The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-03-21

yanlQ railroad Train on CrOSSlnS "
Parkerford, Pa, and instantly killed.
William Hummel was convicted at
Wilhamsport, Pa, of the murder OF his
wife and three children and sentenced
to be hanged.
Rescuers ceased work at the Red Ash
mine, West Virginia, and the plant will
be temporarilyhbandoned The workers
got far enough to see the body of Chas.
Prefater under an immense mass OF
slate. The body of Edward HambricL
also is still in the mine. Altogether a
dead bodies have been recovered.
VICTIMS OF DISASTER.
Asa train ON the Ninth Avenue Ele-
waited railroad, New York, approached
the Rector street station, coal schute
| fell in front of the locomotive, unrooting
the cab and two passenger cars. Nine
passengers were injured.
Captain johnson and Third Officer
| Bolton, of the steamer Mashona, cap
! tured by British cruiser in South Afr1.
can waters, were drowned in a gale near
| Cape Town. -Four others were also
drowned and boats crew is missing.
| RECORD OF CRIMES.
A man identified as the son of ex-
United States Senator w. A. Peffer, Of
| Topeka, Kan, was found dead in his
room at the Smith hotel, cheap lodi .
ing house in Kansas City, He had
taken morphine and left card in
scribed;
''Father, I'm tired. ]. P"
Mr.. Peffer who was about 30 years Of
age, was printer and bore card OF a
Topeka union.
No cause is known.
JIM. Wampler was sentenced at Glade
vile, Va, to be hanged for killing Will
lam Jenkins at Norton, Va. three weeks
ago. Wampler is leading business
man of that section and Jenkins was
prominent attorney.
NEWS OF FOREIGN LANDS.
Mafeking is now the center of inter-
est in the campaign i'll South Africa, and
the British are making every effort to
save Baden -Powell's heroic garrison.
A London cablegram says that the
peaceful conquest of the Orange Free
State progresses so evenly that it is be.
Geved that there will be little or no
fighting until Lord Roberts reaches the
Vaal river. How soon he intends TO
start out with this objective is not yet
hinted at, but the pacifiCation Of the
Free Staters seems now engaging all his
> attention.
General Gatacre's scouts, who have
occupied Springfontein, report the
country clear of the enemy.
!, Mr. Dewitt, member Of the Cape
parliament, and his brother have been
= arrested.
;. State Secretary Reitz, of the South
!. African republic, has received dispatch
!. from Washington saying the war was
a the subject of friendly negotiations with
q the British government, and containing
!. an expression of the presidents earnest
hope for peace.
II Pere Henri Didon, the celebrated Do
l. minican preacher and author, died sud.
J. denly of apoplexy, ut Tolouse, France
r. He was born March II, 1910.
t. 1t was officially announced in London
l. that Lord Roberts has occupied Bloem'
d fontein and that the British flag is fly
j. ing from the top of the capitol.
o BUSINESS JoTTINGs.
1 President James O'Connell, of the In
e ternational Machinists' union, declared
" in Chicago, that 100000 machinists il
all parts of the United States and Can
u ada will be ordered ON strike within the
II coming month, as the result Of disa
- greement between the manufacturers
s. and machinists, who closed joint con
ference in Chicago.
n 1t is no longer question rs to whethC,
Il oil in quantities can be had in Mexico
G. for this has been demonstrated satisfD
torily in three different states OF the T,
" public. Transportation now is the vita
n question i'll this connection.
o MISCELLANEOUS.
W General John j. Elwell, one OF tn
~ est-known citizens of Cleveland and
hero of the Civil war, died there. Deatl
&c was due to old age but probably hast
ne ened by injuries received during tn
Civil war, from which he never full
he recovered.
N. The Kentucky house passed the ser
n' ate, or Triplett resolution, appropriatin
ne 800, 900 for the use of Governor Becl
ham in "equipping and reorganizing th
state militia.
1t developed in New York thf
he Margaret DAILY, daughter of John
sr- DAILY, one of Utahs silver king
he was secretly married to T. Roy Brown
he clerk in the offices of the Rl
u Grande railway, in Salt Lake City. La
lat August The couple are now at PeoriI
ng Ills, awaiting parental forgiveness.
Mrs. Lucinda II. Stone, widely know
of as "the mother of women's clubs, and
Re- writer and educator of note, died at th
for age of Sc. Kalamazoo college, whic
by for many years was under the tutelag
di- of Mrs. Stone and her husband, DIR.
A. B. Stone, was the first institution
Ter the west in which women were taugI
.he the higher studies.
)n, DR.. Samuel Pennington, president
Ear the Newark City National bank, al
who was the oldest living graduate
a., Primo ton college, died at his home
rer Newark, n. j., aged "a years. He wa
Il - 80