The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25
rease rELeonAms.

Diamond settlers in New York are
striking.
The total registration in Greater New
York is 476.7i7.
The Shamrock cost Sir Thomas Lip
ton 100000.
The Grand Central Hotel of Chicago
burned last Sunday. Loss $4,000.
President Andrade has fed from Ven
ezuela on a gunboat. Destination un-
known.
Arthur I. Hadley. the new president
OF Yale was inaugurated last Wednes-
day.
The Pennsylvania railroad has con-
tracted for 100000 tons of steel rails at
s33 per ton
Mai. Guy Howard. son of Gen. How
ard was killed in battle with the Fill
pnos last week.
General Fred Funston viii return to
the Philippines with a commission as
brigadier general.
The editor of the American at Manila
wants General Otis removed and Gen.
Lawton put In his place.
Sir Thomas Upton. of the defeated
yacht Shamrock, admitted that CO.
lumbia Is the better boat.
An explosion of dynamite i'm a quarry
shanty at Nyack, N. Y, caused the
death of four men last Saturday.
James G. Lyle. a member of Roose-
velts Rough Riders, has been arrested
In Utah, charged with train robbery.
The next challenge for yacht race
VIII come from Mr.. Lever the million
aire soap manufacturer of Liverpool
William Appleton, of the Appleton
Publishing House, died at New York
last Thursday. lie was S5 years of
age
The headquarters of the National w.
G. 7. L. will be moved from Chicago to
the late home of Frances Willard at
Evanston, III.
j. J.. Richardson. of North East, Pa,
Is supposed to have gone over Niagara
Falls He wrote his wife some time ago
that he intended to do so.
A Massachusetts, paper polled 10000
farmers on the Philippine question.
The number favoring Philippine inde-
pendence was, 1880; subjection, S,416.
DR.. Dowle, a divine healer of Chicago
was pelted with eggs and ammonia
the other night while attempting to
deliver lecture. lie was compelled
TO leave the hall.
Princeton University is to have a
new hall. II will cost s60,000 and will
probably be completed by May 1. The
building vii be known as Dodge hall,
and is the gift of William +. Dodge, of
New York.
Eugene Easton. of Kansas City. Mo-.
newspaper man, has cen captured by
the Boer forces In South Africa, and
the State Department is now in nego-
tiation with the Transvaal authorities
looking to his release.
Ed ID. Steeger, of Bonham, Tex,
has contract with the British gov
ernment for 1900 mules to be shipped
to South Africa. He has purchased
at various points In the state enough
to complete his contract.
Henry Walters. years of age. has
received a verdict against the city of
an unprotected hole in city bridge
and is suffering with a broken spine
and paralysis of the lower limbs.
At the Presbyterian synod at Erie,
Pa, Chaplain Joseph Hunter, of the
Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers, in an
address said that Major General Otis
stood in the way of peace in the Philip
pines because of his blgotry, incompe-
tency, and subserviency to the native
priests.
The ferryboat Noddle Island, which
plies between Boston and East Boston,
got lost I'm the fog Tuesday morning
and full tide swept her against the
Charleston bridge, Boston, completely
wrecking the boat and damaging the
bridge. There We're but few passengers
aboard. All escaped unhurt
Two robbers the other night shot and
killed one man and wounded another
in store at Doniphan, near Atchison,
then ambushed and killed a policeman
and wounded another man, both mem
bers of posse pursuing them. John
Brown, Doniphan, and Robert N. Dick
erson. Atchison, are the names of the
killed,