The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-05-03
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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
snce Of the Reader Who Has Little
Time to Spare.

John Gait Smith, a prominent linen
and cotton manufacturer of New York
city, is dead.
Toledo pastors favor municipal own
ership Of saloons.
Edward Oswald of Camden, N. j.,
murdered his wife and S-year-old child
and then attempted to kill himself.
Domestic trouble.
James and Joseph Caldwell, brothers
living on a ranch near Williamsport,
N. D., quarreled, and James shot his
brother to death with a rifle He then
committed suicide by drinking car
bolic acid.
Edward Scott OF jamestown, N. Y,
stabbed his son Edward the result of
a quarrel. The son is in a critical con-
dition and the father is in Jail
The dead bodies of four men who
started on a timber cruise in Oregon,
have Just been found. 1t is thought
they were poisoned by eating poisone
canned meat or vegetables
The Missouri river at Omaha
overfiowed it banks and over 100
pie are homeless as result. The ri
is still rising.
Three hundred houses in the town O.
Guta, in the Kombon district, IIGrg
ry, were destroyed by fire, and ssl,n
women and three children are known to
have perished.
Don Carlos the pretender 10 the
Spanish throne, is said to have is
sued another manifesto to his adher-
ents.
DR.. R. NJ Rakestraw, radical ahO.j.
Zionist in anti-bellum days, died ut his
home in Hicksville, o., aged 81 years.
The Russian government has Sc
cured an interest in a port on the Pc
sian gulf sufficient to give her 1.
right Of possession.
The treaty of peace between II,
United States and Spain was Aandrl
over to the Spanish minister in Tlris.
who Immediately forwarded it by syr.
cial messenger on to Madrid
The Mazet commission investi-at;ry
into the affairs of New York ci,y. &.
ported to the Legislature asking i,r al
extension of time and power to
widen the investigation.
Three men were killed by a fall nj
slate in the Pen Argyle valley uua,iy
at Pen Argyle, Pa.
Richard Croker left New York city
on the steamer New York for Soutl-
ampton, Eng. He will remain abipa
three or four months.
The British government will subsidiza
a Pacific cable to connect British Co.
lumbia with Australia.
Three more great plants in Gle, ridnl
have entered the shipbuilding trust.
1t is said that the Canadian wncat
crop in Ontario has been greatly in
Jured by the extreme winter.
The Republican monetary comIrjttr.
In session at Atlantic City, n. j., have
agreed upon a monetary plan, but will
not make it public Just at present,
The statue erected in memory of Gen
eral Grant in Philadelphia was uu-
yelled with appropriate ceremonies.
Six men were badly burned by a.
explosion of gas in a colliery hear
Wilkes-Barre Pa.
Three persons were killed and vast
amount of property was destroyed by
tornado at Onawa, la.
The treaty of peace between tnr
United States and Spain was formally
turned over to the Spanish premier in
Madrid
The president has issued a proclaua.
ton announcing the ratification of tic
new eXtradition treaty between tn
United States and Mexico.
viii Mullen, a white road oversee
was shot ond killed by three negro
near Montgomery, Ala.
DIR. William Seward Webb of Bar.
lington has presented war medals 90
every member Of the First Vermon.
regiment of volunteers. The medals aip
made of metal taken from AdrH
raj Cervera's flagship, the Marie Teresa.
Nearly the entire village of Crotr
Mich, was swept away by fire. Il
teen houses were burned, causing Il
loss of 100000.
Rev. DR.. Alexander H. Clapp, edit.
rial secretary of the Congregation
Home Missionary society of Ne.
York city, died at his home in that city.
John P. Ross OF Sharon, Mass. was
shot and killed by his wife who claimed
that he was choking her
President Mckinley has telegraphea
General Otis conveying to officers anI
men his heartfelt congratulations and
gratitude for their signal gallantry AMI
victories in the Philippines.
The collier Abarenda started from
Fort Monroe on her long voyage to Sa-
moa. She goes by the way Of tn
Straits of Magellan.
Brigadier General Davis has been an
pointed governor general of Porto Ri.
co to succeed General Henry. who
asked to be relieved on account of III
health.
The coal operators in Southern In
diana, fearing strike, have shuI down
their mines for six months, throwing
1000 miners out of employment Great
suffering is feared.
Owing to an thrush Of water at a
gold mine near Troigk, Poland, 90 min
FRS We're killed and 30 others badly in
Iured.
-Four people We're killed by an explo-
sion of powder at the Dupont works
near Woodbury., n. j. The explosion
resulted from an experiment of gov
,rnment giant torpedo.
John Webber an engineer of Peter
ooro, Ont. shot and killed his ~ f. and