The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1904-12-14

last, following an operation for gall
stones from which he had suffered for
some time past. Mr.. Graudn was aged
66 years, and had spent his entire life in
town with whose best Interests he had
been so prominently identified, ard for
whose welfare he had done so much. His
principal business was numbering and
oil producing in which he was eminently
successful, amassing . large fortune.
Besides his wife he leaves three sons and
two daughters.
John g. Wolfand his l6 year-old son,
Edward, of Pleasantville, were badly
burned in gesolene fire at that place
Monday forenoon. They were setting up
a gasoline burner attachment to a bath
tub at the home Of II. l.. Bryner, when
the gasolene tank containing gallon of
the highly inhamable fluid, upset and
the fumes caught fire from lamp. The
boy was covered with gasoline thrown by
the explosion, and ran into an adjoining
bedroom. where ne buried himselfin the
! bed CLOTH ing and smothered out the fire.
| His father was dazed aud lost valuable
time in trying TO put out the gasoline
that was burning his face and head, by
smacking the flames with his hands. lie
also grabbed one hand by the other which
| peeled off the flesh. They are both in
dangerous conditions, but may recover.
They are under treatment at the Titus
willie hospital.
Forty thousand quail are being pur-
chased in OK lahoma for distribution in
Pennsylvania. 1t is an easy matter to
trap 10000 per day in that Territory, so
plentiful are they. The Legislature at
the next session will be requested to
adopt these laws "The State to raise
duck hunting after Japuary no dogs to
be trained until August lst, and then to
be kept under control and not permitted
to remain all night in the woods; deer
hunting to commence November lst, and
to continue for fifteen days, limiting each
hunter to one deer per annum and pro-
vidiug q penalty of 500 for shooting deer
with buckshot, bullets only to he used"
No doubt the incoming legislature will
find itself confronted with aboutthe usual
amount of freak legislation relating to
game. 1t is feature that never fails TO
present itself in the average law-making
body.
The seamy side OF Christmas might
he characterized best as Christmas folly.
TO be extravagant is to spend more than
ones income justifies, and to overlook
the claims of the future in gratifying the
demands of the present. It's fact that
there ought to be good deal more inde-
pendence on this whole subject, and that
people should have the courage of their
| convictions in the matter OF Christmas
presents. A good time to start is the
present. Eliminate from the Christmas
schedule the name of everyone to whom
you are intending to send a perfunctorv
gift, or gift that you supposed might be
an exchange. Next, decide definitely
how much you can rightfully spend, and
limit your gifts TO that amount. Then,
leave out the grown people, and lavish
your Christmas bounty on the children,
not only on your own children, but on
the poor and desoate.-Woman's Home
Companion.
Appearing as it does that winter has
really set in, and that we shall have snow
pretty much steadily from this on, it is
not out of order to call attention to the
fact once more that this borough has an
ordinance regulating the matter of keep
ing the snow off the walks. at the same
time suggesting that it is hardly the right
thing TO compel the average citizen to re-
iigiously observe this statute while non
resident owners of vacant lots are, or
seem to be, in no way amensble to this
very proper and wholesome borough
enactment, but may let the snow accu
mulate and remain on their walks the
whole winter long, causing no end of an
noyance to pedestrians as they slip, slide
and swash along over these unshoveled,
neck breaking walks. Let the council
SUI llldN al oi 10 tiUdlV'l ulihV III WIS NAV
ter, to the end that our handsome walks
may be kept clean ofsnow from one end
of town to the other at least as much so
as the conditions OF the weather will per-
init.
Michael Kssinger, charged with kill
ing his wife at Catfish, on June 7, 1904,
was found guilty of msnslaughter by a
jury at Clarion on Thursday of last week.
Judge w. d. Patton, of Armstrong coun-
ty, presided at the trial. Messenger, a
widower and Mrs. Mex inney, a widow,
were married in 1900. The latter owned
farm over which her husband secured
control. Kissinger, it is alleged, made a
deal for the coal, but his wife refused to
sign the deed unless her husband would
give her half the proceeds. The couple
quarreled and Mrs. Kis'inger went to
live with her son, Martin Mckinney, at
Catfish On the night of June I, Kissin-
ger called at the Catfish house and re-
newed his efforts to have his wife sign
the deed for the coal land sale. No one
saw them, but Martin Mckinney, who
was asleep in an adjoining room, was
awakened when the woman fell. She
was dead when he reached her. 1t was
alleged that Kissinger struck his wife
with club or some other blunt instru-
ment.
The attorneys for Fred j. and Nick
Kebort, of Meadvlle, defendants in a
case with the Pure Food Commission of
Pennsylvania, were notified Tuesday that
the Supreme Court had granted petit
tion for hearing before that tribunal.
Some time ago the Keborts were accused