The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-18
NEWSY NOTES.

The Pennsylvania railroad company
will in the near future adopt two cent
rate on all its branches. This will do
away with excursion and round trip tick
cts. There will be but n style of ticket
sold and that will be unlimited as to time
and at a two cent rate.
Private Iams, Of Homestead notoriety,
was arrested and run into the Lookup al
Parkershurg, w. Va, recently, for as
saultIng u woman in a house of bad re-
pute. This ought 70 settle the case in the
minds of those who have beer stopping
over with sympathy for Iams.
Recently two young men, Harry Kiln
gensmith, and Jacob Nelson, were maxi
ing a race track of Main street. Green
vile, when the former ran over Mrs. FL
lott Serley, who lived over the line i in
Crawford county, and she has since died.
Both men are bound over to court
Mercer Dispatch.
The visitors to the Chicago exposition
will be able to see the elephant in very
large proportions. A syndicate has be-
gun work on a $3.50. 900 steel building
near the Fair grounds, that will be shap-
ped like the elephant building at Con-
ey Island, but much larger. 1t will be
l25 feet high, and it Will swing its trunk,
flap its ears and wag its tail. The swing
ing, Tapping, etc.. will he lone by ma
chinery. There will be two floors within
this heast-one for a grand promenade
and dancing hall, with gallery, and the
stomach tioor," where viii! be located a
great restaurant.
Most fads, like the souvenir spoon fad,
have their day and then die out, hut the
postage stamp collector seems Ia he al
ways in it. This fad has already lasted
for more than a quarter of q century, and
bids fair to hold its own for as much
longer. Some of the collections really rise
To An historic value. Herr Fried, of
Vienna, has a collection of some 100. 900,
all Of his specimens Icing rare, and con
tanning among other curious examples a
number of stamps used in Paris during
the siege of ls7O-ls7l, when the postal
service was carried on by means of bal
looms, carrier pigeons and the sewers OF
the city.
An interesting decision has been made
in the Erie county courts in regard to
land tenure. The Pennsylvania road has
been proceeding against some 'squat
ters' on land claimed by the railroad.
One of the defendants claimed that she
was the Owner of the land by virtue OF
more than twenty-one years, possession.
The railroad claimed that she should
rerkon her holding from the death or her
husband, and that he had not held the
property Tor twenty-one years while she
not being an heir, could not continue the
holding in an unbroken line. The court
held that as partner Of her deceased
husband, the wife could continue i'm the
line OF holding, and the more than TWEEN
ty-one years undisputed possession OF
the two lives gave her a title to the prop
erty. The case will probably be CARR ID
to the supreme court.
A mysterious atiiction seems To have
broken out at C%urwensvillo, Cleardeld
county, rs the following from tue Review
will show;
There seems 10 he an epidemic among
the people In this section, of the ewes. and
In most cases the result has been l0ss OF
sight. Several months ago &. r. Norris
while a. work suddenly lost the eight Of