The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-01
1ERsELY TOLD TELEaRAMs.

William Bryan took part In a foot
ball game at Columbia, Mo-, last Mon
day.
A negro charged with stealing a mule
was lynched at Waycross, Ca, last
Friday
The books of the city of Brooklyn
show n deficit between s3,000,000 and
$i,0O0,0O0.
The Vanderbilts are endeavorirg to
secure control of the soft coal fields OF
West Virginia.
Capitalists are preparing to invest
s15000,O00 in a telephone exchange for
Greater New York.
Capt. Randall Morris, of the British
ship Greenland was washed overheard
during a storm recently.
one thousand six hundred and seven
American citizens are dependent upon
charitable assistance I'm Cuba.
Gen. Blanco Is said to have express
ed himself that only Divine Provi-
dence is able to save Cuba for Spain.
A company capitalized at $2,WOOoo
will establish a stage line TO Dawson
making the trip.
Mrs. Richard st. John of Phillips
burg, N. j., died on Thanksgiving day
singing a turkey.
James w. Loveridge who was kick
ed in a football game at Hammonds-
port Thanksgiving afternoon, died at
Bath, N. Y, Sunday.
At Trenton, N. j., last Sunday, Amos
Haveland was killed by his farm hand,
Clarence Doyle. The men had been
drinking hard cider.
DIR. A. C. Mendenhall was arrested at
the home of his sweetheart. near Gu
nette, Ind, recently. 1t Is alleged he
has four wives in Michigan.
Great Scott's furniture store at Bal
timore was destroyed by fire last
Monday. Mrs. Susan Maxon was burn
ed to death. Loss s135,o0O.
A 10 per cent. advance in wages was
granted to 5000 employees of the Jones
& Laughlin's American Iron Works
at Pittsburg the other day.
The steamer Laurada, held by the
United States as a filibuster was re-
leased at Wilmington, Del, owners CIV
ing bond and will enter the Klondike
| lade.
f. N. Neal, ex-judge of Union coun-
ty, Tex, committed suicide by shoot
ing at his home in Junction City Sat
urday. He was ~ years old and
prominent citizen.
An attempt by four robbers to rob
the Rio Grande express in cut near
Dublin, Tex, was frustrated by the en-
sineer reversing the engine and run
ming the train back to this town.
The big department store of Dives,
| Pomeroy & Stewart, at Harrisburg,
Pa, was burglarized Sunday night,
the robbers getting away with money,
checks and goods to the amount of
| $4, ,000
The Chicago council passed an ordi-
| nance which attached n fine of not less
than So nor more than 800 to a bicyclist
who runs into any person and then
scorches away without leaving his
name.
John Rankin, a prominent citizen of
| Austin, Tex, was shot the other day
| by Police officer jim Grizzard. 1t is
stated that the cause of the trouble
was political difference over the COM
| ing municipal election.
A telegram has been received from
San Francisco announcing the death
! from pneumonia of James f. Chap
man, senior member of the firm of
James Chapman & Co., shipping
merchants of that city.
While Rev. C. H. Fitzwilliam was
preaching at the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church, Pittsburg, Sunday night,
| thieves ransacked his residence at 2033
Forbes street, and secured jewelry and
other articles valued at nearly $1,000.
Mrs. Margaret Devlin, aged SO years,
living near Lambertville, N. j., died
on Saturday, and was buried Sunday,
death being supposed to be due from
old age. The body was disinterred, and
II is found she was murdered.
Captain Lowering, who cruelty abus-
ed Private Charles Hammond at Fort
Sheridan received a severe scathing
for his unbecoming conduct the other
day. Colonel Hunter of Fort Smelling
acted as Judge Advocate.
Arthur German Davis, keeper of the
corporation accounts and records OF
| Harvard University, died at his home
in Jamaica Plain a few days ago, after
long illness, aged "a years. He had
wide acquaintance among literary
and public men.
The treasury received Monday from
I the reorganization committee of the
Union Pacific railroad S13,645,250 in
cash, and turned over to the commit
tee that amount in bonds which have
been on deposit with the government
in the sinking fund OF the road.
Lee Pitts. negro Pullman porter, of
st. Louis, Is prisoner on the charge
|
broker of Providence, r. l., alleges that
Pitts tried to steal from his pocket an
envelope containing $4,000 in certified
checks and $1,000 in cash.
Il A terrible, explosion of one of the big
Y boilers in the Soho blast furnace. op-
Grated by Jones & Laughln, at Pitts
burg, which could be heard for miles
over the city, caused the death of one
man Sunday, and seriously injured five
others. The dead mans name was
John Mullen.
Fire Sunday killed three persons in
the Atlantic block at jamestown, n
Y. They were Walter Sessions of Pana-
ma, N. Y; Arthur W. Jordan of Buff
falo, and Sadie Boss of Buffalo. Jessie
Oakley, who kept the place, was nearly
suffocated by smoke. The others We're
burned in their beds.
After the annual melting of the Vol
unteers of America, over which DR.
Chauncey M. Depew presided, al
New York. last Monday Mrs. Balling-
ton Booth, In the presence of large
audience in Carnegie hall. was, ac-
cordipg to the ritual Of the Volunteers
of America, ordained an evangelical