The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-09-14
NEWS NOTES.

Jamaica, the British Island, wants
TO be annexed to Canada.
Turkey has prohibited foreign Jews
from entering Palestine.
The first snowstorm of the season is
reported from Eastern Colorado.
The British. In the battle on the Nile
last week, killed 10,500 Dervishes.
The gold reserve I'm the treasury last
Saturday amounted to $232, 1894, 900.
The French cabinet has unanimously
agreed to Il retrial of the Dreyfus case.
Gen. Saussier has been appointed
minister of the French war depart
ment
In an election riot at Guatemala
last week 800 persons were killed at
the polls
President Mckinley will attend the
Chicago peace celebration on October
IS and 10.
The territory of Hawaii Is the name
decided upon for our new possession
I'm the Pacific.
Wilhelmina, the queen of Holland,
may select Prince Frederick OF Wied
for husband.
Joseph Chamberlain. secretary of the
British colonies arrived in New York
last Wednesday.
Theodore Roosevelt has decided to
accept the Republican nomination for
governor OF New York.
ii Hung Chang has been dismissed
from office at Pekin. Great Britain is
responsible for his removal.
Kaiser Wilhelm says that an anti
strike bill will be introduced at the
next session of the reichstag.
One hundred thousand persons
greeted the Pittsburg troops as they
returned home last Sunday night.
Englishmen believe that the Cars
peace proposal was prompted by the
fear Of an Anglo American alliance.
The explosion OF spirits in New
York whiskey house resulted in the
death OF three workmen a few days
ago.
The City OF Westminster. b. c., was
visited by a destructive fire few days
ago. The loss will amount to $1,000
900.
The mention OF Secretary Algers
name at the meetings of the q. A. II.
at Cincinnati last week was the occas-
ion for uproarious applause.
While trying to stop a runaway
horse at Allegheny, Pa, a few days
ago, Herman II. Hackert was dashed
against the curbstone and instantly
| killed.
| Joseph Letter, the dethroned wheat
king has paid all Of his debts. In or
der to do this the elder Letter mort
| gagged IS, 600, 900 worth of Chicago real
estate.
An English anarchist last week at
tempted to assassnate Wilhelmina,
the queen of Holland. The bullet
missed and ploughed the cheek of a
waiting lady.
| Clarence Ewing OF Perkins Switch,
| Ind, and William Dean and John Bude
of Oakland City, Ind, were struck and
killed at the former place by west
bound express.
Hst dollars which burned the fingers
| OF officers had just been made by thra rae
| Greek counterfeiters at Chicago a few
days ago, when they were arrested by
the detectives.
| The Populists National Convention,
held at Cincinnati last Tuesday. nomi-
mated Wharton Baker. Of Pennsyl-
vania, for president. Ignatius Donnelly
of Minnesota was nominated for vice.
president.
Joseph Chamberlain. England's COL
onial secretary. who II a guest at the
Endicott home In Danvers, Mass. said
that England ie willing to come more
than half way to consummate an al
lance with America
Mrs. Ell Potter, a Kansas City wom-
an suffraRtst. received $4,000 from an
insurance company for the loss OF her
house. Afraid to trust the insurance
company she carried 1t on her person.
Highwaymen knocked her senseless
and robbed her.
A daring plot to assasslnate the Gear
l at MOSCOW last week failed. An at
tempt was made to blow up house
filled with gas while the Gear passed.
but by a miscalculation the explosion
occurred at the wrong moment and an
army officer and his wife we're killed.
One of the assassins was also found In
the ruins Of the house.