The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-08
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Crete.
Burglars dynamited the postoffice
safe at Depew, N. Y, and secured $500
In money.
Both hands of 5-year-old Thomas
Malley were cut off by n locomotive at
Allegheny, Pa.
Seth Low was nominated for mayor
of greater New York by the citizens
union Tuesday.
General Lee, consul to Havana, has
returned to this country on a so days
leave of absence.
Tramps robbed the drugstore of John
Pratt at ella Bend, Ariz., and stabbed
the proprietor to death.
Masked men robbed q train on the
Gulf Road at Twin Mountain, Col, and
secured $4,000 last Saturday.
II is alleged England wants to coin
silver and will do It, offering as an eX-
cuse the financial situation In India.
Poisoned scrambled eggs. served by
a demented daughter at Metropolis,
I'LL, may result in the death of the girls
father.
a nywheel burst at Jones & Laugh
Inns mill. Pittsburg. damaging the
plant to the extent of $4,000 and shut
ting down three mills.
The strike of clothing makers has
practically come to an end at Philadel-
phia, the manufacturers granting most
of the demands.
To secure safety from n rattle snakes
bite. Fred Reece, a Helena, Mont, fire
marshal, placed his finger over the
nuzzle of a shot gun and blew 1t off.
$4,000 was robbed from the safe of
the collector of taxes for the District
of Columbia, Tuesday night Hamkins,
a colored messenger, Is also missing.
A scorching cyclist dropped dead at
Racine, Wis, a few days ago, having
just finished a sprint. He was IL
years of age and is Edward Anderson.
Stephen Jackson, a negro. having
failed in an attempt to assault Walt
ress Agnes Dillon, at Sanin Rock,
Conn. leaped into the ocean and drow-
ned himself.
The Carnegie company has practic-
ally secured control of all the iron
mines OF Rockefeller I'm Minnesota,
which will give the big company a
monopoly.
Forest II. Parker. President of the
Produce Exchange Bank of New York.
and his wife were drowned a few days
ago in the Chain Lake, near Paul
Smiths, in the Adirondacks.
Apache Kid, the terror of the south
west, is dead. His bones lie bleaching
in the sun on a lonely range of the
sierra mountains, III Olu meNlCO,
100 miles or so south of the information
al line.
The suspension of the Parker. Samp-
son Adams Company, wholesale boots
and shoes, Is announced at Boston. The
capital was 100000. A report a month
ago showed cash and accounts OF $780,
225. and bills payable, s274,451.
Inability to pay debts led to the dis
charge of Henry N. Watson. an Allie
oh Do t.tt .yt. A 90
the post office forbids the contracting
of a debt. without the means of liqui-
dating. Watson Is a colored man.
A colored woman applied to the ST.
| Louis supervisor of the poor for relief
| few days ago. She was only Is years
old and had been four times the moth
er OF twins, according to her statement
which the supervisor, DIR. Woods, says
| he verified.
Harry Coyle was killed, August Pole
XII had several ribs and his shoulder
blade broken, and Thomas Thompson,
| John McGovern and Stephen Halpin
were more or less injured by the cav
ing in of a small coal bank last Satur-
day at Pittsburg.
Wheat in Minnesota. 4500,000 acres,
average yield. ~ bushels, total 1000, 900:
North Dakota, 100000 acres. avera gc
yield II bushels, total 44,OO0. 900; South
bushels, total 22,000,000 bushels. Grand
total for the three States, 120.0O0,OOO
| bushels.
John and Richard McGriff, probably
J the Oldest twins in the United States,
celebrated their 93d birthday at Ridge
Vile. Ind. They We're born in Starke
county, Ohio. Both married and have
children, their wives being dead. Mel
tier has used tobacco and their facul-
tins arp In excellent conditinp
The revival Of the gold mining busi-
ne rs In California is assuming propor-
Il, MS like the boom in the forties, when
tile California gold discoveries caused
The North Carolina mines to be aban-
doned. Now many Of the richer veins
have been again located. and are being
worked with astonishing results in
some cases.
When playing with matches In an
old outbuildine used as store house,
at Fort Wingate. N. NJ. little Alice
Winstone and Harry Arnold, aged
| three and four years, set fire to a can
OF oil. causing an explosion. Alice was
burned to an unrecognizable mass.
| Harry was badly burned about the
head and will probably die.
\ criminal warrant charging Town
Treasurer Charles II. Gill of West Sup
erior, Wis. with the embezZlement of
S35 900 of the funds of the town of Sup
erior was sworn out a few days ago.
The case has been hanging fire ever
since the last election, when Gill was
succeeded in Office by Jacob Erickson.
Gill is said to be in Georgia.
A woman who had been confined to
her bed for three years with an in
durable disease. and unable to speak
for long time, was visited by party
of ladies few days ago. They in
dulged In a season of prayer, and lay
ing on of hands, when Mrs. Hartman
the invalid. announced that she had
been healed and arose from her bed
and walked. at Bellefontaine, o.
Reports of frost came from a few
points in Southern Minnesota and
North Dakota. Late, tender crops and
garden truck were killed or badly dam
aged. but none of the reports speak
of very serious injury to corn, except
one from Southern Minnesota, which
represents the damage as being heavy
to corn and late flax. Wheat Is unaf-
fected, being mostly harvested.
A terrible explosion occurred at Nor
ton. H.. Sunday night. The electric
light plant owned by Byer Bros. & Co.
valued at $4,000 was completely de-
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