The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15


James Stevenson. a sawmlll employe
at Murphysboro. ILL.,. fell upon a cir
cular saw n few days ago. and his head
was severed from his body.
Conner & Cousineau, real estate
owners and builders at st. Laurent,
Canada. have assigned with s250,000
liabilities and very small assets.
Customs inspectors at Lardeo near
San Antonio, Tex, have found an un-
claimed gripsack on n train containing
100000 worth of diamonds, jewelry and
other valuables.
Miss Martha Clyburn has sued In
Chicago for share of the S1W0,0OD
estate of Allen Gregory. founder of the
stock yards. She alleges that she was
married to him In 1895.
The court at Batavia. ", Y, refused a
new trial I'm the case of Howard G. Ben
ham, convicted of poisoning his wife,
and he was sentenced tn be electrocuted
during the first week of November.
Iowa. Sac and Fox Indians are hold
ing n dance and dog feast on the Chief
Abraham Lincoln allotment. at Okla
home over 200 dogs were roasted and
eaten in the feast few days ago.
The average daily shipment of
money from Kansas city banks last
week to farmers throughout Missouri
Kansas. Colorado, and most OF which
has been used In moving grain, was
SIi5,00O.
Fearful storms have occurred In
Western Silesia and the rivers are
rapidly rising and threatening fresh
inundations. Several persons have
been killed by lightning and a number
of farm houses have been burned.
The trouble over land titles i'm juneau
has at last been settled by a decision of
Judge Delaney of the United States
court at Juneau. The possessory rights
who have improved their holdings are
held to be good against invasion.
The mother of Mrs. John ID. Rookie
feller Mrs. II. L. Spelman, died at Fort
Hill. o., Mr.. Rockefeller's country
home. Death was the elimination of
a months sickness. The family were
at the bedside. The deceased was Ss
years old.
+. Powers, of Maysville, o., with a
partner. made $4,000 each out of one
claim they discovered last winter,
and then sold II for 100000. Powers
Is on his way home, and says the klon-
dyke is the richest country In the
world
The Queen of Denmark celebrated
her eightieth birthday few days ago.
She Is celebrated among sovereigns
for having married off, her daughters
and sons with n better eye to main
chance than any ruler in recent his
tory.
Two maiden sisters. Miss Harriet C.
Sheldon. 50 years of age, and Miss Matil-
da Sheldon, SO, were fatally burned at
their home in Lynn. Mass, Sunday.
The old ladies, who lived in house by
themselves, were cooking with a kero-
sene stove, when the latter tipped over
and the oil ran out and ignited.
william Jones and William Louden,
negroes. were recently held In bail on
a charge of gambling. They ran an
establishment known as the Colored
Investment society. IL conducted
pool room, a dancing school, a mission
and a poker layout, all in the same
building.
Six young men were drowned I'm q
yacht near Windmill Point in Lake st.
Clair a few days ago. The dead are
Thomas Fritz. II. Gerteis. Grant Muir
ray, Thomas Newsome. Charles Rice
and Jay Tansey. They had hired a
yacht, which was capsized by two of
the boys rocking the boat.
John Miller, living in Hampshire
county, w. Va, the other day sold his
apple crop to purchaser from Balt-
more for between $40. 900 and $2l, 900. Will
liam Miller. his father. also sold his
apple crop for about $4,000 at the same
time. These are two of the largest fruit
deals ever made in this section.
A project is under way which con-
templates the amalgamation of three
great railroad systems-the Big Four.
the Baltimore and Ohio and the Balti-
more and Ohio Southwestern. The mile
age of such consolidated system would
be nearly 5.000 and it would be the
most extensive railroad property in the
East extending from St. Louis and
Chicago to New York.
Mgr. p. p. Toner, Missionary apos-
tolic and honorary chaplain to His
Holiness Pope Leo KILL, and chaplain
general to the American bishops, was
stricken by the heat in his room in
hotel at Philadelphia Saturday. He
died shortly afterward. Mgr. Toner
was 65 years of age. He had resided
about two years at the hotel where he
was stricken.
According to dispatch from Mos
COW Lieut.-G Baron Won Schak has
committed suicide by shooting himself
with a revolver at Odessa In a fit of re-
pentance. He was a member of the
German Lutheran body. His religious
connections excited the suspicious OF
his superiors and they ordered him to
resign or to join the Russian orthodox
church. He chose the latter course and
then killed himself in remorse.
Twenty-four persons, mainly spec
tators of the great blast at Panuelas
quarry. on the Vera Cruz railway,
were instantly killed sunday. The blast
went off and the people rushed forward
to see the effects, when gases in the air
ignited. causing an explosion. with ter
rible results. Two cavalrymen were on
guard and were killed, with their hor-
ses. Many people We're wounded. The
quarry supplies rock for Vera Cruz har-
Dor improvements.
The property and plants of the Edi-
son Illuminating Company of st. Louis
were disposed of last Saturday for
$4,000 at a foreclosure sale. The
property was bought by A. d. Brown,
representative Of the stock and bond
holders organization committee. The
defunct company defaulted on its
bonded debt to the Knickerbocker
Trust Company OF New York last Feb
ruary. II has carried a capitalization
of N.O0O,O00 and a bonded debt OF $4,-
900. 900.
Hawaiian advices contain the reply
of Minister Cooper to the arbitration
proposition as submitted by Japan,
Mr.. Cooper says that Japan. having re-
fused to submit to arbitration the ques-
tious whether the Japanese immigrants
| refused entrance into Hawaii were pos
sessed of $50 each, and as to whether
| the treaty of 1871 Is applicable, the