The Mena weekly star., 1897-11-24

OdCcOhioIS "cic nnCu loI selllng cira rettes to minors Friday. The law so framed that even a parent w,' gives cigarette to boy may <. indicted.
 Reports from India say the Briti.. are making little headway in putin, down the rebellion. that the wea,h.. M is becoming bitterly cold and the Ri, ish soldiers are not equipped for wipt.. campaigning. The military operatio0. have already cost S12, 300, o0o and ii thought this expenditure will |. doubled
 The will of the late Henry Geors. leaves his entire estate, consis,. ing of the home at Fort Hamiltor K worth about Ss,0 ,0o0 and the copyripb, of his books to his widow. Mr ! Georges book on political economy. h the writing of which ne spent the last X six years of his life and on which hs E expected his fame to rest, will be nuh. lished in few months.
 1s is stated that Turkish ambasss. dors and consular agents over the world are suffering for actual necess,. ties of life on account of the non. payment of salaries due them from the Turkish government Some oi them have spent their entire pr. vate fortunes and are scarcely aSSll5 aSl5 to secure bread One has resigned and was disgraced and abused in conse dnence-
 Fort Scott Kan, is entirely withou. water service. Twenty men have been two days and nights dynamitinr the river bed in the attempt to create a channel to bring water down from four miles above the city, but have failed. Sedalia. Mo. is also facings water famine, the water works reser. yoirs being almost empty and practi cally no fire protection is had for lack of water tc fill the standpipes.
 ona Melton, the young Kansan who was captured on the Competitor by the Spaniards and has been confined in prison at Havana for many months, has, with others captured at the same tune, been released and has sailed for the United States Melton claimed to be newspaper correspondent, but for long time it was expected he would be executed as a fillibuster All the English prisoners held in Cuba have already been released and all the American and French prisoners will be set at liberty in few days.
 A terrible fight to death occurred on a fast running freight engine on the Louisville X Nashville road in Ala bama last Friday. The fireman, 3 negro, was crazed with drink and when ordered to stir up the fire by the engineer, fired at him with re- volver, but missed. Before he could fire again the engineer knocked the weapon out of his hand, and was at once furiously attacked with knife and cut in more than a dozen places before he succeeded in getting bis revolver and shooting the negro through the heart. The wounded man succeeded in stopping his train at the first station.
 A street fight in Waco, Tex, last week between three of the most prom inent men of that city has caused the death of two, and there Is strong possibility that third will yet sue cumb to the serious wounds received. For two years past there has existea much bitter feeling in Waco over scandal connected with the manage ment of the Baylor university. Judge C. B. Gerald, for fifty years prom nent citizen of Waco, was fired on oy j. w. Harris, editor of the Times-her' ald Gerald at once retururned the nre, mortally wounding the edi'o'' but was at the same time shot iron behind by W. A. Harris, brother o' j. W. Harris. Though badly wounoeo Gerald succeeded in killing his secoh' assailant The Harris brothers ha'' been buried, Judge Gerald has suffere. the amputation of an arm and may ",