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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
THE NEWS SUMMARY
Short Items From Various Parts
of the World.
Record Of Many Happenings Condensed
and Put In Small Space and Ar.
ranged With Special Regard For the
Convenience Of the Reader Who Has
Little Time to Spare.
Wednesday,.

The battleship Maine entered Hav.
ana harbor eleven years to an hour
after the first Maine arrived.
President Roosevelt declared he
would live most of his time in the West
after his return from Africa.
The French Riviera football team de.
feated a team from the American war
ships, says a dispatch from Nice.
University of Pennsylvania chess
players have signed an agreement
with the universities of Paris and
Amsterdam for an International match.
Leaders of the Republican state or
ganization opened war on Governor
Hughes direct primary plan, and Sem
ator Raineg and Speaker WadswOrth
outlined their opposition.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
Monday.

Storm which RACES from the Rockies
to the East, bringing death and dam
age, hits Chicago staggering blow.
Temporary Injunction is secured
against Trinity church in New York
by the congregation Of st. Johns
chapel to prevent the closing Of that
institution.
An airship race from New York to
Albany, a pioneer event of its kind in
the United States, has been arranged
as one Of the features of the Hudson
Fulton memorial next autumn.
The funeral of Consul Arthur S.
Cheney and Mrs. Cheney, who died
in the Messina disaster, took place
Saturday afternoon from Trinity Epis-
copal church at New Haven Conn.
All communication with Southern
Spain and with Barcelona is uninter-
rupted and normal, and the reports
emanating from England relative to
a disastrous earthquake and a tidal
wave are untrue.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
MONUMENT FOR COL. DRAKE
Marking Site of First Oil Well on
Fiftieth Anniversary.

Titusville, Feb. 2.-Colonel John ].
Carter has been appointed chairman
and Hon. John L. Emerson, Mayor r.
e. Dickinson and Rev. j. NJ. Critchlow
members of a committee of arrange
ments for the grand jubilee celebration
to be held here the latter part of Au-
gust for the purpose of celebrating
the fiftietb anniversary of the striking
of oil by Colonel Edwin L. Drake.
The Daughters of the Revolution
are taking subscriptions for the pur-
pose of erecting a 100000 monument
where the well was drilled, and it is
to be unveiled during jubilee week.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
CHILDREN THROWN
INTO SNOWBANK
Third Child Burned to Death and
Mother Fatally Injured.

Gaylord, Mich, Feb. Mrs. Albert
Waunza saved the lives of two Of her
children when their home near here
burned last night by throwing them
from second story windows into snow
banks.
The mother however, was probably
fatally burned while rescuing the chill
dren and third child was burned to
death, the flames preventing the moth
er from reaching her room.
Waunza, the father, jumped unin-
jured from a window. Then the fam
lily, barefooted and with the mother
almost roasted from waist to should
ers, had to walk half mile through
the snow to secure shelter
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
MARKET REPORT
New York Provision Market.

New York, Feb. 1.
WHEAT-No. ? red, $1119s I. o. b.
afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth. $1.21b.
CORN-No. 2 corn, new, 69c I. o.
b. afloat; Tic elevator,
OATS - Mixed oats, 26 to 80 lbs,
54@541ac; clipped white, "a to AZ lbs,
56la @62c.
PORK-Mess, S16.75Q1L25; family.
$1S,50@19.50.
llAY-Good to choice, S0985c.
BUTTER - Creamery specials, 30
@SOiac; extra, 29@29hc; process, IS
@2lRc; western factory, 211s@22c.
EGGS--State and Pennsylvania, 40c.
CHEESE-State, full cream, fancy,
14h 615Ac.
POTATOES - Maine. per 1870 lbs,
$25OH2.75; state, $2.250250.
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Friday.

F.. II. Hartman was elected direc-
tor of the New York Central railroad.
Governor Patterson Of Tennessee IN
his inaugural address denied COM
plicity in the killing of T.. w. Carmack.
Stephen II. Abbey, editor Of the u
ster Squaredealer of Kingston, has
been committed to the state insane
asylum at Middletown.
Michigan demands a definite fixing
Of rights to the flow Of the st. Mary's
river as a part of the Canadian water
ways treaty now before the senate.
1t became known that persons own
ing estates near Highland Falls have
decided to oppose the construction
near Highland Falls of a new state
prison.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
IMMIGRATION DECISION
Secretary straus overruIes Special
Board In Respect to Canadian Nurse.

Washington, Feb. Am important
immigration case was decided by Sec
retary Straus Of the department Of
commerce and labor. Ethel Wright,
a Canadian woman of 25 years, applied
for admission to the United States in
order that she might enter the nurses
home" at Chicago to study nursing.
In common with other student
nurses at the institution she was to
be allowed small compensation. A
special board of inquiry rejected her
application and denied her admission.
Miss Wright appealed her case to
Secretary Straus and he has directed
that she be admitted. He holds that
the case in no way comes under the
prohibitions of the alien contract labor
law.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
CUBA AGAIN FREED
President Gomez and Vice President
Zayas lnauqurated.

Zayas inaugurated.
With the administration of the oath
of office at noon on Wednesday to
Jose Miguel Gomez, the new presi.
dent of the republic of Cuba, Amer
ican occupation of the island ceased
and the history of that country en-
tered on new era. In the afternoon
Charles +. AIagoon, until then pro-
visional governor of Cuba. embarked
for the United States, leaving the gov
ernment entirely in the hands of Presi.
dent Gomez and his advisers. Most of
the 5000 American soldiers who have
occupied the island since 1906 have
been sent home, and the remainder
will leave by April 1.
The oath of office was administered
to President Gomez and Vice President
Zayas by President Barreiro of the SUI
preme court of Cuba in the presence of
great throng of Cubans, Americans
and other foreigners. The day was a
general holiday throughout Cuba, and
from all the six states men prominent
in the political, commercial and social
life of the island were gathered to at
tend the Inauguration.
At the close of the ceremonies Presi-
dent Gomez was congratulated by
the foreign ENJOYS, who extended to
him the good wishes of their respective
governments for the welfare of his
country. A conspicuous figure was
Mgr. Aversa, representing the Vatican.
Many messages Of congratulation were
received, notably from President Roos-
evelt and William H. Taft, president
elect of the United States. He has
many friends among prominent Gu
hans
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
ALL HIS RELATIVES DEAD
Heartrendne Story of an American
Visitor to Reggio.

Telling a heartrending story of his
experiences in the Calabrian earth
quake, in which over twoscore Of his
relatives perished, Antonio Strito Of
White Plains, n Y, arrived at New
York on the steamer Venezia from
Marseilles.
Strito was on visit to his relatives
in Reggie and awoke from unconscious
ness after the shock to find himself
in heap of ruins. After a search of
three days he found his 17-year-old
sister dead.
Not one Of his relatives was left
alive, he said, and he had more than
40 of them in Reggie. Strito himself
was practically uninjured. He is "a
years old and had come to this country
when a small boy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03

Harrisburg, Feb. 2. - One of the
packages of jewelry thrown into the
Susquehanna river on Thursday morn
Ing, when an express car caught fire
while crossing the Rockville bridge of
the Pennsylvania railroad was dis
covered at Middletown yesterday. 1t
was found floating on the river by a
boatman and contained iewelry worth
$77. Four more packages are missing
but 1t is declared that none of them is
of great value.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
Mans Leg Found In Whales Stomach.

Excavation among the ruins at Mes.
sina continues with the daily dis
covery Of many bodies but all are un-
recognizable. Slight earth shocks con-
tinue.
An enormous whale has been cap
tured at Catania and in its stomach
was found the leg of a man with
shoe on the foot The shoe indicated
that it had been worn by an Italian
sailor, who probably was a victim of
the great tidal wave following the
earthquake of Dec. 2S.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
Buffalo Provision Market.
Buffalo, Feb. 1


WHEAT-No. 1 northern, carloads,
$116h; No. 2 red, $111h.
CORN-No. yellow, 65%c +. 0. b.
afloat; No. yellow, 65Ac.
OATS-No. white, 541a055c (. o.
b. anoat, No. white, 54054hc.
FLOUR - Fancy blended patsnt.
per bbl.. s6.00@6.75; winter family,
patent, $5.35Q610.
BUTTER-Creamery, prints, fancy,
3Ol5 631c; state and Penn. cream
cry, 29c; dairy, choice to fancy, 26
Q27c.
CHEESE - Choice to fancy, full
cream, 141a615c; fair to good, 13@
14c.
EGGS-Selected white, 3S639c.
POTATOES-Whit fancy, per bu,,
7S6S0c; fair to good. 75d76c.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
MISS KELLER'S FARM HOME
Leaves City So Her Work For tho
Blind May Not Be Interrupted.

Boston, Feb "A large farmhouse
in Brunswick, Maine, is to be the fu.
ture home of Miss Helen Keller, the
famous deaf, dumb and blind young
woman. Miss Keller, who for some
time past has lived at Wrenthal, Mass
with Mr.. and Mrs. Macy, has, Jointly
with Mr.. and Mrs. Macy, purchased
the estate at Brunswick and the three
will move there in May next.
Miss Keller wishes to be farther
away from the city in order that her
work for the blind may not be inter.
rupted by so many social engagements.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
PREPARING FOR INAUGURAL
Work of Erecting Reviewing Stands
Begun In Vicinity of White House.

Washington, Feb. ITO defray ex-
penditures for fitting the Capitol for
the inauguration Of William II. Taft,
Joint resolution was agreed to unani.
mously in the senate appropriating
$4,000.
The resolution provides that the in.
augural platform to be erected4n front
of the Capitol shall seat 5000 people,
which is one-third more than four
years ago. 1t also authorizes extra
policemen at the CaRtol for three
days. The work Of erecting reviewing
stands in the vicinity of the White
House was begun today.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
Doverites Are Honest.

Canal Dover, O., Feb "A Golden
Rule" postage stamp box has been in
operation at a drug store here since
Dec. 10. customers helping themselves
and making their own change. The
receipts have been but one cent short
and more than 1,S0O stamps have pass.
ed through the box.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
War Correspondent Died Of Old AGE

William Fayal, once widely known
reporter and war correspondent, died
of old age at the Memorial Home
in st. Louis. He was So years
old, Fayal was a chum of Henry NJ.
Stanley, who became famous by find
ing Livingstone in Africa. Fayal was
born in Otsego county, N. Y. His wife
was Alicia Jackson of Lockport, N. Y.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
New Jerseys Last Hannina.

The court of appeals having affirmed
the conviction of Frederick Lang of
Middlesex county, New Jersey will
witness its last hanging. Ling was
convicted a short time before the new
electrocution law went into effect of
numbering his niece. Since his con-
viction Lang has been confined in the
Middlesex county jail.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
Scared to Death by pou.

Philadelphia Feb. 2.-Albert G. Win
ner, a threeyear-old child, died here
yesterday from fright caused by see
ing dog which had bitten him seven
weeks ago When he saw the animal
In the street near bis homc the child
fell unconscious.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
East Buffalo Live Stock Market.

CATTLE-Prime export steers, $3.50
6DG.75; good to choice butcher steers,
$4756615; choice cows, $5.0O6525;
choice heifers, S575d6.O0; common
to fair heifers, $l.2565.5O; common to
fair bulls. SS25M400; choice veals,
$9.75a10.OO. fair to good; $9.25q9.5O.
SHEEP AND LAMBS - Choice
spring lambs, $7.90@S,00; choice
yearlings. $6.35d7OO mixed sheep,
S47565.25.
HOGS-Light Workers, S7009725;
medium and heavy hogs, S7.1567.25;
pigs, $G.5006.75,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
BOROUGH OFFICERS.

BurgeSS.-J. II. Carson,
Justices Ofh The Pedce-C. A. Randall, d.
w. Clark.
COnnc'tnlen.-J. W. Landers, ]. IT. Dale,
g. b Robinson, VIM. Smearbsugh, E..
W. Bowman, j. W. Jameson, W. j..
Campbell.
'COtstGbie-Archie Clark.
CottectOr-W. II. Hood.
School DtrectorS-J. c.. Scowden, r. M.
Herman, @ Jameson, J. j. Landers, j.
H. Clark, w. G. Wyman.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
Regular Terms Of Court. &.
Church and sabbath school.

Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:46 a.
IN. NJ. e. Sabbath School at l0:00 a. m.
Preaching m M. L. Church every Sab
bath evening by Rev. W. o. Calhoun.
Preaching in the F. M. Church every
Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev.
Il. l.. Monroe. Pastor.
Preaching in. the Presbyterian church
every Sabbath at ll:00 n. IN and 1880 p.
m Rev n A Ba ley, Pastor.
The regular meetings of the w. q. +.
U. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourth Tuesdays Of each
IN nth.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
switchman Awarded $4,000 Damages.

Haynes IIackett of Chicago, a
switchman Of the Chicago, Indianap-
olsi and Louisville railroad, who lost
both legs by the sudden starting up of
= train which he was switching, was
awarded 100000 damages against the
:oad.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
Bill to Punish Insane Murderers

Making a person who, while in
sane, kills another guilty of murder
in the second degree is provided in a
bill introduced at Albany by Assem-
blyman Cuvillier. The punishment is
Imprisonment for life in a state hos
pital for the criminal insane.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

IN \ ESTA LODGE, No. 1863, |. q. o. f.
/ NJ eats every Tuesday evening, in Odd
Fellows Hall, Partridge building.
CAPT. GEORG T. STOW POST, No. 274
" G. A, X. Meets LIST and Sd Monday
evening in each month.
.GRT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No.
~ 1877, w. K. c., meets first and third
Wednesday evening of each month.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
Silver Service For Cruiser Birmingham

Mobile Ala, Feb. "A handsome
silver service and loving cup were pre-
sented to the cruiser Birmingham by
Mayor George B. Ward of Birmingham
on behalf of his city.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
Ruffalo Hay Market.

Timothy No on track, $4,000
1850; No. . timothy Sl20O9 1850;
wheat and cat straws. S750lS.0Q,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
DILL. EN- ERT

FANCY BOOT Il SHOEM A X Err.
Shop over X l. tiaslets grocery store
on Elm street. Is prepared to do all
kinds of custom work from the finest to
the coarsest and guarantees his work to
give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten-
tion given to mending, and prices res'
Sonable.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03
uOTEL WEAVER,

CENTRAL HOUSE,
" GEROw II GEROW Proprietor.
Tionseta, Pa. This is the most centrally
located hotel i'm the place, and has all the
modern improvements. No pains will
be spared to make 1t a pleasant stopping
place for the travelling public. First
class Livery in connection.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-02-03

DITCHEY Il CARRINGER
II ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW,
Tionesta, Pa.
Blue-grass blade., 1909-10-17

encouragement and good cheer and tell you
that though you and your Freethought
friends may be having great trials and
trbulations, and though it may seem to
you that the world regards you not and
takes no interest in you, except to hurt
you, you after all, in the general round up,
you will find that you were in the lime
light and that the world did see you and
did listen to what was going on, much as
many faithful soldier who has stood
guard on picket duty on some dark night
in the pouring rain iu dark dismal ravine,
surrounded by enemies and all sorts of
dangers, and where it seemed that his
country would never look for him, nor lit
tie care whether he did his duty or not,
has walked up on some other day, after he
Blue-grass blade., 1909-10-17

broken, and his son George found him
dead about 1890 p. m.
He was one of the oldest, most intelli.
gent, benefcient and progressive citizens in
Frederick county.
In 1852 he demonstrated the feasibility
of raising weet-potatoes there instead Of
shipping them as formerly from the Balti-
more market, and exhibited several bunch
es of his home raised ones at the County
Agricultural Fair after which Western
Maryland farmers generally began raising
their own sweetpotatoes for home consump-
ton, and in 1856 his experiments with
sorghum sugar cane and exhibits of syrup
therefrom attracted much attention.
In 1859 he moved to Frederick city and
taught public school there and developed
the growing of early garden plants of
which he was the pioneer in this city.
He was a deep thinker and close student
Of human nature and other natural phe-
nomena generally.
Intensely loving justice, truth and liberty
he quite naturally openly advocated free
ing the slaves, read and circulated Horace
Greelys, H. Tribune and in 1860, he and
five friendly followers cast the only votes
in Frederick for the immortal Abraham
Lincoln. Surrounding shareholders and
their many sympathizers then regarded him
as a favorite, looked on him with suspicion
and hatred and called him a "Black Re-
publican" because all neighboring whites
but him and his five Republican comrades
were Democrats. But he lived to see the
great, grand, noble Lincoln, for whom he
voted, honored as the greatest of all pres
idents since George Washington, even by
the school children of his opponents, thus
amply vindicating his advanced position
then
Blue-grass blade., 1909-10-17
BLUE GRASS BLADE.

He did not live to see entirely the same
of leading Freethinkers though Freethought
has grown much more popular, and his
children may yet live to see his advanced
position therein as thoroughly indicated
In 1870 he purchased and moved to his
farm near Fogeville and began propagating
new varieties of sweet corn, fruits and
vegetables.
His sweet corn is noted for its sweet
ness, large size, deep grains, abundant ears
and many rows of grains to the ear.
He was a son of Jonathan C. Davis and
Mary (Winter) Davis, and born in Union
town, Carroll county, Nd, September 20,
1919.
He is survived by his four sons and one
daughter, Edward IT,, Washington d. c.,
John w., Union Bridge, Nd, VIM. o.,
Chicago, ILL.,, and George H. and Flora
Davis at home.
He was a jealous, consistent, conscient-
ious, intelligent, practical advocate of
FreethOught exerting wide and lasting
influence for its advancement among all
who knew him, even so planning that in
death, his funeral might be advantageously
used in justifying and thus propagating his
Rationalistic ideas.
AS Rationaistic speakers will generally
serve free on such occasions, provided their
travelling expenses are prepaid by those de.
string their services, the Rationaliets should
follow Mr.. Davis excellent example and
thus lay good foundation for Rational
istic monument that will stand for ages,
impressing Rationalstic principles on
countless coming generations, and of which
posterity may well be proud.
Hagerstown, Nd.
Blue-grass blade., 1909-10-17
(By DIN j. ROss.)

Mr.. d. Kotuka, Editor of The Jiyu Shiso,
Toxic, Japan.
My Honored Sir:
/ ran across a back issue of the Blue
Grass Blade of Lexington, Kentucky, Sep
TENDER 18th, Freethought paper-and
read your letter to A. johnson of San
Francisco, which was printed therein.
The reading of your letter about the
starting of your paper and the troubles Of
your friends made me think that / ought
to sit down and write you few lines of
Blue-grass blade., 1909-10-17


country had been looking at him and lis
tening on that night of gloom and danger,
when he was all alone close by her foes
l wanted to tell you that duty well per-
formed by you and your friends would
make of you these soldiers, and that the
world, as you will find some day, was
looking and listening, for sometimes these
lonesome vigils, the lonesome work and
the lonesome struggle, have not been so
lonesome after all. Sometimes the spirit,
the hopes of a nation-even of the world
comes and hovers around these lonesome
scenes, these single-handed strugglers.
When I lived at Hilsboro, Ohio, / waged
war for years and years against the liquor
traffic, one of the demoralizing powers in
this country, and it and its allies made
war against me- One of these allies, as
I claimed, during the last few years 1 lived
there, was what calls itself ,'The Church
of Cod" and so between the church Of
god and the liquor devil | was between
two fires. They managed to make things
warm for me can tell you Sometimes in
the heat of some of the fights things would
become sulphuriously red and blue, as it
were, and my friends at a distance-away
off from the scene of the confict-would
write me an encouraging letter, defending
and praising my position. So, remembering
the good this encouragement from home
did me, / thought that I would put in
few words for you.
Sometimes, in human affairs the words
away from home are more effective than
the words at home, for the words from a
distance calls attention to the fact that
there is an audience,-and these fellows do
not want an audience when they are doing
wrong. So, I drop you few lines, though
never saw you and only know of you
as one of those lonesome soldiers far out
on the picket line of the army of civiliza-
ton and progress.
Your war against superstition is all
right. 1t might very properly be called
"T'he Holy War" If there ever was ga
Holy War" as applied to things religious,
this is the one. 1t is strange how venerable
and "sacred" falsehood- superstition-has
often become. There be those in this, my
own free country, who look with dsdain
on those who dispute as facts that man
who was killed 1900 years ago is alive and
well today, and is capable of living in a
million places at one and the same time;
that he can go through a brick, or stone
wall, or fly through a key hole or down
chimney; that he was born of a virgin, had
a ghost for father, raised the dead,
arose from the dead, himself, could "cast
out devils devils, too, that after they
were out could and did, go into hogs; that
Blue-grass blade., 1909-10-17
Cheering Words Sent to the Orient

Stray Copy of the Blade Induces Strong
Letter to Japanese Freethinkers Who
Are Now Fighting For Mental
Liberty.