The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-04
NEwsY NOTES.

Forty millions of bushels Of wheat will
be Nebraske's contribution to the grain
crop of the country. There is so much
they cannot house it all. Already all the
mills in the state are at work converting
it into flour. They will have money as
well rs corn to burn this year.
There is now a great demand in Ger
many for the draft horses for which
Pennsylvania is famous. They are be-
ing exported in considerable numbers
from the southern tiers of counties and
are used in Hamburg for drawing the
heavy draYs for the sugar refneries.
Judge willard, of the Superior
Court, according to an authoritative
statement published at Scranton, has
placed his resignation in the Governors
hands. The resignation is to take effect
September 1, thus enabling the Governor
to fill the position by appointment, the
appointee serving until January l, 1899
John Smull, living in the narrows
leading from Union line into Centre
county, while digging stumps, found a
purse of gold containing 5000 All the
pieces were dated more than seventy
years ago, and are no doubt part of the
booty of the famous robbers, Lewis and
Connolly, who roamed that section
about 1925.
Already there is a dispute over the
boundary between American possessions
in Alaska and those of England, and it
will take the experts to get them out of
the snarl. OF course the land in dispute
is that on which so much gold is being
| found now, but at all events its owner
ship ought TO be settled. 1t is unfortu-
nate that the gold regions are so close to
the border.
There is a story from Chicago to the eff
feet that nine great corporations, headed
by the Standard Oil Company, are to
merge their identity into one colossal
whole, with total capital of $1,000, 600,
0OO' This report wasn't brought east by
n carrier pigeon with silver ring on its
leg, with the woId Fake stamped on
its wing. but it might just as well have
come that way as any other.
The Altoona woman who made a broth
of mice and fed it to her child under the
from disease, Is now under bail on a
charge of cruelty. Shakespeare says
"He was a courageous man who first ate
an OYSTER" and we cannot but admire
the bold audacity of the person who in
| troduced frogs legs as a diet. And cer-
| tainlxr cIo xtrao q N Nub bo
first made mouse soup.-Plr'y Spirit.
In the opinion of Mr.. John W. Mack
ay, elf man has thousand dollars, a
good constitution and no wife and chill
dren he can afford to go the Klondyke
regions" But, continues this bonanza
veteran, "nothing is more uncertain than
gold mining, except that a majority oi
those who engage in it are certain to fail. y
These, or similar words-for danger sig
nails as to Klondyke hardships and perils
have been dutifully raised in the press
all over the land-will doubtless dampen
the ardor of many would-be prospector
City Solicitor Clark, of Erie, has re-
ceived word that in the Superior Court
in the case of the city of Erie VS.. M
Griswold, the judgment rendered by
Judge c.. II. Noyes of Warren agains
the city was affirmed. The action of tht
city was to collect the full city take
against certain property of Mr.. GriswolC
abutting on a street that had been paved
he claiming the rebate which was in fore
when the pavement was laid, but whicl
was subsequently recalled by the passag
of an ordinance of councils. The con
tention, if finally decided by the Suprem
Court, against the city, will involve tn
payment of about Sl6O, 900 in rebates t,
property owners.