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The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

Call at our stores often during
your holiday shopping. C. d. Smith
Drug Co.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

Christmas stationery from 25c to
so per box. G. ID. Smith Drug Co.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

Sdm's chilli has reputation back
CT 1t. Sold by the bowl or for use
in the home.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

Christmas goods al right prices at
c. d. Smith Drug Co.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

Eleven dollars is the round trip
rate to Denver January 4th on the
Midland.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23

Your clothes will keep their shape
and look nice longer If you have
them cleaned and pressed by us. The
Suitorium. Phone Black 662.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-23
DRS. ELDRIDGE AND GRAY.
) Physicians and Surgeons.

: All medicines furnished from
: our own labora tory and nut up
!. by ourselves. thus avoiding
: mistakes.
: Offices, SIS Capitol block,
!. Main street.
: Dr.. Eldridge's residence, No.
: 53S Chipeta avenue. Phone .
: No. 107 Junction. .
. DR.. Gray's residence. 116 s. .
. seventh st. Phone Junction .
. 321. .
. Once phone. No. les Juno ,
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an; from l to 8 p.m.: from 1
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
SATURDAY.,

Representative Theodore Il. Burton
was left alone in the Ohio senatorial
fight, all of his opponents Withdrawing.
Washington dispatches denied that
Mr.. Tang Shao vi had made any effort
to negotiate a Chinese-American alli-
ance.
Alarmed by the increasing invasion
Of Chinese in the northern and west
ern parts of Australia, the parliament
had passed stringent stowaway law.
President Gomez gave cordial re-
ception to the officials of the American
gunboat Dolphin and praised the gov
ernment says dispatch from Car
acas.
Belgium, says n Pekin dispatch, has
surrendered the Pekin-Hankow rail
way into the hands of China, the re-
demption price, $30,OO0,OOO having
been paid.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
RUINS OF CONSULATE
Being 0verhauIed by Force of
Sixty American Soldiers.

Search For Remains of Consul Cheney
and Wife-American Flag Made Its
First Appearance In Harbor of Mes
sina-stilI Living People Under the
Ruins-crews of the Russian Squad
ron Labor Without Rest-Several
of Them Have Been Killed.
Messina, Jan. 5.-Major J. F. Reyn-
olds Lands, the American military at
tache at Rome, who was sent here
with Vice Consul Cuttiag and the in
terpreter of the embassy, Winthrop
Chandler, has already force of sixty
soldiers at work ON the ruins of the
american consulate, under which are
the bodies of Consul Arthur S. Cheney
and his wife.
Messrs. Cutting and Chandler and
Vice Consul Lupton are aiding Major
Lands, and although the work is dan
gerous and heavy, good progress has
been made. A new consulate has been
established in the house of an English
man, which suffered little damage.
The American flag made its first ap-
pearance in the harbor with the arrival
OF the converted yacht Scorpion, un.
der command of Lieutenant Com
mander George V. Logan. The serv-
ices of the Scorpion were at once
placed at the disposal of General Maz-
"a, who is in command here, but the
latter not having any pressing need,
the Scorpion proceeded to Naples,
where she will coal and return here
tomorrow.
There are still living people. under
the ruins of Messina. A few were TAX.
en- out today, but they cannot survive
The Duke Of Genoa has arrived and is
now taking prominent part in the
relief work. The crews of the Rus
sion squadron are arousing increased
admiration. They have labored with
out rest and not few of the sailors
have been killed or injured in the per-
formance of heroic services.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
Friday.

Pennsylvania won first prize in the
intercollegiate ches tournament.
Financial methods in the city of Al
bany were scored by State Controller
Glynn in report in which he charged
evasion of law and laxness.
BY decision of the court in Paris,
the children of Count Boni de Castel-
lane will remain in care of their moth
er, now Princess Helie de Sagan.
Preparations are being made for the
Khediye to welcome the men and Off.
GERS of the American fleet when the
battleships reach Port Said on Jan. E.
A. j. Drexel Biddle, a Philadelphia
society man, it was announced began
training for boxing match with a
Boston amateur for the intercity cham.
pionship.
Reports made by proprietors and
managers indicate that more than
$5O0,O0O was spent Thursday night in
New Years eve celebrations in New
York city.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
REFUGEES FROM MESSINA
One of Them Tells How He Escaped
From Falling House.

One of the refugees at Naples,
man employed with a German cotton
firm in the lost city, said:
"Messina is utterly destroyed. Moth
ing remained when / left but part
of the citadel. A few soldiers alone
are survivors of the garrison. | was
asleep when the first shock awoke me.
| lit my lamp, but all was quiet and l
turned to sleep again. Suddenly fresh
shocks occurred, violent and telrify-
ing. ! arose quickly, but the house
was swaying and my door was
jammed | tore the sheets from the
bed and made rope and lowered my
self from the window to the street.
An Italian family of five persons es-
capped from the house by the aid of
my rope.
"No sooner were we In the street
than the house collapsed. | tried to
assist in the work of rescue, but it
was useless. The horror and confus-
ion were indescribable. All day l
wandered in the wrecked streets. No
food could be secured; | had only a
few nuts to eat. The head of my firm
was lost and his brother ad to go
through the streets begging for bread
for his wife and children. There was
no organization in the work of rescue.
"The prison was destroyed and the
warders killed, but most of the con-
v!cts escaped. They prowled about
the ruins robbing and numbering.
They cut off the fingers of the dead
s1d wounded to get the rings.
"A Russian vessel lying in the har-
Dor was thrown into the street by the
tidal wave. Other vessels foundered.
Railway lines were swallowed up.
The square known as the Campo San
to collapsed and sank. Only the sum-
mits of a few ruined buildings still
emerge from the wreck. What re-
mained of the population when l left
was camping near the harbor."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06

Paris street traffic is paralyZed by
the worst blizzard since 1870, says a
dispatch from the French capital
Later dispatches indicate that the
earthquake catastrophe in Sicily and
Southern Italy may have caused loss
in the neighoorhood of 200,0O0 lives.
In an interview in Berlin Senor Cas-
tro deposed president, declares
that if indicteS ne will voluntarily re-
turn to Venezuela to defend his hon
or.
NJ. Bunau-Varilla in a letter declares
that experimental scientific method
not authority or preconceived opinion,
should be the guiding principle in
building the Panama canal.
Twenty men were slain and fifty
wounded in battle between The cd
herents of General Castro and Presi-
dent Gomez, the formers forces re-
liquishing their resistance after tenn
porary victory.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
CENTER OF CATACLYSM
From Messina Disaster Spread 100
Miles North, South, East and West.


Miles North, South, East and West.
Naples, vibrant with the memory OF
Vesuvius, is prostrated by the misery
and woe from Messina confided to her
care. The hospitals, hotels and homes
are crowded with refugees, and the
people are vieing with one another in
aiding the stricken.
Those who have expert knowledge
on the suhjec' agree that the center
of the cataclysm wa- the strait of Mes.
sina. which also is the center of the
volcanic zone, the highest peak Of
which, Mount Etna, is now silent.
From this base the telluric disturbance
extended, abating little by little, north
erly as far as Cape Vaticano and
southerly as far as the bay of Catania,
ravaging the western region of Cal.
abria and the eastern coast of Sicily
for distance of nearly 100 miles.
II is impossible accurately to ascer.
tain the extent of the movement east
and west In the inland regions, but it
Is certain that the beauty of one of
the most charming sections Of South
ern Italy has been irrevocably spoiled.
Vineyards are no more; waving rows
Of lemon, orange and olive trees have
been torn up and the enchanting coast
line with its soft and fragrant foliage
has been converted into a desert
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
IBOUNTEOUS PROVISION
BY Unanimous Vote Congress Gives
100000 For Italian Relief.

Washington, Jan. 5-Bountiful pro-
vision for the earthquake sufferers Of
Italy was made by the congress by
unanimous vote In the house there
was vigorous handclapplng as the bill
carrying the appropriation was sent on
its way The munificent sum Of $500, 900
was granted almost Immediately after
the reception in both houses of mes
sage from the president calling atten-
ton to the calamity and the pressing
need for aid for the stricken people OF
a sister nation.
President Roosevelt signed the bill
today making it effective
No aid so generous was ever ex-
tended to a stricken people by this
government before The legislators,
anticipating tine presidents message
and filled with a sympathetic desire
TO lend their votes to any proposition
which would bring relief, were early in
their seats and prepared to take i'm
mediate action The American Ma
tional Red Cross has collected over
s33OO0O.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
ORGANIZING OF RELIEF
Different Regions on Coast AS
signed to Various Warships.

King In Charge at Messna-Wired
Premier to Send Ships and Men and
Plenty of Quicklime-Sight Shocks
Complete Ruin Of CrumbIlng Build
ings-Lipari Islands, Which Were
Reported to Have Disappeared, Suf-
fered Little.
Considerable advance in relief work
has BEEN made at Messina, where, ac-
cording to official reports received at
Rome, the supply service is beginning
to work satisfactorily. The different
regions on the coast have been allotted
to various warships and other ships
as centers from which torpedo boats
and launches convey and distribute ra-
tions and water to the different vii
lagos.
The minister of justice has wired
from Messina to Premier Giollitti that
large bodies of troops have arrived
and are now occupying all parts Of the
town. The appalling extent of the dis
aster renders anything like a system
attic search of the ruins impossible,
but persons are being dragged out all
day long and are quickly transported
to the relief ships as soon as their
wounds have received attention.
There were slight shocks felt in the
earthquake zone Friday, completing
the ruin of the crumbling buildings.
These shocks are contributing to the
keeping up of the alarm of the popula-
tion. One quite severe shock was felt
at o'clock in the morning and an
other at 9. Fires are still burning,
although much rain has fallen.
The latest Investigations on both
sides of the strait make it certain that
many more than half the population of
the coast towns and villages have been
killed Professor Ricco, director Of
the observatory at Mount Etna, esti-
mates that the victims of the earth
quake exceed 100000
Hundreds of dangerous criminals
have been arrested by the troops and
are under close guard.
Great relief was felt at Rome when
announcement was made that the Lip
ari islands, which were reported to
have disappeared with their popula-
ton of $4,000, suffered little or no
damage from the earthquake.
As an instance of his quick grasp of
the situation, King Victor Emmanuel
soon after his arrival at Messina, wired
to Premier Giolitti: "Send ships and
men; above all, send ships loaded with
quicklime."
So far as has been possible quick
lime has been used on the dead; many
bodies have been burned and others
buried. In the relief work the officers
and men of the foreign warships have
been untiring, and their course is be-
yond words. The crew of the British
cruiser Drake gave up everything pos
sible for the benefit of the refugees,
and practically forgot rest and sleep
for more than thirty-six hours in their
devotion to duty.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
Burton to Be Senator.

Theodore Burton, representative in
congress from one of the Cleveland
districts for fifteen years, was nomin-
ated to succeed Joseph B. Foraker of
Cincinnati in the United States SEN
ate. The nomination was conferred on
him by the Republican joint legisla-
tive caucus. and the election will fol-
low on Jan. IL.
There had been no opposition to Mr..
Burton's nomination since last Thurs
day. when Charles P. Taft, Senator
Foraker and other rivals for the honor,
withdrew from the contest.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
Monday.

In Alabama, Mississippi and North
Carolina the dry laws go into effect
and the liquor men prepare to appeal
to the courts.
Superintendent Emerson Of Buffalo
is going to try the experiment of es-
tablishing special schools or centers
for the instruction of defective chill
dren.
The noted Russian priest, Father
John of Cronstadt, is dead. He had
for some time been suffering from
chronic dropsy and intestinal COM
plants.
The defendant in the trial at Media
Pa, where Mrs. Erb and her sister are
charged with the murder of Captain
Erb, told a pitiful story of long abuse
on the stand.
A shock at Messina caused a panic
in an improvised hospital. Queen Hell
ena was caught in the crush of the
excited patients and received slight
contusons on the chest.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
Tuesday.

The American supply ship Culgoa
and the scout cruiser Yankton arrived
at Port Said after smooth trip
through the canal from Suez
Advices from Washington indicate
that the mission to the United States,
headed by Tang Shao vi, may fail be.
cause of the downfall of Yuan Shi Kai,
The petition of the government for
review Of the 500 600, 600 fine of the
Standard Oil company was denied by
the u. S. supreme court The effect
Will be to leave standing the decision
OF the court OF appeals, which was ad.
verse to tho government and favora'
bic to the company.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
Penrose Senator For Third Term

Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. 5.-Boise Pen
rose was nominated by an overwhelm'
ing majority for third term in the
United States senate at joint caucus
of the Republican members of the leg.
islature last night. The Republicans
are in majority in both branches,
which assures his election on Jan. 10.
Penrose polled III oft he 212 Republi-
can votes in both houses. State Treas
urer John o. Sheath, the choice of the
anti-organization Republicans, polled
23 votes.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
TRINITY DEPORTATION
Its Realty Reported at $13,e4e,aoo; Ex.
penses Last Year Exceeded Income.

penses Last Year Exceeded Income.
The corporation of Trinity church
In New York city for the first time in
its history, made public a statement of
its assets and liabilities. The recent
criticism of the decision to close his.
toric st. Johns chapel and consolidate
1t with st. Lukes probably, is regarded
as prompting the statement at this
time.
In the public mind the property of
the corporation had been valued at be-
tween $4O,OOO,OO0 and $4,000, ,OOO but
In the statement the value of the real.
ty is set down at $13,646,300, and the
bonds and mortgages on churches on
which no interest b collected is In
round numbers $370,000.
Trinity's total income for the last
fiscal year was approximately $3.50, 900,
while the expenditures amounted to
over $791 900, leavink deficit for the
year of $1,000.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
PRESIDENT ANSWERS
HOUSE RESOLUTION
Sends Special Message on Use
Of Secret Service Men.

Washington, Jan. 5.-Replying to the
resolution of the house of representa-
tives asking the president to explain
the references to the secret service in
his recent annual message, Mr.. Roose-
welt sent a special communication to
the house.
He declares that the representatives
are wholly unjustified in assuming that
the language of the message, which
commented on the prohibition placed
by congress on the use of secret serv-
ice men in cases other than those of
counterfeiting ('and one or two other
matters which can be disregarded'D, is
intended to cast slur upon them.
The language which the representa-
tives wanted explained is as follows:
"The amendment in question oper-
ates only to the advantage of the Grim
inal, of the wrongdoer. The chief argu-
ment in favor of the provision was that
the congressman did not themselves
wish to be investigated by secret serv-
ice men. A special exception could
be made in the law prohibiting the
use of the secret service force in in
vestigating members of the congress.
1t would be far better to do this than
to do what actually was done and
strive to prevent or at least to hamper
effective action against criminals by
the executive branch of the govern
ment"
The special message declares that,
Notwithstanding the umbrage taken by
congress at this wording, "a careful
reading of this message will show that
| said nothing to warrant the state
ment that the majority of the con-
gressmen were in fear of being investi-
that congress as a whole was actuated
by that motive ! did not make any
such statement in this message. More
over, have never made any such
statement about congress as whole
nor, with few inevitable exceptions,
about the members of congress in any
message or article or speech. On the
contrary. have always not only dep
recated, but vigorously resented, the
practice of indiscriminate attack upon
congress and indiscriminate condem-
nation of all congressman, wise and un-
wise, fit and unfit, good and bad alike"
Mr. Roosevelt declares the evidence
that members Of congress did not wish
themselves investigated by secret serv.
ice men Is found in the debates record
ed in the Congressional Record. He
denounces as wholly unfounded a
newspaper story to the effect that he
wishes to make Chief Wilkie of the
secret service second Fouche model.
ed after the notorious chief of police
of Napoleon.
The real issue, says Mr. Roosevelt,
is, "Does congress desire that the gov
ernment shall have at its disposal the
most efficient instrument for the detec'
tion of criminals and the prevention
and punishment of crime, or does 1t
not?"
He cites cases in which the secret
service has secured evidence enough to
convict offenders against the federal
laws.
A letter from the president to Speak
er Cannon protesting against the cut
ting down of the appropriation for the
secret service, two letters from Secre-
tary Cortelyou on the same subject
and the newspaper article already
mentioned are appended to the mes
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
Death of William L. Mathues.

William l.. Mathues, former state
treasurer of Pennsylvania, died sud-
denly at his home at Media, Pa, ,on
Thursday aged 46 years. The cause
of death was given by his physician as
pneumonia, but 1t is generally believed
that this Illness was superinduced by
the Harrisburg Capitol graft cases and
his recent sentence of two years in the
penitentiary for his part in the alleged
conspiracy against the state.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
DIGGING IN THE RUINS
Russian Sailors Hesitate at No Danger;
Stories of Survivors.

Messina, Jan. 5.-Praises of the Rus
ed before no danger, digging under
tottering walls or entering the un-
safest shells when asked to do so by
some frantic woman who had not lost
all hope that husband or child was
still alive.
The correspondent made two tours
about the wrecked city through streets
piled twenty or thirty feet high with
debris. 1t was a wilderness of ruin,
a mile wide and two miles long. Beau
tiful churches, splendid villas In the
foothills, hospitals, barracks and the
university, all shared the common lot
Two-thirds of the magnificent Norman
cathedral, the pride of Messina, is in
ruins, and little or nothing remains of
the relics Of Phoenician, Greek, Roman
and Saracen architecture which mark
ed the stages of Messina's twenty-six
centuries of tragic ard tumultuous
history.
Here and there the correspondent
encountered salvage parties digging
at the instance of some distracted
wife or mother who imagined she
heard voice but usually there was no
echo to the pathetic calling. One
party was trying to dig out a girl
whose crying could be heard plainly,
but as the correspondent watched
there was a sudden cave-in and there
after silence.
In many places bloated and decom-
posing arms and legs protruded from
heaps of masonry and plaster.
Although the air in Messina is
heavy with the stencil of purifying
bodies, several groups of Sicilians sit
camped out in the cleared spaces of
the city and obstinately refuse the in
vitation of the authorities TO move
away The survivors of the disaster
are so tired and worn out that they
are quite Incapable of describing their
experiences lucidly, but the accounts
of all agree that the devastation was
accomplished in less than one minute
The strata below the strait slipped
along the line of fort; then a tidal
wave rushed in and out and all was
over.
All those capable of analyzing their
sensations say that when the shock
came they felt an upward thrust of
the earth This was followed by an
oscillatory motion, and the crust of
the earth vibrated. Few of the sur
vivors are able to explain how they
escaped. They know only that amid
falling plaster and masonry they man.
aged to jump safely from windows or
stumble down crumbling stairways.
The correspondent visited the site
of the American consulate. The build
ing had collapsed utterly. There Is
hope, however, that the bodies and the
archives may be recovered. Joseph
H. Peirce. the former American vice
consul here, and several members of
his family, are also among the dead.
The only other Americans known to
have been killed are man named
Jusart, or Robert, and his wife. who
were naturalized citizens, and one Jo
seph Giuseppe, veteran of the civil
war.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
porando unabIe to Stand Strain.

Tom Longboat, the Canadian Indian,
Saturday night at Buffalo for the
second time took the measure of
Dorando Pietri, the Italian, who al.
most won the great Marathon at the
London Olympiad. Dorando, as in his
race with Longboat in New York, fail
ed to go the distance. Time and again
he sprinted in an effort to get away
from the Indian, but without success,
and left the track after the 18th mile.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
Habeas Corpus For Thaw.

White Plains, n. Y, Jan. 5.-Coun-
sci for Mrs. William Thaw, Harry
Thaw's mother, obtained from Su-
preme Court Justice Tompkins writ
of habeas corpus compelling the Mat
teawan asylum authorities to produce
Harry Thaw before that justice at
Nyack next Saturday. Mrs. Thaw's
contention is that Thaw is not a Grim
inal wing been acquitted by jury,
and that he is now sane.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
Last Daughter of the Revolution.

Ithaca, Jan. 5.-Mrs. Harriet Estes,
who is said to have been the only sur
viving daughter of the Revolution,
died here yesterday, aged 81 years.
Mrs. Estes was born in Elbridge, On
ondaga county, the daughter Of James
Dunham of the Fifth Connecticut reg
iment which was commanded by Col
onel Isaac Sherman. Her husband in
the civil war was a member Of the
Third New York artillery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-01-06
The Divinu Bell.

The celebrated philosopher Aristotle
speaks of diving bell which was put
over the head Of the diver, but there
is no proof of the use Of the bell IN
ancient times. John Jaesnier who
lived in the early part Of the sixteenth
century, makes the earliest mention
OF the practical use Of the diving bell
in Europe. In all probability the first
real practical use Of the diving bell
was in the attempt at rescuing the
treasures of the Spanish armada of
the English coast, 1890 aud on.