The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-05-24


Winnie Roach, a mulatto woman,
residing near Atlanta, attempted to
burn her four children to death with
kerosene oil and paper, but was ar
rested before she accomplished their
death.
A man about 40 years of age, evil
IDENTIFY a fisherman, was taken from the
Niagara river about a mile above the
falls.
Henry Poland, aged 6S years, lock-
smith of Hazleton, Pa, shot himself
on a Lehigh Valley train near Wilkes
Barre, Pa, thought to be insane.
NJ. Francisco Sarcey, the famous
dramatic critic, died in Paris, aged Il
years
The Berwind- White Coal Mining
company Of Philadelphia has notified
its 10000 employees of an increase Of
wages, to go into effect June l.
The special guard placed over the
state Capitol at Albany at the break
ing out Of the Spanish-American war
has been dismissed.
Pawnee Bill's Wild West show vis-
tied Princeton, n. j., and the students
attempted to break up the parade and
a number of people were hurt in the
riot that followed
Sir Henry Irving, the actor, has been
suffering from influenza in London, but
has almost entirely recovered.
New York city council asks for an
appropriation of Sl5O,OOO for celebrat-
ing the arrival of Admiral Dewey at
that port
General Rus Rivera has been ap-
pointed civil governor of Havana by
General Brooke.
A cyclone struck Colesburg, fifteen
miles from Manchester, Ia, killing
three people and destroying a number
of houses.
William A. Jones, general agent of
the Empire Fast Freight line, commit
ted suicide in his office on Broadway,
New York city, by shooting himself.
The United States cruiser Chicago,
flying the flag of Rear Admiral How
ison, has reached Port Said.
EX-Presdent Harrison sailed from
New York city on the st. Paul for Eng
land, where he goes as chief counsel
for Venezuela in the boundary arbi-
tration proceedings.
Another effort is being made to have
Queen Victoria pardon Mrs. Maybrick,
now serving a life sentence in an Eng
lish prison for alleged murder of her
husband
John Berry, the colored boy who
killed Miss Mamie Clark near Bowie,
Prince Georges county, Maryland, has
been sentenced to hang
William G. Bates was unanimously
chosen junior major of the Seventy
first regiment, N. G. S. N. Y.
The operators and miners at Pana,
ILL.,. have submitted their differences
to the state board of arbitration.
Hartford and other places along the
Connecticut river were slightly shaken
by an earthquake.
James A. Clemmer was hanged at
Norristown, Pa, for numbering his
wife, who had an insurance of $4,000
on her life.
Five girls lost their lives by the
burning of large warehouse in Bruins
wick, Germany.
Boston Hardy, aged so years was
killed by a trolley car at Syracuse,
N. Y.
Three thousand mail carriers Of Paris
struck for an advance in wages and
the mail is being delivered by soldiers.
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declared an accident by the coroner's
jury.
Sugar plantation owners in Hawaii
have resolved to import between 5000
and 1000 Japanese laborers to work
upon their plantations during the next
season.
Fire in the lumber yards of S. r.
Gunderson & Sons of Chicago caused
a loss estimated at 100000.
The British house of commons ad-
journed until May 81.
At Derby, Conn, because a small
boy whispered in school his teacher
made him swallow a lot of red pepper
and the child may not possibly recover.
A rich vein of gold was discovered
near Custer City, S. D.. and all the
surrounding country is being staked
off and located.
Edward James Harris, fourth earl
of Malmesbury is dead in London,
aged 81 years
A riot between whites and blacks at
a cake walk in Enid, Okla, resulted In
four negroes and three whites being
badly wounded and several others
slightly hurt.
Martin V. Strait, the Elmira wife
murder i'm the Auburn prison, died In
the prison hospital Twice he had
been sentenced to be electrocuted, and
on the third trial got imprisonment for
life.
China is about to ask Japan to aid
her in getting Germany out Of Shan
Tung.
Cholera Is now following in the wake
of the plague in the northwestern
provinces of India.
Tesla. the noted inventor, is now
studying wireless telegraphy in the
Colorado mountains.
Senator Mcmillan Of Michigan an
nounces himself candidate for.
third term in the United States sem
ate.
The French court of cassations will
meet May 20 to take formal action In
the Dreyfus revision case.
Word from Samoa reports that
everything is quiet there, pending
definite arrangement between Great
Britain. Germany and the United