The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-09-27
Brief NEWS ITEMS.
Pointed Paragraphs Chronic
ling the Weeks Doings.
Long Dispatches From Various Parts of
the World Shorn of Their Paddings and
Only the Facts Given In as Few Words
as Possible For the Benefit of the Hur-
ried Reader.

Michael Mcclure, aged 20 years, a
letter carrier in the postoffice at Erie,
Pa, died Of Pneumonia.
Arnout Collins, owner of a stock farm
al Litchfield. Coan., was killed in a run
away near Poughkeepsie, N. Y He
was attending the Duchess county fair.
Michael Buczny of New York city
shot and killed his former mistress, Re-
gina Klein, because she refused to live
with him. He was arrested
A cigar syndicate has been formed Of
factories in Havana, Key West, New
York and New Orleans. It is capital
lied at S25.000,000 and practically con-
trolls the entire Cuban tobacco output.
The drouth which has existed in Tex
as since June 25, has been broken by
copious rains.
Lawrence Gardner, Democ, attic ma
tional committeeman for the District Of
Columbia, died in Washington from a
complication of dropsy and heart trou-
BILE.
Charles j. DAILY, former chief justice
Of the court of common pleas of New
York city, died at Sag Harbor, L. l., in
his S4th year.
Mrs. John Hernendeen of Port Huron,
Mich. shot her husband and then shot
herself. Jealousy We S the cause.
Sheriff H. F. Farley of Monterey cou
ty, Cal, was shot an killed at salin S.
Cal. by George Croser, whom he was
trying to arrest for arson.
A case of smallpox has been dis
covered at Horse Heads, near Elmira,
N Y. and the place is strictly quar-
antined.
Daniel Franklin, a former sheriff of
Delaware county, N. Y. died at his
home in Delhi n. Y.
Robert Bennett of near Rochester.
was ki led by a train while returning
from a funeral
man named Dudley at Gainesville,
Ca. killed Jim Smith and Berry OKel-
ly, wh) he founi drinking vita his wife.
He skipped out, taking his wife with
him.
Thomas Blake of Smiths Falls, Ont,
in a fit of jealousy, beat his wife's
brains out with a club.
]. A. Kennard of ottawa. Ont, threw
himself from a bridge and was Instant
ly killed.
Former Senator Butler Of South Car
olina advocates the deporting Of all the
negroes in the United States as a So
luton to tn race troubles.
An earthquake in the valley of Men
derez. Asia Minor, killed hundreds of
people and destroyed a vast amount of
property.
A typhoon at Manila delayed the de-
parture of the Iowa and Tennessee
regiments
Admiral Montojo is being tried in
Madrid for the destruction of his fleet
by Admiral Dewey in Manila bay.
Benjamin w. SChwab of New York
was thown AGAINST a tree while riding
on a horse in Van Cortland park. His
horse was frig tened by the shouts of
golfers and ran away.
Four fremen were buried under a
falling wall at Strathroy, Ont, ami one
of them. Frank Urquhart, was fatally
injured.
Villa Ada Jones, a girl 16 years old
of MiddletowH, N. Y, cut her throat
because she was tod by "A palmist that
she would be disappointed in love.
Fully $500 people took part in the
Odd Fellows parade in Detroit.
The Spanish cabinet are reducing ex-
penses in every way possible and has
decided not to pay the interest on the
Cuban bonds, leaving that to the Gu
bans.
The association of Iron and Steel
Sheet manu- lcturers has advanced the
price of steer from $3.1O to 1926 a ton,
to take effect at once.
Spanish prisoners escaped from tho
Filipinos report that the American
prisoners are very badly treated.
o. B. Byland of Walla Walla, Wash,
killed his wife and his brother Grant,
and then killed himself. His wife had
deserted him.
On account of the sc rcity of coal
cars the entire Northwest is threatened
with a coal famine.
Mrs. Horace Chenery, aged 20 years,
fell or jumped from a fourth story win
dow of New York hotel and was in
stantly killed.
Charles p Bough, a prominent citi-
en- of Oswego, n. Y, was found in the
river there 1t is supposed that he was
accidentally drowned.
A reirn Of terror exists in the coal
mining districts of Sebastian county
Ark, where the union miners are on
strike.
A collision Of passenger trains in Chi
cago killed Engineer William Decamp
and fatally injured Fireman j. B. Fogg.
Two big factory buildings on South
jefferson street, Chicago, were de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss of $780,
900.
John McMangin, aged 26 years, was
drowned in East river, New York,
while sailing in a cat boat. His body
was not recovered.
John A. MCGOWAN, a lawyer Of New
ark, N. j., dropped dead on Park Row,
New York.
Peter Monagan, aged 45 years, was
fatally stabbed in a saloon row In
Rochester. His assailant, an Italian.
escaped.
The Beach House at Quogue, l.. l.,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is
about SIS, All the guests escaped
in safety.
DR.. George A. Hendricks, professor
Of anatomy in the University of Min
nesota, died at his home in Minneapo-
| lis Of acute Bright's disease.
Ex-Judge George F. Danforth, at one
time on the New York court Of appeals
bench, dropped dead In court at Rocl -
ester Of apoplexy. He was so years ol /.
One-half of the business portion OF
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stroyed by fire.