The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-04-26
SUMMARY or the NEWS
Short Items From Various
Parts Of the World.
Record Of Many Happenings Condensed
and Put In Small Space and Arranged
With Special Regard For the Convent
ence of the Reader Who Has Little
Time To Spare.

Lieutenant General Correa, chief OF
the queen regent of Spain's military
household, is dead in Madrid.
George Savage of Rochester, a eel
ebrated orchidist, is dead, aged "a
years.
Colonel Zamor has been expelled
from the Spanish army for surrender
ing to the Americans in Cuba.
The plague is ravaging the island of
Formosa and hundreds of the inhabi-
tants are dying of the dread disease.
The large tannery and yards of the
United States Leather company at
Lincoln Me-, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, s15O.OOOO
John Preston, aged 80 years, pro-
prietor of the Greenwood hotel at To-
wanda, Pa. killed himself without any
apparent cause.
Thomas Temple, a farmer living
near Adrian, Mich, shot his wife and
then killed himself
A locomotive boiler exploded near
Bethel Me-. killing the engineer, fire.
man and brakeman.
The Pennsylvania legislature ad-
journed without electing a United
| States senator to succeed Senator
Quay.
Speaker Thomas b. Reed has con-
nected himself with New York law
firm and will hereafter practice in
that city.
/ - of Ind
was destroyed by fire and three of the
inmates were burned to death.
James Mclaughlin was fatally
stabbed at Springfield, Ills, by Alder
man Thomas White, a prominent con-
tractor.
Colonel d. p Livermore, the oldest
telegrapher in the country, died at
Hallowell, Me. He was "a years old.
After killing his 5-year-old son
Emil Eykstra, of Chicago, jumped on
a horse and fled. He is believed to be
insane.
General He..ry, commanding the de-
partment of Porto Rico, has asked to
be relieved of his present duty on ac-
count of ill-health.
John Minehan, who was run over
by a freight train at Susquehanna,
| Pa, died from the effects of an am
putation of his left leg.
1t is said that General George w.
Davis is to be the military governor of
Porto Rico to succeed General Guy V.
Henry, who asked to be retired on
account of ill-health.
Fire at New Castle, Pa, destroyed
the large department store of EuweI
& Co. Loss, 100000; insurance, $4,000
August Hoffman, aged 55 years, OF
Rochester, was killed by New York
Central train in that city while at
tempting to cross the track.
A wholesale emigration is in pro-
gress from Eastern Galicia, owing tc
famine and an epidemic of typhus.
Lake Champlain is clear of ice and
navigation is now open.
The White River Utes In COLORADO
are in an ugly mood and threaten tc
force their way across the border II
not allowed to hunt unmolested.
The postoffice at Bernardsville, Som.
erset county, n. Y, was burglariZed
and $500 worth Of stamps carried off.
Governor Roosevelt has appointed
his Pan-American exposition commits.
sioners. They were confirmed by tn.
senate without opposition.
John N. Bailey, publisher of the
Weekly Argus at Auburn, N. Y, died
Of apoplexy. He was Sc years of age.
Three fresh cases of smallpox have
been discovered in Havana all among
natives.
The Missouri river has overnown its
banks and a repetition OF the great
flood of 1881 is feared.
Louis Matina, the 2-year-old son Of a
laborer at Rochester, was burned tc
death by falling into a bonfire.
A fire in the Fashion and Williams
block at Scranton, Pa, destroyed prop.
erty valued at $ljO,0OO
Michael Kinsella, 81 years old. a
brakeman on the Wabash railroad. wac
killed at st. GATHERINGS. ont, He lived
at Newark, n. Y.
Edward Cole, 40 years old, Of Bing.
hamton, N. Y, fell down stairs ana
broke his neck, dying instantly.
A fire at Clay city KY. DESTROYED
IL residences and rendered q families
homeless. The loss is $4,000
William Allen, aged go years, was
drowned in Hemlock lake, near Roches-
ter.
Internal revenue officers at Cincin.
natl have just discovered that thous-
ands Of counterfeit cigar stamps have
been used throughout the Ohio valley
So far no arrests have been made.
]. w. Price Of Oswego died very sud
denly In Syracuse and IL is thought
that he took laudanum with suicidal
intent.
A Grand Trunk freight train was
wrecked at Cornwall, Ont. and two
men beating their way. We're instantly
killed. Their names are unknown.
Fire in an apartment house in New
York city rendered Is families homeless
and destroyed property valued at S7O,-
900.
| George II. Marshall. an ex-congress-
man from the Fourth Ohio district
died at his home in Sidney O., OF heart
disease.
Ex-Congressman John T. Wait died
at his home In Norwich. Conn. Of old
age. being SIS years old. He was a
member Of the Firty-fourth and Forty
NTH congresses.
The senatorial election In Spain re-
-.,t..a La d., ,-i.t,r.t. FOR the gDNprnme Mt.