The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-07-26
SUMMARY OF 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
enoe Of the Reader who Has Little
Time to Spare.


The new board of managers of House
of Refuge for Women at Hudson, N. Y,
decided that corporal punishment at
that institution must be stopped.
The livery stable belonging to Har-
vey Case at Clyde, N. Y, was destroyed
by fire. Twelve valuable horses per-
ished. Loss, $500.
The United States refrigerator ship
Glacier has arrived at Manila with her
cargo of fresh beef in excellent condi-
ton.
A passenger train on the Illinois Gen.
trail railroad was wrecked near Lenz-
burg, Ills, killing the fireman and in
juring four of the passengers.
Six million dollars worth of gold dust
was brought down from the Klondike
on the last two steamers to reach Seat
tie. Wash.
The casting plant at the Addyston
pipe and steel foundry near North
Bend, o., was compltely gutted by fire.
Several freight cars on the siding were
consumed. The loss is estimated at
100000; well insured.
Three trainmen were killed and three
were seriously injured in a head-end
collision on the Norfolk and Western
railway at Haverhills, o.
A mixed train on the Curtis Bay
branch of the Baltimore and Ohio road
was derailed at Stonehouse Cove near
Baltimore. Engineer Reaw was killed
None of the passengers was hurt.
Arthur A. Libby, founder of the big
Chicago packing firm of Libby, Nc
Neil & Libby, died at Pasadena, CAL
after a prolonged illness.
Horatio Alger the famous writer of
boys stories, died at the home of his
sister Mrs. Amos Cheney, in Natick,
Mass.
Scurvy attacked a party of 13 peo-
pie en- route to the Klondike and but
one person, the only woman in the
party, lives to tell the tale of suffering
President and Mrs Mckinley will
take two weeks visit to Lake Cham
plain for the benefit of Mrs. McKiney's
health.
Admiral Dewey and nine of his Off
GERS will go to Carlsbad to take the
cure for gastric trouble.
The Spanish commission hopes to
have the Spanish prisoners held by the
Filipinos released in a very short time,
Twelve cases of dipthera at Plain
field, N. Y, were traced to the home OF
a milkman where there was a person
sick with the disease.
At Mechanicsvlle, N. Y, the body OF
Patrick Connolly, a saloon keeper, was
taken from a pond showing many evil
dences of murder.
On a rush order from the war depart.
ment 200 horses and mules and so es-
cort wagons were shipped from Chick
amauga for San Francisco and the Phil
ippines.
No United States troops will be with.
drawn from Cuba as long as there Is
any danger of bringing yellow fever
into this country.
A. W. Blade, his wife and eight chill
dren were drowned in a cloudburst In
Northwestern Iowa near the Minnesota
state line.
Only 40 members of the Oregon regi.
ment were killed in battle or died of
disease during their service in the Phil.
ippines.
Mary Ann Ansell was hanged at St
Adams, Eng, for killing her sister by
sending her poisoned candy.
Patrick w. Shields, an old veteran OF
Malone, n Y, died very suddenly al
the home of a friend he was visiting.
Philadelphia citizens will present a
bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin tC
France during the Paris exposition.
Dissatisfied Democrats in Kentucky
will put second ticket in the field.
A fire in the Brooklyn Wharf and
Warehouse company destroyed prop.
erty valued at 100000.
A notorious band of desperadoes
called Black Jacks" has been reorgan.
lied and several train robberies have
taken place in Texas.
A cloudburst occurred in the south.
eastern part of Texas. doing a vast
amount of damage TO crops and other
property.
Ex-State Senator Gerard c. Brown
was gored to death by an enraged bul
on his farm near York, Pa. No one saw
the horrible tragedy.
Alexander McMasters. prominent
citizen of Ruffalo. was killed in run.
away accident.
An explosion on board the British tor.
pedo boat destroyer Bullfnch, on tie
Sorient, killed seven men and injured
eleven others.
A big brewery deal is said To be on
combining a number Of breweries with
a capital of $lOO,0O00OO.
A race war between whites anC
blacks has broken out in the bacN
woods Of Arkansas near Lake village
Chicot county.
The premier of Canada declares that
the Alaskan boundary question car
only be settled by arbitration or war
a compromise being impossible.
Returns from the primaries held in
Mississippi prove beyond question that
Governor McLaurin will be the next
United States senator from that state.
The president and Mrs. Mckinley are
spending two weeks vacation at
Hotel Champlaln, three miles from
Plattsburg n. Y.
James Fassett, a prominent lumber
merchant of Tonawanda, n. Y, aged
65 years, died Of sunstroke
Rose Coghlan, the actress, has made
an assignment. her liabilities amount
ing to 1886, with no assets except her
necessary wearing apparel, and stage
costumes.