The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-07-01

the past two weeks in attendance upon
their sister, Mrs. Jessie Sebeck, who has
been verv i'll for the past three months
from nervous prostration. They brought
her home with them in the hope that the
change may be beneficial to her.
BY the undermining of the false work
under the new river bridge building over
the Allegheny at Franklin, the structure
fell, on Thursday last, making of it a
complete wreck. and fatally injuring
Charles Walton of Rochester, Pa. and
causing more or less serious injuries to
five or six other laborers, but all OF
whom will recover. The mystery is
that so many escaped, most of them
without any injury whatever, there beng
seventeen men on the bridge when it
went down.
The Fourth is but two days off and
it can be safely predicted that there will
be little or nothing doing in or about
these parts on that eventful occasion, in
the way of the usual noisy demonstra.
tion, unless perhaps the gun club should
take notion to crack few clay birds,
which the boys are now holding under
advisement. 'Tis just as well, and bet
ter, for that matter, being very much of a
saving on fingers, heads, eyes, etc., which
are consideration in these times of our
great prosperity.
-Wilkesbarre has a champion tall boy
in Joseph Orr, son off II. Orr. He is
seven feet, five inches, still growing and
is Is years old. A number of circus peo-
pie and museum managers have been
aller him, but although they have offered
MIN huge financial inducements he will
not go on exhibition. He has brother,
now years old, who is five feet aud
growing rapidly. The iather of these
boys is robust man of six feet and the
mother is about the same size. The
young giant weighs over 200 pounds.
"A few fair sized fish of the game fam
lily have been taken by local sports since
the opening of the season, but as yet the
angling is not right up to snuff. Wait
till frogs come in" then see us fill up.
FOREST REPUBLICAN. Wouldn't that
drown you? The idea of Br'er Wenk
Filling up" on nything-particularJ
frogs, when Tionesta tamarack is only
ten throw.-Blizzard. Had this measley
ding been accompanied by cartoon or
special headlines, the whole Blizzard
push would now be lanquishing in Jail,
under the Grady-Salus bill.
1T iained Sunday afternoon in this
town, or perhaps it would be nearer the
mark to say the heavens opened and let
down torrent of moisture the likes of
which has not been seen here for many a
day. The sewers were not big enough
by halfto take all the water that came
down, and the streets, lawns and lanes
were deluged for the space OF nearly two
hours, doing considerable damage to gar
dens, many of which were under water
several inches deep for pretty much the
balance of the day. Yes, it rained here
Sunday.
M. E. Graybill, of Marienville, has
closed the contract with the Salmon
Creek Lumber Co. and Collins, Watson
Il Co, for the timber Oh their lands suita-
ble for making hubs, and has commenced
the erection ofa hub factory at Kellett-
vile. He expects to have the factory in
operation some time in August and esti-
mates that it will take five years to con-
vert the timber secured into hubs. Mr..
Gray bill has been in the hub manufact-
uring business for some years, thorough
ly understands it and is hustler.-Shef-
field Observer.
There is a story going the rounds of
the western papers about twin brothers,
one OF whom was demented and was or
dered by the court to to be committed to
an asylum. The other brother accom-
panied him to the institution. Soon after
the twin brothers had arrived at the asy-
lum the sheriff received a telegram from
the superintendent, saying, 1.-TWO men
who look just alike here from your
county. One for commitment. One is
talking of building a railroad to the
moon and the other says that Cleveland
will be again elected President in 1904.
Which is The crazy man?'
Carl Porter Heywang, only son of
Attorney NJ. J. Heywang of Titusville,
well known to many Of our readers, was
fatally injured while bathing in Pine
Creek near that city, last Thursday,
death occurring few hours after the ac-
cident. The young man who was stu
dent at Ann ArbOr, Mich, was enter
tanning college chum. and together they
had gone for a bath. In making a dive
into the water young Heywang struck
his head on stone, causing concussion
of the brain. His friend succeeded in
getting him out of the water, and with
the assistance of others he was removed
to his home, where he fingered till
o'clock the following morning without
regaining consciousness,
During the past week tennis tour
nament has been in progress between
home players, the lineup comprising
about everybody old enough to hold a
racket, besides some that one might
think too old to accomplish that feat.
The contests usually attract good au.
diences, but the attendance record was
broken last Saturday evening when the
opposing teams consisted of Alb. Grove
and Lawyer Ritchey VS.. Landlord Wea-
yer and Judge Irwin. The grounds were
lined with people on either side of the
"court," and the way Weaver and the
Judge mopped the ground with Alb. and