The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-04-05
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monument to Admiral Dewey VIII
be erected at Montpelier, Vermont.
Lottie Fowler. once famous as
spirit medium. Is insane In a New
York hospital.
During a quarrel over the municipal
election at Chicago Paul Lund fatally
wounded Arthur Lawson.
party of t50 colonists from Penn
syivania are enroute to North Dako-
Ia where they will settle on farm
lands.
Daniel Donovan, steeiworker of
Sharon, Pa, and member of the
| Twelfth Infantry, was Killed at Ma
nila.
Thomas p. Danahey. aged "a. com
mitfed suicide by taking poison while
In a BARRIERS chair at Pittsburgh Sat
| urday.
Fifteen hundred persons employed
at Norton Brothers tin can works,
Chicago, are striking for 10 per cent
| Increase.
Rev. James Needham. n Methodist
minister, is dead near Pilot mountain,
| n. G. He would have been 100 years
old May 2.
The will OF Joseph Medill, editor OF
the Chicago Tribune, who died last
week, bequeaths an estate of s2,OOO,oOo
| to his wife and family.
Two hundred members of a colored
| Illinois regiment have filed applications
for pension. They claim that their
| health was ruined In Cuba.
The bottom fell out of a small lake
| at New Tazewell, Tenn, last Thurs
| day. a slight earthquake caused the
disappearance of the water.
| Prof. John II. Commons, OF the
| Syracuse University, N. Y, has lost
| his situation. He was too aggressive in
his denunciatlon of trusts and mono
| poles.
| Honolulu Is flooded with bogus silver
| quarter dollars, which II Is believed
| are made in the United states and for
warded here. The counterfeit is per-
| feet.
| Edwin Gilbert, of Pittsburgh swal-
lowed tack few days ago. He suf-
| fered intense pain until physicians re-
moved the tack from the stomach. He
| will recover.
Warren L. Leland, proprietor Of the
| destroyed Windsor hotel, at New
York, who was operated upon for APP
| pendicitis Saturday, Is In satisfac-
tory condition.
The Illinois Legislature has approved
a bill appropriating 100000 for new
Lincoln monument at Springfield, Ill.
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state of decay.
The Standard oil Company refuses
to produce its books before the Ohio
| Supreme Court. This would be In vio-
| lation of Its rights under the consti-
tuition" says the trust.
The Westinghouse Company has
contracted to supply the Niagara
| Falls Power Company with several q
| 5OO-horse power transformers, said to
be the largest ever built.
Crews of United States warships en-
| gagged in a severe fight at Kingston a
few days ago. Two men were serious
ly wounded. The controversy was as
| to who defeated Cervera, Sampson or
| Schley.
Fifteen prominent men of Lake City.
S. c., are to be placed on trail on a
charge of lynching Fraser B. Baker.
| the negro postmaster at that place,
killing his child and burning the post
| Office.
| Governor Poynter, of Nebraska,
| vetoed the bill commencing the First
| Nebraska regiment for its brilliant
work in the Philippines on the ground
| that the soldiers are engaged In a
| war of conquest.
Greenleaf w. Simpson, of Boston,
testifies before the beef court that
| I,tRdn tOlu MN
befc.e the war that experiments were
being made with preservative pro-
cesses for the beef
In falling to the bottom of a mine
pit $50 feet deep, Peter Mcintyre, of
| Uniontown, Pa, caught a wire cable
| when about 80 feet from the bottom.
His hands were torn to the bone but
| his life was saved.
| Detroit common council appointed
the three commissioners under the
Mcleod law to purchase the street
| railways for the city. Governor Pin
gree, Carl Il. Schmidt and Elliott G.
| Stevenson were chosen.
During a storm at New Castle, Pa,
the other night electric wires set fire
to the front of the Opera House. A
policeman prevented excited people
from rushing in and giving the alarm.
thus saving many lives as the theater
| was crowded. The fire was extin-
gushed without disturbing the per-
| formance.
Several of the industrial establish
ments at Wilmington, Del, have vol
UNFAIRLY increased the wages OF their
employees. The Diamond State Iron
Company will increase pudders
wages 25 cents per ton, and the Male.
able Iron Company announces to 10
per cent In moulders' wages. The Nc
CulIough Iron Company will increase
all wages 10 per cent,
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