The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-12-05

3,OOO pc undS, and 'ShelL' declares "they
will pull anything that's got two ends to
it," The team is too large for his busi-
ness, and is for sale at bargain. He also
has fine span of matched cream road
sters, which will go to some fortunate
horseman at a bargain. They are lively
pair and will cover big bunch Of miles
in day, regardless of wind or weather.
Check up and see where you are at.
Do you want TO wear ready-made clothes
when you can get fine tailoring at our
prices? There's no "sweat shop" work
in our garments. How about the ready
made? The clothes we make for you are
made to fit. How about the ready-made +?
And our prices are about the same too.
Just got in some big bargains. Come and
see 1869 and 1851 and check up and
compare with anything you ever heard OF
in tailoring. If f. f. DICK.
Another attempt to effect the release
of Frank Major. the murderer OF Chef OF
Police Daniel McGrath, of Titusville, is
reported. On Monday morning two
pound can of nitro-glycerine, with cap
and fuse attached, was found in the win
dow of the store-room of the Jail at Mead
vile. The window bad been pried up
and the suppoyition is that the friends of
Major placed it there to be smuggled in
to him by some of the Jail birds, who had
access to the room to carry out tho gar
bage.
Hog cholera, disease most dreaded
a herd of hogs owned by Jacob Hondel,
of Pinoak, at the southern limits of Oil
City. The first symptoms of the disease
were discovered on Thanksgiving day by
Mr.. Hondel, when he found one of his
biggest and best sows lying as if asleep.
When he attempted to make her move he
found that she was dead. This was short
ly before noon and before dark 2l of the
herd were dead. Thirty-nine others of
the same herd are sick with the disease
and he fears that he will lose every one #
them.
g. w. Osgood, of Whig Hill, who was
again at Clearfield to meet the other re-
turn judges of this Congressional district
came home Saturday. Their second
meeting was made necessary that tho sol
diel vote might be counted, the law set
ting the third Friday after the cleo
ton for this purpose. The returns from
the Philippines, if there were any votes
cast, had not arrived, so the result was
not changed from that given three weeks
ago, which made Halls plurality 62l.
Biro, tho Prohibition candidate, received
S36 votes in the district, and Critchley, the
Socialist Labor candidate, had lbs votes,
There were 1852 votes polled in the dis
trict.
-Scowden & Clark are at work on q
couple of truck wagons that will lead
anything for size that has ever been built
in this section. The order comes from 6
branch of the Standard Oil Co., and the
wagons are to go TO the West Virgins
oil fields, where the heaviest of heavy
hauling is done. The running gears
alone will weigh over eighteen hundred
pounds each, the tiers being seven
ei. hths iron inches wide. This firm:
goods are getting a great reputation il
the lower oil country, where they have
shipped large quantity of wagons dur
ing the past two years. Orders for wag
ons usually read, ''same quality as be-
fore"
Foster, the weather prophet, makes
the following predictions for December
weather: Most rain and snow will occur
during first half of month and dry
weather will generally paevail during
last half. Warmer weather will occur
near and 81 and the most severe storms
about 0, IA and 2l. Cold waves will oc
cur near 10 and 10. Good ice will bt
made in Noathern States near 10. One
Of the old folk lore signs was lhat green
Christmas makes a fat, and a white
Christmas lean graveyard. Indications
now are that we will have white Christ
mas in the Northern States, where the
above old saying would apply. Decem'
ber weather will be unfavorable to whea
and other fall sown grain, Too variable
and extremes too far apart. Too muct
freeze and ttaw,
ON Tuesday of last week Albert Was
son, aged fiity-two an oil well driller ant
resident of this city and vicinity for {
long time, started in flat boat for the
West Virginia oil field. He was accompa
niod y his son aged thirteen years. He
reached Foxburg after darI, Wednesday
aud here his boat came in collision will
a pier of the bridge, upsetting it ant
throwing Wasson and the boy into thC
swollen stream, The fatLer's cries fol
help were responded to by a raftsmar
who hurried to the scene in small boa
and who succeeded in saving the boy
who had been prevented from sinking 10y
the heavy blanket in which he wa
wrapped when the boat was upset, bu
up to Friday night nothing hnd beer
found of Wasson's body, which is though
to have been carried down the river, o
lodged in a big pile of drift near th,
pier. The foregoing facts are CLEANED
from the Blizzdrd'S report of the affair.
MIX consumers in Erie are badly
worked up over the discovery that th'
noted Reedhurst herd. belonging to tn,
Reed estate, is badly infected with tucer
cuIosis. The Reedhurst dairy supple,
their customers with what was supposed