The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27
NEWSY CLEANlNCS.

A RISE In the price of beef is threatened.
ITALY is trying to induce England TO aid
her in Africa.
THE leather trade is prosperous. Leather
Is always In demand.
COLONEL Booze Is contesting for seat in
Congress from Maryland.
The Massachusetts, Senate has adopted a
rule for the exclusion of lobbyists.
A MAN is planning to take 5000 people from
Boston and colonize them In Tennessee.
-. The Colombian Government announces
that the revolution IA practically ended.
THE Berlin Reichsanzeiger publishes a gen.
eral prohibition OF imports Of frozen meats.
AFLoRtDA hotel-keeper declares that never
before have tourists sought rs low rates as
now.
POSTMASTER WEAVER. of Louisville, Ky..
uses wagons like milk wagons for collecting
mail.
The Swiss Government made profit OF
about 81 900, 900 last year in its monopoly in
spirits.
FULLY 1.0o0OOo acres of the best land in
Oklahoma will be open for settlement this
spring.
The Navajo Indians in New Mexico have
been compelled by the cold weather to eat
their horses.
MExIco's delay in dealing with Guatemala
Is for the purpose OF gaining time in war
preparations.
The train robbers who looted an express
ear in California the other day took only the
gold coin aboard.
THE total tonnage passing through the
Sault Ste Marie Canal during the season was
valued at 9143, 100000.
New York CRY has inaugurated brisk
war on tho tramD. He must either clear out
or go to the workhouse.
OWING to the unfavorable season In Eng
land for clover seed. It is expected that
American exports will be very large.
THE United States Supreme Court is said
10 be five years behind its docket. There arc
some 750 cases awaiting its decision.
KAISER WILHELM intends inviting France
10 send a representative to the fetes attend
ing the opening of the Baltic Canal.
WITHIN year or so four cities will be sup
piled with electric light in every street. They
are Quebec, Budapest, Strassburg and Frank
tort.
AMONG 1929 children subject to cruel treat
ment in the United Kingdom during a recent
month no fewer than 1887 were known to DO
insured.
RAILROAD men say that the late great storm
occasioned greater interruption to the run
ding OF trains than did the famous "blizzard"
Of March 18th, 1888.
A CARLOAD of pig tin, amounting to 322
bars. is on its way to New York from mines
GEAR Durango, Mexico. 1t is said to be the
second shipment of tin ore ever mined on the
American continent.
JAMES BATTLE, Of Detroit, Mich, in point
Of service the Oldest Fire Chief In the United
States, has been retired on half pay. He has
been Chief of the Detroit Fire Department for
thirty-four years. His retirement is due to
ii health.
ACCORDING to official figures, Al ,S91, 100
tons OF anthracite coal were marketed in 1894,
though probably from 5000, 900 to 1000, 900
tons more were mined. This Is less than tho
i30S9, ,5S3 tons In 1893, or the Al, ,s92, 800 tons
Of 1892, but exceeds the output of any year
previous to 1892
AN assay OF the copper ore taken from O
mine recently discovered at Warehouse Point,
Conn, made by q Denver assayer, makes a
favorable showing. The ore Is not only rich
In copper, but also contains gold and silver.
The assayer believes that the gold and silver
will pay for the working, leaving the copper
as profit.
MARGARET Cook, aged eiGhty-nine, whose
funeral took place few days ago at Colum.
bus, Ohio, was aboard, as a babe and with
her parents, OF Robert Fulton's steamship
Clermont when the ship made the trial trip
August II, 1907. The passengers are all dead
now. Fulton bought Mrs. Cooks parents O
basket OF peaches, being pleased with theii
confidence In his vessel.