The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-09-17
HIS STORY DOUBTED.
Mysterious Tragedy Discovered
In Rochester.

Murders-Bryan In Missouri-Will
Endorse oosevelt-church Work
In Phlippines-Mrs. Stewart Killed.
Mckinley Memorial Services.
Miss Ethel b. Dingle, rarely pretty
girl, whose face and figure may be
seen in every Bell Telephone direc-
tory, lies dead in Rochester, N. Y,
from a gaping wound in her throat,
while Leland Dorr Kent is at tho
Homeopathic hospital, his throat also
slashod but not so seriously but what
he will live.
Kent's statement to the coroner
has not been made public, but ne
claims that the girl wounded him and
then killed herself, His story is
doubted.
The couple came from Buffalo late
Saturday night and registered at the
Whitcomb house as l.. d. Kent and
wife. They were found in their room
Sunday morning. the girl dead, the
man wild aud raving.
A razor was in the girls left hand
AMI several powerful drugs were
found in small bottles in the room.
Detectives are guarding Kent, who
would have graduated from the River
side hospital at Buffalo next year
He has a wife and little son in that
city, and his father is general manager
OF the Masonic Life | .surance of
Buffalo.
Tse girl was a Canadian by birth
and had been a nurse in Riverside
hospital nest Of four years past, but
was discharged from there a few weeks
ago. The intimacy Of the two dated
back only two months. and, according
to what can be secured of Kent's
story the two agreed to die together.
Volume Of Trade Increasing.
Bradstreets says:
Taken as a whole fall trade is still
expanding in volume because Western
and Northwestern markets report un-
abated activity, Eastern jobbing is as
active as heretofore. and the South re-
ports more doing at nearly all cen.
ters. Frost held OFF until the close of
the week, when a scare was worked
up. Any deterioration now, however,
can only be as to quality, because the
crop seems secure as to quantity. In
Less strain is reflected in labor mat
ters. The anthracite coal strike ap-
pears to be fading away, some other
strikes have been actually ended and
labor Is well employed as a rule.
One fact brought out in the reports
as to activity in dry goods. clothing,
shoes, millinery and groceries is the
very general demand for higher class
of goods which manifests itself. Re.
tail trade the country over seems bet
ter, stimulated partly by cooler wealth
er.
Money is hardening as the needs of
trade and crop moving increases, and
the usual strlngency seems to be ap-
preaching, which will probably be TEN.
pered, however, by gold imports.
Wholesale Family Murders.
Thursday night last at Pierce,
Neb., Gottlieb Niegentind shot and
killed his former wife, Mrs. Anna
Peters, shot six times at Albert Brey.
er, her father. who died next morning,
and shot the wife of Breyer in the
shoulder. seriously and perhaps fatally
wounding her.
After the shooting Niegenfnd left
the house and meeting Mrs. Peters
sister. Lena Breyer, attempted a Grim
inal assault.
Mrs. Peters had been divorced from
her husband two years and he was
thought to have left the country. lie
appeared at Pierce Sunday, however,
and paid several visits to the Breyer
farm where his former wife was liv-
ing with her parents.
He went to the Breyer home and en-
gagel his father.in-law in a quarrel,
the trouble being over Niegenfnd's
children. Niegenfnd drew a revolver
and fired at Breyer. who received five
bullets in his body. He then fired at
Mrs. Breyer.
Bryan Opened Missouri Campaign.
The Democratic campaign in Mis-
souri, was opened at Joplin Tuesday
night with a massmeeting. Mr.. Bryan
was the principal speaker. He talked
on the tariff, saying among other
things that it was time to take the
tariff OFF at least all kinds of trust
made goods.
There were more righteous men in
Sodom and Gomorrah than there are
tariff reformers in the Republican
party" he declared.
He asserted that President Roose.
welt had no remedy for the trust evil
and that some of his utterances on
the subject were absurd. Continuing
he said: Il tell you one trust magnate
in stripes behind prison walls would
do more to break up trusts than all the
speeches the president can make. The
constitutional amendment the Repub.
Iicahs are talking about is not meant
for the regulation Of trusts, but to
take the power to control trusts away
from the states and so protect the
trusts"
Church Work In Philippines.
J. P. Morgan and Senator Hanna are,
with George NJ. Miller Of New York,
James /. Hougnteling Of Chicago
William II. Crocker of San Francisco
and Samuel Mather of Cleveland, the
signers of a statement asking for
funds for the work Of the Episcopal
church in the Philippines.
1T is important. says the state
ment. that American Christianity