The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-03-02
rELEeRAMs rERsHLY TOLD.

land, is dead.
The Thor savings bank at Thor, Ia,
was robbed Of $500 Wednesday.
The business portion of Dekalb. Tex,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, s5O,O0O.
Within a year all of New York's
street cars will travel underground.
The w. C.. r. IT, building at Chicago
Is to be named Willard Temple as soon
as the debt Is paid.
A bill providing for two new regi-
ments of artillery was passed In the
senate Tuesday.
a Norwich coast guard boat capsized
off Wells. Norfolk recently. Five of
her crew were drowned.
Franz Won Auersperg a bankrupt for
eign prince Is now running an elevator
in New York hotel.
Two negroes. who had committed
murder and robbery. were lynched at
Paducah. KY, the other day.
Fifty were killed and 200 injured
January 6 by AN earthquake on AM
boina island, Moucca group.
For issuing bogus naturalization
papers Eugene Lindsay was convicted
In Philadelphia few days ago.
California proposes to celebrate her
| fiftieth anniversary as n state by an
exposition at San Francisco in 1901.
1t attempting to rescue her baby sis
| ter, Clara Fisher. aged 16, was burned
to death at Pittsburg the other day.
a probable war with Spain has
caused many western banks to with
draw their deposits from New York
institutions.
The foreman of the San Francisco
| mint, William +. Clarkson, has been
arrested, charged with stealing $1,000
| worth of gold.
In collision between trolley car
and a freight train at Chicago, Motor
man Henry Fritz was killed and two
passengers injured.
William J. Piero, ex-mayor of Can
ton has been arrested on a charge of
being implicated in the Massillon, o.,
postoiiice robbery.
Alexander Call. who has just died at
Pana. ILL.,, was SO years old, yet had
seen only 16 birthdays, having been
born February 80. 1928.
For killing his brother-in-law. Thorn
as Ford was last week placed In jail
at Alma. Neb Wednesday he escaped.
killing four men before he was over
powered.
A warped rail caused a sudden stop
of a train on the Plant system the
other day near Waycross, Ga. Mrs.
Horton, Of Yonkers. n. Y, was shocked
to death.
1t Is announced that the Chinese loan
of G16.OOO, 600 $3.50, ,000. .000) has been ar
ranged with the Hong Kong and
Shanghai bank of London. and the
German Asiatic bank.
Fourteen hundred men. women and
children were thrown out of employ
ment last Saturday by the burning of
the National Company's Tobacco ware
house at Louisville. Ky. Loss. $3.50. 0OO
Rev. Mr.. II. A. Slaughter. pastor of
the Wyatt Park Baptist church of St.
Joseph, Mo-, was recently held up and
robbed of 5000 and a gold watch. He
had just received his quarterly salary.
Albert A. Henry, commercial trav-
eler, of Philadelphia. jumped from the
Eads bridge at St. Louis, last week and
was drowned. He left a note saying he
had a wife and child. and was crazy.
At South Bend. Ind, the other day.
officer Louis Keller was killed by bur-
glar. One of the gang was mortally
wounded by the dying policeman. while
| four his associates were landed in Jail.
A sleeping car on the Santa Fe rail-
road from Galveston to st. Louis was
looted by robbers Sunday night be-
| tween Temple and Dallas. The robbers
| got money and valuables from passen-
| gers and trainmen approxlmating ST.
| OOO
1t Is reported that the British flag
has been planted at Summit Lake four
teen miles inside of the American
boundary line and twelve miles from
Skaguay 1t Is also reported that eight
men have been frozen to death on the
trail since February Is.
| DIR. Charles b. Brigham, at st. Fran
| cisco, has made complete excision of
| the stomach of female patient suffer-
ing with cancer, and 80 hours after the
operation she Is resting comfortably
| with almost a normal pulse and tenn
perature. 1t will be at least week.
however, before there can be a well
founded hope for recovery.
1t Is reported that seven women
perished in the forest fires which are
raging some three miles north OF Co
| lumbia. s. G.. Two were married and
| the others young girls. The women were
In the fields attempting to ocheck the fire
but the high wirds suddenly swept the
flames down upon them. Much live
stock and seventy houses are reported
destroyed In this county alone.
The friends of the victims Of the
Maine disaster have discovered that
they cannot have their bodies brought
to this country In cases where they
have already been inferred. This Is
due to the fact that the Spanish laws
forbid the exhumation OF cOrpses un-
til the expiration Of the period Of five
years after burial. The prohibition had
its origin In the fear OF Infection from
contagious diseases. Some applications
have already been made to have bodies
brought to the United States by pri-
vate individuals and they have en-
countered this obstacle. Whether ar
effort will be made to have 1t removed
Is not yet apparent.
Cardinal Gibbons will request each
OF the pastors In the archdiocese OF
Baltimore TO offer a mass of requiem
in commemoration Of the terrible death
of the sailors aboard the battleship
Maine In the harborf of Havana.