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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-07

Wood for sale by E. c. Ketchrrm.
Phone 413. If.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-07

TRY A WANT AID.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21

lar terms of service, shall be hold 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 a 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-
ton No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
TRAIN KILLS -FOUR PERSONS
Young People Walking on Railroad
Track Hurled to Death.

Four women. were killed and two
injured when a Baltimore and Ohio
passenger train struck an outing party
on the Western Maryland railway ex-
tension one mile west of Frostburg
station, Md.
The dead are: Mrs. Carrie Schneid-
er, aged twenty-seven; Orlando
Florida, Miss Jennie Schneider, aged
twenty-five, and Miss Bessie Will
liams, aged thirty-two.
The young folks were walking to-
ward Frostburg, returning home, on a
curve with their backs toward the ap-
preaching train. A freight train had
just passed on the westbound track.
Passenger Engineer Cunningham saw
the danger and blew the whistle, but
he was speeding about thirty miles
an hour and his train was on them
before he could slow down.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
Number Two.
Joint RESOLUTIO

Proposing an amendment to section
seven, article three of the Constitu-
ton 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 Oh
Pennsylvania, which reads as tol'
lows:-
Section 7. 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 OF
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 legltl-
nation of children:
Locating or changing county-seats'
erecting new counties, or changing
county lines: ;,
Incorporating cities, towns, or VII
lages, or changing their charters: I.
For the opening and conducting OF
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting:
Granting divorces:
Erecting new townships or Dor
oughs, changing township lines, DOT
ough limits, or school districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing the
mowers and duties of officers in coun-
ties. cities, boroughs, townships, elec-
ton of school districts:
Changing the law OF descent OF
succession:
Regulating the practice or juris.
diction of, or changing the rules OF
evidence in, any judicial proceeding
or inquiry before courts, aldermen
justices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery, or other tribunals, OF
providing or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of judgments, or prescribing the enec'
of judicial sales of real estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties Of aldermen
justices of the peace, magistrates OF
constables:
Regulating the management o
public schools, the building or repair
ing of school houses and the raising
of money for such purposes:
2 "Fixing the rate of interest:
Affecting the estates Of minors o.
persons under disability, except afte
due notice to all parties in interest
to be recited in the special enact
( ment:
q "Remitting fines, penalties and foI
FIXTURES, or refunding moneys legall
paid into the treasury:
"Exempting property from taxation
Regulating labor, trade, mining o
manufacturing:
"Creating corporations, or amend
n ing. renewing or extending the char
ers thereof:
Granting to any corporation, asst
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.

A JOlNI RESOLUIION.
Proposing an amendment to section
one of article nine OF the Consti-
tuition of Pennsylvania, relating to
taxation.
Section l. 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, 1912-08-21
ROBERT hEE
Secretary of the Conealth
Number Three,
A CONCURRENT RESO

A CONCURRENT RES0N
proposing an allleiuilien etion
three OF arllcle elsil' VI nsti-
tuition of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolve the
House of Representatives Ohm.
monwealth OF Pennsylvant he
Senate concur), That the 70 is
proposed as an amendment TN.
stitution of the Commonwof
PENNSYLVANIA, in accordance 10
provisions of the eighteenth
thereof |
Section 2.-Amend section . |
article eight, which reads as |
"All judges elected by the ele
the State at large may be el(
either u general or municipal
as circumstances may require
the elections for judges of thel
for the several judicial district
for county, city, ward, borougN
township officers, for regular te
service, shall be held on the mu
election day; namely, the II
next following the first Monday
vember in each odd-numbered
but the General Assembly may
fix a different day, two-thirds
. the members Of each House CT
ing thereto: Provided, Tha
elections shall always be held
odd-numbered year." so as to T
Section 8. All judges elec
the electors of the State at lart
be elected at either a general
nicipal election, as circumstanc
require. All elections for JUG
the courts for the several judic
tricts, and for county, city, wal
ough, and township officers, 10
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
MOUTHS Sealed
BY DEATH THREAT
Webber and VaIIOn Refuse 10
Name Higher Ups"
WARNING FROM TRIUMVIRATE
Throw Becker to the Wolves" Is
the Word-Becker's Bank Deposits
in New York Alone Nearly 100000.

= hroW Becker 10 the WolNeS,' is
the Word-Becker's Bank Deposits
In New York Alone Nearly 100000.
Word reached District Attorney
Whitman of New York that Bridge"
Webber and Harry Vallon have been
persuaded by representative Of the
three men named by Burns as the
directors of police blackmail to con
ceal the identity OF the man for whom
Lieutenant Becker was working,
James NJ. Sullivan, declining to act
any longer as Vallons counsel, hur-
ried from the Westside court prison
to tell Mr.. Whitman that the threats
and persuasions OF the triumvirate, the
lawyer-politician, the hotel man and
the police department official have
silenced Roses fellow-informers.
For the past week, said Mr.. Sui
ivan, messengers from the big three
and from dishonest inspectors have
visited Rose, Webber and Vallon. The
messengers brought word that the in
formers were at liberty to make any
kind of accusations they pleased
against Becker but that if they men
toned any of the names that Becker
had given to Rose and Webber they
might as well kill themselves, because
they would certainly be killed after
they got out of prison.
Rose declined to be influenced by
threats or promises of reward. He
told Mr.. Sullivan that he would stand
fast and that he would do everything
he could to aid the district attorney
in bringing to justice the big three OF
the gambling graft as well as the
police official who profited with Becker
in the distribution of graft money, But
1t was evident to the lawyer that
Webber and Valon had been
reached"
Mr.. Whitman did not doubt that the
triumvirate of blackmail had been u.s.
ing every effort to close the mouths
of Webber, Vallon and Rose. He had
heard previously of the threat made TO
Webber by the representative of
police Inspector, who called on Web
ber at 2 o'clock one morning and
threatened him with death If he men,
toned the name of the inspector. Mr.
Whitman will let Webber and Vallon
decide for themselves what their fate
shall be. His agreement with them is
conditional one, based entirely upon
the value of their evidence, and il
they decline to reveal facts in their
possession they may yet be indicted
for murder
"The situation has got down to this"
said Attorney Sullivan, whitman has
made a case against Becker and none
of Beckers blackmailing employers
seem to care a hang about Beckers
situation. In fact, they have sent
word to Rose, Webber and Vallon o
throw Becker to the wolves. But they
are determined that their own names
shall not be brought out Rose will
make good. But Weber and Vallon
have been reached and am afraid
they have made up their minds to
weaken"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
CHILDREN PERISH IN FIRE
Dog Upsets Lamp and Three Tots
Burn to Death.

At New Brighton, Pa, three little
children, Edward Leroy Taylor,
aged six months; James Taylor, two
years, and John Taylor, four years.
we're burned to death and both
parents seriously burned in a fire
caused by the explosion Of a kerosene
lamp upset by a pet dog when It
leaped to a table for a piece of meat.
The parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley
Taylor, were badly bruised and
burned in attempting to rescue the
tots.
The dog was burned to death while
endeavoring to arouse the family and
save them from the fire which it had
unwittingy caused. The childrens
sleeping place was in the kitchen.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21

Jealous of the children Of her hus-
band by a former marriage and mad
dened by his reprimand to her be-
cause she punished his three-year-old
laughter Violet, Mary Hurley, accord
ing to her husband, killed her step
son, Benjamin, six years old, with an
AK and then cut her own throat with
a razor at the little home about four
miles from Gregg station near Pitts
burg.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
CURSE WORDS 81 CENTSEACH
Man Cursed Demands Fine be I'M
posed Urder Ancient Law.

An odd complaint has been filed at
Hollidaysburg, Pa, by Merchant John
G. Sellers under an ancient act Of
assembly against Thomas b. Winslow,
a well known farmer.
Winsow is charged with uttering
profane curses twenty-siX times. A
fine of sixty-seven cents for each oath,
or $1742 in all, is demanded. The
magistrate has not decided the case.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
Bowman MAY Lose His Seat.

Charles c. Bowman, Republican
representative Of Pttston, Pa, who
represents the Eleventh district in
the house, may lose his seat If the re-
port of the Democratic members of
the elections committee is ratified.
fhe report recommends that Mr.. Bow
mans seat be declared vacant owing
to the excessive use of money in his
election
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
Church and sabbath school.

Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:4b a.
m; M, Il. Sabbath School at 1000 a. M.
Preaching in NJ. 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 chnrch
every Sabbath at ll:00 a. IN. and 1880 p.
IN. Rev. II. A. Bailey, Pastor.
The regular meetings of the W. Z. Il,
u. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourth Tuesdays OF each
month.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
Mine Inspectors Warned

The inundation of two mines near
Uniontown, Pa, in which seventeen
lives were lost recently is regarded
as new element of danger for miners
and State Chief Mine Inspector James
f. Roderick issued instructions to all
mine inspectors under him to take
steps to guard against a recurrence
of such disasters.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
AUTO MlSHAP KILLS THREE
PennsyIvanlans Are Crushed to Death
as Machine oVerturns.

Mr.. and Mrs. EdWard A. BurIing OF
Huntington Valley, Pa, and their
chauffeur, John Kilroy, we're instantly
killed when their automobile turned
turtle at Greybrook two miles from
Whitehouse, N. J.
The accident occurred when Kirby
was trying to pass another car at
narrow place in the road.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
Number Five.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.


Proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution of Pennsylvania.
Be it resolved by the Senate and
House of Representative of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in Gener-
al Assembly met, That the follow
ing is proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution of Pennsylvania, in
accordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof
Article TX.
Section Is. No obligations which
have been heretofore issued, or which
may hereafter be issued, by any coun-
ty or municipality, other than Phila-
delphia, to provide for the construc-
tion or acquisition of waterworks,
subways, underground railways or
street railways, or the appurtenances
thereof, shall be considered as a debt
of municipality, within the meaning
of section eight of article nine OF the
Constitution of Pennsylvania or OF
this amendment, if the net revenue
derived from said property for a per-
iod of five years, either before or after
the acquisition thereof, or, where the
same Is constructed by the county or
municipality, after the completion
thereof, shall have been sufficient to
pay interest and sinking-fund charges
,.during said period upon said obliga.
|. .tions, or if the said obligations shall
)e secured by liens upon the respec-
!. we properties, and shall impose no
I unicipal liability. Where munich
/ lities of counties shall issue obliga-
!. tqs to provide for the construction
obroperty, as herein provided, said
sa municipalities or counties may
, ais sissue obligations to provide for
thepterest and sinking-fund charges
acctng thereon until said properties
, shalhave been completed and in op-
eratlN for a period of one year; and
said imicipalities and counties shall
not DTequired to levy tax to pay
SAID Unrest and sinking-fund charges,
as reqCed by section ten of article
nine orhe Constitution of Pennsyl-
Vania, uiil after said properties shall
nave Dee operated by said counties
or MUNICIPALITIES during said period
OF one yea Any of the said munich
PdllIles oreounties may incur lndeDt
edness In ecess of seven per centum,
and not exoeding ten per centum, OF
the assessedvaluation of the taxable
property theein, if said increase of
Indebtedness hall have been assented
to by three-fifhs of the electors vot-
ing at a public etction, in such man
ner as shall be pDvided by law
| 40
! No. 5.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
Thief Robbed Birthday Rank

The "meanest thief" has mate
rallied in New Kensington, Pa, and
as a result OF his operations II was
discovered that the children's birth
day bank, containing a small sum of
about S., was stolen from St Andrews
Protestant Episcopal church.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
"Make.Up0 Stone Marks Grave.

Unique but appropriate will be the
monument to the late Joseph A.
Howells in Oakdale cemetery at JEFF
ferson, o. 1t will be an inkstained
marble slab, battered by the use Of
years during which the forms Of the
old Sentinel we're made up over it.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
POLICE RAIDS SCORED
Grand Jury criticises Spectacular
Haul in Phiade phia.

Spectacular raids on haunts of vice
by the Philadelphia police were
severely criticised by the August
grand jury in its final presentment
when it found that this policy of sup
preston has been a failure, while it
depreciates the value of property in
the district and is destructive to bust
ness. The report reads:
There can be but one construction
placed upon this primitive method for
the eradication of the social evil and
that is that it is a valuable adjunct
to the secret system existing between
the underworld and the police estab-
lishment whereby the former is COM
PEELED to yield to the latter its tribute
for protection, and thus establishing
an unwholesome partnership between
the two
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
REVEALS FORMER LIFE
BIackmaiIer Drives Philadelphia Re-
form Councilman to Desperation.

IOTn Cou1ClIH1dn " DCopCi dt'O'''
William Burke, elected councilman
on the reform ticket in Philadelphia
last fall, revealed himself as Jean
Vatican when he resigned and told
how under the name of Benjamin H.
Tripp he had served long term in a
Massachusetts prison after a career Of
crime in Boston and New York.
Upon his release from Jail he
settled in the northeastern section Of
the city and has been endeavoring to
live an honest life Shortly after his
election, Burke said, he was recognized
on the street by a fellow-convict and
blackmailed until, driven to despera-
tion, he determined to resign.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
S3,OOO,O0O BABY ARRIVES
John Jacob Astor Is Name of POSTUM
nous Child.

The expected posthumous child OF
John Jacob Astor, for whom he set
aside 100000 in his will, was born
at the Astor mansion New York. 1t is
a boy and will bear its fathers name.
The mother and son are in good
condition, DR.. Cragin announced. He
also said that the baby weighed seven
and three-quarters pounds and was Il
vigorous youngster.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21

It became known in Chicago that
United States District Attorney
Wilkerson would ask in a suit for the
dissolution under the Sherman anti.
trust law of the Elgin board of trade.
This action will be followed by
criminal procedure against members
of the quotations committee.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
BOROUGH OFFICERS.

Bi1geSS.-J. g. Dunn.
Justices Of The PeGce-C. A. Randall, ID.
w. Clark.
Cot,citmen-J.W w, Landers, ]. T. Dale,
q. B, Robinson, VIM. Smearbaugh,
X. J. Hopkins, G.. f. Watson, A. b.
Kelly.
CbfStdble-L. l.. Zuver.
CoLlectOr-W. II. Hood.
School DirectorS-W. G. Incl, j. X.
Clark, 8. Nj. Henry, Q, Jameson, ID. IL.
Blum.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
PROPOsAAMENDMEN7s

TO THE con
TED TO TIN olloN eopmIa
CoMMoNWDAtszENs of liio
0noIya Cd FOR THEIR AP-
orN-rpA1, ASTON, BY THE
oo,,,ToNIuwAIIIY OF THE
VANIA, AND PU PDNNol r.
DER OF THE sBCi iDD Di ~ Uir ',
COMMONWBALTHtt' oP LIE
ANCE OF ARTICLB foNou
CONSTITUTION. W
Number o,
A JOINT RESot
Proposing an amendme
nine, section four, of \ article
tion Of the Commonwealnslitu'
sylvania, authorizing tAPenn-
issue bonds to the amote 10
millions of dollars for TIN MY
ment of the highways ofNove'
monwealth. n
Section /. Be 1t resolved,
Senate and House Of Represepe
of the Commonwealth Of Penns,s
in General Assembly met, THi
following amendment to the COY
ton of the Commonwealth OF Pei
vania be, and the same is hereby
posed, in acvcordance with the
teenth article thereof
That section four Of article
which reads as follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be
ed by or on behalf Of the Stat
cept to supply casual defcienci
revenue, repel invasion, suppre
surrection, defend the State in W
to pay existing debt; and the
created to supply deficiency In
enue shall never exceed, in the
crate at any one time, one mill
dollars" be amended so as to re
follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be CT
by or on behalf of the State,
to supply casual deficiencies o
enue, repel invasion, suppress
rection, defend the State in war,
pay existing debt; and the debt
ed to supply deficiencies In re
shall never exceed, in the agg
at any one time, one million c
lars: Provided, however, hni
General Assembly, irrespective
debt, may authorize the State to
bonds to the amount of fifty m
of dollars for the purpose OF II
ing and rebuilding the highw'
the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resc
No. /.
ROBERT McAF
Secretary Of the CommonV
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

I'M, n ESTA LODGE, No. 1869, l. o. 0. F;
i M eets every Tuesday evening, in ODD
Fellows Hall, Partridge building.
NAPT. GEORGE STOW POST, No: ga
" G. A. X. Meets lst Tuesday aiter-
noon of each month at O'Clock.
NAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No:
" 1877, w. X. c., meets first and third
Wednesday evening OF each month.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21

The senate passed the army ap-
preparation bill for the present fiscal
year which carries about $4,000, 600.
This is about $6,OOO,OOO more than
the ORIGINAL house bill provided.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
comnosnr Massenet Dies.

Julian Emile Frederick Massenet,
the well known French musical com
poser died at his home in Paris. He
was seventy years old
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
Postal EmpIoyes Can oraanlze.

Following a bitter debate, in which
Senators Root and La Toilette passed
acrimonious words, the senate voted
40 to Z to permit postal employees 20
organize, but to prohibit their afIilia-
tion with organizations that counte-
nance strikes or lockouts.
The effect of the amendment, it was
said, is to bar organizations which
operate with the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Passage of the appropriation bill.
with complete parcels post system
included was part of the senate pro-
gram.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-08-21
FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.

Member of CongreSS-P. M. Speer.
Member of SeRdte-J. X. p. Hall.
AsSenlbLy-W. j. Campbell.
President Jltdge-W. d. Hinckley.
Associate Judges Aul, Joseph
M. Morgan.
Prothonotary, Register q Recorder &c.
IS. X. Maxwell.
SheriG-Wm. II. Hood. o.
TreaSurer-W. III. Brazee.
Commissioners Ii. Harrison, j.
G. Scowden, II. II. Mcclellan.
District AttoTney-N. A. Carringer.
J,.rV Commissioners b. Eden, A. Nj.
Moore.
COrOner-Dr. NJ. @ Kerr.
County AUDITORS George II. Warden
A. G. Gregg and s. V, Shields.
County SlnVeyOr-Roy s. Braden.
County Superintendent. 0. CARSON