The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-11-12
illed Himself and Sweetheart.

Cambridge and could easily identify.
Killed Himself and Sweetheart.
Christopher p. Willis of Bath, N.
Y, student in the state normal
school at Geneseo, who loved and was
jealous of Mary Catherine Ferguson, a
H-year-old girl OF his own village, shot
and killed Miss Ferguson and him.
self in front of the lodging house at
1873 Swan street. Buffalo, Saturday.
He had known her about IS months
and they had come TO Buffalo to visit
the girls brothers at the Swan street
house.
In Willis pocket was found letter
from Miss Ferguson, in which she re.
preached him for expressing jealousy
Of her. Willis, who was only 21
years old, taught school near Bath un.
i'll few months ago Money was left
to him by relatives and he was no
longer obliged to work. He drank lit.
tie, but was an excessive smoker of
cigarettes.
Farmer Robbed; Hired Men Locked In.
Masked burglars entered the home
Of Ezra Clint in the little village of
Hilton at l O'Clock on Friday morn.
ing, showed a revolver into his mouth,
beat him brutally over the head with
an iron bar ana securing a sum
of money amounting to 800, left the
place. Clint has always been credited
with having money concealed about
the house.
Clint has had working for him trio
Of strangers who have been employed
as apple plckers. They have been
sleeping in the barn on the place,
spending the night there as usual
In the morning the trio Of apple pick
ers were found imprisoned in the barn,
the doors having been fastened from
the outside with ropes making it i'm
possible for the persons inside the
place to escape.
Years Casualties In the Army.
The annual report of Major General
Corbin, adjutant general, deals with
every feature of the army and begins
with statement showing how the
army is to be reduced by Dec. / TO
6OO2O men, of which 2,S77 belong to
the staff departments.
The report shows that during the ifs.
cal year there were S5 officers killed in
action or died of wounds and disease,
Fl resigned and 6S retired.
OF the enlisted men, 1927 were
killed or died of wounds and disease,
S5,SO6 were discharged on the expira-
tion of service 5,69S were discharged
for disability or dismissed by order of
court martial, 1867 deserted, two were
missing and 2O3 retired.
Favors Restoration of Canteen.
General Corbin has the following to
say regarding the canteen:
THE restoration of the exchange as
it existed prior to the passage of the
act of Feb. 2, 1901, prohibiting the sale
of beer, is desired and urged by the
great majority of officers and men and
temperance views. Numerous reports
confirm the views long held by this
office that the old exchange contributed
to sobriety, health and contentment of
the men. The increase of desertions
and of trial for infractions of discipline
Is, by those best informed, attributed to
the abolition of the former privileges
of the exchange"
Alaska's Output Of Gold.
Mr.. Roberts, director of the mint,
made public statement of the gold out
put of Alaska for the last 10 months.
These figures, which are based on the
receipts at San Francisco, Seattle and
the Selby refinery, show total of $751;
S70.075 as follows: Klondike (Cana-
diam, s1S,S61 ,O95; Nome, S5,OOS,9SO.
This total is something over s4,OOO,OO0
in excess of the Alaska output for the
entire calendar year 1901, the figures
for that year being S14,675,675 In the
output for the last 10 months is in
cluded $4,000 expected to arrive from
the Klondike before Jan. and $780,
900 expected from Nome.
Arbitrators Increase Wages.
twenty-five hundred trainmen of the |
Union Traction and Consolidated street |
railway lines are to receive an increase |
in wages Of more than 10 per cent, |
dating from Sept Is, according to the |
An In 81 I'd Of nh fa, fph
made its report last night, after hav-
ing had the demands of the streetcar
men under consideration for nearly |
two months. The increase will affect |
cable men, electric men, trippers and
night men. The new scale is to be in
force until May 81, 1904. The disposi-
tion of the cases of the discharged
men is to be announced later.
Killed Her Husband.
Mrs. EnOch Hink shot and killed her
husband at their home about three
miles above Port Dickinson, Broome
county, n. Y, Sunday morning,
about 4 o'clock. The act was done in
Hink at the time being
engaged in a murderous assault on his
wife with an open clasp knife.
1t is not thought that Mrs. Hink will
be arrested. The coroner says that he
looks on it as a case of justifiable
homicide, although Mrs. Hink claims
she merely took up the gun to frighten
the man away.
Precedent In Coal Arbitration.
Lord Rosebery has been given
permission in London to accede to the
request of President RooseVelt's an
thracite arbitration commission to be
supplied with copies of notes of the
proceedings in Lord Rosebery's settle
ment of the British coal dispute in 1898.
Election Bets Paid.