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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Worlds Fair Dedication,

Probably the largest crowd that
ever listened to a president of the
United States, certainly the largest
that ever gathered beneath a roof to
hear the words of any chief magis'
trate, packed the huge Liberal Arts
building to attend the dedication ex.
ercises of the Louisiana Purchase
Worlds fair at st. Louis.
Thirty thousand persons were in
sight, if not sound, of the president
when he made his speech accepting
the half-completed structures in the
name of the government; 10 governors
of as many sovereign states, the gen.
eral commanding the army, the gen.
eral who manages the army, regiments
of regulars, regiments of citizen sol.
diers, bands without number, repre-.
sentatives of 20 foreign powers and
plain people to the number of a quar-,
ter of million, attended the exercises
as participants or witnesses.
The only living ex-president, Grover
Cleveland, the only American prince
of the church, Cardinal Gibbons,
Bishops Potter and Hendricks, Presi.
dent Francis of the Exposition com.
pany and ex-senator Carter, head OF
the government building, took part
with the president in the program OF
dedication.
Several governors were Obliged to
stand or seat themselves on steps
ledges or even on the floor; one of
the latter was Odell of New York
who, after standing until his legs
grew weak, pumped himself down in
front of Senator Hanna.
The weather, which turned bitter
cold over night, marred the pleasure
of the parade for most of the people
who stood shivering, blue-faced and
wretched, while the bands and regi
ments went marching by.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Excursionists Killed by Train.

The Grand Trunk Pan-American
flyer from Chicago ran into a crowd
of 1000 people at the corner of De.
quinder and Garfield streets, Detroit,
at $3.50 Sunday evening, killing at
least six persons and seriously injuring
about 80 more.
The majority of the killed and
wounded are from Toledo. Fifteen hun.
dred Poles from Toledo came up to
Detroit in the morning on special
Lake Shore train to celebrate holi.
day.
Accompanied by hundreds of their
local friends, waiting for the train,
the excJrsionists jammed Garfield ave.
nue. some time before the train was
due, in readiness for it. When the
train was sighted the crowd pushed
across the track and onto the Grand
Trunk tracks, which adjoin those of
the Lake Shore. just as the Grand
Trunk Pan-American flyer came thund.
ering from the West.
The people were thrown into the
air and dashed to either side of the
track. Many of them were ground un.
der the wheels. The police depart
ment was notified and all ambulances
in the city rushed to the scene. The
victims were scattered along the tracks
for a distance of TWO blocks.
No statement could be secured eth
er from the engineer CT fireman as
TO the assertions of bystanders that
the whistle was not blown for the
crossing.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Thursday.

President Roosevelt and cabinet hold
important conference in st. Louis.
President Roosevelt and eX-Presi-
dent Cleveland arrived at St. Louis
for worlds fair dedication.
King Edward left the British EN-.
bassy in Rome for the Vatican in a
closed carriage to call upon the pope.
Leland Dorr Kent took the stand in
his own defense at Rochester. Mr.
Raines' request that the jury retire
was denied.
Seventy-five persons are reported
killed by volcanic explosion near town
of Frank, N. w. T., on line of Crows
Nest railway.
General James F. Bell, interviewed
in London on General Miles report
on the Philippines, declared all the al
legged cases have been investigated.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Saturday.

Forest fires are devasting miles OF
forest in the Adirondacks.
There are SO known dead, of whom
Is were women and 10 children, by the
landslide at Frank, Alberta
A dispatch from ST. Petersburg con
tains the authoritative statement that
Russia will close no door to American
trade, and only insists on China ced
ing no territory to other nations.
With his skull crushed in and the
marks of a cleaver on his neck and
shoulders, James Edward Mcmahon
was found murdered in the fiat house
where he lived in West 153rd street
New York.
According to Dr. St. Clair McKelway
the nomination of Grover Cleveland for
the presidency by the Democratic
party is demanded by the Influential
public sentiment Of the South, as well
as by the rank and file Of the party in
the North.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06

900 men, women and children who
were in the church when 1t began,
but the panic among the affrighted
women and children was the cause oi
severe bruises.
Bloody and lacerated faces and
hands were evidences of the fierce con.
tests, and the efforts of the priests,
Father Kollar and others, were unavail
ing to restore peace.
The men had been penned in by
mob of angry women, who pelted the
stronger sex with whatever they could
lay their hands on. The men who
could fed or jumped from the windows
and when the police arrived they re
turned to the assistance of the women
1t was not until the police had drawn
their revOlvers and threatened to use
them that peace was restored and ar
rests made.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Kinq Edward Visits the Pope.

King Edward has visited the Vati
can. Starting from the British an.
bassy he alighted at the court Of
st. Damas in the Vatican, whore he
was received by Mgr. Bisleti, mas
ter of the chamber, accompanied by
the Vatican officials. The pontifical
guards rendered royal honors to the
visitor Mgr. Bisleti conducted
King Edward to the stairway, where
Mgr Cagiano de Azevedo, the pope'a
major domo, surrounded by prelates and
high dignitaries Of the Holy See,
greeted the British sovereign, who was
then conducted by the major
domo to the private apartments of the
pope. No one was present at the in
terview between the pontiff and the
British king.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
TUESDAY,.

Emperor William, with his two eld.
est sons, paid a visit to Pope Leo at
the Vatican.
The Rev. Charles Reichlin of Lorain,
O., in a sermon, declared his belief
that his sister was not murdered by
the Rev Ferdinand Walser
John II. Costello, a wealthy Buffalo
business man, was shot and perhaps
fatally injured by his wife, from whom
he had been separated for five years.
Long Island town officials armed
with cameras took snapshots Of auto
mobiles, the pictures to be used as
evidence in support Of the Bailey bill
a. the Albany hearing on Wednesday,
A Grand Trunk train at Detroit
dashed into a crowd of Poles who
were waiting for an excursion train
10 return 20 Toledo. At least seven
net instant death and 25 were In
iured
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Schwab Sells Hiehmont Estate.

Pittsburg, May 4.-The deed in the
sale of Highmont, Charles M.
Schawb's Pittsburg residence, to d.
NJ. Clemson of this city has been regis
tered. The consideration was $685.
500 The sale was made through the
Commonwealth Real Estate and Trust
company the final papers being signed
about three weeks ago. Mr., Schwab
owned the property about four years
ago, having bought It for $25O,O0O from
the heiress of the late Captain j. j.
Vandergrift The property consists OF
five acres. The house is large man.
sionlike structure.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
All Residents Out to Save Town.

Waterford, N. j., May A dam
aged roof at the Catholic church, slight
er damages at the Simpkin, Curtis and
Fitzharris buildings, one man burned
about the hands, others scorched and
terrified residents are results of the
forest fire that has been burning be-
tween this place and IIouden for three
days. Swept around by a hurricane
the fire reached this place and only
back firing saved many properties.
The fire, which has burned over ter
ritory - miles long and nearly five
wide, destroying cedar swamps, timber
and cranberry bogs at Goshen and
Maple island, is now being desperate
ly fought at Chewtown, three miles
distant.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06

Stuart Robson, the veteran come
dian, died of heart disease at the
Hotel Savoy in New York Wednesday.
He was 67 years old and had been on
thestage 81 years. Mr.. Robson was
taken i'll early in March and was oblig
ed to rest completely for two weeks.
He resumed his engagement March 10
and after playing in New York and
Brooklyn appeared in various towns
in the upper part Of the state. A few
days ago he was taken i'll in Auburn
n. Y, and was then brought to this
city. The interment took place at
Cohasset, Mass, on Friday.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Friday.

Great military parade the show spec
tacle of the dedication ceremonies OF
the Louisiana Purchase exposition at
st. Louis. Addresses by President
Roosevelt and eX-President Cleveland
The jury in the case of James How
ard, on trial for the murder of Cover.
nor William Goebel of Kentucky, has
found the defendant guilty and fixed
the punishment at life Imprisonment
Mrs Custer, in letter to Charles
Schreyvogel, stamps his portrayal OF
equipment and costume in the paint.
ing, Clusters Demand" as true in de.
tail, while she cCmmends the artists
skill.
Russia has informed the state de
partment at Washington that the pub.
lished reports as to new Manchurian
demands in China are altogether in
correct and that the ports now open
will not be closed.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
THREE FELL. TO DEATH.
ehladelphians Instantly Killed While
Working In Pittsburg Train Shed.

Pittsburg, May 4.-Three workmen
were instantly killed and two had
miraculous escapes from death in the
Union station train shed Friday after
noon, The dead are Charles Carmen,
SIS North Camac street; William Mel
son Adam, 2527 A street, and Isadore
Rosenberg, PIT Spruce street, all Of
Philadelhia.
John Ehret and David Moore, also
of Philadelphia, were on scaffold at
the east end of the trainshed putting
in glass. The men were employed by
D. L. Upton & Sons. The scaffold on
which they were standing broke, and
the three dead men fell to the track,
rs feet below They died almost in
stantly.
Ehret and Moore caught their arms
in the lattice work and hung on.
Ehret lost his hold and began drop
ping, when he threw out his other
arm and hooked it into the last steel
girder. There they dangled rs feet in
theair until ladders could be procured
for them to descend. The bodies of
the dead men were taken to the
morgue.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Trade Conditions Satisfactory.

Weather conditions and labor dis.
turbances, actual or threatened, have
been temporarily unsettling elements
in the trade and industrial situation
this week, but great basic elements.
such as general business and crop con
ditions, remain largely favorable.
Cold weather and snow in the West
have checked farm work, interfere d
with retail distribution and retarded
recorders. The exact opposite, how
ever, is noted at the East, where the
weather has been spring-like and a
much needed stimulus to retail distri'
button has thus been given.
All the usual measures Of trade vol
ume testify to the generally satisfac'
tory conditions ruling.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Defends Accused Priest.

Rev. Charles Reichlin of st. Joseph's
church in Lorain, o., and brother
of Miss Agatha Reichlin, who was mur.
dered last Thursday night, Sunday
made a sensational denunciation of the
authorities for the arrest Of the Rev.
Ferdinand Walser on the charge of
numbering his (Reichlin's) sister. The
occasion was at the services in that
church and the place was from the
altar steps.
Father Walser, who is confined in
the county Jail at Elyria, was not ac'
cessible to visitors and he has seen
no one since Saturday. He is treated
as any other prisoner except that he
has the freedom of the corridor.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Bishop of Buffalo Not Yet Chosen.

Rome, May 5.-While the Rev. G. Fl.
Cotton, rector of st. Stephens, church,
New York, is favored by a majority
OF the cardinals of the congregation
of the propaganda for the appoint
ment as bishop of Buffalo, urgent pres
sure is being brought to bear from
Buffalo not only upon the congrega'
tion but upon the Vatican also, in fa'
vor of the Very Rev. Michael p. Con
merry, vicar general of the Buffalo dio
cese. Nothing is sure in the matter
of this appointment until the pope
gives his decision. 1t has been sup.
posed up to the present time, however,
that Father Cotton will be chosen.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Monday.

Two men were killed and five seri
ously injured in train wreck on the
New Haven railroad at South Nor.
walk, Conn.
The Rev. Father Walkers arrest in
Lorain, o., for the murder of another
priests sister, followed a hunt with
dogs leading to his door.
President Roosevelt is given enthus
isastic greeting at Kansas City, Mo.
and at Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka
and other Kansas cities.
Turkish government proclaims Sal
onica in state of siege, extraordinary
military precautions are taken to pre-.
vent outrages in all parts of empire
and massacres are feared.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06

Ogdensburg, May 5. - At confer
ences held between John Joyce of
Buffalo, vice president of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's association,
representing the striking local freight
handlers, and officers Of the Rutland
Transit Steamboat company, PROPOSE.
tions by both sides were rejected.
There is no contention over wages.
The union men refuse to work on
docks with non-union men. The com.
pany refuses union recognition, will
not discharge men now employed and
will hire cid employees individually
only.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Death of Bishop Hurst.

Bishop John Fletcher Hurst Of the
Methodist Episcopal church died in
Washington at 12:40 o'clock Monday
morning.
Bishop Hurst had been in failing
health for nearly two years and for
more than a year it had been recog'
nized that a fatal termination of his
malady was but a question of months.
He was stricken with paralysis in
London last September year ago
when attending the ecumenical con.
ference. The news of President Nc.
Kinley's assassination prostrated him
and the shock brought on rapidly the
decline that finally ended in his death
decline that finally ended in his death.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
BRIEF NEW ITlMS,
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.

Albert ]. Adams, the "policy king"
began his term in Sing Sing, where he
was taken handcuffed to another con.
victed felon.
United States supreme court, by de.
cision in Alabama case, indirectly
recognizes power of state to disfran
chise negroes by constitutional pro
visions.
Agricultural department officials in
Washington declared there was no ex.
cuse for the advance in prices of
dressed beef, there being no scarcity
of cattle.
The New York court of appeals
unanimously sustains the special fran.
chise tax law, reversing the decision
of the appellate division handed down
in January.
The provisional regiment of Nation.
Guard, acting as escort to Governor
Odell at st. Louis exposition dedica-
ton, left Buffalo at IL o'clock Tuesday
1,144 strong.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
franchise Tax Law Stands.

Without a dissenting opinion the
New York court Of appeals has de
cided that the special franchise tax
law is constitutional, and has thus re-
versed the decision of the appellate
division of the supreme court, third
department, handed down last Jan.
uary, that the act is unconstitutional
because it violates the home rule pro
vision of the state constitution in in.
trusting the assessing power to the
state board of tax commissioners in.
stead of to local assessors.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Mnns ALWAYS Ruled Postofflce.

Lancaster May 4.-The postofiice at
Kingbridge, which has been in the
custody of one family ever since it was
opened, has been closed by request of
the postmaster. The office was es-
tablished in 1873, with Vincent King
as postmaster. At his death Albert
King was appointed, and in 1885 Hor-
ace King was given the postmaster
ship, he serving up until the present
time.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
MOUNTAINS TOP FELL.
Little Mining Town Of Frank,
Alberta, Overwhelmed.

Worlds Fair Dedication-Train Ran
Into a Crowd-Battle In Church.
Emperor and King Visit the Pope,
Death of Bishop Hurst and Stuart
Robson.
By an unexpected and unprecedent'
ed disaster, for that part of the world
the little mining town of Frank, AL
berta, has been plunged into mourning.
There are at least S5 dead and fur
ther details may increase the number
of victims.
About o'clock in the morning. aft
er the night shift was preparing to
come from work, either an earthquake
or volcanic eruption occurred on the
top of Turtle mountain, which over.
looks the town of Frank.
There was a tremendous upheaval
which awoke all sleepers, many OF
whom believed that the end of the
world had come.
The entire side of the mountain was
removed by the disturbance and mil
lions of tons of rock scattered like
chaff over the town.
The r,ine buildings and mine en-
frances were buried under a pile OF
debris hundreds of feet deep. Nine
houses in the village are buried under
the rocks. Their roofs were crushed
in like egg shells and every one in
side the houses perished.
All those working at the mine on
outside jobs were instantly killed. 1t
is supposed that S5 men were thus
killed, although the exact number is
not known. The records of the Office
and the payrolls are buried under the
immense pile of broken rock.
OF the men who were at work in
the shaft, II in number, Is worked
their way out and two were suffo-
Gated.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Guns Tested by Ordnance Men.

South Bethlehem, Pa, May A.
General Crozier and Captain Wheeler
of the government army ordnance de-
partment Saturday we're the guests of
the Bethlehem Steel company. In the
afternoon they witnessed the satisfac'
tory tests of several 6-pounders and
S-inch guns at the Redington proving
grounds. The guns are part of an or
der the steel company is filing for
the government.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Pitched Battle In a Church.

A pitched battle in which prayer
books an | broken furniture were use6
as missiles took place in the SlavoniC
Roman Catholic church at Joliet, Ill.
Sunday, and when the police ar.
rived to quell the disturbance the bel.
ligerents turned from each other and
united their forces against the officers
The fight, which grew out Of cid
factional differences, resulted in nc
serious bodily harm to any Of the q.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
ASYLUM Overcrowded.

Norristown, Pa, May 4. - At the
trustees meeting at the state hospital
for the insane here DR.. Richardson
called attention to the overcrowded
condition of the institution, 126 males
and 1872 females being compelled to
sleep in the corridors. The population
is 1922 males and LILY females Dur.
ing the last month 27 males and 16
females were admitted, while only II
were discharged.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Change of Wind Alone Saved Town.

Bloomsbury, Pa, May 4. - Disas-
trous forest fires are raging on the
mountain between Catawissa and
Mainville and on the river hill oppo-
site this place. High winds drove the
flames to within a few hundred feet OF
Catawissa, causing great excitement
among tho residents, but a change of
wind saved the town from destruction.
Although the fire did not start until
late Friday afternoon, already more
than eight miles of valuable timber
have been destroyed, causing a loss
Of many thousand dollars.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06

An ingenious way Of comparing the
sizes of planets with the sun is sug-
gested by a writer i'm the bulletin Of
the French Astronomical society. Let
the earth. he says. be represented by
n 20 frame piece, then Venus Is 10
francs; Mars, .; Mercury, Z; Uranus,
$50; Neptune, 800; Saturn, l,SlO; Ju'
piter. $500, and the sun G,TS0,00O.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Auainst Eiqht.Hour Law.

The court of appeals of New York
state has declared unconstitutional
the eight-hour provision of the penal
code (sub-division l of section 3Sf-H)
in the case of the People VS.. Orange
County Road Construction company
reversing the decision of the appellate
division, second department and sus.
tanning that of Judge Beattie of the
Orange county court. who ordered the
discharge of the defendant company
upon its demurrer alleging that the
law was unconstitutional.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Rejects Carneaie Library.

Montreal, Que, May 5. - The city
council has rescinded a resolution
adopted in April 1902, accepting an
offer Of $150OOO from Andrew Carne
gle for a library building. The coun
Gil could not decide upon a satisfac'
tory site, and the dual language ques.
tion presented a grave difficulty.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Mechanlcsbura Mountain Burning.

Greensburg, Pa, May 4.-The noun
tain near Mechanicsburg and back OF
Ridgeview is on fire and burning
fiercely The fire, it is thought, start
ed from Jacob Beyers' saw MILL near
the former place and already has
burned up thousands of feet of lumber
The fire wardens, with large posses OF
men. are fighting the flames.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Regular Terms Of Court
Church and sabbath school.

Presby terian Sabbath School at 9;4o a.
m NJ. E. Sabbath School at 1000 a. IN.
Preaching in NJ. L. Church every Sab
bath 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. II. w. Illingworth, Pastor.
The regular meetings of the w. Z. i.
u. are held at the headquarters ON the
second and fourth Tuesdays OF each
IN, nth.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06

Lansdale, Pa, May Awhile tear
ing down an old spring house near
Blue Bell Samuel T. Bustard of Ger
mantown, Philadelphia, found a tin
box secreted behind a stone in the
wall. When the box was opened ii
was found to contain 5000 in coin and
various denominations of "shinplaster"
currency.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
Emperor Visits the Pope.

Emperor William of Germany was
received by the pope on Sunday. He
had a conference with the pontiff of
40 minutes duration and then returned
to the residence of the Prussian minis.
ter to the Holy See
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-05-06
New Provisional Government.

Washington, May 5.-An undated
telegram from Minister Powell at Port
au Prince reports that the Vasquez
government has fallen and a new pro
visional government created which
has the entire territory under its con
troll with General Gil as president