The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-08-31
NEwSY NOTES.

The bodies of the dead Spaniards about
Santiago are gathered in funeral pyres
aud cremated.
A exchange says man has become in
sane from trying to determine whether
the Philippines are east or west of the
United States.
The State Convention of the County
Commissioners Association will be held
in Clearfield this year. The date as yet
has not been fixed.
Earrings are to be fashionable again,
says fashionable authority. The edict
has gone forth, and jewelers. arc prepar-
ing to meet the expected demand.
Krupp is building five centimeters
1.-TWO lnch) paper field guns for the Ger
man infantry. They are so light that q
single soldier can easily carry one, while
the resistance of the paper is greater than
that of steel of the same calibre.
Several hundred applications for PEN
sions have been filed at the Pension Bu-
reau in Washington by claimants for dis
abilities incurred during the present war,
including the claims of widows of de-
ceased soldiers and their dependent par
ents.
From New York comes fashion item
that the garterless stocking is the latest
thing in the way of hosiery. 1t is made
with eyelet holes on either side, which
are crossed and laced like shoe. The
stockings keep up admirably and the for
tunate ones who have seen them say
they are pretty to look at.
A Washington special says that the
promotion of Col. Willis j. Hulings to be
Brigadier General, and that of Col. a. L.
Hawkins Commanding the tenth regi-
ment, 2. ", at Manila) to the same rank,
will be made as soon as Gen. Miles and
Gen. Merritt send in their reports on the
battles in Porto Rico and at Manila.
One of the new battleships provided for
by the last navy bill will be named
pennsylvania" in honor of the grand
old keystone State. The Pennsylva-
MIA will be built at Cramps shipyard,
Philadelphia, armored with plate from
Pittsburg and armed with guns from
Bethlehem, She will be all Pennsylva-
mia from the keel up.
Havana experienced the blessings of
peace very soon after the protocol was
signed. The people of the city were
wretchedly hungry. Within day or two
a freighter sailed from New York for Ha.
vana carrying breadstuffs, rice, beans,
fresh vegetables and 1000 chickens. An
other food and passenger-lad ship also
sailed for the same port with abundance
of material for square meals.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that all judgment notes must
have an extra 25-cent stamp to cover the
power of attorney and judgment clause,
and 25-cent stamp for each assignment
on the back of the note containing the
power of attorney. This is in addition to
the cents per hundred. Users of notes
will do well to make memorandum of
this decision.
Few people know that the flag of the
United States is older than those of the
other great nations, says the New York
Tribune. The Union Jack, the present
British emblem, dates from 1901. The
French tricolor was adapted in 1793 and
the German and Italian banners are no
older than the existing administration of
those countries. The Spanish flag was
first established in 1885 On June IA, l777,
the Continental Congress passed its
memorable resolution that the flag o! the
United States he Is stripes alternate red
and white, and that the Uuion be 19
stars, white III blue field, representing
new constellation. 1t was afterward
decided to add new starr for every new
State admitted to the Union, but this was
the only change that has been made from
the form adopted by those men who were
prominent in establishing the govern
ment.
Mr.. John Steele, of Nebraska, famil-
iarly known in this state as Goal Oil
Johnnie" is visiting the scenes of his
former fame IN Venango county. He
says all the stories regarding his i'm
mense wealth, attained from oil, and the
free dissipation of his fortunes are with
out foundation. That his total income in
the earlier days of oils boom was roy
atty in the McClintock farm production.
Mrs. McClintock, its owner, had saved
100000 from the royalty, and she left it to
him. He invested the money in busi-
ness block in Meadville, leaving a bal
ance unpaid. Oil then dropped from 81
barrel to so cents, he was unable to
meet his obligations and turned the
property over TO other parties at a great
loss. Mr.. Steele says he was only Is
years old when all the sensational stories
were written about him, and he was a
little lavish with his money, as a boy
would naturally be.
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