The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-06-27


supposed to have been murdered, was
found in the Delaware river, above Mar
ket street ferry, Camden, N. ].
UNITED States officers in Luzerne
county, Pa, arrested two men ON the
charge of robbing the postoftice at West
Nanticoke.
Major Charles NJ Schaefer, late of
the Fourteenth Minnesota volunteers,
was found dead with bullet wound in
his head in cemetery at New Prague.
Minu.
NEWS OF FOREIGN LANDS.
Lord Curzon sent the following dis
patch regarding the famine situation:
"The weeks famine reports show q
state of general expectancy, pending
the advance of the monsoon, which has
not yet appeared. Heavy rain has fallen
i'll Burma, Bengal and the deltaic and
central districts of Behar.
"On the west coast the monsoon cur
rent is weak and has hot progressed
north of Goa, nor penetrated to the most
| affected regions, and the hot weather
conditions still exist. There is no i'm
provement possible i'll the affected dis
tricts nor any decease of numbers on
the relief works until there shall be a
heavier general rainfall. The relief to-
tai now reaches 4,920,000."
Mrs. Gladstone was laid to rest in
Westminster abbey.
Russians attacked Pekin. Chinese
had renewed attack on foreign lega-
tions. 1t was reported foreigners had
all been massacred.
The wires connecting with the harbor
mines were cut by the boats Of the war
ships the night before the lombard.
ment. 1t is now reported at Shanghai
that it was on board the Russian cruiser
Korietz, and not the Mandschur, that
the explosion occurred killing and
wounding more than fifty. II is re-
ported that no fewer than 800 Chinese
were killed in the forts,
At Yum-Nan.Fu, where the rising has
been gathering force for several days.
$50 Christians have been attacked at the
French mission settlement. many being
! put to death. The French consuls and
three missionaries are still in prison.
| The disorderly elements have secured
the upper hand at WI Hu and Cze-
chuan, where the native Christians have
been massacred.
A thousand Boxers have gathered ON
the outskirts of Tien Tsin.
The Shanghai correspondent of The
Daily News, telegraphing yesterday,
said:
1.-THE Chinese officials here assert that
they have news from Pekin up to June
II. The situation was then very ser j.
ous. Beyond that they claim to have
received nothing, but they deny that
dispatches have been withheld.
| although l am not willing to adopt
the alarmist reports, my impression,
gathered from the consuls and the Chi
nese authorities, is that the worst is to
be feared in Pekin.
admiral Seymour's column is now
in the middle of an arid PLAIN, with no
food and no good water, and surrounded
by hostile forces"
A Manila dispatch said that typhoon
had washed out the road between there
and Tarlac, delaying the arrival of the
Ninth regiment. This was the regi-
ment destined for service in China.
BUSINESS JoTTINGs.
Secretary of Agriculture Hamilton, in
q letter to w. ]. Greasy, asked for spe-
cifc information us to the basis of
| charges against his department
Official announcement has been made
that the Northern Pacific railroad has
acquired the st. Paul and Duluth road.
IL is said $50 share was paid for the
stock.
MISCELLANEOUS.
1t is estimated that the population Of
Buffalo, by the present census, is lit
| tie less than 100000
A dispatch from Cape Town said it
was reported there that President Kru-
ger is III a feeble condition.
Mrs. Reitz, wife of the Transvaal
state secretary, sailed for Europe from
Lourenzo Marques, accompanied by her
family.
Henry Walter Webb died at his
residence at Scarborough the Hud-
son, N. Y, aged AZ years. He was
son of the late General James
Watson Webb, and brother of DIR. w.
Seward Webb, and was a director in
the Wagner Palace Car company, the
Buffalo Erie Basin Railroad company,
the National City bank, and Oswego
and Rome Railroad company, and trus-
tee of the Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, the gener-
eral synod of the Christian Reformed
Church of North America opened its
biennial session in the theological SEM
mary here, with all but six members
present Rev. J. Manni, of Passaic, N.
j., the retiring moderator, delivered
brief address, and the synod then elect
ed the following officers for the coming
two years:
Foderator, Rev. A. Keiser, Graaf-
schap, Mich; vice president, Rev. f.
Breen, of Iowa; secretary, Rev. p NJ
Ten Hoor, Grand Rapids; assistant sec
retary, Rev. ]. w. Brink, Grand Rap
ids.
Archbishop Ryan officiated at the
dedication of st. Mary's Polish Catho-