The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-25
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President Mckinley visited the collar
factory at Troy, N. Y, last week where
1000 women and girls are employed.
Henry Hammett aged 81, of Dan
vile, ILL.,, committed suicide and his
wife died of grief a few hours after.
The Joseph Ladue Gold Mining and
Development Company was organized
in Trenton, N. j., with a capital of
$5, 900, 900.
The saw and planning mills of the
Turis Lumber Co., of Baltimore, were
destroyed by fire Sunday. Loss, $780,
900.
While running at full speed, n Pitts
burg trolley car crushed out the life
of 9-year-old Willie Hoffman few
days ago.
An attempt to arrest negro
charged with murder resulted In
riot in which three men were killed at
Little Rock, Ark.
Simon Barents. an aged citizen of
Allegheny, Pa, committed suicide by
hanging Wednesday. Barents was So
years of age.
Miss Hemming, the negro girl who
graduated from Nassar last COM
mencement. will be employed in the
Boston public library.
One man was instantly killed and
another seriously hurt in the elevator
shaft of the Hotel Waldorf at New
York few days ago.
Saying that he would swim ashore,
Fred Nord. of Pittsburg. jumped from
boat in Ashtabula Harbor the other
day and was drowned.
The fastest battleship a1pat was
launched in England the other day.
The Yashima is owned by japan. and
at the trial trip made 19.46 knots an
hour.
mosquito with a deadly sting bit
Otto Miller's 1S-months' -old child on
the cheek at Union Hill, N. j., few
days ago. The child died from the re-
suits of the bite.
The man in whose arms Garfield
died at Elberon, n. j., 16 years ago
next month, Brigadier- General David
@. Swain, u. S. A., retired, died at
Washington Tuesday.
Three men, armed with Winchesters,
went into the Pineville bank, at
Springfield, Mo-. Tuesday, forced the
cashier to hold up his hands and Sc
cured about 5000, mostly silver.
Having missed q train Andrew Her
nitz, of Williamsburg, Pa, flew into
such a rage that he adjusted a rope
around his neck and allowed himself
to be strangled to death last Sunday.
Stockholm "Aftonblatt' announces
that Herr Andree. who went to the
North Pole in a balloon, has passed SO
degrees, and thus far had a good Jour-
ney
The government of Peru has ordered
its postage stamps made in the United
States. The first order Is for 100000
scent stamps and another for 100000
stamps of other denominations will fol-
low.
John l.. Nowlin, a revenue informer,
who had been arrested for breaking
into a springhouse at Richmond, Va,
was taken from the officers in Runney-
bog, Franklin county, the other night,
and shot to death.
A son chopped at his fathers neck
with an AK until the head was severed
from the body The act was commit
ted at Winnipeg, Man, by Adam
Guga as the result of a quarrel over
the ownership of some chickens.
Johnson M. Murdy, the sculptor, died
in a sanitarium at Geneva, N. Y, the
other day, aged 64 years. One of the
best known of his works is a marble
bust of Frederick Douglass in the ca
pitol at Washington. He also made
statue of Washington Irving that is
considered a masterpiece.
A passenger train on the Santa Fe
was held up the other day between
Oklahoma and Edmond by a half
dozen masked highwaymen. The rob
bers secured between $500 and 5000
from valuable packages in the safe
and escaped. The passengers were not
molested.
Albert Bial of Roster & Bial. music
hall proprietors, died Saturday night
at New York of nervous trouble, from
which he had suffered since February
Iac ct OF
ness Mr.. Bial had just returned from
England. He was born in Berlin, Ger
many, 81 years ago, and came to the
United States when 21 years old.
On entering Russian waters the
steamer Ohio met the German squad
ron accompanying Emperor William
of Germany, who has been visiting
band of the German imperial yacht
Hohenzollern replied by playing
Yankee Doodle" which was greeted
with frantic cheers from the tourists.
There is great excitement over a
most extraordinary state of affairs on
board the British battleship Royal
Sovereign, which is about to sail for
three years service with the Mediter-
ranean squadron. Fifty men have de-
serted, all the cells on board ship are
full, and the supply OF irons is not
sufficient for the large number under
going punishment.
With elaborate and solemn ceremo-
MES the new chimes of st. Patrick's
Cathedral, in New York, We're blessed
Sunday by Archbishop Corrigan. as
sisted by a number of priests and two
score acolytes, in the presence of 800
persons. The chimes. which are 10
in number, were made In Savoy, and
In weight vary from 800 to 700 pounds.
They cost $4,000. and are said to be
the finest in the United States.
]. Sergeant Price, of Philadelphia,
president of the Land, Title and Trust
Company, of that city, was taken from
the surf at Cape May. N. j., the other
day. The lifeguards who rescued Mr..
Price carried him to his cottage, where
several physicians, by resorting to ar
tificial respiration, succeeded in restor-
ing him to consciousness, but he soon
lapsed into unconsciousness and died.
At the close of the Christian Alliance
Convention at Cleveland Sunday, a
collection for missions was taken.
Eleven thousand dollars was contrib
uted within few minutes, making
$4,000 In all. Several ladies threw
diamond rings into the collection
boxes, and many men did the same