The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-10-20
rsRsELY TOLD rEIsoRAMA

Jay. Cuba.
John Albert Edward william are the
names of the Duke of Marlborough's
first born.
The jury In the Mrs. Atkinson for
gerry case disagreed, at Glenville, w.
Va, last Wednesday.
The Drygoods Record estimates the
cotton crop of '97 at from S,953.1SS to
9,37i, 532 bales of 500 pounds each.
Capt N. N. Martin, well-known
resident of Allegheny, Pa, was IN
stantly killed by a trolley car last
Wednesday.
The first Hungarian church of Chi
cago was destroyed by fire saturday.
Services were in progress and the au-
dience escaped with difficulty.
A bicycle scorcher was severely beat
en- by indignant citizens at st. Louis
the other day for runningover and SER
iously injuring an aged man.
Antonio Louis and Charles Jorio. who
clubbed their father to death at Vine
land, N. j., last winter, have been or
dered by the court to be sent TO an in
sane asylum.
Douglass Boult, a negro, was lynched
at small settlement on Bayon Barat-
aria. about 10 miles from New Orleans
the other day. His offcnse was running
the yellow fever quarantine gauntlet.
Charles Burgess, who murdered
Henry V. Whitlock of North Victory,
n. Y, August 6, 1895. was sentenced to
be electrocuted in Auburn prison dur
ing the week commencing November
%.
While Mrs. Doran was locked up in
Jail for disorderly conduct at Pitts
burg, her baby choked to death. She
was Immediately released when she
magistrate heard of the sad news last
Wednesday.
Eastern capitalists have agreed to
invest sl,000,000 in sugar refineries in
| Colorado, on condition that 100 farm
ers will cultivate 1000 acres of sugar
beets to supply the material for the
refineries.
| At Milan. Tenn, the home of Dot
Price. negro, was fired into last
night by whitecaps. He returned the
fire. killing William Sires, and fatally
wounding four others. He was shot
through the arm.
A tornado struck New Jersey last
Tuesday, travelling from the little VII
lage of Far Hills. near Summit. to ELL
zabeth. At Elizabeth II wrecked a
building and killed a man who had
sought shelter there.
Two masked men the other night en-
| tered the house of Adam Huffman, one
of the largest landowners in Northern
Indiana, near Kendallville, and choked
him to death in an effort to make him
tell where his money was hidden.
Chief Of detectives Colleran ofChicago
| and four Of his men have captured four
of the most successful and daring burg
lars of the United States, and $4,000
worth of stolen property is in the hands
of the police awaiting identification.
The cry of a 2-year-old baby awak-
i NJ II ,l.a..
of New York, and enabled them to es-
cape from their burning residence. The
! building II is thought, was set on fire
by one of Mr.. Klauber's discharged EN-
! ployees
New York and Chicago capitalists
| have organized the Imperial Glucose
and Sugar Refining company with a
capital of $3,OOO,000 to compete with the
| glucose trust. An immense plant will
be erected at South Chicago and will
be ready for operation within 10
months.
The old Sherman house, at Chicago,
| which has stood since the great fire
of 1871. came near being destroyed by
| flames the other morning. Fire was
discovered in the basement, but before
great damage was done IL was ex-
tinguished. All the guests fed in
their night clothes.
Virginia win be a large beneficiary
in the distribution of the vast estate of
the late Lewis Ginter. Her share will
be about 100000 under the act passed
by the general assembly last year, i'm
posing tax of per cent. on collateral
! inheritances. which i'm this case
/ amounts to $2,000,000.
| Eugene Thomas and Elliott Proctor,
colored and each II years old, We're
instantly killed Tuesday evening on
the Baltimore & Ohio railway bridge
over Herring run, in the eastern
suburbs of Baltimore. No one saw
the accident, but 1t is supposed that
they were caught on the bridge by
two passenger trains going In opposite
| directions.
The impartial of Spain announces
| that II has good authority for saying
that an answer has been drafted by
| the government to the note of United
States Minister Woodford, declaring
that Spain Is unable to fix a date for
the ending of the war in Cuba. The
! government expects a speedy ending of
the war, which would have terminated
sooner but for the help given the rebels
by the United States.
Cormus Christus, 60 years old, and his
nephew, Michael Christus. IA years old
occupying apartments in Roosevelt
street tenement house at New York
were awakened from a nap a few days
ago 10 ma the mouse on nre. IN tneif
fright they leaped through a window
and down an air shaft, were they were
found by firemen after the fire had been
subdued. They were terribly burned
and the old man died at hispital soor
afterward.
The Chicago Times Herald presents
4 figures showing that the yield of gold
in the United States and the Klondike
region in '97 will be over $50. 900, 900, one.
third of the worlds production. The
estimate gives Colorado $24, 1000. 900; Ca.
lifornia, $40, 100000; the Black hills, 81,
500, 900; Arizona $500. 900; Idaho, A,-
100000; Montana. 100000 oregon, 49,.
1000. and the Klondike. ss.0O0,000.
All the parties OF a four-cornered
battle for the Greater New York mayor.
ality are trying to get comfort out OF
the registration figures, indicating a to-
tai vote of $4,000. AS a matter of fact
where politicians tell their honest con.
viction, 1t Is admitted that the figures
are favorable to the supporters of Low
who proclaim their satisfaction loudly
There is no doubt that the independent
vote is fully registered, as the total re-
gistration is nearly up to that Of tn,
presidential election.
Violent deaths overlook three child
rem in Chicago and another was injur'