The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-04-18
EVENTS OF A WEEK.
NEWS OF THE WORLD BRIEFLY
NARRATED
rhe War In the Philippines. Grimes, Tri-
State Happenings, Foreign, business and
Other Events Boiled Down For the
Reader In "A Hurry.
NEWS FROM THE PHILIPPINES.

hOly week was observed with great
tervOr in Manila, business being entirely
suspended
The insurgents, supposedly Mascado's
command, are again active about the
Marivales mountains, across the bay
from Manila. A force estimated at 300
attacked Balanga, where three compa-
MES of the Thirty-second infantry are
stationed, on Monday night. but were
easily repulsed. Goldman then retired.
They attacked Captain Goldman with
30 men of the Thirty second regiment,
near Orion, killing two Americans.
HAPPENED IN WASHINGTON.
Consul Hay, at Pretoria, reported to
the state department that he has failed
to find the slightest evidence to support
the charges of ex-Consul Macrum that
the official mail of the consulate was
tampered with,
On Wednesday the Porto Ricon tariff
and civil government bill, which had
gone through the senate, passed the
house by vote of 16l to 153.
The bill for Pacific cable, from San
Francisco to Honolulu, passed the house
Wednesday.
The president signed the Porto Ricon
tariff and government bill. He offered
the civil governorship to Assistant Sec
retary Allen, of the navy, who may ac-
cept. ...
An effort was made in the senate
Thursday, by Mr.. Morgan, to displace
she present unfinished business-the
Spooner Philippine bill-by the substi-
tuition in its stead of the Nicaraguan ca
nal bill. While Mr.. Morgan's motion
failed-l5 to 33-the Philippine measure
had marrow escape from being dis
placed by the Alaskan civil code bill ON
motion Of Mr.. Carter, the motion being
defeated on a roll call-22 to "a. The
feature of the days proceedings was an
exhaustive discussion of the Quay case
by Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan.
The house Thursday, after a spirited
debate, adopted a resolution reported
from the insular affairs committee, to
authorize the secretary of the treasury
to designate repositories in Porto Rico,
Cuba and the Philippines for the de-
posit OF government funds. BY the
terms of the resolution, it applies to
Cuba only so long as the island shall be
occupied by the United States. An
amendment to include the Philippines
in this provision as to Cuba, offered as
stated, to emphasize the desire of the
opposition not to retain the islands, was
defeated by IL party vote.
A senate bill which will permit the
dependent mothers of soldiers or sailors
of the Spanish war, even though they
married Confederate soldiers, to receive
the benefit of the general pension laws,
was passed.
On Friday the house, by vote of 240
to 10, adopted resolution for consti-
tional amendment providing for the
election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people. Fourteen
Republicans and one Democrat voted
against it.
On Saturday, the house heard eulo-
gies upon the life and public services of
former Governor Oliver P. Morton of
Indiana. Matters of some Importance
occurred in the senate.
On Monday, the house considered the
naval appropriation bill. The senate
considered the Alaskan code bill.
TRI-sTATE EVENTS.
Two sisters, Kate and Joanna Sull-
van, living near Toledo, Ohio, were
attacked i'll their homes by two masked
men and robbed of 5000. Both women
were clubbed, and one of them died
from her injuries.
Milto Sheets, under death sentence
for numbering Augustus Glessner, broke
Jail, at Somerset, Pa.
The West Penn Hospital Cot club, of
Pittsburg, presented fine ambulance
and a span of Kentucky mules to the
hospital.
The Ohio legislature odjourned at
Columbus.
Frank Porchia, Braddock pa Ital-
ian, attempted to swim the Mononga-
hela river ON a bet of So and is in seri-
GUS condition.
Mrs. Cyrus Cramer was killed by
train at Youngstown, o.
A massmeeting will be held Thursday
at Carnegie music hall, Pittsburg, in the
interest of the endowment fund for the
Tuskegee (Ala.) industrial school for
negroes.
A faction of the stockholders of the
Pittsburg Female college favor dissolu-
ton, but were defeated in an attempt to
bring it about
VICTIMS OF DISASTER.
John @. Donaldson, book keeper,
lost his life in fire at Brooklyn, New |
York.
Henry II. Wheatly, IA years old, a
Girard college boy, was fatally injured
On Girard avenue bridge, Philadelphia,
by being impaled on the shaft of pleas
are cart drawn by a runaway horse,
lriven by William IL. Scott and George
Z Scott.
RECORD OF CRIMES.
Rufus Wright, Chicago millionaire,
vas shot and fatally wounded and has
ince died by Mrs Louisa Lottridge, who
ays it was accidental.
A statement by the deceased to Chief
4 Detectives Colleran, that the shoot
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