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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
LUREo PRIEST ON SICK CALL.
Two Men and a Woman Held Him
Prisoner and Robbed Him.

Cleveland, Aug. 2S.-Upon the state
ment made to the police by Father
Benedict Rosinski, a Catholic priest
of st. Stanislaus church. that he had
been held prisoner for "a hours with
out food and forced to sign two note1
for $500 each and two checks for like
amounts which had since been cashed.
besides being robbed of $50 and some
1ewelry, two men and a woman were
arrested.
The woman is said to have lured
the priest to her room in Cedar ave-
nue. on sick call and the men are said
to have rushed In upon them and held
the priest prisoner until he had salts.
fed their demands.
Father Rosinski says he received
two telephone messages on Thursday
urging him to call upon Jennie Oien-
ski of No. 3S9 Cedar avenue. He had
been there but a few moments vixen
Julien Tuszynski rushed in and de-
claring himself to be the woman's
fiance, demanded that the priest give
up $4,000 for alternating her affections,
With Tuszynsh was Yeo Czechow-
ski, both of whom, according to the
priests story, started at once to beat
him and tear his clothes from his
back when he refused to give them
any money.
His jewelry was taken from him as
well as $50 and he was detained as
prisoner for "a hours without food or
drink, until he consented to sign the
checks and notes These checks were
cashed by Tuszynsh and the woman,
It is said.
Upon their return to the room with
the money the priest says he was re-
leased. The priest notified the police
and the trio was arrested. The two
notes and SS19 were found under car
pet in the womans room
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Thursday.

Edwin H. Conger has resigned as
United States ambassador to Mexico
and his resignation has been accepted.
For an hour an operator In a signal
tower on the New Haven road at Ro-
wayton. Conn, fought with maniac.
Russians decline to open their
purses to the czar, the subscriptions
to the latest internal loan amounting
to only 100000 in Moscow.
Edward C. Shafer, former comptrol
Ter of the city of Buffalo, manager of
the Buffalo School Furniture company,
is hopelessly and violently insane and
has been committed to the Buffalo
State hospital.
George Peters of Bush's Bridge,
near Tonawanda, sent charge of
buckshot into his brothers-in-law, An
thony and John Kopp, who reside
across the road from his home, think
ing they were chicken thieves.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Friday.

Frederick A. Peckham was arrested
in Saratoga, having been indicted in
Washington for conspiracy to defraud
the government in connection with the
cotton crop report scandal
Count Lamsdorff, Russian foreign
minister. authorizes the statement
that Russia will pay Japan no contri-
button, direct or indirect, nor will 1t
make any cession of territory what
ever.
On an order from Judge Magruder
Of Chicago writ of supersedeas was =
sued In the case of Johann Hoch, con-
victed of numbering his wife, Marie
Welcker Hoch, and sentenced to be
hanged at Chicago today.
C. Roy Knabenshue sailed over
Manhattan in his airship for the sec
ond time, reaching an altitude of near
ly mile over First avenue and 23rd
street, and returning to the ball field
In Central Park after voyage lasting
35 minutes.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Failure Of Peace Conference.

The life of the peace conference
seems to hang by thread and the
situation is considered almost hope.
less.
The Russians generally seem not dis.
pleased with the situation. They be-
lieve Japan has been automatically
maneuvered into a corner from which,
If she now persists in her attempt to
exact tribute with the alternative of a
continuation of the war, she cannot
eXtricate herself before the public
opinion of the world.
The peace conference seems headed
straight for the rocks. Despite the
fact that every question of principle
involved in the quarrel between the
two countries has been settled in ia
vor of the victor and in reality only
words and money" still separate
them, the negotiations seem on the
verge of final rupture.
The air is filled with gloomy fore
bodings. In the most positive fashion
it is declared that no new instructions
had reached Mr.. Witte which would
permit him to entertain the considera-
tion of the compromise proposition sub
mitted by Baron Komura on Wednes-
day, and therefore, unless Japan has
a new proposal to make, all that seems
to remain is for the plenipotentaries
to meet, sign declaration that the
conference has completed its labors,
shake hands and part as enemies.
But there are still unknown factors
in the situation which in twinkling
might change the situation. The re-
suit of President Roosevelt's second
appeal directly to Emperor Nicholas
has not transpired and the result of
the pressure on Japan to alter the
form of her proposal by the elimination
of the purchase price of the northern
half of Sakhalin is not known.
But the indications on both scores
are not reassuring. The press dis
patches from Toxic and st. Petersburg
indicate an intransigent attitude on the
part of both governments. Yet both
are anxious for peace and only words
and money" bar the path. Probably
1t is not a matter of more than $780,
100000 Yet the japanese cling dog
gedly to their demands. Their people
at home insist upon it. The most COM
petent Japanese authority who did not
conceal his pessimism, when asked
whether for the sake OF peace, Japan
would yield further, replied: Read the
dispatches from Toxic and draw your
own conclusions"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Monday.

Big printing strike which is expect
ed to involve the whole United States
and Canada, starts in Chicago.
Oleomargarine, it is alleged, has
been smuggled in great quantities
from Jersey City to seaside resorts on
Long Island
Seven wealthy men In New York
will build 100000 structure, in
which their families will combine
home and club life.
Kaisers foreign Office issues for
NAL statement declaring that the Ger
man emperor has done all in his
power to aid President Roosevelt's ef-
forts TO bring about peace
The cars final word is that Rus
sia will pay not penny Of indemnity;
she will agree to division of the is
land of Saghalin and will pay for the
maintenance of Russian prisoners In
Japan, but to nothing more.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
LOST IN BERRY SWAMP.
Party Of Six Women and Children
Campers Rescued Half Starved.

Escanaba, Mich, Aug 2S.-Huddled
together in an open and dry spot but
few feet square in the immense blue
berry swamps north of this city, three
women and three children, all half
starved, were found by a searching
party which had been seeking them for
two days.
Those in the party WERE Mrs. ]. A.
Fisher, wife Of Bernhard Fisher chief
engineer of the Northwestern road;
Mrs. B. J. Snow, wife of b. j. Snow,
Northwestern railway engineer; Ar
thur Snow, aged 10; Bessie Snow, aged
8; Miss Evelyn Doyle and a child of
Mrs. Fisher, aged 7.
The party was camping near Swanzy
and wanted some blue berries, for
lunch. DESERVING camp, they struck
into the forest and lost their way.
Two hundred searchers who went to
the camp on a special train found the
lost ones four miles from camp.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
STUMBLING BLOCK REMOVED.
Japan's Offer to Waive Indemnity Not
at First Understood by Russia.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 20. - A press
dispatch from Portsmouth declaring
that President Roosevelt was author.
lied several days ago on behalf of
Japan to waive all claim for indemnity
or reimbursement for the cost of the
war, and to cede back to Russia the
northern half of the island of Sakhalin,
leaving the redemption" price Of 1t
to the arbitration of a mixed commits
sion, was received too late here to
reach the general public, but It's sig
nificance was instantly recognized in
the few quarters where 1t became
known.
There Is every reason to believe,
Judging from the official expressions
persistenly given out by the foreign
office since the beginning of the nego
tiations at Portsmouth, that the pro
posal by Japan to waive the question
OF indemnity goes far toward remov.
Ing the last and, according to official
explanations, the only stumbling block
In the way Of peace.
The foreign Office has said that
every disputed point between Russia
and Japan with the exception of the
payment of indemnity had been prac.
tically arranged on a basis satisfac.
tory to both sides, but that Russia
would never pay an indemnity.
II the latest proposals of Japan
mean that she valves all claims to in.
demnity Of any kind or description,
giving up all idea of reimbursement
for the expenses of the war In any
guise whatsoever, and in place thereof
Is prepared to accept for the restora.
tion to Russia of the northern half
OF Sakhalin a redemption price to be
fixed by an unbiased commission, this
price to be determined upon the actual
value of the island, and not to take
into account Japan's war expenses or
to carry a concealed indemnity to
JAPAN there Is reason for the asser.
ton that. In all probability, Japan's
proposal was never understood here
In this way, and for the deduction, ac.
cording to the Russian official state.
ment, that the stumbling block to
peace can be removed, and that there
ought to be new and promising basis
for the continuance of the negotia. |
tions.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Saturday.

Wong Kai Kah, Chinese trade COM
missioner, admits that the boycott on
American goods has rendered his mis-
sion inopportune.
The little schooner N. S. Gallup ran
into the battleship Kearsarge off Point
Judith and the war vessel saved the
crew and carried the schooner into
port.
Mr. Taft and the congress party has
arrived at Tacloban and will soon sep
arate, Miss Roosevelt going to Pekin
with some of the party as guests Of
the Dowager Empress of China
1t was announced application would
be made for franchise for a trolley line
from the Manhattan terminus of the
Blackwell's Island bridge to Little
Neck in Queens, thence to oyster Bay.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Republic Iron and steel Dividends.

Chicago, Aug. 29.-Directors of the
Republic Iron and Steel company de-
cided to resume the payment of the
regular quarterly dividends on the
preferred stock. A dividend of 1%
per cent was declared payable Oct 2
to stockholders of record Sept. 81. It
was stated by representative Of the
company that the corporation is
financed for a period of 30 years and
the resumption OF the dividends on the
preferred stock by the directors was
on the assurance that it would be per-
manent There will be no declaration
of back dividends to cover the period
since the last payment. Dividends on
the preferred at the rate of per cent
year were paid regularly from Oct.
/, 1899, to Oct. /, 1903
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS
Short Items From Various
Parts Of the World.
Record Of Many Happenings Condensed
and Put In Small Space and A.
ranged With Special Regard For the
convenIenee Of the Reader Who Has
Little Time to Spare.

John Hyde, former chief statistician
of the department of agriculture. an
nounced in London that he would re-
turn home Oct. /.
American blue Jackets with their
fund Of $4,000, plan royal entertain
ment for British tars who will visit
New York in October.
According to a dispatch from Ha-
vana, Cuba's debt is increasing very
rapidly, and the papers are warning
the country of Santo Domingo's plight.
Sergius Witte, in an interview, de-
clares in the most positive terms that
Russia will not yield either an indem-
nifty or the cession of Sakhalin island
to Japan.
Physicians reset the fractured thigh
Of Miss Evelyn Walsh while the funer-
al of her brother, Vinson Walsh, who
was killed in the same automobile &C
cident was being held in Newport, R. I.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Interparliamentary Congress.

A large and representative delega
tion from the United States congress
Is in Brussels attending the lnterpar
liamentary congress. The parliaments
of Europe are numerously represent
ed, the Italian chamber of deputie,
sending 100 delegates, the British
house Of commons 30 and the French
chamber of deputies 40, while the Ger
man. Austrian and Hungarian houses
and the parliaments of Denmark, Nor
way, Sweden, Belgium and Holland
are represented by a number of con
spicuous members.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Tuesday.

George AIDES income this year is es-
timated at $l50000 and he will have
10 companies paying him royalties.
The United States barracks at West
lawn cemetery, where the late Presi-
dent McKinley's tomb is located, have
been destroyed by fire.
Releasing his grasp on trapeze at
tached to a parachute, as the latter
opened to the wind, 1900 feet above
the ground, John Williams, 3S years
old, fell to his death ut Redhouse Park
near Caholiia, Ill
Governor A. b. Cummins of Iowa
and Secretary of tho Treasury Leslie
M. Shaw engage in feud, the latest
feature being a challenge by Mr. Shaw
on q yelled attack by the governor at
the Chicago reciprocity meeting.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Adrift For 40 Hours.

Miss Zelda Stewart and her fiance
John Chartres, of Chicago, were found
in an open boat about forty miles
out in Lake Michigan, almost fam
ished. They had been without fooc
for 40 hours. The couple left Chi
cago in rowboat for ride on the
lake. They were found by the crew
of a steam launch which had beer
cruising all day in search of them
When Miss Stewart and her fiance
were taken aboard the launch both
were unconscious.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Miss Drake Killed BY Elevator.

Miss Daisy NJ. Drake, member of
freshman class of the Clifton Sphings
Banitarium Training SchoolforNurses,
was killed by falling down an elevator
shaft The elevators are closed at
$3.50 and it is believed that she reach
ed out and pulled the elevator up by
the cable and as she was talking to
some other nurse ii went up past her
In attempting to pull it back she lost
her balance and fell down the shaft
from the fifth floor Miss Drake was
the daughter of Rev and Mrs. Drake
of Savannah, N. Y. where Mr. Drake
is the pastor of the First Methodist
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
DOWN IN THE PLUNGER
President Aboard Submarine In
Several Submersions.

Failure Of Peace conference-congres.
of Nations-Family Saved by Tele
phone Adfirt For 40 Hours-Chi
cago's Municipal RaiIway--sIr Thorn
as Upton Gives II Up.
President Roosevelt Friday afternoon
went out on the submarine torpedo
boat Plunger, remaining on the craft
while she made several submersions
one of which lasted so minutes.
The Plunger's maneuvers were at
the entrance to Oyster Bay, on Long
Island sound, in about 40 feet of wa.
ter.
When he returned to land President
Roosevelt expressed himself as being
very much impressed with the Plum.
gers qualities.
Soon after the vessel reached the
necessary depth of water she was di.
rected downward until she rested on
the bottom of the sound. Then the
mechanism of the craft was explained
minutely to the president by Lieuten.
ant Nelson
While the president thus was rest
Ing on the bottom of the sound in
submarine boat, storm 40 feet above
him was raging unnoticed. The rain
descended In torrents and the north.
easter whipped the surface of the wa.
ter into big rollers.
Explanations Of the working of the
vessel having been completed, Lieu.
tenant Nelson began to put her through
her PAGES. From the bottom porpoise
diving was tried-that is the boat
would ascend to the surface of the
sound for several seconds, long enough
to enable her commander to sight any
warship that might be within view,
and then dive again Immediately.
After this maneuver had been re-
peated few times, the Plunger was
sent down 20 feet below the surface
and her engine stopped. Then the en-.
gines were reversed and the boat as.
cended to the surface backwards.
Lieutenant Nelson made his boat
perform the remarkable feat of diving
to a depth of 20 feet and while going
at full speed at that depth reversing
her course. The complete turn occu-
pied only one minute.
Subsequently the engines were
OF "A
to a depth of 20 feet. There she was
kept motionless, a demonstration of
her ability to remain in that position
for hours while awaiting an opportuni-
ty to launch one Of her torpedoes at
vessel of blockading squadron which
might be passing or repassing given
point.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
DESERTED LITTLE ONES
Nothing Learned of Wherea-
bouts Of Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers.

Nothing to indicate That the Rogerses
Are Fleeing From Justice-Theory
That the Couple Have Committed
Suicide or Are Detained In Some
Place In Albany.
Albany, Aug. 29.-Evidence regard
ing the identity of Mr. and Mrs. John
w. Rogers who went out Of the Hotel
Ten Eyck here Friday night leaving
their two little boys, one baby of 6
months and the other 6 years old, in
the care of chambermaid, Is steadily
accumulating, but their whereabouts
is as much mystery as ever.
The belief that the Rogerses went
to New York Saturday and sailed on
the Campania for Europe was disposed
OF when Edwin H. Low, a steamship
agent with whom they had had some
correspondence about booking pas.
sage, telegraphed that nobody answer
ing to their description had sailed on
the Campania or any of the other
liners that departed on Saturday.
The police are now working on
theory that Rogers and his wife are
still in Albany or near at hand. There
is nothing to show why they should
wish to abandon their children de-
liberately; on the contrary, letters
found in their rooms at the hotel and
the behavior of the older boy, Rex,
demonstrate that up to this time the
youngsters were tenderly cared for.
One Of these letters, evidently
cherished by Mrs. Rogers, was writ
ten for the child to his mother by
some grown person. In 1t Rex sends
loads of Kisses" When one Of the
sympathetic housekeepers at the hotel
wanted to kiss Rex he declined the
honor. 81 never kiss anybody but my
mama," he explained.
Both children are exceptionally at
tractive. Strategy had to be used to
get Rex to leave his baby brother.
Rex was taken to the Albany Orphan
asylum, while the baby went to st.
Margarets home for very young chill
dren. The older boy shed his first
tears when he found his brother was
to be taken from him.
Advices from Washington confirm
the belief drawn from the papers Rog-
ers left in his room that he was vice
president Of the Congressional Cor
respondence club. He remained In
that position for two months, when, It
is said, he had disagreement with
his partner and left the city.
Charles H. Coleman Of the New
York law firm of Quigg, Bostwick &
Coleman while here said that about
a month ago his firm employed Rogers
as an expert stenographer. He left
their employment about a week ago.
The certified check for $25 which
the Ten Eyck people cashed for Mr..
Rogers on the afternoon before his dis.
appearance has been paid by the Con.
solidated bank of New York
Thus far nothing has developed to
indicate that the Rogerses are fleeing
from justice. One theory upon which
the police are working is that, finding
themselves at the end of their re-
sources, they have committed suicide.
Another is that they may be not far
away but unable for some reason to
communicate with the hotel people
here.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Encounter In German East Africa.

Berlin, Aug. ga detachment of
marines and sailors from the German
cruiser Bussard surprised about 1000
insurgent natives, half Of whom were
armed with rifles, near Kowomi, Ger
man East Africa, Aug. rs. The Ger
Yans killed 73 of the insurgents and
drove many others into the River
Riff, where they were drowned. No
German casualties have been reported.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
BURNED TO DEATH.
Captain MacMahon Killed and 18 Peo-
pie Nearly Suffocated.

Erie, Pa, Aug. 2S.-Captain Patrick
MacMahon Of the yacht Mystic was
burned to death and IS persons were
almost suffUcated in fire which start
ed on the third floor of the Charles
Beck block early Saturday.
The flames were seen bursting
from the front windows and when the
firemen arrived they found the 1S
occupants of the building asleep and
almost dead from suffocation. 1t was
with much difficulty that they were
rescued.
When the room of Captain Mac
Mahon was entered he was found on
the floor dead and his body partially
burned.
The fire started in MacMahon's room
and was probably caused by him leav-
ing lighted cigar stub on the floor
when he retired
Captain MacMahon was prominent
in the marine interests and recently
received a medal from congress for
rescuing a drowning man.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Four Persons Injured In Runaway.

Greensburg, Pa, Aug. rs. - While
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ w. FELTON, and chill
dren and Mrs. Laura Fennell were re-
turning to their homes in New Alex
andria from a picnic their horse be-
came unmanageable on a steep hill.
The buggy was overturned. all OF the
occupants being badly injured. Mrs
Fennell probably fatal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Yellow Fever Case In Virginia.

Richmond, Va, Aug. pa News.
Leader special from Greenbay, Prince
Edward county, says: Information re.
deived here says that Wade Hardy
formerly of Lunenburg county, but for
several years resident of the South.
ern states, returned home last week
with yellow fever and died. A rigid
quarantine will at once be enforced.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Hero of Hotel Fire Dead.

Robert Boutwell,, the hero of the
hotel fire at Lake Maranacook Satur
day morning, in which three Boston
persons were burned to death and sew
eral injured, died Sunday. The young
man was clerk at the Maranacook and
after the fire had been discovered by
crew of a passing train he awakened
the 60 or more guests in the hotel
In doing this he was severely burned
about the head and hands and inhaled
both smoke and fire.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
church in that village. Miss Drake
had been in the sanitarium for the pas
six months. She was about rs year
old.
Family Saved by Telephone.

BY the use of a phone the family
Frank G. Sanders, near Winona
Mimi, consisting of seven persons
was saved from instant death in {
cyclone, which did great damage t.
buildings and crops in the county.
The family was eating dinner whei
A. McConochie, neighbor, telephonei
that a funnel-shaped cloud was sweep
Ing toward the house. The memberi
Of the family ran to clump of willows
where they lay face downward.
They scarcely reached the place be
fore the storm lifted the house from
its foundation and dashed 1t to tn,
ground some distance away, with
hardly board unbroken.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-30
Weak.MInded Boy Shoots stepfather

Broskville, Pa, Aug. 2S. - George
Geist, proprietor Of the Belshazzar
grist mill at Cool Spring, 10 miles
south of here, was shot and probably
fatally injured by Daniel Enterline,
his stepson. Young Enterline is fee
ble-minded and while laboring under
a delusion that Geist intended to harm
him, fired a double-barreled shotgun.
The injured man was taken to Adrian
hospital An arm was torn off and
ngged hole blown in his side.