The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-01-09
NEWsY NOTES.

The name of the post office of Miles
Grove, Erie county, has been changed TO
Milsgrove.
The Enterprise is the name of a new |
paper which has made its appearance in
Frewsburg, N. Y.
The Swedish Lutheran Church at Kane |
was burned Sunday morning. 1t will be |
rebuilt
Arthur Spring of Oil City, aged two
and half years, died on Saturday from
scalding received about three weeks ago,
when he tripped while running backward
and sat into bucket of scalding water.
A 100000 fire was the New Years pres
ent of the town of Sherman, N. Y. The
fire consumed all the business places on
one side of the principle street of the
town. Partially covered by insurance.
Mrs. Andrew Moore, widow, agad 90
years, who lived four miles north of
Butler, Pa, while in her farm yard on
Wednesday, was attacked by vicious
ram and butted to death. h.-Franklin
News.
Collector Welch, of South Valley town.
ship, locked up w. N. Y. & p. freight
engine on the siding at Onoville, three
miles above Corydon, Monday, and vows
he will hold it there until some 5000
school tax, which he has been trying to
collect from the company, is paid.
Dame Rumor-that busy old gossip,
whispers of a proposed narrow-guage
railway to connect Warren with Sugar
Grove. A survey was made and the
scheme agitatcd several years ago, but
for good reasons was left in statu quo un-
til recently. Full details will be given
later.-W Warren Ledger.
BENJAMIN Van lyle, of Hoosick Falls,
N. Y, a colored man, celebrated the
Hath anniversary of his birth yesterday.
He was born slave in New York State
and was sold three times. At the age of
Is he shook George Washington's hand
at Albany. He retains all his senses and
walks without the aid of a cane.-Pitts-
burg Times.
About7 o'clock Thursday m forming Swan
Peterson, Swede about fifty years old,
residing on a farm in Pleasant Township,
about one and one-half miles from Ir-
vineton, committed suicide by hanging
himself to rafter in barn. He was
found about o'clock by members of his
family. Insanity is supposed to be the
cause of the act.
DR.. Robert Colbert, pioneer resident
of Oil City died on the Goth ult., aged "a
years. He leaves wife, three sons and
two daughters. DIR. Colbert moved to
Oil City iu 1868, where he opened drug
store. He was appointed Internal Rev
enue Collector for the Oil City district by
President Lincoln, serving in that capac-
ity for many years.
Frank Gohn, aged about As years, a
gauger in the employ of the National
Transit Company, was struck and in
stantly killed Thursday forenoon, about
three quarters of mile east of Glade
Run by the locomotive attached to train
81, on the w. N. Y. & P. road, which ar
rives here at noon. He resided in
Warren and leaves wife and eight chill
dren.
The annual meeting of the trustees and
l
for the insane at North Warren, was held
at the asylum on Thursday. 4. J..
Smiley was reelected president for the
J hfth consecutive time. t. N. Parmlee
was elected secretary and f, E. Hertzel,
treasurer. The inmates of the institu-
: ton now number S94.-Pleasantville
, Record.
In the Crawford county courts the
other day the names of two men were
called to serve as jurors. Neither of the
men answered to their names, and upon
? investigation it was found that one had
been dead three years and the other one
year. This leads the Meadville Tribune
to ask where the men were when they
received the notice of having been drawn
/ on the jury?
D Six masked men made an effort to rot
the north bound Cotton Belt train abou
ten miles south of Camden, Ark. The
train stopped as usual to take water, anC
the colored porter got off the train to &c
=. around to the tank to let the water on
q He was stopped, however, by Winches
ter in his face and ordered TO uncoupl'
. Tue LUIS WAS ODoJOO, anu III
u engineer, who was under guard, wa
g made to run the car up from the train
Il distance of half mile. The bandits dis
covered too late that they had made
water haul, taking the baggage car in
y stead of the express car.
A Pittsburg physician sends to tn
s Medical Reporter what he claims to b
the simplest and and best remedy 70
I'd hiccoughs of all descriptions, saying tina
Y. he will put it against any and all device
., as an effective cure. He says; can yo
:. have to do is to lie down. stretch you
is head back as far as possible; open you
th mouth widely; then hold two finger
at above your head. we'll back, so that yo
"A have to strain the eyes to see them
-, gaze intently upon them, and take Ion
full breaths. In a short time you wi
o. be relieved of that troublesome hiccougl
! have tried that cure on all sorts of case
from simple form TO chronic, and
r works we'll with all. remember it WI
q. gi> en- to a man on the way TO New Yor
, to consult specialist on his case-one
IL six months standing-and it cured hi
IN in a few minutes"