The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-08-30
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
Pointed Paragraphs Chronic
ling the Weeks Doings.
Long Dispatches From Various Parts Of
Only the Facts Given In as Few Words
as Possible For the Benefit of the Hur-
ried Reader.


Gus tent blowing down at Winchester,
Va. Thieves got in their work during
the panic which followed
Llewellyn Stout, who killed Harvey
H. Wurster, a telegraph operator and
station agent on the Philadelphia and
Reading railway, was hanged in the
Jail at Easton, Pa.
The resignation of Thomas B. Reed
as congressman in the First Maine s.
trict was received and accepted by
Governor Powers at Augusta. 1t is to
take effect Sept. 4.
Governor Roosevelt has appointed
Eugene A. Philbin of New York city to
succeed John Vinton Dahlgren, de-
ceased, as member of the state board
of charities.
A stage between Salmon City and
Red Rock, Mont, was held up by four
masked men, and the passengers
robbed. One of them had $1,000 in gold
dust.
A destructive storm visited the At
lantic coast, wrecking a number OF
vessels off Virginia and the Caro-
linas.
A wreck on the Cincinnati and Mus
kingum railroad occurred at Circle
vile, o., injuring 25 persons, quite Sc
tiously.
Arctic Explorer Walter Wellman has
started south from Tromsoe, Norway,
en- route to the United States.
Admiral Dewey has been asked to
change the time of his arrival in New
York harbor to Sept. 2S so as to have
the two big days on Friday and Sat
urday.
Several leading officers in the Santo
Domingo army have deserted and gone
over to the enemy.
A boiler exploded in a planning mill
at Appleton, Wis. killing two men and
badly njuring eight others.
John Irlbacker of Buffalo was fatally
injured and died soon afterward by be-
ing run down by a hospital ambulance.
Admiral Dewey cables that he will
reach New York one day earlier. on
Sept. rs, so the reception can take p ace
on Friday and Saturday
The Pennsylvania Republicans NOM
mated a state ticket at Harrisburg,
headed by Colonel James f. Barrett of
the Tenth regiment, for state treas
urer. 1t was a Quay convention all
the way through.
Emperor William declined to accept
the resignation of the ministry
The striking street railway employees
have established a line of herdics to
run in opposition to the boycotted street
car lines in Cleveland.
The bubonic plague has broken out
at New-Chwang, China, and it is feared
that it will spread to Tien-Tsin and
other places in North China.
Henry Marron aged 60 years, was
killed at Ponce, Neb., by a blow from
Forrls Casey's fist, the result of an OLD
feud. Casey surrendered.
William 7. Spinning, a bank psesi-
dent of Danville, N Y, died after sew
eral weeks Illness, aged 80.
Mrs Edith Quick has been arrested
at Peru, Ind, charged with poisoning
her husband. She denies having COM
mltted the crime.
Mrs. Hannah H. Davis, well known
for her many acts of charity died in
Philadelphia aged l04 years.
The sentiment in favor of annexa-
tion to the United States is growing
among the more intelligent natives Of
Cuba, especially in Havana.
There is a large buying of steel in all
the European centers to supply the
American markets.
Spain is trying to sell her colonial
possessions, especially the island of
Fernando Po Germany, being the pos
sible purchaser
Edith Dunn, aged II, a farmers
daughter living near Franklin, Pa,
on coming home from a party late al
night was mistaken for a burglar and
shot and killed.
Cyrus A. Brown and Matthew Craig
were hanged at Muskogee, l. T., for
murder. They were the first white
men ever legally executed in m
dian Territory.
Patrick Hackett, a well known cit
izen of Ogdensburg, N. Y, died from
the effects of a surgical opera lion.
An unknown man was drowned in the
Genesee river at Rochester.
A 5-year-old child Of John : airing
was killed at Victor. n y. while pla -
ing at the foot of monument in
cemetery, which fell over on il.
Glen Osmer and Emma Nichols were
killed, Hadey Harris fatally injured
and Mamie Kelley badly hurt at a rail
road crossing in Batavia, n. Y.
The sitting of the Anglg- Venezuelan
boundary commission was resumed in
Paris.
Edmund Routledge, a wei KIN wn
publisher, died at his home in Lo. don.
Joseph Harris was killed at Troy. n.
Y, by falling from a window.
Emperor william of Germany has
conferred the order of the Red Eagle on
Herr Rose the German consul at Apia,
Samoa.
Several buildings Of the convent II
the Dominican Sisters at Sparkhill.
near Blauvelt, n. Y. housing $50 chill
dren, were burned Three children and
two domestics we've burned t. death
and 20 others injured.
While 16 men were descending into
mine near Saint Etienne, France. the
cable broke and they were all kined
Two more deaths from the bubonic
plague were reported from Oporto.
Delegates representing $4,000 organic
ed commercial travellers are meeting In
Chicago to discuss the use and abuse
of the interchangeable mileage les Is
The Tenth PENNSYLVANIA regire lt