--LICAN. RATES OFADVERTI8IN0: One Square, one inch, oneweek... 1 00 One Square, one Inch, one month 3 00 One Square, one inch, 3 months...- 6 00 One Square, one inch, one year .... 10 M Two Squares, one year 15 00 Quarter Column, one year 30 00 Half Colnmn, one year - 50 00 One Column, one year 100 00 Legal advertisements ten cents per Una each insertion. We do fine Job Printing of every de scription at reasonable rates, but It's cash on delivery. Published every Wednesday by J. E. WENK. Offioe in Smearbangh & Wenk Building, IU STRBBT, TIONBWTA, PA. Term. 81.00 A Year, Hirlctly liAinui. Entered as second-class matter at the post-office at Tiouesla. No subscription received for a ahorter period than three months. Correspondence solicited, but no notice will be taken of anonymous communlca lions. Always give your name. Forest Republican VOL. XLI. NO. 45. TIONETSA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1909. $1.00 PER ANNUM. i i? ) BOROUGH OFFICERS. Burgess. J. T. Carson. Justices of the Peace Q. A. Randall, D. W. Clark. Oouncumen. J. W. Landers, J. T. Dal, O. B Robinson, Win. Sinearbsuiih, E. W. Bowman, J. W. JamieBon, W. J. Campbell. Constatle Archie Clark, ' Collector W. H. Hood. School Directors J. O. Scowden, R. M. Herman, Q Jainimton, J. J, Landers, J. R. Clark, W. G. Wyman. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Congress N. P. Wheeler. Member of tienateJ. K, P. Hall. issemblyA.. R. Mechllnir. President Judge Win. B Rice A snocxate Judges - p. X.. Kreltler, P, C. Hill. rrothonota y. Register t Recorder, ale. -J. O. Heist. Hherdr-H R. Maxwell. Treasurer Oei. W. Holnman. Commissioners -WTn H. Harrison, J. M. Zunndfll, H. II. McClnllan. District KttomyA. C. Brown. Jury Commissioners Ernest Sibble, Lewis Wanner. (kroner Dr. C Y. Detar. County Auditors -doorife H. Warden, It. C. Urpgn rf.1 J. P. Kelly. County SurtMyor D. W. Clrk. County Superintendent . W. Morri son. Keaulsr Terns ef fleurt. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday of May. Fourth Monday of Hxptemher. Third Monday of Novmnber. Regular Menttcgx of County Coimnls .loner 1st and 3d Tuesdays ol montn. t'hurrh anal Mabbnth Nrtao.l. Presbyterian Hablmth Hcliool at 9:46 a. in. I M. R. Nabliath School at 10:00 a. m. Prnaching n M. E. Church every Sab bath evening by Rev. W.O. Calhoun. Preaching in the F. M. Church every Sabhatb evening at the usual hour. Rev. E. L. Monroe. Pastor. Preaching In the Presbyterian church every Ssbbitlh at 11:110 n. in and 7:30 p. in Rev. H. A. Ka ley, Pastor. The regular meetings of the W. C. T. U. are held at the headquarters on the second and fourtn Tuesdays of each m nth. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. pi N EST A LOIH4E, No. 369, 1.O.O. F. 1 M eAts every Tuesday evening, In Odd Fellows' Hall, Partridge building. CA PT. U EOIW H STOW POST, No. 274 G. A, R. Meets 1st and 3d Monday eveuing iu each month. CAPT. UEOKUE STOW CORPS, No. 137, W. R. C, meets first and third Wednesday evening of each month. RITI HFY A CARRIMOER A TT 'KN E V 8-AT-LA W, Tlontwia, Pa. COURTIS M. SHAWKEY, J ATTORNEY-AT-LA w, Warren, Pa. Practice in Forest Co. A C BROWN, A ATTORN EY-ATLAW Oil) op In Arner Building, Cor. Elm and Kririge Hi-., Tionesa. Pa. FRANK S. HUNTER, D D. 8 Rooms over Citizens Nat Bank, IIONESTA, PA. STARTS TAILORING. Suits and Overcoats made to your order In our own shop fit and style guaranteed (with the exception of blacks and blues) . ..one-fourth off Men's Suits and Overcoats (Ready-to-Wear De Luxe) one-fourth off Men's Raincoats (of high grade Priestly cloths) and Overcoats, .one-fourth off Boys' and Children's Clothing one-fourth off Furnishing Goods, Shirts, Underwear, etc. (Including Dr. Jaeger's, The Matelutz, Dr. Diemel's and Dr. Knelpp's) one-fifth off Trunks, Traveling Dags, Suit Cases and Travelers' Goods of every description one-fourth off Hats, Umbrellas and Canes one-fourth off The above reductions are for regular lines of our best and newest goods. Hundreds of special lots In every department will be closed out at a third and a quarter of their real value. DR. J. O. DUNN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, and DRUaGIVT. Office in Dunn & Fulton drug store, fionesta. Pa. Profess ional calls promptly responded to at all hours of day or night. Residence Elm St., three doors above the store. D R. F.J. BOVARD, Physician Surgeon, TIONESTA, PA. D R. J. B. 8IGGINS. Physician and Surgeon, OIL CITY, PA. tTOTEL WEAVER, tl E. A. WEAVER. This hotel, formerly the Proprietor. Lawrence lete change, ; the mod and lighted bathrooms, comforts of House, has undergone a coinp and Is now lurmwheil wltn al eru improvements. ' Heated throughout with natural gas, hot and cold water, etc. The guests never neglected. pENTRAL HOUSE, GEROW A GEROW Proprietor. Tlonseta, Pa. This is 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 Livery in connection. pHIL. EMERT FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER, Shop over R L. Haslet's 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 ive perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion given to mending, and prices rea sonable. Fred. Grettenborger GENERAL BLACKSMITH & MACHINIST. All work pertaining to Machinery, En gines. Oil Well Tools, Gas or Water Kit ti ngs and General Klacksm ithing prompt ly done at Low Rates. Repairing Mill Machinery given special attention, and satisfaction guaranteed. Shop in rear of and just west of the thaw House. Tldioute, Pa. Your patronage solicited. FRED. GRETTENBERGER JAMES HASLET, GENERAL MERCHANTS, Furniture Dealers, AND UNDERTAKERS. TIONESTA. PENN OFTICIAK Office ) A li National Bank Building, OIL CITY, PA. Eyes examined free. Exclusively optical. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20th, 1909, AND CONTINUES REPUBLIC GOES DOWN Detail of 50 Men Taken Off by Revenue Cutter Gresham. Baltic Reaches New York With Pas sengers of Republic and Florida, Which Collided Off Nantucket Light. Five Ocean Liners Were Brought to Assistance of Disabled Vessels by the Wonderful Wireless Telegraph. Two Passengers of Republic Killed. The palatial ocean steamship Re public of the White Star line, which was in collision with the Italian liner Florida early on Saturday morning off Nantucket, Mass., went down at 8:30 o'clock Sunday night. No one J was lost. Her passengers, taken off many nours before by the steamer Bal tic, were brought to New York. Two passengers of the Republic were killed Mrs. Eugene Lynch of Boston and W. J. Mooney, a banker of Langdon, N. D. . Three seamen of the Florida were lost The Republic was in tow of the rev enue cutter Gresham and the derelict destroyer Seneca proceeding to New York when she went do,vn. On board her was Captain Sealby with a volun- f teer detail of 50 of her crew. She had been towed but a short dlstanoe when she began to settle rapidly. Seeing no hope of saving the ship, Captain Sealby gave the order to abandon ship and the crew was taken off by the Gresham, which cast loose from the crippled liner and stood by until she sank beneath the waves. Captain Sealby and the mate of the Republic were picked up out of the water. The ramming of the White Star liner Republic early Saturday by the Lloyd Italian line steamer Florida off Nan tucket Light, Mass., has been followed ed by a series of events constituting one of the most remarkable of ocean mishaps on record. No less than seven ocean liners the Baltic, New York, Furnessia, La Lorraine and Lucar.Ia, and the two crippled ships, Republic and Florida figured in this stirring story. The 442 passengers of the Republic under went two transfers on the open sea, first to the crippled Florida on Satur day morning, and again early Sunday to the more commodious Baltic, which brought also the 900 and more passen gers from the disabled Florida. WRECK OF THE MAINE Governor Magoon Recommends That It Be Immediately Removed. Governor Magoon of the provisional government of Cuba in his annual re SEM McCUEN THE McCUEN CO. MEANS "BEST QUALITY." It's Reputation for Square Dealing has Been Honestly Earned and is N Jealously Guarded. This Sale Will Interest You Mr. Thrifty Man, Mr. Get-There Young Man Patronize This Sale and You Will Save Money. Following our established custom at the close of each season our surplus stock is turned into cash without regard to price. The Forty-Fifth Semi-Annual Schedule of Reductions is as follows for our best and newest goods in eve-y department. Our merchandise (every article) is marked in plain figures and the reductions are bona fide and can be seen at a glance. NOTE WELL THE DATES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20th. FOR TENDAYS. ONLY ONE IRON CLAD CONDITION: As this sale means a serious loss to us the strictly cash rule will be rigidly enforced. Don't ask for credit. It will have to be suspended. No goods will be sent on ap proval or charged during this sale except at the regular full prices, This In no way affects our in variable guarantee ( PERFECT SATISFACTION OR YOUR MONEY BACK. port brings to the attention of the sec retary of war the wreck of the battle ship Maine in Havana harbor and rec ommends that the government take Im mediate steps to accomplish its re moval without further delay. He says in part: "The wreck of the Maino continues to lie in the mud and waters of Hav ana harbor. The sunken battleship Is a serious menace to the shipping of the harbor. The obstruction has in creased annually during the past ten years by causing a chonl. "Even more important than this ob struction to navigation Is the fact that this wreck, 'although it contains the bodies of 03 American seamen, or what is left of them, is apparently abandon ed and forgotten by the government and people of the United States. It has become a national reproach and an in ternational scandal. "The neglect to remove the wreck Is attributed by many, especially the large Spnnish contingent In Cuba, to the fear that Its removal will disclose the fallacy of the popular belief that the Maine was destroyed by a torpedo or mine instead of an Interior explo sion. So generally does this opinion prevail that I believe the Cuban gov ernment was deterred thereby from dealing whh the wreck as an obstruc tion to navigation and destroying it. However, it should he added that the Cuban authortles were also restrained hy a belief that the United States would sometime desire to attempt to remove It nnd preserve the wreck as a whole instead of breaking It up and removing It. In the more Inexpensive manner." HERO FUND AWARDS Widow and Children of Arthur J. Sweeney Receive Pensions. Among those to receive awards from the Carnegie commission last week la Neal W. Battie, aged 21, of Guildhall, Vt., who is given a bronze medal and $1,000 for educational purposes. Beat tie rescued William A. Sargent, aged 20, of Bradford, Vt., from drowning on Jan. 27, 1906. A silver medal and $30 a month for life with $5 a month additional for each dependent child under 16, was awarded to Ellen T. Sweeney, widow of Arthur J. Sweeney, who jumped Into a sulphuric acid tank at Buffalo, N. Y.. Sept. 10, 1007. and lifted Will iam J. Callahan to safety, losing his own life by suffocation. Benzoate of Soda Harmless. That benzoate of soda used as a food preservative Is not injurious to health Is the Judgment of the reference board of consulting experts, of which Dr. Ira Remsen, piesidcnt of Johns Hopkins university, Is chairman. This conclusion, which has been ap proved by Secretary Wilson, reverses the findings of Dr. H. W. Wiley, chM of the bureau of ehemlstiy. - ANNUAL A PARTIAL LIST OF SPECIAL VALUES. But no newspaper article can give you an adequate idea of the many articles which wo are sacrificing. Come yourself and see them. Arrow Brand Collars 5c Canvas Gloves, Dc; with knit wrists 7c Children's Tarn O'Shanters 10c Red and Blue Bandanna Handkerchiefs 4c Seamless Half Hose 3c and 7c Knit Wool Half Hose 12c and 19c Heavy Lumberman's Knit Wool Half Hose, 50c values Price, 25c Heavy Lumberman's Knit Wool Half Hose, 25c values Price, 19c Men's Hath Robes, $1.00 qualities Price, $1.98 Men's Rath Robes, $0.00 and $8.00 qualities Price, $2.98 Hoys' Hath Robes, $:!.00 qualities Price, $1.25 Men's House Coats, $.'..00 and $0.00 qualities Price, $1.98 Men's House Coats, $8.00, $10.00 and $12.00 qualities Price, $3.98 Men's and Boys' White Negligee Shirts, 75c qualities Price, 25c Men's Peerless White Shirts Price, 50c Boys' Peerless White Shirts Price, 25c NCO, CAUSE OF COLL Story That Florida's Helmsman Turned Wheel Wrong Way. Captain Sealby of the Republic Kept HI Ship Beneath Him as Long as There Wat a Foothold Florida Warped Into Dock at Brooklyn Fly ing the Signal "Not Under Control." Eugene Lynch of Boston May Not L,v- .1 3 iRt New m Jan. 26. Within consid erably less than 72 hours after the crash between the ocean liners Re public and Florida, off the Nantucket shoals, which eventually sent the one to the bottom and reduced the other to an almost helpless state, the sur vivors of the thrilling accident found a haven. Last night 1.C50 passengers from the two vessels were safe In this port, Irought here by the Baltic, while near hg It were the rescued officers and crew of the Republic, safe on board the derelict destroyer Seneca, to which they were transferred from the revenue cutter Gresham after staying, Up to the last moment, by their sink ing vessel. Battered Florida at Brooklyn Dock. At the dock in Brooklyn was the battered Florida, aboard which her crew had remained throughout her trying experiences. Only the ill-fated Republic was wanting to complete the list. And sht tf was In port her last port of call, what will doubtless prove her final resting place beneath 38 fathoms of water, 15 miles south of the Nan tucket South Shoal lightship. Sixteen hundred and fifty persons, passengers on the Republic and the Florida, whose lives were In Jeopardy for hours while the call of the wire less was gradually bringing aid nearer find nearer to them, reached New York on the steamer Baltic. With the Important work of rescue thus practically finished, attention turned to the question of how the two big ocean travelers had come to col lide and whether their fateful meet ing was as unavoidable as at first a peared. On the Republic's side little was to be learned. Her passengers told graphic tales of the crash, of the excitement on board, of the bravery of the officers, the good behavior of the rrew and the efficient work of rcue. Little could be learned from Captain Rosplnl of the Florida, but according to others who had been on board the Florida and were brought Into port by the Baltic, something went, wrong COMPANY Outfitter of Men, Boys McCuen Company Block, with the Florida's steering wheel when the collision was Imminent. One story had It that a quartermaster had the wheel when the commander yelled for It to be jammed to starboard. He put It to port Instead and the liners crashed Into each other. Another story Is that the man dropped his wheel In a panic when danger Impended. Both versions agree In saying that the commander felled the quartermaster with an Iron 8plke following what he must have considered the seaman's recreancy. An Injured quartermaster from the Florida was brought to port on the Baltic. He stoutly asserted that he was not at the wheel when the acci dent occurred. Verdict of Marine Court Needed. Probably not until both commanders have made their formal statements will the nctmil facts be known. Pos sibly the verdict of a marine court will be needed to determine them. Standing out prominently on the other hand is the conduct of Captain Sealby of the Republic, who, true to the best traditions of the sea, kept his ship beneath him as long as there was enough of her afloat to afford him a foothold. And practically all accounts agree that, aside from the starting of an In cipient panic among the steerage pas sengers on the Florida, both ships' forces and passengers kept their heads well In the midst of most trying con ditions. Work of Wireless Operators. What the wireless accomplished for the rescue of the souls on board the shattered steamships Is history. Ami the brave, tireless men who stuck to their instruments nnd summoned all the scientific resources nnd wonders of invention at their command to bring help are the heroes of the nar ration. It was the same wireless he used so well that flushed the news from the Seneca approaching the har bor that "Jack" Binns, the wireless op erator on the Republic, was sleeping well after his hours of unceasing de votion to his work. Equal mede of praise Is given H. G. Tattersall of the Baltic, who stuck to his key for 72 hours while the ship was groping her way to aid the strick en Republic. Survivors, too, had warm words of commendation for the officers and men of the Florida, who worked like he roes, with their own ship In sad case, to get the passengers from the worse damaged Republic to comparative safety on board the Italian vessel. Mrs. Nation Pelted With Eggs. London, Jan. 2(i. Mrs. Carrie Na tion was pelted with eggs, one of them striking her In the face, while deliver ing a lecture in Canterbury music hall last night. Mrs. Nation was obliged to quit the house under police protection. CLEARANCE Men's Finest Shaker Knit Sweater Coats, grey and white, $4.00 and $5.00 qualities Price, $2.98 Men's Finest Shaker Knit Sweater Coats, grey and white, $3.00 qualities Price, $1.98 Little Hoys' Coat Sweaters, all wool, $1.00 qualities Price, 50c Asbestos Gauntlet One-Finger Gloves for Railroad Men Price, 19o Men's Fancy Vests Half Price Mulllers Half Price Our entire assortment of Men's Scarf Pins Price, 25c each Men's Mackintoshes (long waterproof coats) $1.98 Men's Duck (wind nnd waterproof reefer coats) Price, $1.19 and $1.35 Heavy Warm Fleeced Lined Undershirts and Drawers Price, 25c Fine Fgyptlan Halbriggan Underwear, $1.00 quality Price, 50c Men's All-Wool Undershirts and Drawers, $1.00 quality Price, 50o Soft Hats, $2.50 to $4.00 qualities Price, 75c Plush Caps, $1.50 and $2.00 qualities Price, 75c Men's Winter Caps, COc qualities Price, 15o Men's Suspenders 11c, 19c, 21c President Suspenders 35c Men's and Boys' Wool Gloves 15c Boys' Long Overcoats, ages 15 to 18 years Half Price STRANGLER KILLS ONLY YOUNG GIRLS Rend at Dayton Believed to Have Committed Many Grimes, Dayton, O., Jan. 26. The murder of Mary Forschner, aged 15 years, tallies with five other murders of young girls here In recent years, and mothers and daughters are In deadly fear of a strangler fiend. Mke Dora Gilmsui, murdered In 1906, and Itertha Markowitz, killed in 1907, Mary Forschner was strangled to death. Her body, the face and neck lacerated, was found by the girl's step father, Robert Ceppere. The body had been dragged from the roadside near the Crnfton Kennelly mansion into a cornfield, then across another road and finally deposited in a wagon shed in the rear of a barn. Charles Snider, who lives In the snnie house as the Ceppere family, has been arrested n a charge of suspi cion. Samuel Morris has a'so been held as n witness. The roadside where the girl met her death shows signs of a terrlfio struggle. A man's bloodstained hand kerchief was found half way between the scene of the murder and Roman's barber shop, where Snider was ar rested. The police consider (he hand kerchief their most Important clue. They have obtained fine measure ments of font and knee prints found In the mud along the roadside where the girl's dead body was found. Two people nre supposed to have seen the assailant. One was Morris, Into whose field the body was dragged, and the other was Mrs. John Schoff, who lives Just around the corner. Both declare they heard the girl's screams and saw a man running away. Trlec! Suicide on Track. Greensbtirg, Pa., Jan. 26. J. G. Gil lespie, -111 ears old, Bald to be from Johnstown, attempted to commit sui cide on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks at the Southwest branch junc tion near here. As an engine was fifmbing the stiff grade he threw him self in Its path. He was hurled to the side of the tracks with a fractured skull nnd Internal Injuries. It Is al leged he had been drinking heavily. Awarded $10,000 For Legs. Easton, P-., Jan. 26. Edward Hop kins, tho motoi man, who lost both legs In nn accident on the Northampton Traction company's line, and who sued for $30, ODD for the loss of both limbs, was given a verdict for $10,312. SALE! lO DAYS. and Children. Oil City, Pa.
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