The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-05-16
TRI-STATE EVENTS.

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TRI-sTATE EVENTS.
Will Lea, the negro who attempted TO
assault Mrs. H. H. Diefenbach, the
Chesapeake and Ohio telegraph operator
at Sandstone, about nine miles west of
Hinton, w. Va, was taken from the
Jail and hung by a mob Of 100 masked
men. His body wbs afterward riddled
with bullets.
John G. Hafer and JamN H. Camp.
bell were killed at Neversink station,
Pa, OH the Reading railway, their car.
riage being struck by the Buffalo ex-
press.
A loss of 1000 was sustained by the
burning of the H. P. Watson company's
warehouse in Erie, Pa.
Major Levi Wells resigned as dairy
and food commissioner of Pennsylvania.
Riots between strikers and working
miners occurred at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
VICTIMS OF DISASTER.
The second mate, Willoughby NJ.
Moore, and IA of the crew of the British
steamer Virginia, wrecked off Hatteras
ON the I'd instant, were picked ply the
Morgan liner Ell Paso and landed at
New Orleans.
William Martin, 10 years old, and
Philip Ryan, 16, were drowned from "a
canoe in Paradise pond near Smith col.
lege, at Northampton, Mass.
RECORD OF GRIMES.
Neely, Of Muncie. Ind, chief OF
finance in the Cuban postal service, al
Havana, was placed under arrest in
New York, accused of embezzling $780,
600.
Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, has
| pardoned John Dugan, serving sen.
tence of 2l years for the murder of John
@. Colson, brother of ex-Congessman
| David G.. Colson. Dugan had served
about three years.
NEWS OF FOREIGN LANDS.
More than 100000 persons are being
relieved i'll India.
A dispatch from London says the stu
alton at the seat of war in South Africa
is satisfactory from the British view
point. The occupation of Kroonstad
practically places the whole Orange
Free State i'll British possession.
The number of cases of the bubonic
plague officially reported at Sydney,
New South Wales, is PIG, of which 70
have proved fatal.
Queen Victoria, who went to London
to hold a drawing room, has returned
to Windsor Castle.
BUSINESS JOTTINGs.
John w. Gates, chairman of the
board of directors of the American Steel
and Wire Company, sailed for Europe
after resigning. President Lambert
also resigned.
John Lambert, the president of the
company, resigned in favor of William
P. Palmer. Isaac L. Elwood resigned
as chairman of the executive committee,
and his place is taken by William Eden.
born.
The Office of treasurer, made vacant
by the elevation of Mr.. Clifford, is filled
by the election of +. L. Watson. Henry
Seligman and Frederick Strauss, both
of this city, who resigned from the di
rectory last Monday because of their op.
position to Mr.. Gates and his policy, are
succeeded by Randall Morgan, of Phila
delphia, and Herman Sielcken, of New
York.
The motion for the appointment of
receiver for thr Detroit and Lima North.
ern company was denied by Judge
Thompson in the United States court al
Cincinnati.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The NJ. L. gene.al conference at Chi
cago, will probably not retire any of the
aged bishops, but will elect new ones.
Among those prominently mentioned
for bishop are DIR. ], w. Hamilton, Of
New York; Dr. ]. f. Barry, of Chicago
DIR. Henry Spellmyer, of Newark DIT.
B. Neely. of Philadelphia; DR.. VIM. f.
Mcdowell, of Colorado, and DR.. W. V.
Kelley, of New York. The southern
delegates, it is said, will vote solidly in
favor of the election of colored bishop,
but hundreds of representatives OF
northern conferences, it is reported, will
oppose it, The great number of white
candidates for bishop, it is believed, will
operate against the chances of DR.. ]. Il.
Bowen, of Washington, the leading col.
ored gspirant, and several prominent
delegates declare that the selection oi
DR.. Bowen by the present conference Ia
by no means certain.
A great street car strike was Inaugu.
rated at st. Louis.
Opposing factions of the Populists
opened national conventions, at Siou1
Falls, S. D., and Cincinnati.
Jeffries knocked out Corbett in the
twonty-third round, in New York.
The Methodist Episcopal committee
on episcopacy decided to report to the
general conference, at Cincinnati, 20 re.
tain the old bishops and elect two new
ones, but no colored bishop.
DR.. Olaf OLSON, president of Augustus
college, at Rock Island, Ills, died, aged
80 years. He became connected with
the college in 1876, and was elected
president in 1891.
The twentieth annual national con
vention of Cumberland Presbyterian
women opened in Decatur, Ills.
A disastrous fire visited Camden, n.