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VOL. XXXIX. NO. 49.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1907.
$1.00. PER ANNUM.
ican.
BOROUGH OFFICERS.
. Burgess. J. T. Carson.
Justices of the JVooe C. A. Randall, D.
W. Clark.
Oounctimen. J. B. Muse, J. W, Lan
ders. C. A. I.ausoo, Geo. Holeman, G. T.
'. Anderson, Win, Smearbaugb, E. W.
Uowinan.
Oonntable W. II. Hood.
Collector V . H. Hood. . .
(k-hool Director! J. C. Scowden, T.
V. Rltuhey, 8. M'. Heury, Dr. J. C. Dunn,
Q. Jainleson, J. J. Landers.
FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.
Mentber of Congress Joseph C. Sibley.
Member of Senate 3. K. P. Hall.
Assembly W. D. Nhjelds.
President Judge W. M. L'ndsey.
Associate Judge F. X. Kreltler, P.
C. Hill.
Protkonotary, Register A Recorder, Ae.
J. C. Geist.
Sheriff. A. W. Stronp.
'treasurer W. H. Harrison.
Commissioners Leonard Agnew, Au
drew Wolf, I'hlllp Kmort.
District Attorney A. O. Brown.
Jury Commissioners J. B. Eden, II.
II. NkClellen.
Coroner Dr C. Y. Detar.
Countv Authtori W. H. Stiles, K.L.
Haugb, 8. T. Carson.
Cbunfv Surveyor D. W. Clark.
County Superintendent-U. W. Morri
son. Keaular Terns f t'enrt.
Fourth Monday of February.
Third Monday of May.
Fourth Monday of Heptember.
Third Monday of November.
Regular Meetings of County Cotnuils-
sioners 1st and 8d Tuesdays ol montn.
Church Bid Nnbbnlh Mchaol.
Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:45 a.
ui. M. E. Sabbath School at 10:00 . m.
Preaching in M. E. Church every Sab
bath evening by Rev. W. O. Calhoun.
Preaching in the F. M. Church every
Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev.
U. D.Cali, Pastor..
The regular meetings of the W. C. T.
U. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourtn Tuesdays of each
month.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
pi N ESTA LODGE, No. 369, 1. 0. 0. F.
1 M eets every Tuesday evening, in Odd
Fellows' Hal), Partridge building. .
C APT'. GEORGE STOW POST, No. 274
G. A, K. Meets 1st and 3d Monday
evening in each month.
C APT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No.
137, W. R. C, meets first and third
Wednesday evening of each mouth.
KARL K. WENK,
; DENTIST,
TIONESTA, PA.
All work guaranteed. Rooms over
Forest County National Bnuk.
RITCHEY A CARRINGER.
ATTORN E Y S-AT-L AW,
Tlonesta, Pa.
CURTIS M. SHAWKEY,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW,
Warren, Pa.
Practice tn Forest Co.
AC! BROWN.
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW.
Office in Amer Building, Cor. Elm
and Bridge Sts., Tlonesta, Pa.
D
R. F. J. BOVARD,
rnysician nurgeou,
TIONESTA, PA.
DR. J. C. DUNN.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
and DRUGGIVT. Office over store,
Tlonesta, Pa. Professional calls prompt
ly responded to at all hours of day or
night. Residence Elm St., between
Grove's grocery and Gerow's restaurant.
D
R. J. B. SIGGINS.
Physician and surgeon,
OIL CITY, PA.
HOTEL WEAVER,
E. Al WEAVER, Proprietor.
This hotel, fornierly the Lawrence
House, has undergone a ooinpletechange,
and Is now furnished with all the mod
ern Improvement. Heated and lighted
throughout with uatural gas, bathrooms,
hot and cold water, etc The comforts o(
guests never neglected.
CENTRAL HOUSE,
GEROW A GEROW Proprietor.
Tlonseta, Pa. . This 1b the most centrally
located hotel in the place, and has all the
modern improvements. No pains will
be spared to make it a pleasant stopping
place for the traveling public First
class Liverv In connection.
pHIL. EMERT
FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER.
Shop In Walters building, Cor. Elm
and Walnut streets, Is prepared to do all
Kinds of custom work Iroiu the tluest to
the coarsest and guarantees his work to
?;ive perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten
ion given to mending, and prices rea
sonable. JAMES HASLET,
GENERAL MERCHANTS,
Furniture Dealers,
AND
UNDERTAKERS.
TIONESTA, PENN
WHITE PINE
Flooring, Siding,
and material for
Window Casings
ami Inside Work.
A good supply to select
from always in stock.
Call on or address.
JAS. J. LANDERS,
TIONESTA, PA.
or F. P. AMSLER.
Electric Oil. Guaranteed for
Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore
Feet, Pains, dec. At all dealers
Semi-Annual
pRMIAIT SALE! 1
Friday, Saturday and Monday,
I 1IMM 22 TS 25, l i
Twice a Year We Have Remnant Sales.
Heretofore we Have advertised
these Remnant Sales only in Oil
City papers. Now we're going to
give our patrons in Tionesta and
vicinity an opportunity to take ad
vantage of this greatest bargain
event. Our home people are famil
iar with our method of conducting
these sales, tyit for the benefit of
those who never attended them,
we'll explain. In every depart
ment in which yard goods is sold
5 Large Tables and 7 Side Counters
Remnants of Silks, Dress Goods, Linings, Damask, Crash,
Outings, Cantons, Flannellette, Muslins, Sheetings, Tickings,
Tapestry, Curtain Goods, Lawns, White Goods, Nainsook,
Longcloth, Prints, Ginghams, Percales, Seersucker, Laces, Em
This table is as mucli enjoyed as the Remnants. From all
over the store Odds and Ends of Merchandise are gathered for
this table. Some slightly imperfect,- some odd sizes ot gar
We realize that Remnants are not good property.
In the short space of six months from one Remnant Sale
to another hundreds of dollars worth- of Remnants accumulate.
A lot of Coats that the price of ranged from 5 to .25,
marked at $1 to $5.
Other reductions not eo great as this, but every other item
Remnant Sale prices on some 40 or 50 dozen Ladies', Men's and Children's Hose.
Remnant Sale prices on Ladies' and Misses' Summer Vests,
Wm. B.
Odds and
How We Sell Remnants.
Remnant Sale Prices
Nothing Charged
James,
from cheapest Print to finest Silk,
every remnant is carefully meas
ured and ticketed. The ticket
shows number of yards and the
regular retail price. Make your
own deductions. The difference
between Remnant Price and Reg
ular Price is what you save.
The Remnant Sale Price for the
entire piece is marked in RED
INK. Hundreds
remnants.
With Nothing on But Remnants.
broideries, Ribbons, Dress Trimmings, &c.
ImiOi"fUHt EfOteMany of the Silks, Dress
Goods and Wash Goods Remnants contain enough for waist,
skirt or suit.
Ends Table.
ments, some a trine soiled, it may be.
But nothing on this talk but tchat is marked half price
or less, .
We accept these as a necessary evil, as it were, and with
out the least consideration for cost, we put a ridiculously low
price on them, so that while the temporary loss is great, we're
glad to be rid ol them.
in Our Cloak Room.
there including Furs, but not including some 25 or 30 New
Suits and Coats which you will readily distinguish selling at
half price during Remnant Sale.
at Remnant Prices.
Oil City, Pa.
and hundreds of
about 25 dozen.
THAW'S WILL ADMITTED
As Evidence of Insanity at the
Time of Shooting.
Will Set Apart $50,000 For Investiga
tion of Hii Death tn Case of a Vio
lent or Suspicioua End, and $7,500 to
Be Used to Obtain Legal Redress
From Stanford White.
New York, Feb. 19. "I never want
ed to shoot the creature. I never
wanted to kill him. I knew he was a
Xoul creature, destroying the mothers
and daughters of America, but I want
ed through legal means to bring him
to trial. I wanted to get him Into court
to bring him to Justice. But Provi
dence took charge of it; it was an act
of Providence."
This is Harry K. Thaw's own ac
count of the killing of Stanford White.
It wao given by him to Dr. Brltton D.
Evans, the alienist, last August in the
Tombs. Dr. Evans repeated the pris
oner's words to the Jury which is try
ing Thaw for his life.
District Attorney Jerome fought
hard last week against the introduc
tion of this evidence, which the de
fense believes Is conclusive proof that
Thaw did not know his act was wrong.
But once the testifying physicians had
declared that In their opinion Thaw
was insane at the time he made the
statements to them, the rules as to
evidence permitted the Introduction of
the prisoner's words.
In further bulwarking their conten
tion that Thaw was insane when he
klled Stanford White, the defendant's
counsel succeeded in placing before the
Jury the will executed by Thaw on the
night, of his marriage In April, 1905,
and a codicil to the will executed at
the same time. Again Mr. Jerome
fought the evidence, but he significant
ly withdrew his objections after Dr.
Evans testified as his expert opinion
that Thaw was Insane at the time he
executed the will.
Appointment of Commission.
The fact that the district attorney
seems disposed to permit the admis
sion of testimony of every character,
provided It is preceded by an opinion
by a witness that the man was of un
sound mind at the time to which the
testimony refers, was taken as further
Indicating that at the psychological
moment, and If he deems his case
strong enough, Mr. Jerome may de
mand the appointment of a commis
sion to pass upon Thaw's state of mind
at present.
The will and the codicil, as read to
the jurors, were offered in evidence as
cumulative evidence of Thaw's mental
unsoundness prior to the shooting of
White. In his will Thaw provided
that his executors should set apart the
sum of $.)0,noo for the investigation of
his death in case of a violent or sus
picious end, and for the prosecution of
the persons suspected of having had a
hand in his taking off.
In the codicil Thaw left to a lawyer
In Pittsburg the sum of $7,500 to be
used to obtain legal redress from
Stanford White and one other person,
whose name was not allowed to be
read, for the benefit of four young
women who, Thaw declared, were the
victims of "degrading assaults" In a
house "furnished and used for orgies
by Stanford White and other Inhuman
scoundrels." The names of the four
young women were mentioned by
Thaw, hut were not made public.
At the end of the day It seemed that
Thaw's counsel had made still harder
the task to be met when they begin to
carry out their plan of having Thaw
declared of sound and discerning mind
today. Two other physicians will take
the stand, Doctors Hammond and
Jelllffe, and It is said that it will be
part of their function as witnesses to
detail the Improvement In Thaw's
mental condition during the period of
his confinement in the Tombs, on the
theory that the stress which caused
the mental explosion wbb removed
with the death of Stanford White. It
was also said that Mrs. Evelyn Nes
bit Thaw may go on the stand this
afternoon to complete her story.
Delmas Again In Control.
The trial entered Its fifth week. The
opening of court found Attorney Del
phin Michael Delmas again in his ac
customed place at the head of Thaw's
counsel table. During the day there
was no surface indication of the storm
which It Is said raged among counsel
for the defense the latter part of last
week after the trial was adjourned
because of the dpath of Juror Bolton's
wife. Mr. Bolton was at the criminal
court's building early and said that ho
Jelt perfectly able to go on with the
trial. It was decided that the jurors
bo not again confined until they retire
to reach a verdict.
Dr. Evans, who has been by far tho
most Important witness for the de
fense among the medical experts,
lengthily recounted his conversations
wjth Thaw In the Tombs. He testi
fied how Thuw declared that his law
yers and pli slciuiiH were in a con
spiracy with the district attorney "to
railroad" him to an asylum and to
prevent his case from coming to trial.
He declared that Thaw asserted "they
wanted to close this matter up." Thaw
told tho physician that in hlR attempts
to bring Stanford White to Justice hi
romplalned to District Attorney Jer
ome and that the Utter told him to
let the matter drop; that there was
nothing to It. He also complained to
Anthony Comstock and to a detective
agency.
Dr. Evans was corroborated as to
most, of Thaw's statements by Dr.
Charles G. Wagner of Rlnghamton,
Tho first floured ai a witness early
last week.
GOVERNOR HIGGINS' WILL.
Public and Charitable Bequest Estate
Estimated at $14,000,000.
Olean, Feb. 19. The will of the late
ex-Oovernor Frank Wayland Higtitui
wag admitted to probate yesterday.
Bequests of a public and charitable
character are as follows:
Rushford Cemetery association for
the purchase and Improvement of ad
joining land $500; for Improvement of
the cemetery at Centrevlll, Allegany
county, provided that a cemetery as
sociation be legally organized within
one year, $300; to the Forman library
of Olean for the purchase of scientific
ind historical books to be selected by
the widow and sister of the testator
ind the sister's husband, $2,000.
To the Western New York Society
for the Protection of Homeless and
Friendless Children of Randolph, N.
Y., $5,000; to the Olean general hos
pital, $10,000; to the trustees under
the will the sum of $10,000, the income
of which Is to be expended by them in
maintaining and beautifying the public
square or park on the north side of
testator's residence in Olean during
the lifetime of the testator's widow or
until she shall cease to occupy the
residence.
Bequests are made to the testator's
rector, personal friends, employes and
servants.
Trusts are created for the benefit of
the testator's wife and children and
his wife is made the sole residuary ,
legatee.
The executors are Frank I.. Bartlett,
N. V. V. Franchot. who with his son-in-law,
Frank Sullivan Smith, are
named as trustees under the will. The
testator directs that neither the ex
ecutors nor the trustees shal be re
quired to give bond. The executors
are vested with power to sell and con
vey real psliite.
No mention Is made of the value of
the estate, lint It Is estimated to be
worth between $14,000,000 and $1G,000,
000. Towerman Convicted of Manslaughter.
New York, Feb. 19. Cornelius A.
Jackson, who was the towerman at
Ninth avenue and 53rd Ftreet on Sept.
11. 1!05, when a Ninth avenue "L."
train ran off the track at the curve and
one c:ir fell to the street, killing 12
and wounding 28, was convicted of
manslaughter In the second degree
yesterday. A strong recommendation
for mercy accompanied the verdict of
the Jury. Jackson will be sentenced
on Thursday. He was tried on the
specified charge of causing the death
of Solomon Newgass. Paul Kelly was
the motorman of the train, which was
bound down town during the rush
hours of the morning. Kelly fled after
the accident and has never been found.
Advance in
Interest
Kate.
Commencing February 1,
1907, interest at the rate of
Four (4) Per Cent.
will be paid on all interest
accounts.
Interest will be compound
ed and credited twice each
year.
Deposits made on or be
fore the third day of any
month, will draw interest
from the first day of said
mouth.
Deposits made on or be
fore the 15th day of any
month, will draw interest
from the fifteenth day of
said month.
o lYotice
required previous to
withdrawal of funds.
the
Warren
National
Bank,
New lluilding, Comer of Second
and Liberty Streets,
Warren, PeinTa.
milECTOllS.
(Jeo. F. Watson
Jerry Crary
David W. Beaty
'. Nchimnielfmig
Watson 1. Hinckley
(!. N. Parmlee
('buries Chase
A. T. Sootleld
Miner D. Crary
I'. E. Uertzel
Audrew Hemel
William E. Rice
I.ee S. dough C. Horton Smith
Uon.W. D. Brown Chan. W. Jamiseon
Hon. Nelson F. wneeier
OFFICERS.
O. N. Parmlee, President.
F. E. Hertzel, Vioe President.
K. It. Lampt), Cashier.
J. M.. Sonne, Paying Teller.
N. C. Mill, Receiving Teller.