landed in
Brooklyn last week. A strict quarantine
has been established.
Farmers throughout the State are be-
coming very anxious about their corn as
it is so filthy and too wet TO work.
The graves of American soldiers and
sailors in the general cemetery at Yoko-
hama, Japan, were decorated May 80.
Mormon elders came over in first cabin
of the Wyoming, but 800 Mormon prose-
lytes came in the steerage. They go to
Utah by way of Norfolk, Va.
Ex-Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania,
has been appointed a member of the
Cherokee Commission, and has signifed
his intention TO the Secretary of the In
terror of accepting the office.
Michael Rizzollo, alias "Red Nose
Mike" was hanged yesterday in the yard
of the county prison, at Wilkesberre, for
the muder of Paymaster Mcclure and
Hugh Flanagan, in October last.
The West Fork and Elk rivers in West
Virginia, are both out of their banks for
miles, and heavy damage is being done to
property. The track of the Clarksburg
and Weston Railroad is under water and
traffic is stopped.
Sarah Jane Whteling, who poisoned her
husband and two children in order to OBJ
tain the paltry sum of 1899 insurance on
their lives, was hanged for her crimes in
Philadelphia yesterday morning at ten
o'clock. She is the first woman ever
hanged in that county.
Present indications are that the hay crop
this season will be one of the largest ever
gathered in the country. The outlook for
all the grain crops except corn was never
more promising. Farmers will commence
cutting clover next week if the weather
should be favorable for hay making.
In the lower end of Johnstown stood
the United Presbyterian parsonage. The
waters carried it up Stony creek two miles
and half and landed it in Sandy Vale
Cemetery, while the sexton's house in the
cemetery, being caught by another eddy,
was landed squarely on the vacant foun-
dations of the parsonage.
Mr.. Joseph Kelly, of Clay twp, Butler
county, left home some four weeks ago
and has not been heard of since. He is
about fifty years of age, is the proprietor
of coal mine and travels considerably
selling COAL left home with about $500 in
his pocket, and it is feared that he has
met with foul play, or was lost at Johns
town,-Butler Citizen.
The June work of the sheep dogs Of
Mercer county shows up very modestly
when compared with the COnemaugh dis
aster, but still it amounts 10 something.
Up to Thursday the claims filed for dog
destroyed mutton amounted 10 $535.5O
The dogs are several laps ahead of the tax
and the cream of the season is still before
them-FFdHLtiH Ne,OS.
The accident at the switchback ON the !
p. & w. railroad, at FoXburg, about one
year ago, in which travelling man named
Jones was caught between the cars and
killed, will be remembered by our readers.
The widow brought suit against the COM
pany in the Beaver county court, and last
week was awarded $1,000 and all the costs
in compensation for her husbands death.
-EHlentoR Neigs.
Mrs. Alexander Mcdowell, aged 66
years, and an old and well-known resi-
dent of Franklin, was burned to death
last Saturday evening. She was at the
residence of her son, and in descending
the stairs from the second story to the first
story, made a misstep and fell TO the bot
tom. "A small lamp she was carrying was