The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-31
NEWSY ClEANlNCS.

Americans are very popular in Mexico.
The highwayman has taken to the bicycle.
The British grain crops promise to be very
short.
Porto Rico has an epidemic OF yellow
fever.
Present anthracite coal prices are the low
est in years.
Harvard graduated CTS students this year
md Yale 575.
Flour is now shipped from Tacoma, Wash.
to China or Japan for "a a ton.
Missouri's apple crop this year will be the
largest the State has ever produced.
The United States Navy Department has
adopted the Lee gun for the use OF the navy.
New York City has 24,123 gas lamps and
2725 electric lights These cost million
year.
Another big gold find has been made near
Butte, Montana, and the citizens are running
to the place.
There are 81, 1000 exhibitors at the great ex-
position at Kioto, japan, with 20S, 900 articles
on exhibition.
The plague is raging at Foo Chow, China.
II Is the same disease that devastated Hong
Kong last year.
Snow and frost visited the famed Banana
belt of Minnesota and Wisconsin the last
oaturuay IN Junc.
The Governments fne new harbor Of ref
uge at Point Judith, r. l., which will cost
t2l0, 900. is half completed.
New York flremen have been officially noti-
fed that their organizations formed to in
fuence legislation must disband.
The last bob-tailed horse car has been laid
on the shelf in Omaha, Neb. 1t was photo
graphed at the end Of its last trip.
Postmaster-General Wilson has issued an
order forbidding Postmasters to draw money
orders payable at their own office.
This Is great year for apricots in South
ern California. The crop In Pomona Valley
alone will amount to about 1909 tons.
Mrs. Singer, an aged woman, OF Newark.
| N. j., was butted by a goat. which broke her
arm, and in week the shock killed her.
The disputed district in French Guiana
will, according to an agreement between
France and Brazil, bo governed by dual rule.
The Interior Department decides that the
| father OF q deceased soldier has no pension
able status during the lifetime Of such SOL
dier's mother.
| Consul Savage, at Dundee, Scotland, re-
ports that the shipment Of potatoes from that
country to tho United States fell of more
than q, 900 tons last year.
| A report comes from Prince Edward Isl.
and that parasite has appeared there with
an overpowering and Unsuitable appetite fol
potato bugs, which speedily disappear be
fore 1t.
The Chinese residents OF Tombstone, Ari'
yona, subscribed literally to the funds fo
celebrating the Fourth Of July, and also
contributed good share Of the uproar o
that evening.
Accu Atopie, an African from the German
colony Of Togoland, is one OF the best stu
dents in the scientific college In Cassel, Ger
many. Emperor William was once student
In the gymnasium there.
Cambridge College, England, having &c
cepted the challenge OF Yale for an athleti
contest, arrangements are now being made 4
have it occur on October o, at New York, t,
follow the contest between the New Yorl
and London Athletic Cubs.
The activity in iron and steel continues
and cotton goods and wool, particularly tn
latter staple. have advanced very rapidly
A decided change for the better Is reporte
in the Eastern cities, and at the South til
outlook is most encouraging.