The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-03-23
TELHuRAMs TERsELY TOLD.

w. NJ. Taggart, a well-known Philas
delphia editor died last Saturday.
Charles Il. French, a native of Ohio,
committed suicide at Redlands, Cal.
Sir Henry Bessemer, inventor of
Bessener steel died Tuesday evening.
Thousands OF acres of prairie land
near Cimarron, kas, have been burned
| over.
4. II. Puryear, large tobacco dealer
and banker of Paducah, KY, shot him
| self.
Secretary Gage addressed the business
men of pittsburg at a banquet last
| Saturday.
A pig iron pool has been formed and
prices viii Immediately be advanced so
! per cent.
Mail boxes in Pittsburg are being
robbed nightly, and the police are
1 powerless.
There is enough food in the Klondike
region TO last the present population
two years.
At New orleans the other day humid
reds presented themselves for enlist
ment in the navy.
Damage by frost in Suisun valley,l
California, IS estimated at Sl5O,OOO and
/ Naca valley at S250,O00.
! a ledge of gold-bearing quartz has
/ heen found by worlSmen grading one of
the streets of San Francisco.
The Cuban Junta at New York has
Issued n proclamation saying that they
want independence or death.
The accumulation of ice at the Ma
| CARA Falls Gorge has made IL one of
the most beautiful sights in the world.
! Masso, President of the Cuban repub-
lie states that Cubans are ready to pur-
chase the island and end the slaughter.
! The sudden starting of an elevator is
said to have caused the death OF Mrs.
Louise Linicker at Pittsburg last week.
The Pennsylvania railroad station at
! Jersey City was damaged by fire to
the extent of s50000 Sunday morning.
Missouri supreme court has decided
the inheritance tax law, for the bene-
| fit of the State university, unconstitu-
tional.
At a conference in Philadelphia the
other day the loyalty of all Methodists
was pledged to the support of President
Mckinley.
on request OF President Mckinley,
Gov. Russell of Georgia says his state
can furnish 250,000 men in case of hos
/ tilties.
| William Clay Wallace, who was the
oldest living graduate OF Princeton col
lege. died in Newark, Saturday, aged
"a years.
A negro, and his white wife, whom
he had recently married, We're murder
ed by mob at Muskogee, l. T., few
days ago.
Michael SerwinslSi was killed and
Bartholomew Valentine fatally injured
by jumping from burning building in
Baltimore.
| President Mckinley did not attend
church last Sunday morning, as Is his
custom, but spent two hours in confer
ence with his cabinet.
Sanger Pullman, one of the twin sons
of the late George Pullman, was mar
ried last week to Miss Louise Lander
West, of San Francisco.
Albert Lathwell, barber shot his
wife, Miss Toomey and himself at Nj
| agara Falls a few days ago. Jealousy
was the cause of the deed.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
well-known novelist, has instituted
suit for divorce, at Washington, from
her husband, DR.. Swan NJ. Burnett.
An explosion occurred in slope No. 2
of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail-
road Company the other day at Pratt
City, Ala, killing six negro convicts.
To encourage the idea of an alliance
between Spain and Austria, Capt.
Gen. Blanco will give a dinner, at
which the Austrian consul will be the
guest of honor.
Judge Sanborn, sitting as a circuit
| judge, at st. Paul, has confirmed the
sale of the Kansas division Of the Union
Pacific road, which extends from Kan
sas City to Denver.
For holding up three men, Charles
! Hendricks was sentenced to 10 years of
! hard labor at Omaha, Neb., few days
ago. He used a revolver in the attack
and secured only 10 cents.
Mary Van Arsdall, aged IA, was killed
Claude M. Baker, IL, fatally injured,
and several other children injured by
fast freight on the Louisville & Nash-
vile railroad at Danville, KY, last Sa-
turday.
William j. Koerner, the newspaper
artist of New York who was convicted
of murder in the second degree for Kill
| ling his sweetheart, Rose A. Redgate,
was sentenced to Sing Sing for life by
Recorder Goff Tuesday morning.
Alfred C. Keene, aged 81, well known
in the best circles of society at St.
Louis, died Tuesday night from an
overdose of cocaine, presumably taken
with suicidal intent. No cause Is known
though unrequited love is limited at.
Through an error in transcrbing that
| fixed a constitutional amendment elec-
stead of the second Tuesday, when the
state election is held, Texas will be put
to an additional expense of 100000.
John E. Reidy, ex-treasurer of the
Police Relief association and member
of the St. Louis police force, pleaded
guilty to the charge Of embezzling &c.
900 from the ASSOCIATION and was SEN
| tehced to Two years Imprisonment.
There is said to be great lack Of ex-
perts in the engineer branch of the
navy. Many are needed for immediate
service. some for the auxiliary cruisers
| and for the two Brazilian vessels Just
purchased. The house naval committee
has given much attention to studying
the problem for a solution, but not as
yet with much success. 1t is said.
The Taiya- -Klondike Transportation
Company received advices from Taiya
that their upper tramway from Scales
to the summit had been completed, and
that freight is now being taken over
the Chilkoot pass. The price of trans
porting goods from Taiya to the sum-
NIT is now about Z cents per pound.