The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18
TERSH TELEGRaMS.


Bakers are at war in Chicago A g.
cent loaf can now be bought for 2
cents.
Three thousand of the $4,000 em-
ployes of the Pennsylvania railroad
are III.
A team of horses ran away with q
street car In New York city last We'd
nesday.
Chauncey Depew was elected United
states Senator by the New York legls-
latur last Friday.
Charlemagne Tower of Philadelphia,
has been nominated as United states
ambassador to Russia
Horseless ice wagons will be In use
IN New York next summer. They VIII
be operated by electricity.
AS result of the wire combine an
advance of 5000 per ton for wire and
wire nails has been announced.
Spies, acting In the interest of tenn
perance at Lexington. Ky, were bad
ly stoned and beaten by saloon men
last Sunday.
sented with a gun taken from the
Spanish steamer. Maria Teresa, by the
battleship Indiana.
Daniel Slough, Of Batavia, Ohio.
who did not believe In banks, died
last Tuesday. aged 81 years. $4,000
was found in his trunk
AS a result of the deducting of the
| state pay of the members of the Four
teenth Pennsylvania regiment many
| of the boys will be left without cent.
1gnatz Frewen has applied to the
| court at Cincinnati for an injunction
| against death. a fortune-teller has
| predicted that he will die on the goth
| of the month.
Mice Anna A.. g.t.t... ....,.1 ,,,,-
| sin OF the Admiral committed sui
eide at Baltimore last Sunday, The
| death OF her father, Col. w. Schley
had affected her mind.
q. II. Baker, Of Emlnence. Mo, the
| wife murderer was hanged Wednes-
| day, In the presence of 1000 persons.
on the scaffold he cursed the country
and the people until the drop fell
The seventh conference of mission
| boards in the United states Is In ses-
| sion In New York. Rev. A. Judson
| King reports that 1900 are expected to
the conference I'm New York In 1900.
| Andrew Carnegie will present the
| city of Washington with a $3.50. 900 lib
rary building. The condition Is that
congress furnish the site and makes
| an annual appropriation of $4,000 to
maintain the library.
The smallest baby i'm New York died
/ from the grip last Thursday. Annie
| Albert was her name and she weigh
| ed 10 ounces at her birth. on October
| 10, ana had increased to pounds. She
was deserted by her mother.
Mrs. Charles McQueenan was found
dead In her room at the Renton hotel
San Francisco, last Wednesday. She
| had hanged herself. She came from
| Grand Rapids. Mich, where her hus-
band Is n prominent business man.
Gov. Hastings of Pennsylvania has
| received an opinion from Judge Adj
vocate General Lieber of the United
| states army, i'm which he decides that
soldiers of the war with Spain may be
buried In the national cemetery at
Gettysburg.
It is reported from Floyd county,
Va, that a man by the name of I'm
derwood, who was suspected of being
an informer on mOonshiners, was selz-
ed by gang of the latter and his
throat cut, and his head then cut off
with an AK.
The court of appeals has denied
new trial to Mrs. Martha Place, of
Brooklyn, who is under sentence Of
death for the murder of her step
daughter, Ida Place. She will be the
first woman electrocuted I'm the state
of New York.
The government of the Transvaal
says the Pretoria correspondent of the
London Times" has expended near
ly si.000000 since 1894 In trying to in
fluence the European press and Euro
pean officials to prevent the leasing of
Delagoa bay to Great Britain.
Edward f. Gibson, of Lawrence.
Mass, after six years trip around
the world, winding up with the battle
of El Caney, has just discovered that
fallen N
ed by his aunt Mrs. George NJ. Rich,
who died recently in Chicago.
The court Of appeals reversed the
judgment of $4,000 secured by William
X. Laidlaw. Jr., against Russell Sage
and ordered another new trial. Laid
law secured the Judgment on the
ground that Sage had used him as a
shield against the effects of an ex-
plosive.
The rate of postage between Great
Britain and Canada was reduced
from to . cents on January 1, and a
new Canadian stamp has been adopt
ed, which shows a map of the world
on the Mercator projection. printed in
gray with the British territory, on
which the sun never sets, printed in
red.
Colonel G. NJ. Moulton, of the Sec.
ond Illinois regiment, who has been in
command of the Havana police. has
been relieved of police duty and will
go to his regiment. He will deliver up
the papers CT his department to John
Gary Evans. who apparently, Is to be
mayor of Havana, and Cuban chief
of police will probably be appointed at
once.
An accident compelled an east
bound train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road to use the west-bound track at
Irwin, Pa, last Wednesday Four
young people not aware of the change,
stepped upon the track and were in
stantly killed. The dead: Thomas and
Mary Miller, aged 81 and II: Walter
Brown, aged - and Bert Watson aged
90.
China Makes Restitution.
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