The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-06-01
LATEST NEWS WAITS.

Vice Present. Frank II. Betton, Of Kansas
Secretary and Treasurer Executive Com.
inittee, II g. Waldin, OF Maine Samuel w.
Hot,hkiss, Connecticut; Will A. Peel, Jr
Indiana. Albany was named as the place
for holding the convention next year.
The Iowa Central Railroad, which has
been seeking an inlet into O,tumwa Ia,
has been rendered proposition by the own.
ers of Central Addition, granting the rail.
road the right Of way asked and depot
grounds, provided the road will build its
.roadbed high enough TO serve an efrectual
embankment against future floods.
The record for locomotive speed has been
broken again. The Empire State Express
on the n. Y. Central X. X. made rs miles an
hour for four hours one day last week. This
is the fastest time ever made on level track
by locomotive drawing train.
The Presbyterian General Assembly. in
session at Hots Springs Ark, al ipted the
report Of the Committee on Colorei synod
1t recommends aid and encouragement in
the formation Of colored churches, with a
view of forming these churches in due time
into Presbyter!es us convenience may die
tate; and when two or more such Presby-
teries shall exist they may unite 70 form a
synod. The report expresses confidence
that the time VIII soon arrive when the
colored bre:hern can unite TO form al inde
pendent church, and assures them that the
Assembly renews its pledge of financial
and educational support and its willing
ness to enter into correspondence with said
churches. The committee on systematic
beneiioence reported that for all causes, u
total of S3is, 750 had been contributed dur
ing the year. an increase Of Sj0,7is over
that Of last year.
The National Lead company of New Jer-
sey, which has bought all the lead works in
the country, was incorporated. Capital,
$50, 900 900.
Phil Armour will build in Kansas City the
largest pork-packing house in the world.
The Cleveland Iron Trade Review SAYS
the floods have greatly ourtailed iron trade
in all directions
The city authorities Of Baltimore received
s7,27O on Thursday from conscience
striken person, which he said was due the
city for non-payment OF taxes.
The Iowa department Of the G. A. Il. has
issued call to all comrades TO come TO the
aid of the old soldiers and their families
who are sufferers by the food.
The L. T. General Assembly met in ALE.
eheny, Pa. The clerk gave the general sta.
tistics Of the church as follows: There are
10 Synods aud go Presbyteries, total Of 7g6
ministers, 92G congregations and 100 mis-
sion stations. Twenty churches were erect
ed during the year. at a cost of sl0j 500. In
membership there were 1927 removals
Q,Gls by death from various causes. The
total membership is lO7, 0ls The contribu
tions for the year for general Purposes were
sl,2Gs, ,2ss, an average Of sl3 SO per mem
Der.
NEw Postal BILL.-A bill fixing the post
age of semi weekly and tri-weekly pubica
tions mailed at certain free delivery offices
was authorized 20 be favorably reported by
the house committee on postoffces, It
provides that the rate of postage on news
papers, excepting weeklies and periodicals
not ex ceeding two ounces in weight when
deposited for delivery, by carriers, shall be
uniform at one cent each. Periodicals
weighing more than two ounces shall be
subject, when delivered by carriers, to a
postage of two cents each. In cities Of less
than 20, 600 population, having free delivery
offices, semi-weekly and tri-weekly publ-
"ations may be delivered by carriers upon
payment by the publisher of the pound rate
| Of postage thereupon as provided for weekly
publications at letter carrier offices.
Ben NJ. Willoughby, of Knox county Ind.
was nominated for congress by the Second
district Republicans.
The Republicans Of the Thirteenth Illinois
district have nominated Charles =. Dane, of
Springfield for Congress.
| Henry D. Dennis, of Rockford, H.. has
been nominated for Congress by the Demo.
Gratis of the Sixth district Of that state.
The State Executive Committee of the
! Prohibition party of Alabama met in Birm.
ingham and called a State convention 10
meet there July 4. The object of the con.
venton is TO provide for an organized move
ment in the Presidential campaign.
In Marsberg, Westphalia, forty-six houses,
| twenty-four stables and eighteen ware
houses were burned, About sixty head of
cattle perished in the flames. More than 25C
persons are homeless.
Werner 4 Co., Antwerp, have failed with
liabilities of 81. $50 900. Attributed TO the
decline in the rates of Brazilian exchange.
The bench moulders lockout at Cleveland
is at an end,
The New Orleans street car strike has been
settled by a compromise,
Deputy Sheriff Wilder was shot and killed
at Macon, Ca. by Willie Bell, l4-year-old
negro, whom he had under arrest for lar
csny, The boy fed to the woods, but will
be lynched when caught
A cursing gang of White Caps thrashed
nearly TO death one woman and two men al
Tunnel Hill, Ga.