The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-10-06

| Silver Democrats have nominated
Henry George for mayor of Greater
| New York.
| Mrs Brownlee and her two sons were
burned to death at Longmeadow,
Mass, the other day.
Ex-PresIdent Cleveland and family
| left Buzzards Bay Tuesday for their
home In Princeton, N. J.
| General Neal Dow, the veteran tenn
perance worker, expired at his home
In Bangor, Mo-, last Saturday, aged 81
years.
| Major Lewis Ginter. the millionaire
| cigarette manufacturer. died at his
residence, West Brook, Va, last Satur-
| day.
| The American Mating company,
with a capital of $50, 900, was incor-
porated at Trenton, N. j., few days
ago.
In the Big Horn county, S. D., fifty
| four square miles of timber land has
been burned over, involving loss OF
5000, 900.
Physicians of the Homeopathic hos
| pital at Pittsburg are working upon the
| theory that the X rays Will Kill con-
sumption bacilli
Cashier Silverberg, of the New York
Mutual Life Insurance company, has
| been arrested at Copenhagen for em-
| bezzlement from the company
Masked men wrecked the Hume
(Mo) bank building in an attempt to
blow open the safe with nitro-glycer-
Inc. They were pursued but not cap
tured.
! The German government Is prepar-
| ing bills providing for compulsory life
| insurance throughout the whole en-
pire, and for old age insurance for the
| laboring classes.
John IL. Reidy, the alleged defaulting
treasurer of the st. Louis police relief
association. gave himself up Tuesday
and gave bail In the sum of $4,000 He
Is short over $4,000. He played the
| races.
| The consul of administration of the
G. A. II. has decided to annul the char
ter of Fletcher Webster Post No. 13, of
Brockton, Mass, because of the posts
| refusal to send delegates to the national
encampment. The case will be ap-
| pealed.
Everett Fowler, of Kingston, ". Y,
has presented to Miss Helen Gould,
daughter of Jay Gould, the odoneter
used by her father when a young man
in surveying Ulster. Delaware and
other counties, for the purpose of maxi
ing maps.
The schedules in the assignment of
]. II. Willard e Co., at New York,
bankers and brokers, with offices in
| Philadelphia, Montreal, Washington
and other cities, show liabilities Of
s99S, 1885,; nominal assets, $s5,6S1; actual
assets, S43,956.
The spreading of rails caused an ac-
cident to Denver and Rio Grande
train in which Mrs. Mcintyre. of Silver
ton, and Fred Feyler, of Cincinnati.
were killed. The wreck occurred at
Cotopaxi, Col, last Sunday.
Boldly, in daylight and on busy
street, Frederick q. Rust was abducted
and borne off in Philadelphia, the
a p,,1 te, InIJ In1 1xg
| his captors. He is a harmless inmate
of an insane asylum and there Is a
| contest over his estate of SS0,00O
Two children, almost helplessly drunk
| staggered to the Third ward public
scheol in West Hoboken, N. ]. They
were Otto and Lille Bechtel, 13 and 3
years old respectively. They found
| two bottles of wine In q lot while on
| their way to school, and drank 1t.
Andrew Carnegie will acquire, before
| October 1, a controlling interest in the
property of the Metropolitan Iron and
Land Company, which controls the
| Norrie, East Norrie and Pabst mines
in the Gogebic range, Mich These
mines have an annual capacity of
about 100000 tons of ore.
Jacob p. Hoisebach of the Cincinnati
police force committed suicide by
| shooting last Sunday. He had come
only scond in newspaper coupon
vote for the most popular policeman
on the force. The prize to the winner
is a free trip to the Nashville exposi-
| ton.
The vintage of California this year
| promises to reach 10000, 900 gallons, or
25 per cent more than last season. The
growers are now receiving an advance
| of from IS to $40 a ton for their grapes,
| the understanding being that they are
to receive 81 for every cent per gallon
the wine brings when sold.
The government Of New South Wales
asserts that 1t has found such difficulty
| In placing in England an order for
1000 tons Of steel rails of high carbon
| quality that 1t has been compelled to
| place the orders in America, where the
manufacturers have readily under
taken the contract at $25 per ton.
A freight wreck occurred on the big
four railroad In East Shelbyville, Ind,
last Monday, In which four cars load
ed with merchandise were demolished
and entailing a loss Of $4,000. Brake
man McMakin was injured. The acci-
| dent was caused by the separation Of
the traip and subsequent collision Of
the two sections.
The final account Of the estate Of ex-
Mayor Edwin H. Fitler of Philadel-
phia was filed with the register of wills
| to-day. The estate Is valued at $3,-
| 1871, POI 16 and includes stocks on the
Pennsylvania railroad. United Gas I'm
provement Company, Philadelphia,
Wilmington & Baltimore railroad and
stock In different banks.
| Consul Brunot at France says these
reports show that the wheat crop of
France this year will be only SS. S.556, 800
| hectoliters 2 bushels, 3.35 pecks), as
against 119,742,745 in 1895. This years
French rye crop will be 1864, $50 hec-
toliters, against 24464, ,730 last year, and
maslin (mixed wheat and rye), 3,219,-
$50 against 4,130,481 in 1896.
Fire broke out in the feed store of N.
E. White, at Utica, N. Y. An hour
later the roof and third floor fell bury
ing several firemen. Four were res
cued slightly injured. Isaac Monroe
and John Halon are missing and pro-
bably fell beneath the debris. They are
| probably dead under tons Of hay and
other combustible material.
Saturday was the Tooth birthday of
Mrs. Sally Betsy Jennings. and the S0th
birthday of her oldest son, Peter, and
was celebrated at the jennings farm
house, near Danbury, N. ]. These two
and Mrs. Booth. aged TO- Mrs. Jennings
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