The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-30

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killed by lightning at Nevada, Mo.
The powerful rays of steamboat
scarchlight frightened lT-ycar-old Mary
Mosnrash, OF Hudson, \. Y, into in
sanity.
The Baldwin Locomotive works. Of
Philadelphia, will shortly begin work
upon 80 locomotives ordered from ia
pan.
a woman politician Of Denver, Ger
truda Allen. has been arrested for forg-
ing election returns at the April clec-
tiuus.
by an explosion Of powder placed
under - shanty at Plttsburg Gaetano
Autoneli was killed and another italian
injured.
Cornell College won the great Var
sity boat race at poughkecpsia, n. Y.
Yale was second and Harvard came In
third.
Richard Raddatz, Of Oshkosh. Wis. is
about To- start on journey of 100 miles
urder water in his new submarine
boat.
II. G. Sutherland a prospector, an
nuuuccs he has discovered ore on the
east slope of Pixies Peak that assays 500
to the ton.
Two men at Ouray. col. entered n
saloon. and with rcvulvcrs compelled 10
mon to hold up their hands while being
robbed.
Hailstonos II inches in circumference
and weighing one pound are reported
to have fallen at Topeka, kas., during
Il storm.
The jury in the case Of J. S. BARLEY,
the eX-Trcasurer of Omaha, Neb.
charged with cmbczzlcment. returned
a verdict of guilty.
While resisting tramps, who attempt
4 stt
Chalco. near Omaha, Ncb., q. 4. Pond
was fatally shot
state Treasurer hartley. of Nebraska,
convicted Of cmbc2Zlomcnt, was sem
fenced to 20 years in the penitcntiary
and To pay IL fine of S3OD,0OO.
Ezekiel Welsh, barber. of near Ash
land, Wis, being unable to secure
liquor, drank some uf his hair tonic, and
was found dead few hours later.
In recent sermon Moody said that
the young man of to-day has three
great temptations to fight: trolley cars,
Sunday newspapers and bicycling.
The Catholic cemetery at Lcadville,
col, is guarded by armed men who are
keeping claim jumpers who want to
seize 1t for mining purposes at dis
tanCe.
At the annual reunion of confederate
veterans held at Nashville commcnda-
tory resolutions of the reign of the
reign of Queen Victoria were voted
down.
a pebble no larger than a pea entered
the head of owen Call at Chicago as a
result of dynamite explosion In the
new lake tunnel and killed him almost
instantly.
William Louis Winans. the builder
of the Moscow railroad. died in Balti-
more. He accomplished a great work
in opening the Russian interior to civ
ilization.
The trustees of Western Reserve
University at their meeting conferred
the degree of LII, ID. upon President
Mckinley and Judge Samuel II, Will
hanson, of this city.
Walter Norris, aged 16 years. was
, killed by lightning at Bogart. Ga. lie
was standing on his front porch and
had baby in his arms at the time. The
baby was not injured.
Fire destroyed the home of Joseph
Melenski. in East Buffalo. His daugh-
| ter Sophia, aged TO- died from her
burns; four younger children may die
and he is frightfully burned.
Having lost her situation, Respondent
Julia Tohil, of New York, jumped into
| the river. William Robinson. an un-
employed workman. without money OF
friends rescued her.
The weight of beer drinkers caused
the walls of a Washington saloon to
cave in. Twenty people were in the
/ building at the time, and of this number
| Philip Patterson, the bartender is dead
| Augustus a. Garrison and Frank
Jones were killed and Tom Jones NOR
tally wounded in bloody battle which
! took place in the Methodist church
yard at Pleasant Valley, Tex, about a
! girl.
| Delicate health, resulting from tho
excessive smoking of cigarettes. drov,
Samuel Fink to commit suicide by
jumping off Brooklyn bridgt. He was
the son of a wealthyLivermore, Pa, oi
! OPERATOR
| An attempt to wreck passenger irair
on the Rome, Waterloo and Ogden shurG
Railroad was made in the outskirts ~
Waterloo, N. Y. A. heavy tie was p'acet
across the track, but the train. which
struck it, was not derailed.
Bert van Nostrand, an architect o
Kasson, Mimi. shot and seriously
wounded Jennie Geesie. aged IS, ant
then blew out his brains. The coupl,
were lovers and the cause of the trag
cdy Is not known.
Agent Wisdom at FIT. Wisdom dis
bursed $23,6O0 of the Cherokee freed
mems (negroes) fund. Payment prog
ressed very satisfactorily. All excite
ment has subsided, and the freedmen
are behaving orderly.
Louis Perryman recently came I,
Knoxville. Ia. from South America. II
said he had committed a murder 8
years ago and that the spirit of tn
murdered man had haunted him bacl
to the scene OF his crime.
The special grand jury appointed II
Denver to investigate the robbery o
ballot boxes and other frauds commit
ted at the late city election has returne,