The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-02-16
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| Inere are no tndicatfOnS OF an early
| settlement of the New England cloth
| Cycllst Anderson Is at Chicago ar
ranging for n race with a locomotive
next May.
| 40 per cent. of the milk cows I'm the
vicinity of Pittsburg are affected with
tuberculosis
Spain has requested the Clyde ship
| builders I'm London to hurry work on
| Spanish boats.
| Excessive smoking of cigarettes kill
last Wednesday.
| John ID. Rockefeller presented land
worth $4,000 TO the city of Cleveland
| for park purposes.
The Illinois senate concurred in the
house Joint resolution favoring the an
| nexatiOn of Hawaii.
Pittsburg's famous criminal lawyer.
| Major Edward A. Montooth. died last
| wednesday morning.
! Rich deposits of lead and zinc are re-
ported to have been discovered on the
/ New kaw reservation in Oklahoma.
Levi +. Morton's office building on
Nassau street, New York, was de-
! stroyed by fire last week Loss $780,
| 900.
| The pen with which Lincoln signed
| the proclamation freeing the slaves has
been presented to the New York Press
| Club.
Miss Molie Vincent shot her lover.
| Taylor Wyatt, and then committed
suicide. They lived in Moccasin valley,
| Va.
| The Hoyt building, corner OF st. Clair
and Bank streets, Cleveland, was de-
stroyed by fire last Saturday. Loss.
s375,O0O.
Three men were killed i'm the New
port mine At Ironwood. Mich, n few
days ago by an explosion Of giant
| powder
At San Carlos. Arlz., 800 Apaches as
| sembled and gave the necessary CON
sent for a railroad to go through their
reservation.
BY decree Cuban papers are prohib-
tied from publishing anything that Will
| hurt the prospects of peace or auton-
orny in Cuba.
Secretary Gage and Gen. Harrison
addressed the Marquette club at Chi
| cago last Saturday. The occasion was
| Lincoln's birthday.
| In a head end collision on the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad at Mont
| gomery, Ala. last Thursday five train
men were killed.
Judge Thornel of the district court at
| Council BLUFFS. Ia. decided the state
law taxing collateral inheritance to he
| unconstitutional.
a successor to DE LONE. the Span
| ish minister to this country who was
| recently compelled to resign for SIAN
dering Mckinley, has not yet been
| chosen.
John Schofeld shot and instantly
| killed Peter Pfeffer at the latters home.
in Louisville, KY. because the latter
| objected To his paying attentions to his
daughter
a fllibustering expedition left Tampa.
| Fla, for Cuba last Saturday night. g.
| 900 rifles. 5000 pounds of dynamite and
100000 rounds of cartridges made up the
| cargo.
Now that President Barrios Of Guate-
mala is dead, his cabinet has resigned
and the leaders are engaged in battle
among themselves. Sixty-four men
were killed in riot last week.
As an elevator in the Hoffman House.
| New York. shot upwards. Mrs. Arthur
Levy tainted. She fell and her head
was bruised by n projecting floor and
she died Instantly Sunday night.
For 100000 n Chicago man proposes
to raise the capitol building at Column
bus. so as to admit of another story un-
der the structure. A bill will be intro
duced in the Legislature to that effect.
Mrs. Annie c. George. widow of Hen
ry George, was awarded $500 in her suit
| against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for $4,000 damages for injur-
les sustained by a fall in that COM
pany's station in Philadelphia.
About 5000 trousers makers of New
! York, Brooklyn and Brownsville went
| on strike a few days ago for an ad-
vance in wages. They claim that they
| had to work 16 hours day, getting
from IS to 80 per week as wages.
During a funeral service In the syna-
gague at Idzienciol, in Warsaw, recent
| ly, the women's gallery collapsed. In a
| panic that ensued u women, men and
3 children were crushed to death and
many others were seriously injured.
Professor Samuel ]. James, of the
| University of Chicago. has been nomi-
| mated by the bureau of education to re-
present the United States at the inter-
national congress of commercial in
struction to be held at Antwerp next
| April.
Chris Merry of Chicago, under SEN
| tence for the murder of his wife, suf-
fered an injury to the head some years
| ago. In the effort to save his life his
attorneys will have his brain examined
with X rays before the date of his exc
| cution.
Secretary Bliss emphatically, disap-
proves the senate bill to remove the
| Indians from Annette island to the
main land of Alaska and throw the is
| land open to settlement. 1t Is repre-
sented that, isolated from the whites, as
| they now are, the Indians are making
good progress In civilization.
| A boat containing five men went
over the falls at Oregon City, Ore, the
other day. George Freeman, Sr., his
| sons, George and James, and l.. j.
| Shannon were drowned. Harry Free
man held to the boat and reached
shore. The present high water will
probably prevent recovery of the bod
| les.
The Quebec express on the Interco-
onial railway plunged over an embank-
msnt at Petit Roche. miles from Bal
hurst. near st. John, N. b.. last We'd
nesday, killing the engineer. William
Bastain, and badly injuring Fireman
| Poole. The cause of the accident is
supposed to be a broken rail. The pas
senger cars did not go over the embank-
ment and the passengers escaped in
jury.
Michael Davitt moved an amend
ment In the House of Commons in
| London the other day, calling attention
to the distress in Ireland. and the fail
ure of the potato crop. The motion was
l A..I I.r IaI n o.r1a