The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-02-02
1HRsELY TOLD TELEaRAMs

Explosions OF HunpOWder klileu eleVcH
persons In Bucnos Ayres recently.
The Drexel residence at Philadelphia
was destroyed by fire the other day.
The Letter clique at Chicago has cor
nered all the surplus wheat In the
country.
Turnpike raiders are engaged In
blowing up Kentucky toll gates with
dynamite.
$1,000 worth of stamps and money
was stolen from the Geneva, o., post
| office last Tuesday.
Fourteen murdered babies have been
found within the last three weeks In
and about New York.
Steelworkers employed at making re-
| pairs on Brooklyn Bridge won their
strike for 1926 day.
The Ohio Senate the other day adopt.
| ed resolutions demanding the recogni-
| tion Of Cuban Belligerency.
| 10000 pounds Of provisions were for
warded to Cuba by sympathizing
Americans "A few days ago.
The winter Is very severe at New
| foundland and there Is great destitu-
| tion among the poorer classes.
DIR. Nansen, the Arctic explorer. has
| sailed for England. He will lecture In
London and return TO Norway.
Dring storm at Chicago recently
Carlos Munchy was blown from Il 10
foot tower and instantly killed.
The Dreyfus case was the cause of
n duel between newspaper men at Paris
recently. Slight injuries resulted.
| Mrs. Mary Ella J. Wallace and Miss
| Bridget Murphy. both servants. were
killed by train at Newton. Mass.
Four hundred delegates met In con-
vention Mt Indianapolis last Tuesday to
/ taG Ia, tb.a.
| The machine establishments of
| George II. OFT were destroyed by fire at
Philadelphia Saturday. Loss. sl4I,0W.
| Jealous Mrs. Canavan, of Woodstock,
| N. b., poisoned her sister. Minnie
| Tucker, with strychnine the other day.
| J. Morangue. county surveyor Of Nez
Perce county, shot and instantly Killed
| ID. A. kippen, postmaster at Kippen,
Ida.
President Mckinley was n guest at
| the National Association of Manufac-
tureis Banquet AT New York "a few
| days ago.
Senator Hanna's son is being sued
for divorce by Mrs. Carrie May Hanna.
at Cleveland. Neglect and cruelty are
| charged.
Chris Merry. the Chicago peddler re-
| Gently convicted of killing his wife,
Pauline, was sentenced to be hanged
| February Is.
| The principal of the Rayen school at
| Youngstown, o., has dismissed several
young ladies for not doing up their hair
as he had suggested.
The British cabinet held n meeting
last week at which Lord Salisbury de-
clarcd that China had practically ac-
cepted the British offer of a loan.
Mrs. Minnie Cushman, a white wom-
| an and school teacher, was recently
Il ali 4 n
ed Piegan Indian at Dupuyro, Mont.
A coroner's jury at Brooklyn acqult-
| ted Jacob Heinz, Texas cowboy, OF
murder. He had killed otto Diehl, his
brother in-law for abusing his sister.
| Saul Jacobs tore his hair and his wife
tainted when he was found guilty in a
Cleveland court the other morning of
having sold $4,000 brass brick as
gold.
$5,O0O,OOO was demanded from the
cashier of the Colorado National bank
last week by a crazy man. While
| waiting for the money patrol wagon
which had been telephoned for took him
In charge.
Joshue Moes of Allegheny had been
missing from his home for several
days. Wednesday his daughter tainted
when she saw her father lying at the
morgue. He had been struck by a
freight train.
Senator Hoar handed Secretary
Sherman the other day check for &c.
0l4.O6. from George II. Lyman, trustee,
of Boston, representing the contri-
button made by Bostonians to the
Cuban relief fund.
Fifteen months OF unconsciousness is
the record of william Scott at New
York City. He was assaulted and has
never recovered his senses. The assail-
l..I.l t. l..f sfs.tA Ia As.t
come OF their offence.
Col. Aaron Spangier, ex-state senator
died suddenly at Springfield, o.. last
Wednesday. He had Just returned from
Denver where he buried his brother,
Michael, a millionaire. who was killed
I'm mine accident.
Seven prisoners In the Buchanan
county Jail at st. Joseph, Mo-, escaped
by climbing over the cells In the wo-
mems ward and through n trapdoor In
the roof last week. a garden hose was
used In leaving the roof.
100000, 900 of treasure is said to be
buried In the Pacific ocean off the west
coast OF South America. G. A. Warm
castle and w. w. Flanagan. OF Pitts
burg, are members of a syndicate in
terested in recovering the fortune.
After giving one awful shrek, Mrs
Rhodes tainted In Baptist church
| near 1tedulIlkt ihSt ,hhuhys iitl
husband had not been in a church fol
twenty years, and the sight of him ap'
preaching the pew caused her to swoon
Caiifornia's golden Jubilee celebration
began Monday. In the 80 floats of tho
great procession, which inauguratet
the week of festivlty, the history o
California from the discovery of golt
to the present time was represented
Bonds OF all insurance companies no
incorporated under the laws of Califor
mia, have been declared invalid, ant
: any agent of any of the disqualified
corporations doing business will be liza
BILE to arrest on a charge of misde
meanor.
Ten locomotives and 1900 steel rail-
were started on their way to China b!
, the steamer ST. Andrew from New
York last week. The locomotives arr
of the Mogul pattern. Eight of then
are for the Chinese railroad near Toni
Ku, and two are for Japan.
The Indian Head cotton mills. bull
and owned by Boston capitalists. q
Cordova, Ala. began operations Wed
, nesday. .,he mills are the largest IL
the state, containing $4,000 spindles ant
onn ,onv.,, cnpc,,pinU IN 000 halao n