The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-05-30

timber.
A monument erected by the Sixth
Pennsylvania cavalry on the grave Of
General Charles Lewis Leiper, near El.
wynn, Pa, was unveiled.
The report of Insurance Commissioner
Durham, of Pennsylvania, for 1899
showed that the insurance companies
paid about $40, ,OO0,O 600 for fire losses dur.
ing the year.
Moravian congregations in Pennsyl-
vania celebrated the two-hundredth an
niverSary of the birth of Count Zinze.
dorf, who was a prominent figure in es.
tablishing the church in America
Some one entered the Morrison home,
near Dilworthtown, Pa, the scene Of the
recent murder of Mrs Morrison. Certain
articles of evidence We're removed.
Bill Pritts, the famous moonshiner,
was captured in his mountain district in
Satlick township, near Connellsville,
Pa. by County Detective Alex McBeth,
of Fayette county, and Revenue Ottic5r
W. w. Dickson, of Pittsburg. Moon.
shining and murder charges hang over
him.
Amos Stirling, negro, who has been
positively identified by Henry Ivory,
his companion on the night of the
White murder, as the person who killed
the young University of Pennsylvania
instructor, in Philadelphia, was brought
from Trenton and locked up in the city
hall, where he was identified by Mes.
senger Ralph Hartman and Fireman
John Leary.
VICTIMS OF DISASTER.
Twenty-Five miners, 10 white men
and IL negroes, lost their lives in an ex-
plosion at Cumnock coal mines, Chatham
county, N. Q. The explosion is sup,
posed to have been caused by a broken
gauze i'll a safety lamp. Forty or 80
men were in the mine at the time.
John Connolly, mine superintendent,
one of the killed,wa from Pennsylvania
Mrs. William S. Stokley, wife of
Philadelphia S ex-mayor, died from the
result of injuries sustained in a fall
RECORD OF CRIMES
Five persons have been killed in the
riots resulting from the st. Louis street
car strike.
James HtzhaTis and Joseph Mullet,
the famous IRISH convicts who arrived
Saturday at New York, have been or
dered deported by special board Of in
quiry. The case will probably be ap-
pealed.
NEWS OF FOREIGN LANDS.
| Lord Roberts announced his arrival al
Kip river, about Is miles from Johan.
nesburg.
J. ]. Tarte, Canada's commissioner at
the Paris exposition, cabled that the Ca.
madam exhibition will be open ON Sun.
days.
The situation at Peking owing to the
defeat of the government troops by the
Boxers is serious 1t is considered Ger.
tain that foreign troops must be landed
to guard the legations.
BUSINESS JOTTINGS.
Price, Mccormick & Co., one of the
largest brokerage houses i'll New York
failed with liabilities estimated at Sl3,
| 100000
Representatives of the Republic Iron
and Steel company went to indianapolis
to confer with Amalgamated representa-.
tives as the iron scale.
MISCELLANEOUS.
William Wynne Wister, Jr., mem.
Der of the bar and director in several
corporations, died, aged 60 years, at
Philadelphia.
The Methodist Episcopal general con
ference voted to abolish the time limit
OH pastorates. Preachers will be re.
turned each year, only on request OF
congregations
DIR. j. w. Hamilton, Of the New Eng.
land conference, general secretary OF
the board of Freedman 5 Aid and South
ern Education society, and DR. David
II. Moore, of Cincinnati editor Of the
Western Christian Advocate, were ele-
waited to the episcopacy on the seven.
teenth ballot, both receiving many more
than the necessary two-thirds vote.
Seventy native Catholics massacred al
Keo Lau Isun, China.
Rev. j. p. Sankey, of Rochester N.
Y, was chosen moderator on the firsl
ballot at the general assembly of the
United Presbyterian church, in session
in Chicago. Rev. j. d. Sands and Rev.
Z. s. Lttell both of Pittsburg, were
candidates for the office.
At Atlantic City, New Jersey, revis,
ion of the general laws governing the
Methodist Protestant church in the
United States was submitted 70 the
quadrennial conference by the commit
tee which was instructed by the last
general conference TO edit and compile
them. There have been a number of
changes made and several suggestions
in regard to the amendments submitted.
Captain A. @. Conoyer, a veteran sea.
faring man, died at Atlantic City, n.
j., aged go years.
The congregation of the First Presby.
terian church at Woodbridge, n. j.,
celebrated the two hundred and twenty.
fifth anniversary of its organization.
The Baptist anniversaries were in ses
sion at Detroit.
Rev. DIR. William A. Noble. of the
synod of California, was elected perma.
nsnt stated clerk at the Presbyterian
general assembly, TO succeed Rev. DR.