The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-06-21
TERSR TELEGRAMs.
Chicago claims population Of more
than two millions.


900 to s110,0O0,000.
President Kruger. OF the Transvaal
| Is arming his subjects, expecting q
clash with Great Britain.
The 123d anniversary OF the battle Of
Bunker Hill WIS appropriately cele-
brated In Boston Saturday.
The town of Bracket, near San An
tonic, Tex, is under four feet OF water
Four persons were drowned.
The Chicago Transfer and Clearing
| Company Of Chicago, capital $4,000, 900.
was Incorporated at Dover, Del.
Bandits raided the town of Guamo,
near Manzanillo. cuba. killing seven OF
the gendarmerie and wounding others.
Two daughters Of James Clock, resid-
| ing at Guthrie, q. T., were so badly
burned by lightning that they will die.
Miss Zetta Cooper. of Rockport, Ind,
Is dying Of hydrophobia. She was
pitten by vicious dog FIVE weeks ago.
The Pullman Car Company of Chi
| cago, mas received an order from the
Argentine Republic amounting to s5,-
900 1000.
The Havana newspaper are unani-
mously exhorting the people TO devote
themselves TO securing peace In all the
districts.
At Begtown, Clay county, KY, Chris.
jackson, Tom Bakers brother-in law,
was shot and wounded from ambush
saturday.
Congressman Richard Parks Bland
| died at his home near Lebanon, Mo-,
last Thursday, peacefully and without
| suffering.
Four men were killed and three SER
iously injured in an explosion at the
| Government smokeless powder works
at San Rafael, Cal.
Samuel Rosenthal of Baltimore has
secured options on 100 large clothing
| establishments and proposes to organ
ize sl0O,00O,000 trust.
An elevator in the Western electric
building, Chicago. fell eight stories, but
| the eleven men in the car at the time
escaped serious injury.
Judge Simonton, at Harrisburg, Pa,
decided the army canteen at Camp
Meade can not be run without a license
and II will be suppressed.
George Barrow, one of the kidnapers
of Marion Clark, has been sentenced TO
| IA years imprisonment. The nurse girl,
| Carrie Jones, received 4 years.
| The Rough Riders will have a re-
| union on the cath of this month. Gov.
Roosevelt will be present. The soldiers
will meet at Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Edward Gray n sick negro. against
whom the authorities could find no evil
dence for crime, was lynched by white
| men near New Orleans last Thursday.
| The body of Richard Parks Bland
| was buried at Lebanon, Mo-, last Satur-
day, thousands of his friends attend
| ing. Mckinley sent a tribute of re-
| spect.
| Perry Belmont, president OF the De-
| mocratic clubs, declared himself in
favor of the nomination of Senator Ar
| thur p. German for President by the
| Democrats.
An authenticated copy of the Belgian
| decree resembling the prohibition of
Importation of neat cattle and swine
| from America has been received at
Washington.
The Old Dominion steamship Hamil-
| ton collided last Wednesday with the
Macedonia. near Long Branch, N. Y.
The Macedonia sank and several OF her
| crew were lost.
An advance In wages was assured 25,-
900 iron and steel sheet workers by the
signing of the Amalgamated Associa-
| tion's scale by the representatives of
| the manufacturers.
| At Leavenworth, Kan, a military
| prisoner named Wringer, who was
serving a two years sentence in the
Federal prison, was shot and killed
while trying to escape.
Planters in Louisiana are alarmed at
the prevalence of anthrax. which is
| killing off hundreds of head of cattle.
Several planters have contracted the
disease from the stock.
Samuel Cohen, Brooklyn soap agent
| kissed Florence Chaffee, aged IL, six
times without her permission at her
home in Watertown, N. Y, and in the
police court was fined $50.
The feud between the two democratic
FACTIONS at Columbus, Tex, has be-
| come alarming. More killings are
threatened. Rangers have been order
ed to proceed there at once.
Judge stephen Leslie Mestrezat, Of
uniontown,. Pa. was nominated last
| Thursday by the Democratic State
| Convention of Pennsylvania for the
| seat upon the Supreme bench.
The sale Of the Consolidated Traction
| Company, of Pittsburg. to the Wild
| ener-E Whitney syndicate, known
as the American Railway Company,
was accepted as accomplished by A.
nanciers In Philadelphia.
1t is said certain anti-Briggs clergy
| men of the Episcopal Church are PLAN
| ming to depose the standing commit
tee OF the diocese of New York, all but
Rev. Morgan Dix, as a rebuke and to
prevent future occurrences of like
nature.
alias DANDY Joe," the negro burglar
captured the other day in Plttsburg,
made confession, saying he had sold
over $4,000 worth of plunder within
five years TO Louis Pliner, a jeweler, of
that city.
At Santiago de Cuba. the newspaper
lndependenia, publishes a number of
signed articles from prominent Cubans
advocating annexation to the United
States. In its editorials 1t disclaims
| approval. The articles are causing q
vigorous discussion.
The nuptials of Miss Florence Haz-
zard. the 16-year-old daughter of the
millionaire catsup manufacturer Of
Shrewsbury. N. j., and Prince Auers-
perg OF Austria occurred last Wednes-
day. After a summer at the seashore
and a visit to Paris they will live In
New York. where the prince will prac-
tice medicine.
Lockwood, an independent oil pro-
ducer of Zelienople, Pa, testified before
the industrial commission at Washing
ton that the railroads allow immense
rphates TO the Standard OIL Comnany