The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-10-13
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In Chicago the Beer trust has cut
| prices to 81 barrel.
The engagement of Helen Gould to
Alonzo Potter of New York is reported.
A Hollander has been arrested at
| Rotterdam who has confessed to the
killing of his fifteenth wife.
George p. Lawrence of North Adams,
Mass, has been nominated for con-
gresham by the Republicans to sue
A. Il. Wright, deceased.
Two men are dead and over a dozen
injured as a result of the blowing down
| of q big hotel at Lindsay Park at Char-
| levoix, Mich, Tuesday.
Fire in Chicago the other day de-
stroyed the Dexter park pavilion, and
twenty-eight residences were slightly
damaged. Loss 100000.
Rev. Jac. Fisher. n Dunkard preacher
from Mexico, Ind, hanged himself
during n fit of melancholy In livery
hstable at Indianapolis a few days ago.
w. II. Pointer, teller of the Dominion
bank branch. Napanee, ont, robbed OF
| $4,000 few weeks ago. has been ar
rested on charge of committing the
| robbery.
DIR. Thomas w. Evans. of Paris, re-
| puted the wealthicst dentist In the
world, will give $25,000,00 to education
al, benevolent and religious institut-
lens.
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ment of her milk supply. In conse-
quence of the drought, which has al
most entirely destroyed the pastures
of the surrounding country.
| The steamer Il. Il. Hale foundered in
Lake Huron last Saturday. the crew
being saved. The Hale was owned by
NJ. a. Bradley, of Cleveland, and was
valued at 100000; uninsured.
Herr Bueb. n Socialist member OF the
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hausen. has been sentenced to ten
months Imprisonment for publicly
crticislng n state institution.
Oil, in exceptionally large quantities,
has been struck in a well which was
put down for gas at Humboldt, Kan,
| The lowest estimate Is 100 barrels per
day. 1t Is at a depth of 9l4 feet.
The announcement has reached the
public, through semi official sources,
that the Pennsylvania system contem-
plates spending $4,000, 900 on its ATTAIN
tic City system within the next year.
Eugene V. Debs has refused to assist
in defraylng the expenses of the trial
of Walter q. Worden, at San Francis
co, accused of wrecking n Southern
Pacific train, causing loss of life, dur
ing the strike of 1894
A Madrid dispatch says that the
queen regent has ordered that as
sistance be given to the families of the
Anarchists executed at Barcelona some
time ago, and that their children be
educated at her expense.
Mrs. Charlotte Leclair, of Westerly,
II. L., died the other morning at the
age of los years and 8 months. She
was born in ais Prairie, a small town
in Quebec. Five generations of her
descendants are living.
William ]. Scanlon, United States
consular agent at Port Antonio,
Jamaica, died from yellow fever the
other day. He was appointed from the
District of Columbia July 30 and left
for Jamaica about month ago.
The five chair manufacturing plants
of the Artemus Merriam Company, at
Westminster, Mass. was destroyed by
fire recently causing a loss of $4,000.
A. r.. Merriman, who Is i'll at home, saw
the factory burned to the ground from
his window.
Frank Peary and Henry Kaiser had
an oyster eating contest the other day
at the American House, Jersey City,
for a prize of $40. Peary ate 105 and
Kiser 112 raw oysters. Both men are
confined to their beds. Kaiser is dan
gerously i'll.
Eagles to the amount of about 100,-
900 left the bank of England a few
days ago for New York in time to
catch the steamer Majestic. No gold
has yet gone to America from Paris,
but options have been secured on a
large amount there.
Maj. Moses p. Handy. the special
United States commissioner to the
Paris exposition of 1900, has secured 25
per cent. additional space of American
exhibits, making the space of the
| United States equal to that of the other
big nations of the world.
Senorita Cisneros, the young Cuban
woman whose imprisonment has arous-
ed so much sympathy In the United
| States, has escaped from her captors.
Valiant friends, drugged candy and a
file released her from the jail where
she was held a political prisoner.
Several of the big operators at Mas
sillon, o., find that their miners are
weak and physically incapable of do
ing good work, because Of long con-
tinued distress. AS the regular pay
day is still a week off each man en-
ployed In the many Pocock mines was
advanced $40 on Wednesday night.
While endeavoring to save a neigh
boris children from death in a burning
house at Chicago, the other day, X.
Jones fell dead on the threshold of a
room in which were two children,
whose lives he had come to save. Jones
was stricken with heart disease. The
children were rescued by the father.
Five large buildings and two smaller
ones, with all their contents, were de-
stroyed at Detroit, the other day by a
fire which swept through block situ-
ate. ated IN the ,ce' ceHter es tbe Sgsipess pSr, %o
Campus Martius, Woodward, GratiOt
and Monroe avenues. The loss Is esti-
mater at 100000 to 100000.
The plan of robbers, among whom
were many prominent merchants of
Dalton, S. c., who have just been in
dicted by the grand jury, was to go out
on the railroads and break into cars.
Before reaching Dalton the goods were
thrown out and carried away by con-
federates. The goods were afterwards
sold by the gang to the Dalton mer-
chants. The goods amounted to over
800. 900 in value. Supt. Vaughn of the
Southern railway put detectives on the
case, who played tramps. joining the
gang and located the robbers.
Children Murdered.
Mrs. Mary Sammon and Mrs. Jennie
Layton. two colored women. were ar
rested at Camden. N. j.. Wednesday on
suspicion of being concerned in the
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