The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-05-17

Time TO Spare.
Citizens of Topeka Kan, have start
ed popular subscription to purchase
General Funston a sword.
The l,2OO Italian laborers on the Je-
rome Park reservoir, New York city,
are still out on a strike and threaten
death to any of their number that re-
turns to work.
The United States troops in Alaska
have made a request of the war de-
partment for canned roast beef
General Brooke, military governor of
Cuba, reports a much improved state
of affairs throughout the eastern por-
ton of the island.
A British ship has been lost In Aus
tralian waters and 30 people drowned.
General Manning F, Force, COM
mandant of the Soldiers home at San
dusky o., is dead.
Major L. c. Overman, U. S. A., re-
tired, was instantly killed by falling
from a staging on which he was at
work at his summer home at Nan
tucket.
Chauncey Ayres, Al years old, farm
laborer, threw himself in front of an
Erie train at Elmira, N. Y, and was
horribly mangled.
George d. Curtis, a well known
Grand Army man, died at his home in
Albion, n. Y. from the effects of a
wound received in the civil war.
The cruiser Raleigh was not injured
by grounding in the harbor at Charles
ton, S. c.
The arrival of the United States
cruiser Chicago at Tangiers hastened
the Moorish government to pay the
claims of American citizens which she
has refused to pay up until this time.
John Binz, aged 20, and his young
wife, were asphyxiated by Illuminating
gas in Philadelphia. 1t was thought
to be an accident.
An American newspaper correspond
ent and three Cubans captured seven
bandits near Bayamo, Cuba, and
turned them over to the authorities.
Charles Anson attempted suicide at
Middletown, N. Y. He was respondent
Thomas McEvoy, a delegate to the
Forestry convention at Syracuse. fell
from third-story window in the Del
evan House in that city and fractured
his skull. He was from Ulster county.
President Mckinley is enjoying a
thorough rest at Hot Springs, w. Va,
transacting no business whatever.
Five men were terribly injured by
boiler explosion at Trenton, n j. Two
of them will die
The schooner Loyal which left Sc
attle for Alaska, eight months ago,
with II persons on board has never
been heard from. She undoubtedly is
lost with all on board.
Joseph Harvey of Howard City,
Mich, shot and killed his wife, his
uncle, Robert Pierson, and his grand
mother, and wounded his father-in-
law and 9-months-old baby, and final
ly shot himself, producing. probably
fatal wound, all the result of a family
quarrel
A construction train on the Pittsburg
and Western railroad went through
bridge near New Castle Pa. killing
two men and injuring a number of
others.
Henry Truknall of Auburn, N. Y,
killed his wife with hammer and then
took poison, dying before the crime was
discovered.
At a coored revival near Buena Wis
ia, Ga, over a dozen persons drank
buttermilk out of can and all were
poisoned, the minister dying within
few hours.
Four men were instantly killed and
five others badly injured by the cav
ing in of a culm bank at Centralia,
near Shamokin, Pa.
Syria is ready to strike for independ-
ence from the rule of the Sultan of
Turkey. Twenty-Five thousand men
are now well armed and ready to fight.
In a great fire in the town of Gura
Humora, province Of Buckawna Aus
tria, 200 buildings were destroyed and
several lives lost
Fire at Columbus, o.. destroyed the
5-story brick building occupied by the
William Hardman company, wholesale
grocers. Loss about $4,000
Admiral Dewey is coming home on
he flagship Olympia. leaving Manila
| in about three weeks. but not arriv-
ing here until about July 4, stopping
in London and several way places
The treaty negotiations between the
| United States and Canada will shortly
be resumed with fair prospects of sue
cess.
China withholds her approval of the
| Anglo-Russian agreement, and Rus
sia has made new and extensive de-
mand.
rich strike Of natural gas was
made at Gowanda, N Y, on the prop
erty belonging to the State insane
asylum.
The Standard bank at Bowmanville,
Ont, was broken into by masked burg
lars, the watchman overpowered and
gagged and the vault and safe shat
tered by powder and robbed Of $4,000.
Governor Stone Of Pennsylvania has
granted a respite Of 60 days in the case
Of Shew and Egan, sentenced to death
for the murder Of Jackson Pepper Of
! Rush. The board of pardons desired
further time to consider the case.
Peter T. Phenes, an old veteran re-
siding near Corning, ~ Y. has just
died Of a wound that he received dur
ing the civil war.
Governor Roosevelt Will call a spe-
cial session Of the New York legisla-
ture in a few weeks to amend the Ford
franchise tax bill
The Wheeling Steel and Iron COM
pany of Wheeling, w. Va. have grant