The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-05-31

no flag to sail under, the Cuban flag not
being recognized.
The Indiana supreme court has de-
cided that il is a violation of law to
play base ball on Sunday. An appeal
will be taken.
Senator PlGtt says that President Nc
Kinley and Vice President Hobart will
be renominated by the National Repub-
lican convention.
Queen Victorias SOth birthday was
pretty generally observed in all the
large cities of the world.
The New York legislature will appro-
pirate $4,000 to enable her National
Guard to go to New York city to meet
Admiral Dewey upon his return to this
country
Admiral Schley was given a great
reception in the Boyd's Opera House
in Omaha.
The Nightengale's silk mills in Pat
erson, N. j., was entirely destroyed by
fire, causing a loss of $4,000; partly
covered by insurance.
Senior Don Emilio Castelar,, the dis
tingushed Spanish statesman, died In
Madrid from an attack Of pulmonary
catarrh contracted last winter.
China has yielded to Germany and
has assented to the latter building the
Tien-Tsin- China -Keang railroad.
The Samoan commissioners sustains
Admiral Kautz in the part he took in
the recent Samoan trouble An early
settlement of the trouble Is looked for.
The Chase building in Worcester,
Mass, was partly destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $4,000.
Thirty houses in St Johns, N. r.,
were destroyed by fire. They were
mostly wooden structures.
]. E. Moss of Joplin, Mo-, murdered
his wife and three children and then
killed himself.
Fire destroyed seven blocks of frame
buildings in COney Island, causing
loss of $35OOO Believed to be incen-
diary.
Finland has refused to accept Rus
sia's new scheme of military rule and
an outbreak is greatly feared
Owing to the filthy condition of Daw-
son City. Alaska, an epidemic of ty-
phoid fever is greatly feared, the dis
ease having already broken out.
Two men were killed and several 9TH
ers injured by the explosion of a steam
drying cylinder in a Philadelphia dye
ing works.
A number OF Cuban soldiers have dis
banded. but refuse to surrender their
arms or accept Of the S75 offered them
by the United States government.
Governor Roosevelt refused to sign
1O5 bills passed by the regular session
of the New York legislature, thus kill
ing off the measures.
Seven gold seekers broke through the
ice on the Yukon river and were
drowned.
Sincus NJ. Dibble OF Phelps N. Y.
died from hemorrhage caused by the
extraction of a tooth.
Peter Phelan died in a New Yorl
hospital from the excessive use OF tea
He was 40 years old and unmarried.
Colonel David F. Ritchle, a promi
nent journalist and ex-postmaster o.
Saratoga Springs died from a strok'
of paralysis. He was 60 years old anf
veteran of the vivil war.
James williams OF Pittsburg shot ant
killed Harry Jones and then commit
ted suicide by jumping into the river
Williams objected to Jones attention t
| his daughter.
There seems no hope for Mrs. May
brick. The British government ha'
| again refused to grant her pardon ol
in anyway interfere with her sentence
Alonzo ]. Whlteman, the notorious
| forger, has again been arrested thl'
time in New York city.
Seven people were killed and three
injured by a tornado that swept owe
Biiou. n. d. A vast amount of proper
ty was destroyed.
Nine persons were killed and % other
injured by a railroad wreck near Wa
terloo. la. An entire train was com
pletely demolished.
The transports Ohio and Senate
reached Manila with the ThirteentI
infantry on board. Five men deserte,
at Honolulu.
James Williams, a coloIed cohNlC'
set fire to his cell in Dannemora pris
on at Plattsburg N. Y, and was burne
so badly that he died shortly after
ward.
An entire family of nine persons wer
burned to death near Hardeeville, Ga
The house caught fire from defectiV
fue during the night when all wer
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