The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-06-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Summary Of the Weeks News
of the World.
Cream of the News CulIed From Long
Dispatches and Put In Proper Shape
For the Hurried Reader, Who Is Too
Busy to Read the Longer Reports, and
Desires to Keep Posted on Events.

Bartlett Trip, the United States rep
resentative on the Samoan commits
sion, reports that all is quiet in Samoa
and that the natives are disarming.
Republican congressman of New York
met in conference in New York city and
decided to support Congressman David
B. Henderson of Iowa for the next
speaker of the house of congress. Thia
assures his election.
Admiral Dewey sailed from Hong
Kong for Gibraltar on his flagship
olympia.
Bkadier General Charles King has
been ~honorably discharged from the
United States volunteer service.
The Nineteenth United States in
fantry, that has been doing garrison
duty in Porto Rico, returned to New
York on the transport Meade.
Governor Sayers of Texas has called
an antitrust convention to meet in ST.
Louis Sept 20.
Jose Labregat, a notorious agent of
General Weyler, who outraged women
andRhildren in San Antonio de los Ba-
nos during the latter's reign in Cuba,
returned to that place and was promp-
ly lynched by the inhabitants of the
place.
Chief of Police Peter A. Clare of
Hamilton, o., and his little daughter
were instantly killed and his wife ia
tally injured by a railroad train near
that city.
Sheriff Hszen of Converse county,
Wyoming. was shot and killed by train
robbers whom he and a posse were in
pursuit.
The Columbia university of New York
city conferred the honorary degree of
doctor of laws upon Governor Theodore
Roosevelt.
Jonas Preston, Jr, colored, was
hanged in the jail at Westchester, Pa,
for the murder of his wife in February,
1898.
New Orleans has levied a tax of from
$25, 900, 600 to $30,00000O for sewerage,
drainage, pure water paving, park and
other improvements.
A collision between the Germans and
Chinese at Kioa Chow, China, resulted
in about 300 Chinese being slaughtered.
Only few Germans were killed
Dreyfus was found waiting on the
shore of Devils island by the authori-
ties that went to notify him of the ac-
tion taken by the French court of cas-
sations.
Ralph w. Wireback was hanged in
the Jail yard at Lancaster, Pa, for
,,,ftrlaYfnu fc Ian1lnrI
President Mckinley will attend the
commencement exercises at Kenyon
college at Gambler, o., June II.
Sister Margaret Anne Cusack known
as the nun of Kenmore, died at Lean
ington, near Warwick, Eng.
Aguinaldo has dissolved the Filipino
congress and declared himself dictator.
Notwithstanding. editor and pub
Usher of the Philadelphia Times, died
In that city from pulmonary trouble,
aged "a years
Martin Mier, a wealthy Swiss miser
of Chicago, was found murdered in his
home his house having evidently been
robbed.
Nearly 1000 Japanese laborers have
been engaged to work on the Hawaiian
plantations and will be transferred
there within the next few weeks.
over 100 persons have perished in
trying to reach the Klondike cold fields
the past winter over the Edmonton
trail.
Fresh negotiations have been opened
in the hands of the Filipinos.
over 40 people were injured, three Of
them fatally, by the derailment of a
passenger train near Grandview, Mo.
Countess Estehazy has been granted
a divorce from her husband
Michael Osvauld was drowned in the
canal at Waterloo, N. Y.
Germany intends to purchase the is
land Of Fernando Po of Spain.
The town Of Linz, Austria was en-
tirely destroyed by fire, four women
perishing in the flames.
Ten thousand miners in the vicinity
of Dubois, Pa, are out on a strike for
an increase in wages.
Five hundred employees of the various
foundries OF st. Louis are out on a
strike for an eight-hour day and an
increase of wages.
The new military post at Eagle City.
Ala, has been named Fort Egbert in
honor of the late Colonel Harry Egg
bert, killed i'm battle while leading his
regiment in the battle Of Manila.
Captain Henry Nichols, commander
of the monitor Monadnock, died very
suddenly Of sunstroke on board his ves-
sci i'm Manila bay.
The torpedo boat Stringham was Fuc-
cessfully la"nched at Wilmington, Del.
She is the largest and most costly ves-
sci Of the kind that we have.
George and Ida Trultt, brother and
sister. aged 20 and IS, were killed by
lightning i'm their home in Frankfort,
Delaware.
Admiral Kautz reports that peace
prevails in Samoa, both sides having
agreed to abide by the decision of the
joint commission.
The American line steamer Paris,
stranded on the English coast. has
been given up for lost and abandoned
by the wreckers.
Lieutenant Commander Wainwright
Kellogg died at sea while returning TO
New York from Carlsbad where he had
gone In search Of health.
The towns Of San Pedro and Alarse.
Spain. were swept by a tornado, de-
stroying $50 houses and killing a num-
Der of people.
Forty-five iron and steel workers will
have their wages increased as a result
of the Amalgamated association con-