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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Saturday.

A Boer attempt to break the British
Gordon failed, after desperate fighting,
but General Dewet and a few of his
men got through
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., is consid-
cred out of danger and his father left
for Washington Thursday afternoon.
In a report to the Italian ambassa-
dor the police say the plot to assas-
sinate King Humbert was planned in
this country.
Judge Beattie Of Orange county in
a Judgment has declared that the g.
hour law as applied to state work is
unconstitutional.
The Federal party in the Philip
pines have sent a memorial to con-
gress declaring against independence
and asking for ultimate statehood.
Arguments were given at Albany on
the bill to prohibit live bird targets.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19

The worst snow storm in years is be-
ing experienced in New York city.
Five men blew open two safes in
the Office OF the Northampton, Mass,
street railway, bound and gagged the
watchman and got away with over
$1,000.
The bill to repeal the war revenue
taxes passed the house unanimously,
on motion Of Mr.. Richardson, the min
ority leader.
Gertrude Shea. the 2-year-old child
severely burned at Worcester, Mass,
Saturday night in the fire resulting
from her mothers act in throwing a
lighted lamp at her father, is dead.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait was re-
elected president Of the National
American Woman Suffrage associa-
ton for the ensuing year.
Two thousand people are reported
killed by an earthquake in the Trans
Caucasia province of Russia.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
CRASH OF FREIGHTs.
Terrible Acci5cat on the Pennsylvania
Railroad.

Altoona, Pa, Feb. 15.-Three men
killed, four probably fatally and two
seriously injured. one freight train a
complete wreck and another nearly so,
are the results on an accident Friday
morning en- the Pennsylvania on the
steep grade a few miles above the
Horseshoe curve. The list of vic
tins fellows:
TIE dead: A. S. Grove. conductor of
the forward train; U. B. Westner,
brakeman cn the forward train T.
w. CCCney, brakeman of the forward
train.
Probably fatally injured: NJ. w.
Hartman. flagman Of the forward
train; B. W. Kinkaid, engineer of the
forward train; ]. w. Fluke, engineer
OF the rear train; Simon Fredericks,
brakeman of the rear train.
The firemen of both engines, names
unknown. are seriously injured.
Control of the second section of an
eastbound train was lost soon after
emerging from Galitzen tunnel and two
miles west of Allegrippas 1t crashed
into the rear of the first section. Ten
cars, the caboose and two engines
were completely wrecked.
Grove. Westner and Cooney were in
the caboose of the forward train.
Their bodies were torn to pieces. Hart
man was standing on the front plat
form Of the caboose and the shock
threw him far down over the noun
tain side.
Frcineer Fluke and his fireman
jumped when they saw the train ahead
of them Fluke was found uncon-
scious 30 feet away from the track.
All the injured men were taken to
the Altoona hospital, where It was said
that Fluke was dying and that there
was little hope for the recovery Gf
Hartman Kinkaid and Frederick.
The homes of the dead and injured
were in Altoona.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Contractors and workmen Indicted.

New York, Feb. IA. - The grand
jury has returned a series Of indict-
ments against the contractors and
workmen alleged to have been re-
sponsible for the fatal and destruc-
tive explosion on Park avenue on
Jan. %, and the city officials charged
with dereliction in connection with the
storing of explosives. An indictment
for manslaughter in the first degree
was found against Ira A. Shaler, the
rapid transit subway sub-contractor,
who is building the Park avenue sec.
tion of the tunnel in which the ex.
plosion occurred Shaler was also IN.
dicted for Illegal storage of dynamite
a misdemeanor. Moses Epps. the
powder house watchman, Ernest G..
Matheson, chief engineer, and Joseph
Bracken, laborer, were also indicted
for manslaughter in the first degree
and Matheson and Bracken for illegal
storage. Superintendent George Muir
ray and Inspector Smith Of the bureau
Of combustibles. were indicted on a
charge of criminal negligence and
Charles Il. Fraser. engineer. for H.
legal storage Bail was fixed I'm each
case at s. 900, except for Murray and
Smith. whose bail was made 1000
each.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Monday.

A notice from the treasury depart
ment at Washington informs mariners
that the Bartholdi statue in New York
harbor will not be lighted after
March /.
By an accident on the Pennsylvania
railroad, near Altoona, three men
we're killed and four probably fatally
injured. Rear end collision.
Reports from Groton say that condi-
ton of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is
satisfactory and that he is on the
road to recovery.
The ransom Of Miss Ellen NJ. Stone
and her companion. Madade Tsilka,
has been paid and their delivery to the
American agents is expected hourly.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg an
nounces that the large town OF
Shamaka. Trans-Caucasia, has been
destroyed by an earthquake.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Friday.


Count Leo Tolstoi is dying.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., passed
very good night and it looks more IA
vorable for him.
A detachment of cavalry had to be
called in Brussels to disperse the So
cialists who made a demonstration in
favor of universal suffrage.
The yacht Hohenzollern has arrived
at New York ahead of schedule time.
Wreckage has been picked up off
the coast of Vancouver which seems
to show that the British sloop-of-war
Condor has been lost.
Marquis of Dufferin, former COVER
nor of Canada, is dead.
In a fire in a Broadway paint shop
caused by a runaway upsetting a
stove, Terence f. Reilly was burned
to death.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Thursday.

President Roosevelt's son became
worse and pneumonia has affected
both lungs.
Preparations to rebuild the burned
district of Paterson are being made and
the mayor says there is no need Of
outside assistance.
Lord Kitchener gives the Boer cas-
ualties for the week at SO killed, II
wounded, 81 surrendered and 574 TAX
en- prisoners.
Fifteen men were injured by dust
explosion in a mine at Bon Air, Tenn.
All were rescued, and all will prob.
ably recover. Five Of the miners were
seriously burned.
At a meeting CT representatives of
Italian lodges of Free Masons in Rome
it was decided that Italian Free Ma
sonry should cease to be secret So
ciety.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
GOVERNOR TAFT's IDEAS.
Continuation of His Testimony Before
the Senate Committee.

Washington, Feb. 1S.-ln reply to
questions Goernor Taft said he agreed
with General Funston that the estab-
lishment of a popular assemblago
would give opportunity to demagogues
to stir up the people, but that he did
not include in this designation all per.
sons who are opposed TO American
control. There are, he said, many
men in the islands who consistently
oppose the administration of the Unit
ed States. To grant independence
would, he thought have the effect of
consigning the 80 per cent of unedu-
Gated people in the islands to the same
servile position they held under Span
ish rule He thought there should be
a declaration on the part of the Unit
ed States of its intention to hold the
islands indefinitely with the under
standing that when they are suitable
for such a condition they may be given
a quasi-ndependence Many of the
common people do not, he said know
the difference between independence
and dependence.
If the government of the islands
should be turned over to the islanders
themselves there would be nothing
less than an absolute oligarchy, they
having no idea Of civil government.
Replying to Senator Rawlins, Cover
nor Taft advanced the idea that on
account of the fact that the Filipinos
have for 800 years been under the in
fiuence of the Christian religion they
would prove to be different from other
Malay races. and that in time under
the influence of American education
the people might become capable of
self-government. He anticipated some
trouble on account of undue or Illegal
exploitation of the islands and cor
ruption in case of continued American
occupation, but he would not on ac-
count of this danger turn the islands
back to the fate of an oligarchy so
long as there is a probability of sue
cess as there is in this case.
81 did not originally favor the ac-
QUESTION of the Philippines and | was
sorry at the time that we got them,
but now that we are there ! see no
other way than to go on and carry out
the plan that I have suggested. |
may be a Mark Tapley in this matter,
but If did not believe that we could
bring these people out regardless Of
the fact that the feat we propose is to
an extent without precedent-if | did
not believe we should succeed in do
ing what we are undertaking to do
should resign Immediately and come
home"
Proceeding he said that his idea was
to unite example and actual practice
in the American control of the islands
and he believed that the result must
be the uplifting and the education Of
the people to a point which would put
them on a plane far above that which
is at present occupied.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Order of Cuban Veterans.

Albany, Feb. 1S.-The Order of San
ia Clara has been Incorporated 1t is
formed 10y the officers and the former
officers of the army and navy who par
ticipated in the campaign of 1898 in
Santa Clara and Puerto Principe. The
principal Office of the corporation is
to be located in New York city. The
directors are Major Carter p. John
son of Fort Leavenworth, Kan; Lieu
tenant Thomas W. Ryan of the U. S.
N. Asiatic station; Captain George p.
Ahern of Manila, p. l.; DR.. Maximilian
Lund, late U. S. A., of New York city;
Captain John F. Madden Of Fort Sher-
idan, and Lieutenant Grover Flint, u.
S. ", of Boston.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.

Member of COngress--J. X. p. Hall.
Member Of Sendte-A. Nj. Neeley.
ASsembly-A. NJ. Doutt.
President Judge-W. Nj. Lindsey.
ASSOCIATE Judges-R. B. Crawford, W.
II. IL. DOtterer.
Prothonotary, Register & Recorder, DC
John II. Robertson.
Sherig.-J. w. Jameson.
Treasurer Fred. A. Keller.
Cbmplissioners-R NJ. Herman, John
II. Carson. J. r. Dale.
District 4ttorney-S. ID. Irwin.
JurV Commissioners q. Rey'
nolds, Peter Youngk.
Coroner-Dr. j. w. Morrow.
County Auditors-J. II. Clark, X. j.
FLYNN, Geo. Il. King. ~
County Superintendent-E. Il. Stitzin'
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Wauon Wood Hiuher.

Cincinnati, Feb. 14.-The American
Vehicle Wood Stock association, man.
ufacturers of spckes, rims, shafts,
poles. &C., have increased the prices
of their products all around. 1t was
said that this was necessary owing
to a short supply of oak and hickory
and the remoteness of such supplies
from the plants and markets with In
creased freight expenses.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Escapes Ore Death to Meet Another.

Beaver Falls. Pa, Feb. 15.-Thurs-
day morning Calvin Harris, the man
who had such a narrow escape last
week at the Romeigh stone cuarries,
where the dynamite he was thawing
out exploded and destroyed the shanty,
faced death in another form. He
was driving through a narrow passage
at the quarry when he stumbled and
fell, and was caught between the
wheel Of the cart and the rocky side
of the passage and squeezed so badly
that II is feared he cannot live.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Ennlneer and Fireman KILLED.

Connellsville, Pa, Feb. 17.-Engl.
neer T. W. Lyons of McKees Rocks
and his fireman. p. w. Desot of Buff
falo. were killed in a head-end collis-
ion Of freight trains on the Pittsburg
and McKeesport division Of the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie railroad at Round
Bottom Sunday.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Cousin of the President Dead.

New York, Feb. II. 49, Cornelius
Roosevelt, the only surviving son Of
the late S. Wier Roosevelt, and a cous-
in of President Roosevelt, is dead Of
heart disease in this city. Mr.. Roose-
velt was born in this city 54 years
ago, and was educated at the Troy
Polytechnic institute. Shortly after
completing his course there he went
abroad and had lived since that time
chiefly In Paris.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19

Oil City, Pa, Feb. ia force Of
workmen engaged in shoveling snow
drifts in an endeavor to open the
country roads near Dale station We'd
nesday uncovered a horse frozen to
death, attached to a sleigh. Relays Of
men are clearing the vicinity in an
effort to find the driver.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19

PRESBYTERIAN Sabbath School at 9;45 a.
m. NJ. r.. Sabbath School at 10000 a. m.
Preaching in NJ. Il. Church every Sab
hath evening by Rev. o. IL. Nickle
Preaching in the f. NJ. Church every
Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev.
McGarvy. Pastor.
Services in the Presbyterian Church
every sabbath morning and evening,
Rev ]. V. McAninch officiating.
The regular meetings of the w. Z. Il.
u. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourth Tuesdays OF each
nj, nth.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
DILL. EMERT

FANCY BOOT Il SHOEMAKER.
Shop in Walters building, Cor. Elm
and Walnut streets, Is prepared TO do all
kinds of custom work from the finest to
.he coarsest and guarantees his work to
give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten-
ton given to mending, and prices rea-
sonable.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
BOROUGH OFFICERS.

Bugess.-T. f, Ritchey.
Cousc,lmen.--J. 4. Dale, W. f. Blum,
Chas. Clark, 4. Il. Armstrong, Dr. j. u
Dunn, q. @. Castor, j. u. Muse.
justices Of The Pedce-C. A. Randall, s.
J. Setley.
Cbnsidbie-H. Il. Moody.
COllectOr-S. j. Setley.
School DirectOrS-G. w. Holeman, j.
Il, Wenk, j. @. Scowden, Patrick Joyce,
w, w. Grove, II. l.. Haslet.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19

The memorial of the Federal party
OF the Philippine islands was trans
m.tted to the senate by the secretary
os war. The memorial says: ITO
rake the Philippines a colony Of the
United States, or to grant independ-
ence to the Philippines, would be to
hand the islands over to disorder and
to anarchy, to destruction and to
chaos. In effect, the colonial system
involves tho principles of difference
of citizenship inequality of rights and
other consequent abuses and injus-
tices, of all which we Filipinos were
surfeited under the Spanish govern
ment, and for this reason we reject
everything which tends toward a col
ony."
The memorialists then pray a decla.
ration by congress that the Philippine
islands are an integral part of the
United States, constituting a terri
tory with the rights and privileges
which the constitution OF the United
States grants to the other territories
such as that of becoming state of
the Union.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Death Follows coastins Accident

Johnstown, Pa, Feb. 15.-John Fal
stick. aged 13. died in the hospital
here THURSDAY of a fractured skull.
the result of a collision with a horse
while be was coasting
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
sIx Dead and as Many Dying.

Middlesboro, KY, Feb. 13.-Six are
dead and as many more are dying as
the result of a battle between Middles-
boro officers and mountaineers which
occurred at Lee Turner's saloon, three
and a half miles from Middlesboro
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
Pointed Paragraphs Chronic
ling the Weeks Doings.
Long Dispatches From Various Parts
of the World Shorn Of Their Padding
and Only Facts Given In as Few
Words as Possible For the Benefit
Of the Hurried Reader.

"Otdo 40 -oS' ~ ' ~ N''S
OF the Hurried Reader.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was re-
ported as suffering from treacherous
prm CT pneumonia, but was in no i'm
mediate danger.
staff surgeons of the Bushwick Cen
tral hospital Of Brooklyn profess to
be willing to accept DR.. James Edwin
Russell's tender of his live body for
vivisection experiments.
General Samuel Pearson, Boer rep
resentative in the United States,
asked the president to permit him to
attack the British agents who, he said,
were buying mules near New Orleans.
Governor Taft advocated the pur-
chase of lands held by the friars in
the Philippines.
Railroad commissioners have placed
blame for New York Central tunnel
disaster on the railway company.
The business center Of Paterson, n.
j., was burned, with loss amounting
to $10,OOO0O0.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Snow and Wind.

Burlington. Vt. Feb. IS. - Four
inches OF snow fell Monday afternoon
and evening The storm v-re 0~--m-
panied by high wind 'l "a
the south we're about an hLrr ate.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
HOUSE.

" GEROw ~ GEROW Proprietor.
Tionseta, Pa. This is the most centrally
located hotel in the place, and has all the
modern improvements. No pains viii
be spared to make it pleasant stopping
place for the travelling public. First
class Livery i'm connection.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19

Fourth Monday of February.
Third Monday of May.
Fourth Monday of september.
Third Monday of November.
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IInrEI. WEAVER.

HOTEI WEANEH,
ii Il. A. WEAVER, Proprietor.
This hotel, formerly the Lawrence
House, has undergone a complete change,
and is now furnished with ali the mod
ern improvements. Heated and lighted
throughout with natural gas, bathrooms,
hot and cold water, etc. The comforts OF
guests never neglected.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19

1NR. J. ID. GREAVES,
~ Physician and Surge on
Office and residence above Fores O..
National Bank. County Phone No. l..
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
British Ambushed.

One hundred and fifty mounted in
fantrymen while patrolling the Kip
river, south of johannesburg, Feb. IL,
surrounded a farmhouse where they
suspected Beers were in hiding.
A single Boer broke away from the
house and the British started to pur-
sue him. The Boer climbed a kopie,
the British following. Immediately a
heavy fire was opened upon them from
three sides. The British found them
selves in a trap and in a position
where they we're unable to make any
defense.
Eight of the British officers made a
gallant effort and defended the ridge
with carbines and revolvers until they
were overpnwered.
The British had two officers and 10
men killed and several officers and 40
men wounded before the force was
able to fall back under cover of a
block house.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Irish RevolutlonarY COMMITTED.

London. Feb. lS.-The Paris cor
respondent of The Daily Chronicle be.
lieves there is some truth in the ri.
NOR that an Irish revolutionary com
mittee has been started in Paris by an
Irish-American who has just returned
from South Africa. for the purpose OF
aiding the Boer cause by a reign Of
dynamite and terror
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
Reports From Batangas.

General J. Franklin Bell has prac-
tically cleaned up the insurrection in
Batangas province, Luzon island, the
troops under his command having
made a clean sweep of the district.
II is not believed that all the insurg-
ents in arms have been captured or sur.
rendered, but that a rumber of them
havtf been taken by the insurgents to
other provinces or safely hidden.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19

nR J. @. DUNN, .,
IL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office over Heath 6 Killmer's store,
Tionesta, Ia. Professional calls prompt
ly responded to at all hours OF day or
night. Residence-May ST.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19

C,A,T. GEORGE STOW POST, No. ga
~ q. A, II. Meets lst and 3D. Monday
evening in each month, in A. o. u W.
Hall, Tionesta.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-02-19
DANISH WEST INDIES.
Senate Ra'ifies the Treaty
With Denmark.

fdrbOr OF o. InoWdS Saiu " 10
One of the Best In the West Indies.
Status Of the Inhabitants - STRAIT
egic Importance.
Washington, Feb. IS. - In a little
nore than an hours time the senate
in executive session disposed of the
treaty with Denmark ceding to the
United States for a consideration OF
S5,000,000 the islands of St. Thomas,
st. John and st. Croix, composing the
group of the Antilles known as the
Danish West Indies and lying just east
of Porto Rico and thus, so far as this
country is concerned, consummated a
transaction which has been under
consideration intermittently since the
administration of President Lincoln.
Senator Cullom, as chairman of the
committee on foreign relations, made
a speech explaining the advantages Of
the acquisition of the islands, and Sen
ators Bacon and McLaurin made brief
remarks, saying that while they could
not endorse all the provisions of the
agreement they would place no OBJ
stacles in the way Of ratification.
Senator Bacon moved to amend the
treaty by striking out the second par
agraph of article of the treaty read
ing as follows THE civil rights and
the political status of the inhabitants
of the islands shall be determined by
the congress subject to the stipula-
tions contained in the present conven-
ton"
The amendment was rejected with
out division.
Senator Cullom explained all the
provisions of the treaty and gave a
detailed account of their resources and
of their trade value to the United
States. He said the provision affect
ing the civil rights Of the inhabitants
was similar to the provision on the
same subject in the Spanish treaty
concerning Porto Rico.
Senator Cullom said in taking the
islands the United States would as
sumo no burden of debt, as by the
terms Of the agreement all claims held
by Denmark against the insular treas
ury would be cancelled He placed the
total of these claims at $2,000,000. He
also said that on the telegraph fran
chise it would be necessary to pay a
subsidy of $4,000 per year for three or
four years and that in this case and
the st. Thomas floating dock company
there was an agreement to protect the
charters for the time granted by Den
mark. He also gave a detailed history
of the St. Croix sugar company, ex-
planning that the government OF Den
mark had assumed debts amounting
to about $4,70O,000 for that concern,
but had agreed to wind up the affairs
of the company as soon as practicable.
Senator Cullom explained that un-
der the terms of the treaty the United
States would take possession Of the
islands as soon as ratification could
be exchanged The harbor at st.
Thomas island was described as one
of the safest and best in the West
Indies and the Importance of its pos
session from a strategic point Of view
was enlarged upon.
Senator Culloms motion to ratify
then was adopted by viva voce vote.
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evening in each month in A. o. U. W.
hall TiOnesta, Pa.
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