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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
NO REVOLUTION NEEDED
Says Wilson, Accepting Democratic
mination-GraduaI Tariff Lowering.

Says Wilson, Accepting Democratic
omlnation-Gradua Tariff Lowering.
"Our task now is to effect great
readjustment and get the forces of
the whole people once more into play.
We need no reyolution; we need no
excited change; we need only new
point of view and new method and
spirit of counsel
So spoke Woodrow Wilson in his
speech of acceptance of the DEM
ocratic nomination for president.
Speaking on the tariff the governor
said:
"When we act we should act with
caution and prudence, like men who
know what they are about and not
like those in love with a theory. 1t is
obvious that the changes we make
should be made only at such a rate
and in such a way as will least inter
fere with the normal and healthful
course of commerce and manufacture.
But we shall not on that account
act with timidty, as If we did not
know our own minds, for we are GER
tain of our ground and of our object.
There should be an immediate re-
vision and it should be downward, un-
hesitatingly and steadily downward"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
BULLET ENDS HIS TROUBLES
CoIonel cornwelI, Alleged Defaulter,
Kills Himself on Train.

To escape the shame OF passing as a
prisoner, accused OF deiaulting with
thousands from estates intrusted 10
his care, through crowds of townspeO-
pie whom he knew awaited his coming,
Colonel Gibbons Gray Cornwell of
West Chester, Pa, commander of the
Sixth regiment, national guard OF
Pennsylvania, and prominent as law
yer and clubmen, shot himself through
the head and died instantly on a Penn
rylvania railroad train in Philadelphia.
He was on his way to West Chester
accompanied by William Mullen a
constable, and as the train pulled out
from the North Philadelphia station
he suddenly reached into a grip which
he had placed on seat in front,
whipped out a thirty-eight caliber
revolver and sent a bullet crashing
through his brain.
The shooting came as a tragic
climax to developments that gave
some inkling of the extent Of Colonel
Cornwell's ENHANCEMENT. Lawyers
who have made a hasty investigation
of the estates for which the colonel
was counsel place the losses at S55,-
600, but it is said that the total amount
may exceed S150,0O0.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.

Proposing an amendment to section
seven, article three of the Constitu-
tion of Pennsylvania, SO as to per-
nit special legislation regulating
labor.
Section /. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House Of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ac'
cordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof. Amend
ment to Article Three, Section Seven.
Section 2. Amend section seven,
article three of the Constitution OF
Pennsylvania, which reads as fol-
lows:-
Section Z. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension, or
impairing of liens:
Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
Changing the names of persons or
places:
changing the venue in civil or
criminal cases:
Authorizing the laying out, open
ing, altering, or maintaining ROADS,
highways, streets or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges, or
incorporating ferry or bridge compan-
les, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounda-
ries between this and any other
State:
''Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
"Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of the State;
authorizing the adoption or legiti-
nation of children:
Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties, or changing
county lines:
Incorporating cities, towns, or vii
lagos, or changing their charters:
For the opening and conducting or
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting:
Granting divorces,
Erecting new townships or bor-
oughs, changing township lines, bor-
ough limits, or school districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun-
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, cleo
tion of school districts:
Changing the law of descent or
succession:
Regulating the practice or jurds-
diction of, or changing the rules or
evidence in, any judicial proceeding
or inquiry before courts, aldermen,
justices of the peace, sheriffs, commits
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery, or other tribunals, or
providing or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of judgments, or prescribing the erect
of judicial sales of real estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties Of aldermen,
justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
Regulating the management OF
public schools, the building or re pair
ing of school houses and the raising
of money for such purposes:
Fixing the rate Of interest:
Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties in interest,
to be recited in the special enact
ment:
Renting fines, penalties and for
FIXTURES, or refunding moneys legally
paid into the treasury:
"Exempting property from taration:
Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing
Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending the chart
ers thereof:
Granting to any corporation, assp'
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
LIGHTNING CAUSES BLAST
One Man Killed When Furnace at
Wood dlawn, Pa, Blows Up.

One man was killed ana eight others
were injured, three seriously, in an
explosion due primarily to lightning
which wrecked the No. blast fur
mace at the Aliquippa works of the
Jones and Laughlin steel company N
Woodlawn, Pa. When the dust catche,
and separator of the furnace let sc
the detonation was earsplitting and
the air was filled with bricks and iron
The direct cause of the explosion
was the shortage of water in the
furnace, caused by the failure of the
pump house to meet the demands of
the furnace.
When the water supply got low in
the furnace gas accumulated result
ing in the explosion.
Samuel d. Steele, aged thirty.eight,
assistant master mechanic, of Wood
lawn was killed.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.


Proposing an amendment to section
one of article nine of the Consti-
tuition of Pennsylvania, relating to
taxation.
Section 1. Be 1t resolved by the
State and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof
Section 2. Amend section one of
article nine of the Constitution OF
Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:
"All taxes shall be uniform, upon
the same class of subjects, within the
territorial limits of the authority levy
ing the tax, and shall be levied and
collected under general laws; but the
General Assembly may, by general
laws, exempt from taxation public
property used for public purposes,
actual places of religious worship,
places of burial not used or held for
private or corporate profit, and institu'
tions of purely public charity, so as
to read as follows:
All taxes shall be uniform upon the
same class of subjects, within the ter
ritorial limits of the authority levying
the tax, and shall be levied and col
lected under general laws, and the
subject of taxation may be classified
for the purpose of laying graded or
progressive taxes; but the General
Assembly may, by general laws, eX-
empt from taxation public property
used for public purposes, actual places
of religious worship, places of burial
not used or held for private or cor
porate profit, and institutions of pure
ly public charity.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 4.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
FALLING TANK
CRUSHES THREE
Score Of Girls Injured in Pitts
burg Cigar Plant
MAD PANIC ON FIRE ESCAPES
Water Tank Which Was Receiving
First Test Crashes Through Roof
and Seventh Floor of Building.

Three girls were killed and nearly a
score of others seriously injured when
great water tank plunged through
the roof of the United American Cigar
company's plant, Twenty eighth and
Smallman streets, Pittsburg.
The tank, which was filled for the
first time, fell through the roof and
seventh floor and lodged on the sixth
floor
Nearly 200 girls were at work on
the sixth floor OF the building when
the great water reservoir crashed
through the ceiling.
The dead: Iva Lawton, seventeen
years old, crushed to death by the
weight Of the water tank and the floor
above her Agnes Niedzelska, seventeen
years old, crushed to death. I'm
identified foreign girl, twenty.three
years old body badly crushed.
The girls were at their tables when
the sound of rending timbers sounded
above them. The ceiling yawned as
they looked and the tank came hurl-
ing through, crushing the life from
three of the girls instantly and
wounding a score more as they sat at
their work.
Then came scenes Of mad panic.
Those uninjured, ignorant of the catas-
trophe, struggled to the fire escapes
and exits, each expecting the building
to collapse. Sisters were separated
in the mad rush, where each girl
fought to save herself. On the fire
escapes, six stories above the ground,
the battle continued. Smaller girls
fought to keep from being hurled to
the ground Screaming, painting,
striking and scratching, the mob
struggled down the narrow stairs, its
numbers augmented at each floor.
Few walked down that last fight of
steps. They rolled, and at the bottom
drew themselves from the heap of
struggling companions.
Fire apparatus and two patrols with
policeman came. Every ambulance in
the city within reach of the scene ar
rived shortly afterward Even then
automobiles and wagons were pressed
into service to carry the wounded to
hospitals.
I'VE didn't have a bit of warning" :"
said Margaret Cox, one of the girls to
get out safely. That part of the floor
came through all at once and the
girls under it did not have a chance to
escape. The girls all yelled at once
and started to run for the windows.
| knew | should be running too, but
simply couldn't for a while. When
did get started down | thought I
should never reach the ground. 1t
was awful until | knew my sisters
were safe"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Wool Bill Gets A Veto.

President Taft vetoed the wool re-
vision bill sent to him as the result
of the coalition between the Demo
Gratis and the Republican insurgents.
The president takes firm stand
for revision based on scientific data
furnished by the tariff board. He
holds that most of the rates in the
Underwood-La Toilette compromise
bill are so low they would, if enacted
into law, result in irretrievable injury
to the wooden industry and throw
thousands of workmen out of employ
ment.
The president in sending the bill
back to congress appeals however,
to both sides to drop partisanship and
in the interest OF relieving the people
of an unnecessary burden, return to
him wool bill based on the findings
of the tariff board. If congress will
accept this challenge, the president
assures them he will promptly give
the measure his approval.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14

lar terms of service, shall be held on
the municipal election day; namely,
the Tuesday following the first Mon
day OF November in each odd-number-
ed year. but the General Assembly
may by law fix different day, two
thirds of all the members of each
House consenting thereto: Provided,
That such elections shall be held in
an odd-numbered year: Provided fur
ther, That all judges for the courts
Of the several judicial districts hold
ing office at the present time, whose
terms of office may end in an odd
numbered year, shall continue to hold
their Offices until the first Monday of
January in the next succeeding even
numbered year.
A true copy of Concurrent Resolu-
tion No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
PANAMA BILL
PASSES SENATE
Railroad Owned Steamers Can
not Pass Through
HOUSE MEASURE MODIFIED
President Taft Vetoes Wool Revision
Bill Sent to Him For Signature
Pension Bill Sent Back to House.

Bill Sent to Him For Signature
Pension Bill Sent Back to House.
The senate passed the Panama canal
bill by a vote of AZ to 10.
The bill as it emerges from the SEN
ate not only disregards Great Brit
aims protest against free tolls for
American ships, but contains radical
Legislation affecting several of the big
systems of the country.
The bill will compel the divorce
ment by the Southern Pacific Rail-
road company of its steamship lines If
these boats are to go through the
Panama canal. The Southern Pacific
has millions of dollars invested n
shipping and has been making plans
for an expansion along this line with
the opening of the great waterway
on the isthmus.
Further, the legislation which
emerges from the senate puts in
jeopardy the New Haven roads ex.
tensive holdings in coastwise lines
aud the holdings of the New York
Central and other roads in shipping
on the Great Lakes. Many millions Of
dollars are invested by the New Haven
in the lines which ply up and down
Long Island sound. President Mellen
of that road has testified that 1t
would be impossible to dispose of
these lines under favorable conditions.
The interests of the railroads in lake
shipping is almost as extensive.
The Panama canal bill as it came
from the house contained a prohibit
ton against the ownership or con
troll by any railroad of a steamship
line and fixed July |, 1914. as the date
in which this control should have
passed absolutely from the railroads.
The senate modified the house pro-
vision so that it would apply only 20
ships operated through the Panama
canal"
In lieu of the fiat prohibition which
the house had against all ownership
the senate also adopted an amend
ment empowering the interstate COM
merce commission to determine on
its own motion whether the owner
ship by any railroad of a steamship
line was prejudicial to the public in
terests and to compel, if necessary,
the divesJing of the steamship hold
ings
The bill as it was passed by the
senate also retains an amendment ad-
mitting foreign built vessels to Ameri-
can registry in the event that the
vessels are owned by Americans,
This amendment opens the shipyards
of the world to Americans and
amounts to free trade in ships.
Senators Root and Lodge, Of the
opinion that the granting of free tolls
to American ships constitutes viola
ton of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty,
made a final effort to have these
amendments stricken from the bill,
They failed. The amendment grant
ing free tolls to vessels Of American
register engaged in foreign trade was
adopted by a vote of 33 to 20. The
owners Of the vessels in order to en-
JOY this privilege, however are obliged
to agree that such vessels may be
taken by the United States in time Of
war or other public emergency on
payment of the fair actual value.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
purbIn Named For Governor.

Colonel Winfield T. Durbin, former
governor of Indiana, was nominated by
the state Republican convention to
head the ticket in the coming cam
paigu on a platform praising the ad.
ministration and pledging support Of
the reelection OF President Taft.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS

TO THE CONSTITUTION SUBMIT
TED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP-
PRovAL OR REJECTION, BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PBNNSYL-
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY OR
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU-
ANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to article
nine, section four, Of the Constltu-
tion of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, authorizing the State to
issue bonds to the amount Of fifty
millions of dollars for the improve
ment Of the highways of the Com
monwealth.
Section l. Be 1t resolved by the
Senate and House OF Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania be, and the same is hereby, pro-
posed, in accordance with the eigh-
teenth article thereof
That section four OF article nine,
which reads as follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be Great
ed by or on behalf of the State, ex-
cept to supply casual deficiencies OF
revenue, repel invasion, suppress in
surrection, defend the State in war, or
to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiency In rev.
enue shall never exceed, in the aggre-
crate at any one time, one million OF
dollars" be amended so as to read as
follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf Of the State, except
to supply casual deficiencies or rev.
enue, repel invasion, suppress insur-
rection, defend the State in war, or to
pay existing debt; and the debt Great
ed to supply deficiencies in revenue
shall never exceed, in the aggregate
at any one time, one million OF dol
lars: Provided, however, mat the
General Assembly, irrespective of any
debt, may authorize the State to issue
bonds to the amount of fifty millions
of dollars for the purpose Of improv-
ing and rebuilding the highways OF
the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. /.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary OF the Commonwealth.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Would Lei cItIes Mine coal.

Secretary Of the Interior Fisher has
recommended to congress the passage
of legislation that will enable cities
to obtain and operate their own coal
mines by gift of the government.
Cities west of the Missouri river
would be vitally affected by the pro-
posed legislation.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
TinpIate Workers Sought For Japan.

Efforts are being made in western
Pennsylvania to secure American tin
plate workers to go to Japan, to take
positions in a tinplate mill, recently
completed in that country. Llewellyn
Lewis, formerly an official of the
steelworkers' union, has secured sew
eral men.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Man Smothered by Hay.

John Garvey, a middle aged man
seeking shelter from the storm
crawled into a hay NOV on the farm
of Harvey Heath at Cory, Pa, Heath
found him in the morning almost suf-
focated. Medical aid was at once
summoned, but he soon passed away.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Child Eats Pills and Loses Life.

Finding some strychnlne pills which
had been left for its mother by a
physician, Dorothea Bannister, aged
two, daughter of William Bannister of
Wind Ridge, Pa, died after eating a
number of the pellets.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Regular Terms of Court.
Church md snbbn,h school.

Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:46 a.
m. M. Il. Sabbath School at 10000 a. m.
Preaching in M. E. Church every Sab
bath evening by Rev. w. s. Burton.
Preaching in the f. Nj. Church every
Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev.
q. A. Garrett, Pastor.
Preaching IN the Presbyterian church
every Sabbath at ll:00 a. IN. and 1880 p.
m Rev. II. A. Bailey, Pastor.
The regular meetings of the w. q. Il.
U. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourth Tuesdays OF each
month.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
TWO KILLED IN WRECK
Head-on Collision on Single Track
Near Vienna, Pa.


A collision between four-coach pas.
senger train and a heavily loaded
freight train OF thirty-hye cars, drawn
by two engines on the single track of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad be-
tween Claysyille and Vienna Pa, re-
suited in the death of two persons and
serious injuries to seven others, be.
sides minor cuts and bruises to a
score or more passengers.
r. Verderber, lorty-hye years old,
Of Washington, Pa, fireman on the
second freight engine, was crushed
to death against engine. A. f. Glib
son, forty-eight years old, of Wheel
ing, w. Va, baggage man on the pas
senger train, was pinned face down
ward over the smokestack until his
face was cooked. He died.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Vacation For Trust Probers.

The house judiciary committee
which is authorized to investigate the
trusts decided to abandon all investi-
cations until next winter. This de-
csion practically means that the beef
trust will he secure from an inyestiga-
tion of It's high meat prices until
after the presidential election at
least
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Black Handlers Blow Up Store.

An explosion of dynamite wrecked
the fruit store of John and James
Malocki in Pennsylvania avenue,
Greesburg, Pa Many persons were
injured, none seriously Members Of
the Black Hand are blamed for the
explosion.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Shot in the Back and Killed.

As he was standing in the barroom
of the Hotel Yukon, eight miles from
Greensburg, Pa, Mike Sineor, aged
thirty, was shot in the back and killed
by a man known as italian Louie"
The assailant has not been captured.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Death Caused by Ether.

Stanley Maxwell aged 3S, of Mead
vile, Pa, is supposed to have com
mitted suicide by inhaling ether He
was found by member of the family
lying dead on his bed, with a vial
which had contained ether beside his
face,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Trolley Crash Serious.

More than forty persons were in.
jured in trolley car crash near
Shamokin, Pa The collision is be-
lleved to have been due to mistake
in reading signals.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14

The breaker at the Raven Run
colliery near Girardvllle, Pa was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing loss of
100000
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
An Odd Irinle TranedY.

A triple tragedy was witnessed in
Meadville, Pa. A cat was chasing a
rat down the Erie tracks, dog was
chasing the cat and train was chas-
ing all three-and got them
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Senate Defeats Pension Bill.

The fight to pass the $15O,OO0,0oo
pension appropriation bill was lost by
one vote in the senate and the meas
ure was sent back to the house for
further conference.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
THE FOREST REPUBLICAN.
BOROUGH OFFICERS.
ELM STREET, TIONEsTA, PA.

BurgeSS.-J. G. Dunn.
Justices Of the PeGce-C. A. Randall, d.
W. Clark.
COt1tcttmen.-J. w. Landers, j. T. Dale,
@. Is. Robinson, WIN. Smearbaugh,
X. j. Hopkins, G.. +. Watson, A. B..
Kelly.
C0,lStGble-L. l.. Zuver.
CoLlect0r-W. II. Hood.
School DirectorS-W. @. Incl, J. K.
Clark, =. NJ. Henry, Q. Jameson, d. H..
Blum.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Seasons Pace Record.

Vernon Mckinney a bay stallion,
paced mile in 2:Olia at the Brunots
Island race track, Pttsburg, This Is
the fastest time for the event
that has been made this season.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
Coal Shed Crushes Boy.

While playing near coal house
near his home, John Fair, nine years
old, son OF William Fair Of Cowans-
Vile, near Apollo, was killed when
the hnilding toppled over ON him.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14

Mrs Lydia Pittman, proprietress Of
an all night restaurant at Freedom
Pa, was held up by strange man in
her restaurant and robbed of $l93.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-14
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

TN N ESTA LODGE, No. 1863, |. o. o. f.
i NJ eets every Tuesday evening, in Odd
Fellows Hall, Partridge building.
CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST, No. 274
" G. A. r. Meets lst Tuesday after
noon of each month at o'clock.
CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No.
" 1877, w. X. c., meets first and third
Wednesday evening OF each month.