The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-09
NEWS ITEMS.

| The inhalation OF gas killed 16-year-
old Belle Blaine OF Washington last
| Wednesday.
| The great sugar renneries Of the
| Havemeyers may be transferred from
| Brooklyn TO Virginia.
Minneapolis Is said to be taking the
place OF Chicago as the leading wheat
market In this country
Andrew Carnegie last week pre-
sented to Homestead, Pa, a library
building costing 100000.
A "Parkhurst" crusade In Chicago
has resulted In the indictment of 80
violators of city ordinances.
David Ames Wells. the political eco
| nomist, died at his home In Norwich
Conn, last week, aged 10 years
Oars TO the number of 25O,0O0 were
| destroyed by fire at Chattanooga,
Tenn, few days ago. Loss, $4,000.
Eleven men have been arrested at
Atlanta, Ga. for attempting to de-
fraud the United States post office de-
partment
The Fifth Ohio viii be mustered out,
the war department finding unfounded
the assertion that 1000 men desired to
remain In service
Notwithstanding that France has
given up all claims to Fashoda for the
present. British war preparations con-
tinue on an enormous scale.
Admiral Sampson will return north
from Havana shortly to attend the
marriage of his daughter. Olive, to w.
II. Scott of San Francisco.
Red Cross nurses and wives of off-
GERS at Manila are not allowed to de-
part from San Francisco for the Philip
pines on government transports.
A cousin of Prince Hohenlohe, chan
cellor of the German empire, commit
ted suicide few days ago at Detroit.
Her name was Emilia Sonnabend.
Colonel william J. Bryan left Savan-
nah Ga. for his home at Lincoln, Neb.,
having been granted a 15-day furlough
to recuperate from his rec cant sickness.
DIR. J. @. Hopkins, a physician of
ThomaGville, Ga, killed Robert II.
Evans, n business man several days
ago. The latter had attempted to col
lect n bill.
Lieut.. Peary's Arctic expedition must
remain north this winter as there is
not the slightest chance of escape. The
entire ocean In his vicinity is blocked
with ice foes.
Geo. S. Lieber, 80 years old, trav-
cling salesman for Watson & Co,
wholesale liquor dealers of Maysville,
KY, killed himself In New York by
inhaling Illuminating gas.
The town of Kokomo, Ind, Is filled
with n mysterious gas and the resi-
dents are In dread of being blown up.
The first gas well I'm the region was
drilled at Kokomo 12 years ago.
Crazed from overstudy. Jacob Ter
Der of Lebanon. Pa, attempted to
preach the Gospel I'm park at New
Haven, Conn, In his night clothes He
Is at present divinity student at Yale.
The past season has been very severe
H. Al l.t.
vessels were lost, SO men drowned. 20
wives widowed and So children made
orphans. The losses will approximate
$780,
Seven men were killed and three fa-
tally injured by three cars falling
down n 3G0-foot shaft i'm the Exeter
colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company at West Pittston, Pa, last
week.
Lieut.. Niblack. formerly in charge
of the naval militia branch of the navy
department, and Just detached from
the command of the torpedo boat
Winslow, has been assigned to duty on
Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olym-
pia.
Maj. Pitcher OF the regular army
and c. c. Robertson of Jacksonville,
Fla, came to blows over the rent of n
building leased to the government.
The soldier received the worst of the
affair and his assailant has been
placed under arrest.
A Chicago story is that the Nation
al Linseed Oil Company will be reor-
ganized, and with the new concerns
that will come In will control the
business. The preferred stock is to
be H7,50O,0O0. and the common stock
will be heard of later.
Secretary of the Navy Long, In view
A. a.
sidering the advisability of making an
attempt to raise at least one of the
other Spanish vessels sunk off San
tlago. Lieut.. Hobson is confident that
the Christobal Colon can be raised.
Thomas Guinau, aged 45, tlnsmith
OF Hartford, Conn, was burned to
death the other day. Guinau was re-
pairing an oil tank In the cellar when
an explosion occurred. He was burned
to crisp before assistance could reach
him. The building was burned down.
Chaplain p. Fitzsimmons. of the
| First Alabama regiment was hanged
| in effigy the other night at Blrming-
ham. The chaplain sided with the Of
| ficers who were In favor of remaining
| in service when the question of mus
| tering out was considered some weeks
ago.
The troops ordered to Cuba will be
| TtIllONtu IToIIt hnOhNlllt anu LcNiHB-
ton and Middletown to the Southern
camps soon. 1t Is believed that the
transfer will be beneficial. 1t will be
nearly two months before all the troops
designated for Cuba are sent to the is
| land.
The last has been week of gales,
floods and storms in all parts of Great
Britain. The English district has been
visited by the heaviest flood known In
80 years. Derwent. Water and Bas-
| senthwait both well known to Americ-
an tourists. became one vast lake. All
the intervening meadow land was COW
cred with water.
Macmillan Harden, editor and pub
Usher of Die Zukunft at Berlin has
been sentenced to six months deten-
sion In fortress for lese majestic. He
wrote several articles about the en-
peror. in one of which he compared the
ruler to poodle Prince. The circula-
ton Die Zukunft since the prose-
cutions has increased threefold, reach
ing a quarter of million.
A young Italian found United States
bonds worth $2S,000 In the gutter at
New York the other day. The papers
were pinned together and had been
dropped by a bank clerk. The bonds