The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-11-03

Can it be possible the gang is busted ?
Let us hope.
General quarterly meeting of the
Free Methodist church will begin at
Youngsville, Pa, on Thursdsy and con-
tinue over the Sabbath. A lumber from
this section will attend.
One of the largest fish ever caught in
the Allegheny, if not the largest, was taxi
en- by Oil City parties one day last week.
1t was pike weighing 26l pounds, and
measured 40 inches in length. A beaut,
and no mistake.
Subject at the M. e. church next
Sunday evening, "A Problem in Addi-
ton" Rev. Buzza preached at West
Hickory last Friday night. He will be-
gin series of meetings at Pleasant Hill
next Wednesday evening.
There will be no preaching service in
the Presbyterian church next Sunday
morning. Communion service will be
held in the Endeavor church at IL a. m.
with preparatory service on Friday and
Saturday evenings at 1880.
Invitations are out announcing the
marriage of Miss Edith Green of East
Hickory to Mr.. Oln w. Kelsey. on
wednesday, November, 3rd, at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Green,
patents. of the bride, at East Hickory,
Pa.
An exchange remarks that the oyster
and strawberry have each borne their
share in evangelizng the world. They
have built and furnished more churches,
paid the salaries Of more ministers and
helped more heather than any two agen-
cies.
WIN. Smith, a counterfeiter of Kane,
who had been caught and incarcerated in
jail at Snethport, escaped from Jail Sun
day evening and is now at large. Chief
Mcfarland has description of the man
and is on the lookout for him. He is six
feet and one-half inches tall weighs 100
pounds; has long, smooth face; about %
years old, and wears blue vest with G..
A. X. buttons on it.-RidgWdy AdUocdte.
"A railroad man who came down the
river to-day reports having seen five
boats, containing seven men, who were
engaged in spearlng fish at President
this morning. There is a possibility that
the members of the same party have
been killing fish through the aid of dyna-
mite.-BGszdrd. It's about 'steen to one
they were Oil City sports, tired Of Sum
day fishing and wanted to vary the mo-
notony.
An exchange, after interviewing the
| business men and loafers of the city, saws
all of the most successful business men
were whipped freely when they were
young, while 81 of the 80 street loafers
interviewed were mammals darlings
when they were little; the other three
were raised by their grandmothers. The
moral of all this is something which, for
the sake of unlocked boys, we dislike tc
point out.
Halloween, that most Joyous of all
the nights of the year-to the young folk
was C lebrated in Tionesta on Saturday
night. The town received sort of gen,
eral overhaulng by the prankishly in
clined, but we have heard of no damag,
worth mentioning being done, and the
removal or displacement of few signs
and the overturning of some outbuild
ings, among which was the unsightly ole
shanty on tho vacant Fisher lot, wer,
about all the evidences of tho evening,
hilarity.
The Derrick calls attention to tn
presence in this section of Fish Warde,
Hague, who is looking up the violations
of the fish law as the same relates t,
spearing and dynamiting That is wei
enough so far as it goes, but when tn
Derrick in the same issue, laments th
discontinuance of the Sunday fshinj
train which has been plying between Oi
City and President all summer, the con
sistency in its demand for fish law oh
servance is scarcely apparent. The fin
for fishing on the Sabbath is S2h.
The second trial of Fred Rickwel fo
the murder of Lewis Haines will begiI
in Elk county Nov 18th. Sheriff Walk
er has been summoned to produce as
witness at the trial the wife of the murd
cred man, who is now serving year.
imprisonment in our county Jail. Rock
well was once convicted in the first degre,
but has been granted a new trial. Rob
ert Rockwell, brother of the accused, anC
John j. Newell, who were sent to tn
Huntington Reformatory from this coun
ty, will also be witnesses at the trial il
Ridgway.
An exchange tells the following: =.
lady died and while the pall-bearers wer
conveying her to her last resting place
by some mishap they stumbled an,
dropped the corpse. The coDcussiol
brought the deceased back to life and:sh
lived six or seven years and died again
On the way to the grave they passed owe
the same ground, and when the pail bear
ers reached the identical spot where tn
stumble had been made at the previou
service, the grief fstricken husband stoppe
in front of his lamented wife and said
'Steady boys, steady"
Our former townsman, Chas. +
Weaver, met with severe accident nea
his home in Oil City last Thursday after
noon. The Blizzard says of it: "Ml
Weaver has for some time suffered wit
throat trouble which causes him to ehOk
up and brings on shortness of breatf
and while on his way from the West En-
Works to the city with wagon load {
= goods he was taken with fit of cough
= ing and became unconscious, falling froI