The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-22
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81 wheat was discussed as meaning |
bread for workingmen.
Peter Prasen. laborer. and Henry
Blank, fisherman, where drowned while
boating at Chicago
over fifty branches of the Theosoph-
ical society have been organized in this
country by Mrs. Annie Besant during
her recent tour.
The schooner. Henry A. Kent, laden
with iron ore, foundered off stannard |
Rock. Lake Superior. Insurance value,
100000. Crew saved.
Commissioner Evans of the pension
bureau estimates the total pension |
payments for the year at about S147,- |
$4,000 The available appropriation Is |
slii ,263, 500
In fight between cattlemen and cat |
tie rustlers, near the head of Moreau |
river, South Dakota, one of the rust
ers was killed and another caught and
lynched.
George Bogart. alias George Myers,
the absconding city clerk of Evanston,
H.. is i'm Jail at Cape May Point. N. j.,
charged with having stolen $4,000 of
the city's funds.
Daniel Goodman, an employe of the
Phoenix Iron Works, of PhoeniXville,
near Philadelphia, has just received
word that by the death of his sister he
becomes sole heir to an estate OF $780,
900 In Staffordshire. England.
In his annual report the governor of
New Mexico says the territory's popu-
| lation has increased 100000 since the
census of 1890; that 100000 pounds of
wool were grown last year and that the
sugar beet and fruit crops are booming.
New Jersey Is to vote an antigamb-
ling amendment to the constitution
| September 2S. Rev. w. "A. Wishart,
Baptist. is the. only minister in Trenton
opposing 1t, he declaring such matters
should not be taken out of every day
politics.
Frank Gardner. a capitalist Of
| London, England, has just bought in
Denver the patents for all the world
outside the United States for the manu-
facture and sale of the Whitley ore con-
centrating table, paying therefor $780,
900 cash.
Paul Depierre, New York French
man, was dissuaded from committing
suicide by his daughter. His employ
ers learning of his attempt discharged
him. This made Depierre melancholy
and he ended his life by inhaling IL
Eliminating gas last Tuesday.
A destructive fire, which began In a
bazaar of Cabul the capital of Afghan
istan, on September 6, lasted until the
following day. One hundred and fifty
stores were burned, four persons per-
ished and damage to the amount of
several lahks of rupees was done.
A great deal of uneasiness prevails
} in financial circles In Paris over the
condition of the Bank of Spain. Ex-
change on Madrid has reached the
figure of 1850 The Bank of Spain has
advanced to the state the aggregate
sum of 150,O00,0OO pesetas (about $780,
600 000).
The steamer Cleveland sailed n few
days ago for st. Michaels, carrying
1900 tons of freight. consisting OF
heavy machinery for the Yukon river
steamers and a quantity of supplies
and clothing for the colony which will
winter at St. Michaels. The Cleveland
carried but two passengers.
John u. Finlay, 65 years old. presi-
dent of a mining corporation, with an
office in the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance building at New York, was taken
Saturday to the Hudson Street Hospit-
al He died two hours later from n
fractured skull. the result of falling OF
being thrown from cable car
Thayer Thomas, the 5-year-old son OF
DIR. Thomas. of Anderson, Ind, was ar
rested the other day for holding up
Herbert Clevenger, newsbOy and re-
lieving him of his money, with a pistol
in genuine dlme-novel style. Young
Thomas was one of the principals in a
wholesale mail robbery from the An
derson postoffice a month ago.
DR.. j. Albert Thorne, q Barbados
negro, graduate of Edinburgh Medical
school, said i'm New York that the great
mistake In African colonization was in
sending the negroes to the west coast of
Africa. all the negroes In this contry be-
ing from the African highlands in the
interior He thinks the negros future
Is in Africa.
In a head-end collision on the Wis
consin Central railroad, near Howard
Wis, recently, the two engineers
Richard Warren and L. ]. South of
Chippewa Falls, John Smiley, fireman
Of Oxfordsville, and Lester Ryan and
George Schaeffer, stockmen. of Fari-
bault Mimi, were killed, and several
badly injured.
Lieut.. Hawley has just returned to
Washington from a tour Of certain
western cities where he went to de-
velop the possibilities Of establishing
recruiting depots for the navy. He
cess in this undertaking and will make
the results of his trip the subject OF a
special report to Secretary Long when
the latter returns to Washington.
!; A new Western record in fast time
was made on the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road recently. when new engine, Just
from the roads own shops. made the
remarkable speed of 6S miles an hour
between Kansas and Sedalia. The
speed was only kept up for a short
while, but Ii showed what the new To-
comotive could do. Considering grades
and curves, the performance was even
more wonderful.
/ According to dispatches from st. Pc.
! tersburg, General Kuropatkin, Com
mander-in-Chief of the Russian forces
is Transcaspia, after interviews with
Emperor Nicholas, has suddenly short
ened his furlough and returned to his
Central Asiatic headquarters 1t is ru-
mored in Russian military circles that
his return is connected with the troub-
| les on the northwestern frontier Of In
dia.
Alpha c. Black. 21 years of age
walked into his mothers bedroom al
: Conesus. N. Y. where she was III, and
pointed a revolver at his heart, saying
Mother, this is the way people COM
NIT suicide" There was a flash and a
report, and young Black dropped to
the floor gasping, my God, mother
I've shot myself" He had previously
snapped the revolver around all the
chambers and thought II was not load
ed. He will die.
Bank Examiner Caldwell says that