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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-23

Nearly 80 patrons OF the Central
Union Telephone company were min
us the service of their phones Satur-
day afternoon. The Peoples Power
company was doing some blasting at
Iwenty-third street and Third ave-
nue.. An ascending rock broke u Cen
trail Union wire, causing it to fall on
the trolley wire of the new interurban
street railway. The electric COM
pany' current was carried by way of
the broken telephone wire to the cor
ner of Third avenue and Seventeenth
street. where the damage was done,
somewhere from thirty-five To fifty
connections were being burned out.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-23

sArrivaI. departure tDsily. except Sun
day Phone West 1898. West 1923, West l42S.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
COMPROMISE of AIlies' Claims.

Propositions involving compromise
of the allies contention for preferential
treatment in the settlement of their
Claims against Venezuela have been
submitted to the governments of Great
Britain, Germany and Italy by theiI
representatives in Washington, and
while no answers have been received
as yet there is reason for the belief
that the allies will see a way to accept
the latest proposition.
The proposition now under consider.
alton is understood to be modification
of the allies contention that they be
recognized as Venezuela's preferred
claimants in the payment of the in
demnity. 1t provides that for short
period, perhaps six months or year
Great Britain, Germany and Italy shall
receive exclusively go per cent of the
customs receipts of the ports of Puerto
Cabello and La Guayra, and at the end
of the period that all the claimant ma
tion be placed upon the same footing.
The 80 per cent of the receipts of
these two ports will then be divided
among all the claimant nations in
ratio based on the amount of each ma.
tion's claim
The plan will enable the allies to
withdraw their ships from Venezuelan
waters without serious loss of prestige
Mr.. Bowen has been assured that the
representatives of the allies here will
give him final answer at the earli.
est possible moment, and exchanges
are in progress between the representa-.
tives here of the allied governments
concerned and their home Offices in an
effort to reach a settlement agreeable
to all concerned.
The Washington government and
Mr.. Bowen are convinced. because OF
Baron Won Sternberg's activity in the
matter. that Germany wants the Vene
zue'an question settled with all possi
BILE dispatch.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
FREE COAL HELPS J. J. HILL.
Supply For the Great Northern at a
Daily Saving of $4,000.

Tacoma, Wash, Feb. 3.-The re.
moval CT the duty on coal is believed to
be benefiting President Hill and the
Great Northern Railway to greater
extent than any other corporation be-
cause there is no good coal in Mon
tana directly tributary to the Great
Northern. Mr.. Hill for several years
has been booming the development of
Crows Nest Pass ccal fields in South
ern Canada. Recently he completed
branch connecting the Great Northern
with Crows Nest coal mines.
At present the Great Northern is
hauling 300 cars, or 5000 tons, daily
across the Montana line for use on its
mountain divisions. Development work
is being rushed and very soon the i'm.
ports of cCal will reach 10000 tons
daily.
Previous to the removal of the duty
the Great Northern was paying the Gus
toms department at Gateway 67 cents
duty on every ton. The daily saving
now exceeds $4,000. When the cutoff
can be built connecting the Great
Northern with the Northern Pacific
and the Burlington in Montana, the lat
ter roads will also use Crows Nest
coal in the Rocky mountains
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
"DOing" Europe In Your Mind.

According to a Cairo contemporary,
persons who wish to let their friends
know that they are "doing" Europe on
a princely scale the while they are liv-
ing in retirement for a time need only
apply to an agency in Paris, which will
undertake TO send your letters to prac-
tically any place in Europe you may Sc
lect and there to have them posted for
you on any date you may choose. The
demand for such an institution arose
out of the absolute horror the Partisan
of high life has of being suspected of
remaining in Paris or its envirOns i'm
the bathing season. One feature of the
joke is that you can not only get your
letters posted from some distant spot,
but you can get answers received for
you and rcpOsted to your temporary hid
ing place. There are great possibilities
for American travellers i'm this. Why
not stay in America and do" Europe?
New York Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
Message on Silver Ratio.

The president last week sent to
congress a message in relation to
the currency and the coinage of the
Mexican and Chinese governments,
accompanied by papers from the repre-.
sentatives of those governments. He
recommends legislation which will
enable the government of the United
States TO assist in carrying out the
proposed arrangement.
The gist Of the message is that the
fluctuations in the price of silver
threaten to seriously injure the trade
of the gold standard countries with
silver-using countries, and that if the
stability of the metals were assured
the imports of silver-using countries
would increase very largely.
The message also says that free
coinage is not expected, but that defin
ite relationship should be established
between god and silver as a basis OF
exchange and that this basis could be
brought about by the cooperation OF
the gold standard and silver-using
countries
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.
Total Debt, Less Cash In Treasury,
Amounts to ss4s ,e42,56

Washington, Feb. 3.-The monthly
statement of the public debt shows
that at the close of business Jan. 81,
1903, the total debt, less cash in the
treasury, amounted to $943,942, ,563,
which is a decrease for the month of
S3,222,116.
The debt is recapitulated as follows:
Interest bearing debt, $914,541 $3.50;
debt on which interest has ceased
since maturity, s1,25O,91O debt bearing
10 interest, $S96,516,2S6; total, s1,312.-
2SS,526. This amount. however, does
not include $SS6,S71, ,O96 in certificates
and treasury notes outstanding which
are offset by an equal amount of cash
on hand held for their redemption.
The cash in the treasury is classified
as follows; Gold reserve, S150,000, 900;
trust funds, 1886, 81 ,O69; general fund,
S152,775,913; in national bank deposi-
taries. $15O,O9S,225; total, $1,339.744,
207 against which there are demand
liabilities outstanding amounting to
1911 ,39S,244, which leaves a cash bal
ance on hand of $36S, S,345. 1863.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
Insane Patients Burned.

Fifty-fcur hopelessly insane women
were sulfocated or burned to death
Tuesday morning in a fire that des
stroyed the annex Of the Colney Hatch
insane asylum, six miles north OF
London.
There were 600 women patients
asleep in the buildings when the fire
started, and within few minutes they
were all practically unmanageable.
Five wooden buildings were de
stroyed, and the fire progressed sc
rapidly that it was impossible to or
ganize the work of rescue.
The doctors and nurses showed great
presence of mind in their efforts tc
drive the insane women out through
the doors, but their efforts were sooI
made useless by the intense heat that
compelled them to flee for their lives
Two nurses perished with theiI
charges
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
Price Situation Remains Strong.

Trade developments confirm the san.
guine expectations and predictions
made at the outset of the month.
Wholesale jobbing trade in spring dry
goods, millinery, boots and shoes and
hats is improving steadily, January's
jobblng business at leading cities East
and West being the best ever recorded
in that month. Shipments on orders
are larger and earlier than in preced
ing years.
Retail trade reports are hardly Sc
favorable. Unreasonable weather dulls
retail distribution in this line, and the
usual January clearing sales are at
tracing less than ordinary attention.
The general price situation remains
strong, corn, among the cereals, and
cotton, among the textiles, leading.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
Evidence In Rebuttal.

Philadelphia, Feb. 9.-The operators
hnished the presentation of evidence to
the anthracite ccal strike commission
and the afternoon session was devoted
to the testimony in rebuttal on the
part of the miners. r. J. Beamish, a
newspaper man, was called to refuts
the statements that a reign of terror
existed in the coal regions during the
strike. A dozen men who had been
hired in this city to serve as coal and
iron policemen during the strike said
the disturbances were few and of
minor character. Daniel T. McKelvy,
justice of the peace of Hazleton,
testified that the striking miners had
offered to assist him in maintaining
order
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
EPIDEMIC of TYphoid Fever.

The epidemic of typhoid which re
Gently broke out in Ithaca has attained
serious proportions. Nurses of the City
hospital were obliged to give up theil
rooms to make room for patients, the
hospital having been crowded for some
time The Rev. c. w. Peiser of the
Unitarian church offers to turn the
church over for hospital. There are
at least 200 cases in the city at present
and the list is rapidly increasing. Ply
sicians agree that the epidemic is dus
to impure drinking water and all citi
zens are warned not to use city water
before it is boiled.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
REFUSES POINT BLANK.
Proposition of Allies For Two
Thirds of Percentage.
MIR. Bowen Contends For Venezuela
That as Negotiators Are Agreed on
All Other Points the Blockade Should
Be Raised Pending Settlement Of
Question by The Hague Tribunal.

Washington, Feb 3.-Herbert w.
Bowen, Venezuela's representative in
the negotiations at Washington for a
settlement of the claims against that
country, has sent through the British
ambassador here what amounts practi.
cally to an ultimatum to the allied
powers of Great Britain, Germany and
Italy, regarding their insistence for
prefer ential treatment in the settle
ment of their claims against Vene-
zuela.
This note, which the British am.
bassador received last night, was
cabled at once to Londcn, copies of it
being transmitted to the Italian and
German embassies for transmission to
Rome and Berlin.
1t is in reply to the proposition sub
mitted at a joint conference of the
negotiators by the British ambassador
that the allied powers be allowed two
thirds of 80 per cent of the custom
receipts of tae ports of La Guayra and
Porto Cabello, and that the United
States and the other claimant nations,
France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark,
Spain, and Norway and Sweden, con.
tent themselves with the remaining one
third of this percentage, that is 10 per
cent of the receipts of these two ports,
In the note received by the British
ambassador from Mr.. Bowen the lat
ter refuses point blank the proposition
for 20 and 10 per cent division on the
ground that to recognize the principle
it embodies would be absolutely often.
sive to modern civilization.
In view of the fact that the negot.
iators are agreed on all save the ques.
tion of preferential treatment, the am.
bassador is informed that Venezuela
has decided to submit that question to
The Hague arbitration tribunal.
Acceptance of this proposition, Vene
zuela contends, carries with it rails
ing of the blockade, the general under.
standing being that the blockade would
end when the negotiators at Washing.
ton had reached an agreement.
1t is understood that in refusing this
,ast proposition submitted by the Brit
ish ambassador on behalf of the allies
Mr. Bowen takes the ground that he
cannot accept in principle the conten'
ton that blockades and bombardment
of forts, and the consequent killing of
helpless men, women and children, en-.
titles any power or alliance of powers
to prefeyen treatment at the hands
of a civilized nation.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
Republican Mayor Resigned.

Following the decision in the su
preme court that G. R. Miller Democrat
had been elected mayor of Ithaca last
fall, came the resignation of Mr. Gund
erman, the Republican mayor, whohad
held over pending litigation. While g
stay, of proceedings was granted on the
motion of Mr.. Noble, the Republican
attorney, Mr.. Gunderman considered
that the matter had been settled BY
the court City Clerk Marion and Super
intendent Parks, appointees of Mr.
Gunderman, also resigned.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
For an Extra Man on Engine.

Albany, Feb. 9.-To prevent the oc-
currence in this state of a railway
horror like the recent one at West
deld, N. j., and from similar cause,
is the purpose Of bill introduced by
Assemblyman Finegan. 1t provides
for the employment of an additional
man to aid the engineer or fireman in
the cab of each locomotive of every
steam surface railroad and provides a
penalty Of $500 for each offence and
80 a day for continuance.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
New York Postmasters,

Washington, Feb. 9.-Among the
nominations sent to the senate by the
president were those of the following
postmasters in New York: William h
Balm, Canajoharie; w. Scott Siver
Chittenango; Herbert W. Davis, Fal
coner; Justus B. Abbott, Gouverneur;
George H. Keeler, Hammonsport; Mel
son +. Ransom, Little Falls; Peter H
Vosburg, Matteawan; William F. Park
er, Moravia; William Witte, Jr, Ros
lyn; Michael Halligan, Rouses Point;
Charles c. Horton, Silver Creek.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
Monument to Thomas Jefferson.

The Thomas jefferson Memorial as
sociation organized for erecting at the
national capital an appropriate and
national memorial to the author of the
Declaration of independence, through
its president, Admiral George Dewey
has issued an appeal to the American
people for funds to carry out the OBJ
ject of the association.
The appeal which is signed by Ad
miral Dewey, pays tribute to Thomas
Jefferson and asks the people to con
tribute to the memorial according tc
their ability. The character and cost
of the proposed monument are moi
stated.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
Euloov of President Mckinley.

President Roosevelt was principa
orator at a banquet given under the
auspices of the Canton Republican
League in commemoration of the birth
day of Mckinley.
Surrounded by friends, neighbor.
and business and political associate.
of the dead president, he pronounced
a brilliant and eloquent eulogy upor
the life and works of Mckinley.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
sultan's Troops Victorious.

The sultans troops have utterly rout
ed the forces of the Moorish pretendei
and captured Blu Hamara himself.
The sultan's victory was absolute
almost the entire following of the pre-
tender being either slain or captured
His camp, provisions and ammunitio5
were taken and the artillery which
was lost by the sultan's army in the
battle of December 23, was recaptured
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
Thursday.

President Roosevelt was the chief
orator at the Mckinley memorial ex.
ercises at Canton.
An express crashed into the rear Of
a local train on the New Jersey Cen.
trail at Graceland and 2l persons we've
killed and more than 80 injured.
The Be,gian charge d'affaires at Car.
acas will undertake the administration
of Venezuelan customs in behalf OF
the allies and other foreign claimants
Armour interests credited with cor
ner in May wheat, are reported to have
sold 100000 bushels on the Chicago
board of trade and cleared 100000 by
the deal.
Miss Elizabeth Dickinson, witness
in the case of Hooper Young, accused
of the murder of Mrs. julius Pulitzer
has received many letters threatening
her life If she reveals matters taught
to her by Mormon elders while she
was member of that church.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
MARKET REPORT.
New York Provision Market.

New York, Feb. 2.
WHEAT - No. red, S2Ac (.
o. b. afoat; No. l northern. Duluth.
SShc.
CORN - No. corn, 59c I. o. b.
afioat
OATS - No. 2 oats, 49c; No. 2
white, 4lc; No. 3 white, 431sc.
PORK-Mess, $1SOOQ1S5O; family,
$1S75q19.O0
HAY-Shipping, 5507Oc; good tc
choice, 95Q$1.05.
BUTTBR-Creamery, extras, 26c;
factory, 1Sc; imitation creamery
western fancy, zoe.
CHEESE-Fancy large white, 131sc;
small white, lac
EGGS-State and Pennsylvania,
Csc
POTATOES-New York, per 1Sa
lbs, $150@2.00.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
Soldier Prisoners Escaped.

Detroit, Feb. 3.-Five soldiers es.
capped from the guard house at Fort
Wayne. The fog was so dense that
once outside Of the building detection
was impossible. The men are Isaac
Gosling, sentenced to two years for
forgery; Edward Horton and James
Wilson, serving two years each for de.
sertion, and Philip B. Gleason and
William s. Hopkins, serving three
years for desertion. Gleason and Hop.
kins have escaped before and were
rearrested in Grand Rapids and anoth'
er year added to their sentences.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
fRIGHTFUL DISASTER.
Twenty-Three People Killed In
a Railroad Collision.

Wreck In Acknowledgement 10 JEFF
ferson - Message on Silver Ex-
change-Fifty-Four Insane Patients
Burned-Eulogy on President Nc
kinIey-Democratic Mayor In Ithaca.
One of the most appalling railroad
wrecks that has occurred in the vicin-
ity of New York for many years, cost
ing 2S lives and injuring over so, took
place Tuesday might at Craceland on
the Central Railroad of New Jersey,
near Westfield, N. j., when the Royal
Blue Line express plowed at top speed
into the rear of local train.
Immediately after the crash three
of the shattered cars of the local train
took fire, rendering impossible the res
cue of many of the wounded who were
pinned fast in the wreck. Many bodies
are believed to have been consumed.
On board the flyer all the passen'
gers, although badly shaken up, es-
capped uninjured save for trifiing
bruises.
Passengers on the flyer say the ell
gineer applied the brakes hard just a
minute or so before the wreck
The train ahead had sent a flagman
back, but it seems he was recalled
when the train got under way and, al
though he left torpedoes, the Royal
Blue did not heed them or else was
going too fast to stop in the short dis
tance remaining. The man who went
back to flag the train had just swung
onto the rear end of his train and is
among the dead
The engine and three worst wrecked
cars were piled into heap containing
at least 100 dead and injured. From
the mass came fearful screams for aid,
A minute later the wreck caught fire
from the fire box of the locomotive.
The screams of the injured in the heap
we're intensified as they found them.
selves hemmed in by the flames.
The blame for the disaster is placed
by the railroad officials on Engineer
Davies, who, according to policeman
who took him from the shattered cab
of his engine, admitted that he had
seen the red and green danger lights
displayed but, expecting to see them
suddenly change to white, rushed on
until it was too late to check speed
before he plunged into the rear of the
train ahead.
Engineer Davies died at the Much.
lenburg hospital Thursday.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.

Member of C0ngress--Joseph Q. Sibley.
Member of Sendte--J. X. p. Hall.
Assembly-C. w. Amsler.
President Jwdge-W. M. Lindsey: -,
Associate J,sdges-R. b. Crawford, W..
II. II. Dotterer
Prothonotary, Register & Recorder, &C.
j. q. Geist.
SleriG.-Geo. w. Noblit.
Treasurer-FrAd. A. Keller.
Cbmmtssi0ners-C. Burhenn. A. X
Shpe, Henry Weingard.
District A Attorney-S. D. Irwin.
jury CbmmiSSioners-Ern SloDie'
LOWS Wagner.
Cbroner-Dr. J. w. Morrow.
County Auditors-W. ii: Stiles, Geo.
w. Holeman, b. A. McCloskey.
County Superintendent-E. e. stitzin-
RcEulur Terms Of Court.
Fourth Monday of February.
Third Monday Of May.
Fourth Monday of September.
Third Monday of November.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
Founder of Modern Life Insurance.

New York, Feb. 3. - The tablet
erected to the memory of Morris Robin.
son by the Canadian Society of New
York, at 56 Wall street, was unveiled
by his granddaughter, Miss Harriet
Duer Robinson, in the presence of a
distinguished gathering. The tablet
is located on the spot where on Feb
1, 1S43, Mr.. Robinson established a
modern life insurance business.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
Church and sabbath school.

Presb terian Sabbath School at $40 a.
M; NJ. Il. Sabbath School at lO:0O a. m.
Preaching in M. Il. Church every SAD
bath evening by Rev. o. IL. Nickle
Preaching in the f. NJ. Church every
Sabbath evening at the usual hour. heV'
McGarvy, Pastor.
Services in the Presbyterian Ohurcn
every sabbath morning ana evening"
The regular meetings of the w. Z. L.
u. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourth Tuesdays OF each
M, nth.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Summary of the Weeks News
of the World.
Cream of the News Culled From Long
Dispatches and Put In Proper Shape
For the Hurried Reader Who is Too
Busy to Read the Longer Reports
and Desires to Keep Posted.

About so insane patients were
burned TO death by fire at the Col.
ney Hatch asylum in London.
The sentence of death passed upon
Colonel Arthur Lynch, who was found
guilty of high treason Friday last, has
been commuted to penal servitude for
life.
The steamer reported ashore at Alb
erfraw Point, Is'e of Anglesey, is the
Bothilde-Russ. She is German vessel
and was bound from Liverpool for Car
diff All her crew were landed in
safety.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
Twenty Killed In Arizona Wreck.

Two Southern Pacific passenger
trains collided head-on when running
at full speed near Walls, Is miles east
of Tucson, Ariz. Eleven cars were
consumed in few minutes.
Engineer Bruce and his fireman and
Engineer Wiley were burned to death,
and his fireman seriously injured
Twenty bodies have been taken from
the mass of burned and charred
wreckage, and it is believed that sew
eral more are buried among the
twisted and tangled mass of iron and
steel.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
FIRE IN A SCHOOL.
Seven Pupils, Cut OFF by Flames, In
jured by Jumping From Windows.

OgdensUurg, Feb. 3.-The Union free
school at Rensselaer, Falls was totally
destroyed by fire and seven of the pu-
pills in jumping from a second story
window to a wood pile 10 feet below
were more or less injured, but none
fatally.
Shortly after the school session
opened flames were noticed issuing
from the radiators in the floors. The
teachers marched all but seven of the
rupils out in order.
The seven remained behind TO get
their wraps and finding themselves cut
off by the flames, jumped from the Sec
ond story windows. The pupils and
teachers lost all their books and
wraps.
The furnace had just been installed
and had not yet been taken over by
the school board. The loss is $4,000
and the insurance $4,000.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-02-04
EIeuen Fins Burned to Death.

Vancouver, B. c., Feb. 3.-SteameI
Coquitlan from the northern coast Of
British Columbia brings news of a fire
in the colony of Fins by which II
were burned to death. The victims
were all women and children. The
colony was recently established on
Malcolm island and numbered about
12O. The fire was caused by an over
Turned lamD