The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-09-19
NEWSY GLEANINGS.


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The bicycle rage has spread to India.
CHrcAao's present area is 1876 square miles,
GREAT BRrrAIS has eighty prollt-sharins
flrms
CAR-FARE is az cents in Chemitz, Ger.
many.
pEnu and Ecuador are "spolllng for q
fight"
DUBLIN, ireland, has neither cable nor
electric cars.
AMERICAN securities show q substantial
gain in London.
ATLANTA, Ga, is going TO have new
eight-story hotel.
The Populists failed to carry a single
county In Arkansas.
NEW YonK CRY is overrun with buyers,
mostly from the South.
The new Criminal Court House, New York
City, was formally opened.
THE Mid-winter Fair surplus is expected
TO amount to about $500, 900.
GERNAS-RussiAN colonists In Kansas are
returning TO their old homes.
CONTINUED improvement In business is
shown by the trade reviews.
THE Peary relief expedition has been re-
ported las well" at Goihavn.
TuE Salvation Army is planning n cam
paign In the Hawaiian Islands.
THE long drought is causing great loss to
farmers and dairymen In New York.
THE fads this year among the rich people
of the East are bicycles and catboats.
IT IL now estimated that Chicago's drain
age canal system will cost s25, ,000, 600
The financial condition OF Texas mer-
chants Is said to be better than for years.
CHINESE In Japan and japanese IN China
are under the protection OF American con-
suls.
SINCE last May at least 40, 900 French Ca
nadians living in the United States have re-
turned to Quebec.
SMoKE from forest fires became 30 dense
in Boston, Mass, that artificial light was
necessary at noon.
ApvIcEs from China indicate that the war
party is now In power and vigorous policy
is TO be pursued.
ENGLISH wheat crops are looking very
bad in consequence OF almost. continuous
rain for three weeks.
THE English apple crop is reported TO be
very short Last years was the heaviest
known in twenty years.
PIrTsBuRa cotton tie manufacturers find
they can compete with foreign manufac-
turers without protection.
The first ocean cable ever laid in New
York Bay has just been put down by the
Commercial Cable Company.
The California dried apricot crop this year
will reach the enormous total of II, 900 tons.
or nearly double that of any previous sea.
son.
FEARING pleuro-pneumonia the Belgian
Government has ordered quarantine of all
American cattle for forty-nve days after ar
rival.
Miss ELIZABETH II. W. Lonp, who died in
squalor in BROOKLYN, had $4,000 In bank at
South Berwick, Me-, which she left to Mrs,
t. De Witt Talmage.
TIE National Treasury has been lifted out
OF the financial rut. The Treasury receipts
for August foot up more than ten million
dollars In excess OF expenditures.
The establishment OF permanent bureau
Tor the exhibition OF the resources OF the
Southern States was decided on by tho de-
'elopment convention at Washington.
IT is estimated that on an average 1000
bushel, or in all 10000, 900 day, are re.
ceived in New York City alone during the
season.
AN unfailing sign OF the revival OF busi-
ness is the increased demand for money at
the banks and Its incident higher rates for
loans. This Is the business condition re-
ported.
The Rev. Dr. Burtsell arrived at New York
City from Rome, and said that an Apostolic
Delegation would be established 10 mas
upon all questions affecting the Roman
Church In this country.
BY the burning OF the homo Of Mss. Irene
Taylor, at South Acton, Mass, there wers
destroyed priceless heirlooms and historical
articles OF colonial times intended for the
Massachusetts, Historical Societv.