The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-10-26
NEWS ITEMS.

| TINS year VIII BE- over 3,OOU,OOO tons
| above that of 1897
The Judson dynamite works at Oak
land Cal, blew up last Saturday and
| two men were killed.
An American syndicate has offered
to the Transvaal government loan of
Sl2,5OO.OOO at per cent.
\ Homestead. Pa. brcltlayer has in
| vented an automatic car coupler for
which he received S150000
A trust which will control the entire
paving brick output i'm the United
states has been formed at Chicago.
In order TO curtail the production,
five cotton mills at Fall River, Mass,
| closed down for four weeks last Mon
| day.
Four members of Henry Godbach's
family at Trenton, N. j., died last
Tuesday. They mistook toadstools for
| mushrooms.
Seven Mussulmans, convicted for the
murder of British soldiers during the
recent uprisings in Crete were hanged
| Wednesday.
Frost having occurred in the state of
| Louisiana, all restrictions on traffic
have been removed yellow fever germs
are destroyed by frost.
Mrs. Nellie Maitland of New York.
claims that rohber took $4,000 worth
| Of jewels from her. threatening to
! shoot If she made a noise.
The quarantine against the West In
dies has been extended until November
Is. The extension is due to the prevail
ence of yellow fever this year.
Capt. Josiah w. White. well-known
messenger of the capitol at Washing
| ton died last Tuesday. He had only one
arm and claimed many famous legls-
lators as his friends.
A riot occurred at a saloon in Phoeb-
us, Va, last Tuesday Five regulars
| from Fort Monroe were shot, one being
| killed and another mortally wounded.
No civilians were hurt.
The boilers on the towboat Rescue
exploded on the Monongahela river
near Pittsburg last Friday. Capt.
Chas. n. Seidell was killed and six of
his crew seriously injured.
Two Englishmen arrived in New
| York City Sunday to purchase gold
brick for 1000 pounds. The police in
terfered and Robert Marten. who was
negotiating the deal is in Jail.
| a letter has reached Vancouver, B.
| c.. from st. Michaels saying that the
balloonists sent out to search for An
dree We're there. They have given up
their balloon trip and staked 25 claims.
Capitalists are talking of canal
between Lakes Superior and Michigan
across Schoocraft and Alger counties,
| Mich. The distance across Is 40 miles
and would save vessels 600 miles of
travel.
A wreck on the Rock Island Road
near Fort Worth, Tex, few days ago
| resulted in the death of five men. A
freight train broke i'm two and the rear
portion crushed into the front section
on a steep grade.
Eight hundred Klondike gold seekers
| are now penniless at Kotzebue, living
in tents. They have no money with
which to return home and no supplies
for the winter. Among them are sew
| eral women and children.
Governor Hastings of Pennsylvania
has designated Thursday Oct. 81, as
the day to be set aside for thanksgiv-
ing and prayer to Almighty God for
the unparalleled valor of Americans in
defeating a foreign power.
Three children of Michael Anderson,
aged 2, and 6 years respectively.
were burned to death Tuesday at Pc
quaming, Mich. Their house caught
fire while the father was away and
the mother was out milking.
A shell preserved as a relic of the
war of 1872 accidentally got in among a
lot of scrap iron at the Phoenix Iron
Works at Ashtabula, o. 1t went into
the furnace and a terrific explosion
followed. No one was hurt.
The steamer Roanoke arrived at
Seattle a few days ago from st.
| Michaels with about 800 passengers and
gold dust estimated at 100000 and
of this the Canadian Bank of Com
merce has s600,000; the Bank of British
North America s750.000.
The administration of local affairs
in San Juan is progressing as before.
DR.. Brechemin, who succeeds DIR.
Huidekoper, is vigorously taking hold
Lee <I,N loo
and sanitation. A system of street
cleaning will soon be inaugurated.
The trial of Captain L. C. Duncan,
of Kansas, at Fairfax Courthouse, Va.
charged with robbing the grave of
Major Duke, a confederate officer, near
| Bull Run, has been postponed until
the November term of court. The belief
Is general that the case will never be
tried.
The Wainwright board, convened to
determine the positions of the war
ships in the action at Santiago July 8,
reports that Sampson was nearly ten
miles away from the scene. Admiral
Schley's claim that he was nearest the
Colon when that ship surrendered was
held good.
The oath of allegiance to the United
States has been taken by five judges
of the superior court of Porto Rico
who later will administer the same
oath to their subordinates. Spanish
judges who do not desire to forswear
their allegiance to Spain will be re-
turned TO the peninsula.
p. f. Whitten, aged 70, filed a suit
for divorce at Anderson, Ind. against
Nellie M. Whitten, aged l6, his two
months bride, Whitten is a well-to- do
merchant. His people attempted to
head off the match. He now charges
her with marrying him for his money.
She comes from prominent family.
The police of Minneapolis a few days
ago found $51 900 worth of government
bonds in an old closet in South Minne-
apolis. They proved to be all but
$1,000 of the bonds stolen from the
Hardwood Manufacturing Company
some two weeks ago, and had evident
ly been secreted by the thieves.