The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-11-24
7xRsELY TOLD TELEgRAMs.

The Delta County bank of Colorado
| has suspended.
The yellow fever germ Is frozen out
| In New Orleans.
Work on Pittsburg's new Union de-
| pot VIII begin in Il few days.
Ex-Congressman John M. Langston,
of Virginia died last Tuesday.
Negroes lynched a colored murderer
at Bryan, Tex, few days ago.
Cuban insurgents are expecting aid
| from congress at its coming session.
odd Fellows hall ut Peekskill, N. Y,
| was burned last Wednesday. Loss,
| $4,000
Oklahoma editors are making efforts
to have that territory admitted to
statehood.
Boston gas interests of the Bay state
Gas Company We're sold for $5,OOO,OoO
the other day.
Henry Sherry, a lumber man of Osh-
fosh, Wis, has failed with debts
amounting to sl,00O,000.
Forty-five Austrian laborers who vio-
lated the alien labor law will be sent
back to Europe from Baltimore.
Quarreling over money matters at
Benton Harbor, Mich, son shot his
father and then committed suicide.
| ed Yale defeat Princeton in football
game at New Haven last Saturday.
Alderman George A. Durham was
convicted at Minneapolis of soliciting
a bribc for the awarding of Il contract
George Bogart, ex-city clerk of Ev-
anston, ILL.,, the other day pleaded gull
ty In court to embezzling $500 OF city
funds.
The crews of two wrecked vessels
were rescued by the steamer Belgen-
land, which arrived at Philadelphia
the other day.
Former chief of detectives OF the
Lake Shore Road. James Mulloney, has
been arrested at Laporte, Ind, for loot
Ing freight cars.
Boys OF Canton, o., under 16, Will be
subject to a fine of $1,000 If caught
smoking cigarettes, or having them In
their possession.
A passenger train was derailed near
Williford, Ark. last Friday. Twenty
eight passengers were injured and two
coaches burned.
Rev. Dr. George II. Houghton, of the
Church of the TRANSPORTATION, popu-
larly known I'm New York city as the
Little Church around the Corner" Is
| dead
The grand jury of Campbell county,
Ky, after hearing poor boys story
who was arrested for burglary, pre-
| sented him with a suit of clothes and
q discharge.
| S21 $3.50 was awarded to Frederick X.
Ketcham at Chicago the other day. He
had been back-listed by the North
wastern railroad for striking. and suing
he received damages.
The national headquarters of the A..
at n n hppn closed
and the property sold under the ham
mer. Dissension caused the downfall
of the organization.
The defeat of Harvard by the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania football team
took place at Philadelphia last Sat
urday. Twenty-four thousand spec
tators saw the game.
A race of Indians noted for their
wonderful size and physical perfection
are said by United States Consul Long.
of Nogales. Mex, to exist on Tiburon
Island in the Gulf of California.
Levi Patter, a colored man at Phila-
delphia. carried an umbrella with the
| iron rod exposed at eacn end one of
| the points came in contact with an
electric wire, killing the man instantly.
Saturday was pay day among colored
railroad employees at Unity. near
Pittsburg. Liquor led to fight and bull
| lets. One man was Killed, three
wounded and four robbed of their
earnings.
The Supreme Court at indianapolis
the other day decided that a gambler
has no title to his earnings. Accord
/ ingly, Mrs. Waller recovered a judg-
ment for s5,4l4 lost by her husband at
a faro game.
C. B. Holloway and A. N. Gum, of
| Ohio claim 100000 acres of land. in
Minnesota. st. Paul and Minneapolis
are included in this demand. They
claim title through their ancestry, JON
athan Carter, an explorer.
Four Americans, taken prisoners on
| board the Competitor for bringing arms
to the Cuban insurgents, have been
rardoned by the Spanish government.
They had been sentenced to death, but
the United States interfered.
In the district court at Austin, Tex,
l.. W. Fisher and Felix Wolff pleaded
guilty of robbing the International and
Great Northern train at McNeills on
October L.. and were sentenced to 80
and 45 years respectively i'm the State
penitentiary.
BY the collapsing of the floor of
Cory Methodist Chapel. at Cleveland
last Sunday, 800 colorcd worshippers
were precipitated to the ground. a dis
but only three persons were hurt, and
they not seriously.
The store house of the C. A. Woolsey
paint and color works in Jersey City
fell Tuesday. Twenty-Five people who
had been employed in the structure
had sufficient warning BY the swaying
and sagging of the walls to enable
them to escape, and no one was hurt
The loss to the company Will be about
$4,000.
A jury at Carson City, New, exoner-
ated Julian Guinan, the boy who shot
District Attorney Charles Jones recent
ly. Jones, who was a married man,
paid attentions to Guinans sister to
which the boys father objected. The
| two men met, had a quarrel. when the
son came to his fathers rescue and
| sLot Jones.
Assistant United States Attorney
Brown claims that Cinnamon are being
smuggled into this country, assisted by
employees of the Canadian Pacific rail-
road. 1t costs $500 to deport a China
man. Government officials are said to
have conspired with the railroad men
| to break the law and thus get portion
Of the money.
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