The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17
RATES OF ADVERTISING:

scription at reasonable rates, but it's cash
on delivery.
PA. The house is heated and lighted
by natural gas, and when it was broken
into three gas fire. were still burning
AM here was not the slightest odOr of
gas anywhere. None of these stoves
were connected with chimney hues,
however, and as there was an unusu-
ally heavy pressure OF gas about mid
night, some are inclined to make out
case of asphyxiation, while others claim
this would be impossible as long as the
gas continued to burn.
Five members of the family of julius
Guttentag, a real estate dealer living on
One Hundred and Tweuty-tirst street,
New York, were snatched from death.
They are Mrs. Mary Guttentag, her
children, Dora, aged years; Pearl, ,
years; Ruth, months, and her mother.
Mrs. Dora brennan. Gas was discov-
cred escaping from their apartments
and when the doors were broken in, the
five persons were discovered in an un-
conscious condition. They were hur-
ried to hospital.
The dead bodies of George f. Gala
CHER, a special policeman, and Nellie
Walsh were fonnd in Second avenue,
New York, apartment occupied by
them. They had been asphyxiated by
gas, turned ON by them during New
Years carouse.
RECORD OF CRIMES.
Frank .Percell and two companions.
who are in Jail at Petersburg, Ind, are
in imminent danger of being lynched
on account of the killing of William
Riss, OF Arthur, by Percell.
At Almy, four miles from Helenwooa,
Tenn, Andy Chitwood, highly re-
spected young man, was shot and in
stantly killed by Elvin Phillips. The
men had quarreled over small amour
of money. Phillips had been doing
promiscuous shooting recently.
Frederick G. Bontls, one of the pro-
prietors of the Denver Post, who was
shot by Lawyer w. w. Anderson.
of that city, is in critical condl-
ton. Harry H. Tammen, associated
with Bonfils in the proprietorship of
The Post, who was also shot by Ander-
son during the trouble, was resting easy,
and is III no danger unless complica-
tions should set in. W. W. Anderson,
the lawyer who did the shooting was
released by District Judge @. f. Butler
on habeas corpus proceedings, held in q
room at the Denver Athletic club. His
bond was fixed at $4,000, and was i'm
mediately furnished by friends.
General H. w. Greely, the chief sig
nal officer of the army and the we'll
known Arctic explorer, laid i'll a serious
condition at his home, as the result Of
an assault committed on him by Joseph
Q. Furnace, a messenger in the employ
of the Adams Express company.
News had reached Loydon, KY, of
a general fight on Otter creek, in
which Lige Lewis and General May
were shot and killed and four other
participants seriously wounded. The
fight occurred at schoolhouse where
one OF the Jacksons was on trial before
magistrate for killing another Jack
son. Z
NEWS OF FOREIGN LANDS.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
said about 900 English were killed and
wounded in the Beers attack on Lady
smith and, they heard, the Boer losses
were between 2,C00 and 5000.
Prince Alfieri, commander of the
papal guard of mobiles, Is dead at Rome.
BUSINESS JOTTINGs.
Plaas for the expenditure of $25, ,000,.
600 in improving the physical condition
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad have
been completed, at Chicago, and with.
in the next three years that vast
amount of money will have been
expended. Improvement of roadbeds,
bridges, tracks and equipment will be
made on all lines of the system.
Colonel Bryan, at Columbia, No.,
denied the report sent out from Bos.
ton that he wrote letter favoring
protective tariff on wool.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. Christina Harth. of East st.
Louis, Ills, emerged from a trance
to find herself under process of being
embalmed and prepared for the grave.
The discovery OF life was the result Of
the merest accident ana astounded the
undertaken A movement of an eyelid
saved the woman from death at the
hands of the undertaken or from burial
alive.
Mail advices received in London from
New Britain report the massacre of the
captain and crew of 10 men, belonging
to the British schooner Nukumania of
South Wales, while trading among the
Admiralty islands. Only three boys es.
capped. The natives after numbering
the sailors inaugurated a feast ashore
and ate their victims.
The loving cup of silver made from
the melted dimes contributed by over
10000 American citizens, the majority
of whom were children was presented
to Admiral Dewey. There was large
silver bound volume containing the
names of the contributors of the dimes
who had subscribed to the token
through the instrumentality of the
NJ, N,rly TOurnal