The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-05-31

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.
Colonel owen Summers Of the Second |
Oregon regiment, now in the Philip |
pines, has been made a brigadier gen.
eral of volunteers for distinguished acts
in the recent fighting there.
Orin D. Lake, an ex-member Of the |
New York legislature, died at his home |
in Mount Morris, N. Y, aged "a years.
Ephralm Roberts, 80 years old. was
blown to atoms by premature blast
in stone quarry near Clyde, N. Y.
Seven men were blown to atoms by
an explosion in a military laboratory
at Copenhagen.
The sustaining wall of a new build
ing in New York city suddenly col
lapsed, burying nine workmen, two of
them being probably fatally injured.
A ferry boat on the river Inn at Sim
bach, Bavaria, capsized, and 10 persons
were drowned.
Montreal was mysteriously robbed of
$780, No clue.
Three German officers were killed by
the Chinese at Kiao Chau, the German
port in the Shan Tung peninsula. 1t
may lead Germany to use force to COM
pei the payment of indemnity.
An American syndicate are endeav-
opin IN ha ri oil
tramway privileges in Shanghai China.
Cuban ship owners are unable to
ship to foreign ports because they have
no flag to sail under, the Cuban flag not
being recognized.
The Indiana supreme court has de-
cided that it is violation of law to
play base ball on Sunday. An appeal
will be taken.
Senator Platt says that President Nc
Kinley and Vice President Hobart will
be renominated by the National Repub-
lican convention.
Queen Victoria's SOth birthday was
pretty generally observed in all the
large cities of the world.
The New York legislature will appro-
| pirate 5000 to enable her National
Guard to go to New York city to meet
Admiral Dewey upon his return to this
country.
Admiral Schley was given a great
reception in the Boyd's Opera House
in Omaha.
The Nightengales silk mills in Pat
erson, N. j., was entirely destroyed by
fire, causing a loss of $4,000; partly
covered by insurance.
Senior Don Emilio CASTELAR,, the dis
| Madrid from an attack Of pulmonary
catarrh contracted last winter.
China has yielded to Germany and
has assented to the latter building the
| Tien-Tsin- China -Keang railroad.
The Samoan commissioners sustains
| Admiral KautZ in the part he took in
the recent Samoan trouble. An early
settlement of the trouble is looked for.
The Chase building in Worcester,
Mass, was partly destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $4,000.
Thirty houses in ST. Johns, ~ F.,
were destroyed by fire. They were
mostly wooden structures.
j. r. Moss of Joplin, Mo-, murdered
| his wife and three children and then
killed himself.
Fire destroyed seven blocks of frame
buildings in Coney Island, causing a
loss of s35O,0OO. Believed to be incen'
| diary.
Finland has refused to accept Rus
sias new scheme of military rule and
an outbreak is greatly feared.
Owing to the filthy condition of Daw
son City Alaska, an epidemic of ty
phoid fever is greatly feared, the dis
ease having already broken out.
Two men were killed and several 9th
ers injured by the explosion of steam
drying cylinder in Philadelphia dye
ing works.
A number OF Cuban soldiers have dis
banded but refuse to surrender thet
arms or accept Of the S75 offered then
by the United States government.
| Governor Roosevelt refused to sig
1O5 bills passed by the regular sesslo
of the New York LEGISLATURE, thus Kill
ing off the measures.
Seven gold seekers broke through tn
ice on the Yukon river and wer
drowned
Sincus NJ. Dibble of Phelps, N. Y
died from hemorrhage caused by tn
extraction of a tooth.
Peter Phelan died in a New Yor
hospital from the excessive use OF tei
He was 40 years old and unmarried.
Colonel David F. Rltche, a promi
nent journalist and ex-postmaster q
Saratoga Springs. died from strok
of paraIysis. He was 60 years old an
veteran of the vivil war.
James Williams OF Pittsburg shot an
killed Harry Jones and then commit
fed suicide by jumping into the rive
Williams objected to Jones attention
his daughter.
There seems no hope for Mrs. May
brick. The British government ha
again refused to grant her a pardon o
in anyway interfere with her sentence
Alonzo ]. Whiteman, the notoriou
forger. has again been arrested thl
time in New York city.
Seven people were killed and thre
injured by a tornado that swept owe
Riiou. N. d. A vast amount OF proper
ty was destroyed.
Nine persons were killed and % other
injured by railroad wreck near wa
terloo. la. An entire train was com
pletely demolished.
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