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The Penn's Grove record., 1894-09-14
FOUGHT FOR LIFE IN MID-AIR.
TERRIBLE STRUGGLE WITH A LINEMAY
CRAZED BY A LIVE WIRES SHOCK.

TERRIBLE STRUGGLE WITH A IINEMAE,
cRAzED BY A LIVE WIRES SHOCK.
DETROIT, Mich.-Rigid and helpless,
his feet tangled in the meshes of wires
and his head hanging downward.
Frederick French, a lamp trimmer,
was held a prisoner, $50 feet in air, at
the top of an electric light tower. He
had gone up there TO fix the lamps.
when he grasped n live wire and be-
came unconscious.
A crowd Of 5000 people saw him and
expected every minute that his feet
would slip and he would fall h~eadlong.
There in the air he hung until his
partner, George Wideman, joined the
crowd and saw him. Up the slim sup
ports of the tower went Wideman hand
wei hand to the injured man.
Reaching there he grabbed him and
attempted to lay him on the platform,
but French was like a mailman. He
was frothing at the mouth, and the
two men began a struggle which looked
as if it must end by II or both of
them falling to the ground.
French tried to bite Wideman, and
once nearly threw HIM owe, but the
latter finally got II piece of rope over
French's neck and choked him into
insensibility. Then he put him in the
basket by which French had made the
ascent and lowered him to within a
few feet of the ground.
There others helped him, and French
was taken to the hospital. He was
crazy from the shock, hut is likely to
recover. Wideman's fight with the
crazy man at the top of the tower he
will never forget. .
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Cable Sparks.

The cavalry maneuvers which were
to be held in Galicia have been our
fernandez on account of cholera.
The cholera has caused 5000 deaths
n Galicia and Bakowina.
Princess Bismarck is gaining
strength, and the ex-Chancellor is re-
covering his spirits.
Moroccan troops, while going to
Marakesh to subdue rebelllous tribes,
were routed at Tadia.
France will probably recall Ambassa-
dor Decrais from London and Ambas-
sador Herbette from Berlin.
Five hundred British troops will be
sent to the Niger district of Africa to
quiet the disturbed natives.
The Premier of New Zealand has
requested Lord Rosebery to take part
in a protest against Hawaii's annexa-
ton of Neckar Island, which was to
have been made a British coaling sta.
ton.
The MYSTERIOUS circular which evoked
Mr.. Gladstone's $500 contribution
has been traced to the London Com
mittee of the Irish National League.
who deny, however, that they author.
lied the sending of the appeal to any
English Minister or member of Par
lament. 4
The noted Austrian actor, Girardi,
has gone mad.
Heilbronn (Ger.) authorities forbid
the sale of American corn beef which
IS not accompanied by an American
certificate.
Rev. DIR. Patton, of New York, was
dined by the American colony at Ber-
lin.
An agricultural fair at Berlin closed
with a $500 deficit, while the rival
Leipsic fair drew a larger crowd than
ever.
The Emperor has sent Helmholtz'
widow a message of coincidence, saying
that "the entire scientific world, the
Fatherland and the King are mourn
ing with you" l
The Sultan of Morocco is reported
dangerously i'll.
Twelve persons were killed in the
railway wreck between Noyan and
Chauny, France.
The frontier dispute between Ger
many and Portugal in East Africa has
been amicably settled.
Ambassador Bayard has returned to
London in the best of health from a
four weeks cruise in the Mediter-
ranean.
Commodore kirkland, who succeeds
Rear Admiral Erben in command OF
the European station, has arrived at
Plymouth, England. ,
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PENNSYLVANIA Items

John Taha ney and William WEIGH
were indicted at Pottsville for beating
to death Frank Banola.
Burglars Michael Barrett, of New
York and Robert Hensel, of Chicago,
were caught with II lot of booty in
Pittsburg.
Patrick Breslin was crushed to death
by a fall of coal at Zinc Mountain Col
llery, near Ashland, leaving a widow
and nine children. 8
Aged Mrs. Louisa Myers was killed
by a York street railway car.
Poison which he diluted in beer
ended the career of aged Jacob Dwell,
Johnstown.1
Albert 7. Peterson, at Nicols, near
Towanda, shot the top of his head off
with suicidal intent.
While threshing at Adamstown,
Bernhard Lutz had a leg torn from its
socket by the thresher's cylinder.
Both of Thomas McNeilis' legs were
torn off at Bethlehem Iron Works.
His parents live in Philadelphia. 4
A Lehigh Valley train ran over and
cut in two William Curnow at Monnt
Carmel.
A horse fatally kicked Samuel w.
Dissinger, a farmer, in H~eidelburg,
Lebanon County.
Heroda Adart, a Cory citizen, at
tempted suicide by shooting In a New
York hospital.
By falling into a threshing machine,
at Hametown, York County, William
Barnhart lost a leg.
A quarryman who is o missing
fractured Veto Natures skull with a
pick near N%orristown. 5
An alleged embezzler, George Thomp
son, who was captured at Selinsgrove,
is now in Williamsport Jail.
Jacob Bender and Robert Roberts
were dangerously injured by a fall OF
rock at Cornwall ore banks.
Accidently turning on the gas in
his room, Harry Hassler, a Chambers
burg printer, was a~sphixiated.
A large majority of the depositors Of
the Closed Second National Bank, of
Altoona, have agreed to wait some
months for their cash.
Wanted, at Rochester, N. Y, for
the alleged murder of John McGraw,
James w. Brown, of Clean, wal cap
tured at Bradford. l
John Van Gordon, of Milford, COM
mitted suicide by shooting,
In a mine breach filed with water at
Pottsville John Paulitz was drowned.
Stepping in front of a locomotive at
sunbury, little Clara Johnson was cut
in two.
Pension Attorney William E. Stone,
Merchandising, is IN jail, charged with
receiving illegal fees.
Little Katie Burnett stumbled and
fell on the boardwalk at Harrisburg
and died SOC afterward.
An escaped lunatic, John IL. Cup
per, was captured at Lebanon, and will
be returned to the South Mountain
asylum.
One misstep from a car at Pittsburg
threw Mrs. Eleanor Scott, of Mars
vile, Mo-, under the train and she was
killed. 9
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By cutting through the stone Jail
wall, seven prisoners at Hillsdale, Mich,
made their escape.
A cloudburst near Guthrie, o. T.,
drowned Mrs. John McPike, two
daughters and Miss Mabel Hill.
Unable to curb his appetite forliquor,
B. F. Fisher, a bookkeeper, of Okla
homa CITY. o. T.. took laudanum.
On a raft without sails or oars Frank
Beach and Gene Hundley, of st. Louis,
started for New Orleans to win a $1,000
wager.
Because John New, a convict and
necessary witness, refused to testify,
six men arrested at Sedan, Kansas, for
murder, we're set free.
"Rey." Ben. CASTOR, who has been
working up an emigration scheme
among the Alabama negroes, was shot
| and killed in Hancock county, and
six Of his lieutenants were wounded.
A tramp named Bourke, who re-
Gently assaulted Mrs. Willbone in Wa
| tertown, South Dakota, was caught,
dragged through the streets with a rope
around his neck, and was hanged to
an electric light pole.
Mrs. F. c. Clemmer, wife of a we'll
known physician of Indianapolis, and
a social leader, committed suicide in
that city by inhaling ether. 8
For falsely stating the Albuquerque
IN. M National Banks condition, ex-
President s. NJ. Folsom goes to prison
for five years.
New Orleans will have a new st.
Charles Hotel, to cost ove 5 $1,000, 600.
The IL miners imprisoned in a coal
mine near Moweaqua, Ill. were rescued
alive.
Boys at IIay near Church Hill, O.,
set the grass atire, and the whole town
had to fight the flames.
A thunderbolt tore to pieces Thomas
Herman's house at Wichita, Kan,
killed n child and fatally burned an
other.
Robbers held up a street car in St.
Louis suburbs and fatally beat Con-
ductor Van Arthur, who resisted them.
The old experiment of oil on a fire
cost the lives of Mrs. Perrine aud her
young child, at New Cumberland, W.
Va.
A 500-foot fall down the Bobtail
Mine shaft near Central City, COL,
dashed to pieces General Manager E.
Reed.
Confession of a prisoner in Frank.
fort (Ky.) Prison revealed a plot of Hat
field Mccoy desperadoes for a general
outbreak. 4
While fishing in the Colorado Noun
tains, George A. Eddy, a Kansas rail-
road man, dropped dead.
Failing to get relief In nervous trou.
bles, f. s. Miles, a Cornell University
student, took chloral, at Ironton, o.
Deputy Sheriff w. W. Richardson,
the wagon driver, E. T. Atkinson, and
four others, have been indicted for
murder in connection with the recent
lynching of six negroes near Milling
ton, Tennessee.
The partially decomposed body of
Fred Moser, a wealthy carriage manu-
facturer of Caseyville, Illinois, was
taken from the Mississippi river, near
the Illinois shore. The body was bound
with rope, which was twisted
four times around the arms and legs.
Moser was in st. Louis on Monday and
made some extensive purchases. 1t is
believed he was waylaid, murdered and
his body thrown into the river. 5
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PENIS GROVE. N. J. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER ID. 1894.

On the charge of ~embezzling s45Oo,
ID. W. Bear, a prominent citizen OF
Wellsville, O.. was arrested al Martins
Ferry, W. Va.
Michael Roepler has been arrested
on the charge of setting the fire which
destroyed Marengo and Agnew, Wis
consin. Eight lives werelost.
NJ. Stakeholder, James Perley and E
Smith were indicted for murder by the
Grand Jury in Memphis, Tennessee.
They are charged with being parties to
the lynching of the six negroes al Mil
lington on the night of August 81. !
A million-dollar beet sugar factory
will be erected by Portland (ore.) cap
| i~talists.
Gas from an open jet ~suffocated J.A.
Rawlins and wife in their home at
Ravenswood, Ill.
For the brutal murder of James
Williams and wife at Fort Credit, Ont,
Walter McWhirroll will hang on Octo-
Der ].
An overdose of morphine, perhaps
taken purposly, killed Civil Engineer
G. R. Maxwell in a Cheyenne (Wy.)
hotel.
After being held a year for par
~tlcipating in smuggling, the steamer
Haytien Republic was sold at Port
land, Ore, the ex-owner getting it for
$4,000.
The collapse of an ice.house, in a
wind storm at East Chicago, Ind, in.
stantly killed Mrs. John Bowles, and
badly injured her husband.
By putting gasoline in the ~coffee-pot
by mistake, flames were started In j.
w. Wilkins home, at Decatur, Hi
nois, that burned his little daughter to
death.
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LIGHTNING GAVE HER SPEECH
A IT'LL GIRLS HEARING y VOICE RE-
STORED BY A MIRACULOUS BOLT.

Winfield, L. IA bot of lightning.
which struck John Zeliuka's mouse, re-
stored as by a miracle the hearing
and voice of Mary Fisher, Is Yeas old,
who had been deaf and dumb over
eight years.
The bolt went through a two.foot
brick wall into the dining-room, where
Mr.. Zelinka, Mrs. Fisher and her little
girl were discussing the storm. 1t
passed between Mrs. Fisher and Mary.
The two sat motionless several seconds,
when the little girl got up, and, point
ing her finger to her ear, said;
"Mamma, / heard that. Let's go
home"
This is the first time, it is said, that
she has spoken since an attack of
scarlet fever left her deaf and speech
less.
The Lest | rass b nj il A., tralia is
mpoc' sad OF nativ,s.
New York City has 81. ~s28dwellings
and 212, 766 families,
Paper pneumatic tires are in
process Of experiment.
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SHOT TIMES.

A BAL MANS FAT is SETTLED BY A MOB.
MIYDEN, LA.-Link Waggoner, the
noted outlaw and murderer, YVES killed
in Jail here by Il mob of armed men,
who forced their way in. He showed
pluck to the last, and faced the crowd,
cursing them with his last breath, He
was shot in all IS times.
Waggoner was accused of a half a
dozen murders. He had considerable
following in Webster Parish, and for
some time managed to live there,
although the officers we're hunting for
him. He finally fled to Arkansas, ana
was captured there last fall. l
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In character, in mann r, style, in all
things the supreme excel c is sim =
licity.
lgroroncci is fome'iEle> 30 depse that
you cannot stir ii up.
Walking is slow travelling until you
overtake q snlil.
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A WAY OUT.

Justice, 1ellgl0n ana pleIy - tue
words from the church service came
to mind unbidden when n looked
at her. She was a plain little
woman on the shady side of sixty,
sitting in a streak Of wintry sun
shine seeding raisins, AMI seeding
them so earnestly she failed to no
tice the opening OF the door.
1t opened, swinging back to the
wall, and Maria Clendennin entered
with a quick step, her face flushed,
and unrest writes plainly in her
dark eyes.
Life is an awful muddle!!" she
said, and she seized the poker and
stabbed fercely at the soft-coal FIRE.
'''Tis enough to drive a woman crazy
just to lie alive nowadays. And
there you sit, Aunt Jane, with a face
like - we'll, you always make me
think OF the 'Halleiujah Chorus in
the Messiah and 1 believe Handel
would say SO himself If he could see
you"
Aunt Jane was a little deaf.
"What's the child talking about?"
she said, iglanc Dg over her ~spectacles.
The eyes were dark and bright as
though a spark glinted through them.
The h%alleluJah was in the face, but
it was written there not by the
touch Of an angel; it was the victory
In battle, and the place was the rest
after warfare.
Marie had come to tie border of
her battlefield now, to the confines OF
tho broad plain mistily bounded by
the other world, where each earnest
woman, looking out on the every
days, the playground OF youth out
grown, begins to realize that ones
living soul, an everlasting lite, is an
awful thing to have in ones keeping.
81 believe" she said slowly, '.yes,
! verify believe Ill take to paper
roses and lamp shades and bon-bons
| and matinees. Hi put on my old
t~rose-colored glasses and walk only on
Fifth avenue, and then I'll forget
there is any Five Points, and I'll be
happy"
'Oh, no, my dear, thee won't
The ClendenDins aren't made for
tissue paper and cream.dropS Thy
grandfather was burned out of house
and home for daring to say that a
black man had rights; but he contin-
ued to say 1t, louder and louder, and
the rights came before the Lord,
called him to his rest"
But Aunt Jane, the world is to
fierce now. People used to live the r
little lives, and quietly go to their
little graves; but now society is bub-
bling aud boiling and seethinR owe
questions nobody can answer, though
everybody Is trying to-"
1.-THE bubbling and boiling began
10 a little town In Palestine nineteen
hundred years ago, and tits spreading
that's all, my DEAR" was the re.
ply.
We'll, l wish I'd lived before the
spreading began, when Julius Caesar
did, for instance. How delightful to
sit on the best seat in the circus,
and, Just for the within of the mo-
ment. make or mar a life by a turn
of ones thumb-no consciences then
to bother anybody. I've tried skim
miug over life till / felt l was dane.
ing on graves, and I've tried diving
into 1t till nv hair is grey at 25. over
other peoples woes This very after.
noon i've been perched for two hours
ON a hard wooden settee, to hear
Mrs Lydia Mary Potts tell us ali the
horrors of undergrad buttonholes and
oyerpaid landlords, of damn, sbiyery
cellars and Sitting, stutfy garrets, Of
So many people to SO many square
feet till / feel like a IOraclOus Grim.
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CLEVER THIEVES GOT SEVENTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS.
TEN MINUTES ABSENCE COST COUNTRY
sToREKEEPERs VERY DEAR.


CLARION, Paw. F. Collner & Co.,
general s~torekeepers at st. Petersburg,
were robbed of $40, 600 in cash and
securities. When the business of the
store was wound up, 5000 in cash
and $50, 600 in promissory and mort
gage notes and like securities were put
in two tin money boxes iE the store.
The door was locked, while the mem
bers of the firm and the four clerks
went to a nearby to~baccoestore, as was
their habit on Saturday nights to lay
in a Sunday supply Of cigars.
The quartet returned tdthe store in
about 10 minutes and fourd the door
unlocked and the money boxes gone.
Investigation showed hat the thief had
been concealed all day in the store,
doubtless being aware Of the habit OF
the owners to leave their money nm
guarded for a few minutes every Satur-
day night, l
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To give heartfelt praise to noble &C
tions is, in some measure, making them
our own.
The rarest feeling that ever lights a
human face is the contentment Of aloy-
ing soul.
Ice is a great preserver, but love is
ne of those things that won't keep well
On cold storage.
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The smallest known
OF influenza 1
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5OuInerr and West
ern States.

By cutting through the stone Jail
wall, seven prisoners at Hillsdale, Mich,
made their escape.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-01-31
TEMPERANCE.

AsSI THE pRuNKARD's DAueHrER.
Out In the street with naked feet,
sawthe hapless drunkard's daughter;
Her tattered shawl was thin and small;
She little knew, for no one taught her.
Her skin was fair--her auburn hair
Was blown about her pretty forehead;
Her sad, white face, wore sorrows trace,
And want and woe that were not borrowed.
Heart-broken child. she seldom smiled,
Hope promised her no bright tomorrow ;
Or ~ its light flashed on her night.
Then up came darker clouds OF sorrow.
She softly said, eve have no bread.
No wood to keep the 1re a-burnlng !"
The child was IN, the wind so chill
Her thin cold hfood to ice was turning.
That long night fed, and then the light
or rosy day in beauty shining,
Tipped dome and spire and roof with fire,
And shone on one beyond repining.
Asleep-alonc-as cold rs stone,
Where no kind-hearted parent sought her ,
In winding sheet OF snow and slect,
Was found the lifeless drunkard's daughter.
George w. Bungay.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-01-31
FRIED ONIONS.

The art of frying an onion so that
it will be delicate and crisp is not
generally understood. There is but
one way TO fry this vegetable which
will give the right result-thst is, to
cut it in slices and soak the m in milk
for at least ten minutes. Then dip the
slices in -four and immerse them in
boiling fat, hot enough to brown in
stsntly bit of bread threwn in. You
cannot keep the onion in slices, so it
is not worth while TO try TO do so.
After they have fried for six or seven
minutes they may be lifted up with
skinner on to brown paper and will
be found firm and thoroughly deli
cious. Cooked in this way they may
be served as a garnish to daintily-
broiled beefsteak or to dish of fried
chops or beef croquettes. There is no
way of frying nm onion in pan with a
little butter, rs commonly recon-
mended in COOK books, which will pro-
duce a satisfactory result. The onion
softens and absorbs the butter, owing
to the natural law of capillary attrac-
tion, and the result is thnt the butter
and onion become dark and greasy
mass. American Cultivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-01-31
rEMrERANcE NEWS Axp NOTES.

For every four shillIngs spent in England
ON drink, only half-penny is expended on
education.
Captain II. H. Siverd was recently shot
and killed by drunken ioint-keeper while
trying to enforce the prohibitory law at
Wichita, Kansas.
Investigations show that color-blindness
Is about twenty times as frequent among men
as among women, the difference being as
scrlbed TO the use OF tobacco.
The boatmen, porters and water-carriers
OF Constantinople are famous for being the
strongest and finest set OF men physically in
all Europe. They never drank any kind Of
intoxicating liquor.
1t is said that the thirst for drink can be
stopped for time by drinking four or five
glasses OF water as much in fact, as the
stomach will hold. This is worth trying
when the thirst comes on, and a man feels as
If he must drink.
lie Caron, the Government spy who came
TO America 10 investigate the doings Of the
Clan-na- Gael, says he was brought up In a
strictly teetotal family, and that he attributed
his success as a spy TO the temperance habits
he learned as boy.
A large manufacturing firm in Cincinnati
recently made the following statement "A
drinking man will turn out from twenty Ia
thirty per cent. less work than a non
drinker and, in addition, his work is apt "a
De defective and require oYerhaplinR,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-01-31
rErpINe A cA1v1Ne COW.

The feeding of a COW soon to calve
is an important matter as regards the
welfare of the animal, and by neglect
or mistake many cows are injured
when in this condition. It is safe to
avoid all grain feeding for at least one
month before the calf is expected, but
any kind of vegetables or roots may
be given with safety and advantage.
The principle on which such cows are
to be fed is that the bowels should be
kept in a free condition, and all food
that may nnduly stimulate the system
is to be avoided. After the calf APP
pears, stronger food is given gradually
during two or three weeks following
The COW may be mllked a few hours
after the calf is born. 1t is to be kept
from sucking, which is generally ad-
visable, but the milking must depend
wholly on the condition of the COW.
Some copious mixers may need milk
ing before the calf comes. New York
Times,
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A POINT IN RITTER MAKING.

The readings of the Babcock test at
Chicago, in the dairy test, and the
actual results of the churn, indicate
at the close of sixty-fve days that, had
it been possible to make separators
and churns and other things to work
to perfection, the Jerseys would have
had nineiy-eight, the Guernseys ninety
two, the Shorthorns, ninety three
pounds each more butter to their
credit, and this with the most perfect
mechanism ever devised in butter
making and controlled by the best ex-
perts obtainable. Now if with separa-
tors and best churns, over ninety
pounds of butter is lost in about 2300
pounds, what is the loss in the usual
farm house, where butter is being
made in primitive ways, so to speak
This shows loss of about one pound
of butter in forty of original fat,
while ordinary making shows about
one pound in four is lost between pan
and butter crock, or at least ten times
more. Prairie Farmer.
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gular, with a narrow frons TO the road,
il might be less convenient to build
adjacent to the roadside than If the
long side lay there, yet we would
prefer to build there if site was salts
factory, and if possible let our fields
reach the full length of the farm, if
not too large.
OF course there are farms where IL
is perfectly impracticable to build
upon the roadside, other than for
mere residence. The writer was
raised on just such a farm where the
buildings are almost in the center.
This made it very handy for farm pur-
poses, in hauling and passing to and
from work. Still there was certain
amount of social freedom that was
always absent. which I find now living
by the roadside. In fact, l would
rather put up with many inconven-
fences than to be moved back from the
road, especially if a macadamized one
ran besides my farm, for then, with
my buildings on it it would be handy
at any season of the year to go to town
or to market.
think it has better effect on ones
children to be thrown into the pos
session of certain freedom and privi-
leges that remoteness from the high
way cannot afford them. Mostly our
schoolhouses are situated along the
road, consequently our children find
less inconvenience in attending school.
As rule, our highways pass some we'll
located spot that will prove satisfac-
tory location for our buildings, which
will prove an incentive to us to i'm
prove their surroundings much more
than if set too far back from the road.
Yes, by all means G. H., build upon
the roadside or sufficiently close to be
practically convenient to it.-Ohio
Farmer.