The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-04-19
NEWSY NOTES.

willing to serve their country in the ten
offices to be filled this fall.
Col. John NJ. Siegfried captured the
Warren postofnce plum last week, and
while the agony is over, white-winged
peace don't hover over the burg to any
alarming extent, nor will it till the sore
ness wears off.
We learn that Congressman Charles W.
Stone was painfully burned recently
while engaged in extinguishing a fire in
his Washington residence. Mr.. Stone
was laid up for several days, but is now,
we are pleased to learn, able to be out
again and not much the worse for his ex-
perience.-Brsdford Star.
A little girl stuck a hat pin in the back
of John Vensel, of Pretrolia, the point
touching the spine. Vensel has been suf-
fering from spasms ever since and has
lost his mind. A resident of Butler is
now suffering from paralysis, the result
of a practical joke of the same nature
played on him.-Kittanning Times.
The little girls should be careful that
in rope-skipping, which is their chief
pastime at this season of the year, they
do not o~ver-exert themselves. At
Weatherly, this State, Nellie Brighten,
eleven years of age jumped a rope $50
times without intermissIon. The result
was a rupture which caused her death af-
ter a week of terrible suffering.
Robert A. Henderson died at his home,
New Castle, Pa, last Sunday, week,
with symptoms of poisoning. He work.
ed at Homestead last July, and returned
sick to New Castle, and has suffered with
stomach trouble ever since. He is sup
posed to have been one of the victims of
the alleged wholesale poisoning at Home
stead during the strike.-Venango Spec
tator.
The emancipation of married women
in this state is complete. Judge Arnold
decides that a married woman who gave
a note in payment of her husbands debts
is responsible therefor. Married women
were at one time under an actual, as we'll
as legal, disability to make contracts.
The Legislature has been gradually ex-
tending their privileges as well as their
legal responsibility, until nov they are
almost on the same plane as a married
man..
An exchange remarks that it is a hard
hearted man or woman, possibly only a
crusty bachelor, or a sour elderly maid
en-, who objects to a baby carriage on the
sidewalk at night. On a principle OF
equity the pusher of a baby carriage has
no aroh riohf fO tho cfInurolLy nc N Gallant
young man with a lady holding to each
of his arms, neither of whom will detach
herself to make room for other pedes-
TRANS. Let the baby carriage roll on all
sidewalks as a thing of beauty with its
contents of loneliness, because both are
emblems and representatives of Ameri-
can progress, of which the nation is so
proud.
Ex-Judge L. D. Wetmore's lumber
mill pear Sheffield burned on the 18th
inst. The loss of property is estimated
at from SIS. 900 to 10000. This mill was
considered one of the finest and mosi
complete in The State, was fitted up in
the most convenient manner, and con
tanned machinery for doing other work
besides the saving of timber. While the
loss on the mill is quite heavy the owner
is considered very fortunate from the
fact that there is a fine shingle mil but
few feet distant from the scene of the
property destroyed, and there were sew
eral millions of pine lumber in close
proximity to the burning mill, which
escaped.
There were fifteen cases of diphtheris
reported at Irvineton last Tuesday morn,
ing, aud even the residents gave il from
ten to twelve. This is an alarming state
affairs, brought about, as near as we cat
learn, by a disregard of the most ordina'
ry precautions, public funerals, indis'
criminate visiting, etc. 1t is bad enough
for %Irvineton, but fully as bad for the
surrounding country, owing to railroad
transfer and connections. 1t is a greai
pity that somebody with authority, as
sumed or legitimate, had not aiken hold
of the town and enforced the State SAM
tary regulations. AS it is now the State
authorities will probably interfere, as
their attention has been called to the
matter.-Tidioute News.
The will of Elliot f. Shepard was exc,
cuted July Is, 1891, and disposes of an
= estate estimated at $3.50, 600 in reality and
$500, 900 in personal proserty. he gives
to the trustees of the p~resbytery of New
York 100000 for the general religious
and evangelical church work of this city
He also gives the same trustees $4,000
to be used by them for the benefit of thu
Seventh Presbyterian Church of jesus
Christ, of f. Y. city. He gives to st
Paul's church, of Tarsus, Asia Minor
100000. He devises all his real estate t
his widow and makes a special beques
, of $4,000 to Augustus d. Shepard. ii,
provides that the residuary estate, whicl
is to.his children, shall consist of his in
T %terests in the Mail and Express, the New
York Express company and Fifth Ave
nue. Transportation company, provide,
the stages are not operated on Sunday
In that case the interests would have I
J be disposed Of.
Have you seen them? What
r. New goods, at o. F. Miles & CO..