The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-01-05
1ERsELY TOLD TELEaRAMs

mated at 1O,2bf.O3O bales.
Thomas Kane was instantly killed by
n falling wall at Philadelphia.
An earthquake shock was felt at
Exeter, N. H., last Sunday.
Andrew Carnegie will build another
free library at Greensburg, Pa.
The Red Cross Society will soon take
charge of the charitable work in Cuba.
In New York 900 unemployed coat
tailors have found work shoveling
snow.
John Wanamaker Is being doomed as
n candidate for governor of Pennsyl-
yana.
The Anaconda Standard has collect
ed $500 In Montana for the Cuban re-
lief fund.
Gomez. the leader Of the Cuban insur-
gents, says war will end on the Island
within a year.
Gen. Blanco received 81. 900, 900 In sill
yer last week for carrying on the Span
ish war in Cuba.
The volume OF westbound traffic on
roads west of Chicago is larger than
ever before known.
p. IL. Mabry. express agent of the
Southern Express Company. and SlO,OOO
are missing at Brunswick, Ga.
James w. Cochran had one of his
eyes torn out by cows horn at
Greensburg, Pa. few days ago.
After Monday the thousand mechan-
les I'm the Union Pacific shops will work
& hours instead of hours day.
The vigilance of government officers
| prevented a large fiibustering expedi-
tion leaving Florida for Cuba the other
day.
John Gallagher and James Joyce
were run over and killed by a passen-
! ger train at Carnegie, Pa, last We'd
ncsday.
Arkansas Populists' state committee
declared against fusion and against
nominating n ticket for 1900 this year.
as proposed.
Mexican hauled down an American
flag floating over Clipperton Island.
The United States government has been
appealed to.
The explosion OF a gas stove knocked
out the side of house at Uniontown.
Pa, last week. Mr.. and Mrs. Black were
seriously buried.
The steamship George w. Elder has
sailed for Taiya and Skaguay from
Portland with 1875 passengers and 500
tons of freight.
At Linden. Ind. Oren Stingley, the
other day, n prominent citizen, acct-
dentally shot and killed his aged faith
er. John Stingley.
Thirty-five miners were imprisoned
four days in mine partially filled with
water from an underground river near
the city of Mexico.
Cholera has broken out IN India.
There were 37 deaths I'm the Manvie
district last Wednesday. To date there
have been 1l,Ss2 deaths
The Princeton Inn grill room, over
which there has been so much dispute
recently. will. 1t is said, be permanent-
| ly closed in few days.
Drunken stewards burned an Amer
lean flag on board of the steamer ST.
Louis on Christmas day and much in
| dignation was aroused.
Antoine Goyette, aged 50. was run
over and instantly killed at Richmond
Que. last Tuesday by a train whose
engineer was Goyette's son.
Publishers met In New York recently
and resolved to oppose the Loud bill
regulating second-class mail matter
and excluding book reprints.
Veins Of gilsonite in sufficient size tc
warrant development are reported "a
have been discovered on Willow creek
In Middle park, Colorado.
If the son and daughter of Mrs. Hen
rietta r. Fales Baker. of Philadelphia
die without issue the Pennsylvania
hospital will receive $1,000, 900.
An explosion of alcoholic vapors
killed Theodore Winkofsky while he
was enameling the interior of n brew
cry vat at Chicago the other day.
The crumbled bones of Mr.. and Mrs
A. c. Howe of Michigan were fount
Thursday in the ruins of the burned
Grand Forks IN. D. hotel. Decotah.
Five hundred Italians employed or
the canal improvement between Little
Falls and Mohawk. N. Y. struck for nj
advance in wages from II to 15 cents al
hour.
President Galloway, OF the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railwa,
says that the long distance telephone
has cut down the passenger business
considerably.
William f. Baldwin, alias Franl
Watson, notorious counterfeiter, re
Gently escaped from the Kingston
Ont) penitentiary, has been ARRESTED
at Cincinnati.
A heavy snow storm ragged i'm Pitts
burg last Thursday. Electric trave
was impeded, telephone wires wer
blown down and roofs caved in by tn
unusual fall of snow.
Mrs. Anna j. Fowler was burned 4
| teutn III a IRE tnat consumed the nous
, of Frank Graham at Bordentown, N. j
letter received at Quebec fron
Paris stated that the French govern
ment has given subsidy of 10000
,, francs toward steamship line betwee
France and Canada.
Peter French, who owned thousand
of acres OF land and more cattle tina
, any other man in Oregon, was shot an
I killed in Canyon City by a man name
Oliver in a land dispute.
To have some fun with his keeper,
Harry McCullom thought to frighte
them by making an attempt at suicid
: in a New York jail recently. The jok
proved fatal for he could not be re
I vived.
, At Port au Prince, Hayti, fire recent
ly destroyed 500 houses and rendere
:. 5000 people homeless. An earthquake
: shock. which greatly alarmed the popu
lace. occurred at the same place fe'
days ago.
n Nine of the Chinese bandits who too
( part In the murder OF a German priest {
o Yen-Chau Flu, which Germany gave 6
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