The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15
7IRsELY TOLD TELEaRAMs

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A s.. 900 900 borax trust has been for
med in New York.
AZ emigrants were deportod from
| New York last Saturday.
William Bryan does not like the cur
| rency features of the Presidents mes
sage.
The American University at Wash
| lngton reports assets aggl cgating ST.
| 900, 00O.
Gold assaying SIS an ounce has been
found in sandy soil near Watertown
| ". Y.
China does not propose IT, allow Ger
| many to occupy KiaO-Chou Bay and
| Will protest
Gertrude Prince. daughter of veal
| thy citizen of Oconto county, Wis. has
cloped with a negro.
The carpet manufacturing firm of
| Dobson at Philadelphia was destroyed
by fire Saturday. Loss, 100000.
Rev +. G.. Romne and Rev. John H.
Penland have been bound over to the
next grand Jury on charges of forgery
| at Guthrie, q. 4.
II Is claimed q Union Pacific train
ran 102 miles, from Cheyenne To Sidney
| in % minutes, and from Sidney to North
Platte. III miles. In lii.
A Nincennes. Ind. clergyman claims
| that n pension allowed him was not
well based. Consequently he returns
To the government sig5SG.
Fifteen minutes after entering court
Sonly Ryan of Raleigh. N. c., was
found guilty of murder hy Jury. and
sentenced to hang December IL.
one hundred people witnessed the
suicide of John Schwlnon Mt Chicago
the other day. He jumped from
| bridge In Lincoln park to the Ice 80 feet
| below
BY the death of bachelor brother
the families of Marion Trabue and Nj.
| Simpson of Kokomo. Ind, and Louisa
Landon of Anna. ILL.,. become heirs To
| s3,00OO0o.
Constable Murray of TT. Smith, Ark.
went to Bonanza recently to arrest n
miner. on returning the prisoner was
released by his friends and the consta-
| BILE lynched.
Prof John Atkinson. the English
| bone setter, and the nearest relative of
| George Washington has given $4,000
| toward the proposed Washington Free
| University.
Nearly 1000 Italians sailed on the
| Augusta Victoria for Italy Saturday.
This large number is attributed to
| their desire to spend Christmas I'm their
native land.
Mgr. Martinelli. papal delegate Mt
| WASHINGTON. has just received instruc-
] tons from the vatican to have statue
| of st. Peter erected in every American
| Catholic church.
TWENTY-FIVE employers I'm book ana
! job printing offices have promised to
grant the ninc-hour workday demand
| 10y the men. This stay averts strike
of 5000 men In the city
| The Carnegie company has purchased
/ half II ward at Homestead, Pa. The
| city council has agreed to vncate the
| streets i'm the section for the iron com
panys benefit for 100000
| The appeals of r. Durrant were de-
MED in the Supreme Court at san
Francisco last Wednesday. The muir
| derer of Blanche Lamont has now no
further hope and must hang.
Mrs. Henry Weber. one Of the best
! known women In St Paul. committed
suicide by hanging Wednesday night.
! Brooding over her separation from her
! husband drove her to the act
| 1000 creditors of the broken Blair
county banks met at Hollidaysburg.
/ Pa, last week and appointed an ex-
| pert to discover what had become Of
I 100000 of the banks funds.
| Capt.-Gen. Blanco. the governor
| general at Cuba, signed u decree re-
| leasing forty-one persons who have
! been imprisoned on charge of compli-
city in the insurgent movement.
Charles Miller, 90 years old, won the
| slx-day's bicycle race at Madison
| Square Garden. New York, last week.
He rode 1000 miles in i42 hours, and
! secured only hours sleep In that time.
The plate glass factory at Elwood,
Ind, employing 800 hands, closed Tues
day night because of the refusal of the
| polishers to accept the change to pay
ment by piece work instead of by the
week.
| Judge Horace e. Bucks, associate
justice of the supreme court of Mon
tana, shot himself at his home in
Lenox. suburb of Helena, few days
ago. His health had been breaking
down.
Burglars failed to get any money
from an old bachelor named Lewis at
Evansville. Ind, the other day. al
though they threw him upon red hot
stove and hung him up by his toes un-
I'll he become unconscious.
Albert NJ. King. the l0-year-old mes
senger of the Boyleston National bank
of Boston, who absconded with $4,000.
all of which was recovered by the bank,
pleaded guilty. and on the recommen-
dation of the district attorney was set
at liberty.
Paul Alexander Johnstone. the mind
reader, says he is going to take a trip
around the world blindfolded after
! packet of letters to be mailed three
weeks in advance. At the same time
he is going to try and beat the record
for globe trotters.
At the point of revolver Mrs.
Christian Pabst, of Hannibal. Mo-, was
compelled to bind her husband the
other day. While the negro was robbing
the house, Mrs. Pabst called her bro
therin-law who quickly rlddled the
negro with bullets.
Samuel Crabtree convict, 20 years
old, confessed at Frankfort, Ky, that
four years ago he murdered his two
cousins, William Short and Tony Rice,
in Lawrence county. Crabtree had at
tended a religious revival In the prison
and professed conversion.
The body of John Dickinson, head of
one of the oldest and largest diamond
importing and carbon point manufac-
turing firms in this country, was found