The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-03-14
VICTIMS OF DISASTER.

rOur cnlluren Oh the Idnllly OF arthur
Williams, who were caught in a food
near Peru, Ind, and lived in a sub.
merged hut four days, will die.
The coroner's jury, investigating the
death of the Schmidtlapp family, of Gin.
cinnati, in the Missouri Pacific wreck,
near Independence, Mo-, returned yer.
dict censuring the railway company.
Fourteen persons lost their lives, az
the result of supposed incendiary fire,
at Newark, N. j., for which Vito Gre.
DANA was arrested ON suspicion.
1t was estimated that 80, so or 70 per.
sons perished in the mine explosion at
Fire Creek, w. Va. Twenty-nine dead
bodies were taken out and five seriously
injured.
RECORD OF CRIMES.
Near Jennings, Fla, two white men
of the name of Carver were killed by
negro, who was captured by the sheriff.
A mob quickly gathered, took the mur.
derer away from the officers and swung
him up to tree.
Poolrooms, policy shops and gambling
places in New York were closed by the
police owing to the crusade started by
the papers and reform bodies.
On the charge that he has been put
ting upon his payroll each month ficti.
tious names; that he lifted the warrants,
endorsed them and collected the money
at the city treasurer's office, appropriat.
ing it to his own use, Superintendent
Samuel T. Paisley, of the bureau of
highways and sewers, at Pittburg, has
been dismissed by Director E. NJ. Bige.
low, of the department of public works.
The alleged peculations amout to about
5000.
At Norfolk, Va, George W. Miller, a
baker, and his wife were attacked by a
burglar while asleep and so seriously in.
jured it is feared one or both may die.
NEWS OF FOREIGN LANDS.
General Cronje, the Boer commander,
was born in a small town in Bohemia,
and his father was cook to Louis XI.
The gold mines i'll the Transvaal are
going to ruin, being full of water, which
the government will not allow to be
pumped out.
England's great military preparations
and the active campaigningof the queen
are now attributed to a fear of an early
war with France, in which country the
national fever has almost got beyond
the control of the government.
1t was rumored in London that the
Beers made peace proposals considered
impossible of acceptance.
The besieged at Mafel1ing were re.
ported to be in desperate situation,
due to death, disease, shortness of food
and the Beers bombardment.
General Roberts routed the Beers
near Osfontein. Their loss was probably
heavy. The British casualties were
about 90. Lieutenant Reswick was
killed
In spite of the protests of her parents,
the king and queen of Belgium, and the
popes appeal Crown Princess Steph.
anie will be married to the Hungarian
nobleman, Count Elemer Lonyay, on
March %.
BUSINESS JOTTINGs.
The threatened car strike of St. Louis
motormen has been averted through
arbitration between the men and the
transit company by whom they were
employed.
A receiver has been appointed for the
Western Mutual Fire Insurance com.
pany, of Fessenden, N. ID. The assets
are $4,000, with liabilities from s22, 900
to $4,000. The company did hall in.
surance business, and its failure results
from severe losses in 1898.
Machinists went out on strike in Chi.
cago. 1t is feared it will spread to other
trades. Thousands of men may go out.
The New River coal operators in ses-
sion at Charleston, West Virginia, have
made an advance of about % per cent
per ton in the run Of mine coal.
MISCELLANEOUS.
One man was probably fatally shot i'll
strike riot in Chicago.
A reduction in sugar was made by the
trust.
Jack Chinn sued woman for libel, at
Frankfort, who said she saw him shoot
Goebel.
General Wheeler and daughter were
held in quarantine at San Francisco.
The funeral of Bishop Mahlon H. Gill
bert, of the Protestant Episcopal church,
occurred at st. Paul
Judge Fields, in the circuit court at
Louisville, KY, on Saturday, decided
that he had no jurisdiction in the cases
brought to determine the governorship
controversy. He held that the constitu-
ton vests in the Legislature the power to
decide contests for this office.
John q. Little, the actor, is dead in
Brooklyn. aged so years. He was ma
tive of Philadelphia and was at one
time manager of theatre in Chicago
He toured the whole United States with
his company producing "Around the
World in Ninety Days"
The body of Abraham Lincoln was re-
moved from the crypt of the monument
ut Springfield, H., to a temporary vault
pending the rebuilding of the monu-
ment.
Addison Q, Rand, president of the
Rand Drill company and treasurer of
the Latin & Rand Powder company, is
dead in this city, aged SO years