The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-12-06
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

dead.
A Io-year-old boy, too drunk to give
his name, was arrested in Pittsburg last
Monday.
Democrats are still confident that
Gocbel will be declared governor OF
Kentucky
The $5,ooo,ooo college fund being
raised by the Methodist Church is al
most complete.
John |. Blair, the multi-mlionaire
and railroad builder, died at Blairstown,
n. j., aged o7.
1t is thought the American Tin Plate
Company will erect a $I,ooo,ooo plant
at Youngstown, ..
Mrs. Hobart and her son Garrett A.
will inherit the deceased husbands cs-
tate, valued at $3,ooo,ooo.
Miss Susan Tilghman, OF Philadcl-
phia is engaged to be married to
Count Lanto- Rivera OF Italy.
William l. Mcalcy, Of Jersey City,
shot his wife last Friday She attend
cd ball against his wishes.
Andrew Carnegie has purchased 400
acres OF land near Pittsburg and pro-
poses TO extend his great iron works
A human leg was found in box
floating in the river near Wheeling,
w. Va, and murder is suspected.
Mexico has accumulated a cash sur
plus OF many millions and now il is pro-
posed to reduce taxes in that country.
-Four steamers from Brazil are quaran
tined in New York. 1t is suspected
that they have bubonic plague on board.
Charles ]. Clarke, Pittsburg mil
ltfg
last Saturday and received serious in
juries.
By means OF an automatic system OF
telegraphy 1000 words a minute were
sent from New York to Chicago last
Monday.
Women drove non-union workmen
from the mines at Diamondvilc, Wyo.,
Monday. They used guns, clubs, bricks
and stones.
Richard Mansfield was taken sick at
n New York theater few days ago and
the curtain was rung down before the
performance was completed.
Max Rudolph, OF Pittsburg, was
scalded to death last Wednesday by
falling into vat OF boiling water. He
was scalding turkeys for the holidays.
Col. William J. Bryan has decided to
spend the winter in Texas and Califor-
MIA, seeking rest. He has rented his
Lincoln home and will be absent at
| least six months.
General Leonard Wood. when his
| term OF service in Cuba is over, will be
made surgeon general OF the army sue
ceedng General Sternberg, who retires
by law next June.
Nearly 200 persons have met deaths
| requiring coronal investigation in Ale
ghcny county, Pa, in 1890, and Coroner
McGeary says that prosperity is partly
responsible for the increase in cases.
Harry +. Pears, brother OF Frank
| Pears, OF Pittsburg, who was shot and
killed in Honduras year ago, says
that the United States Government has
laid down in the demand for an indem-
nifty.
Mary Antonio was gathering coal on
the Pennsylvania railroad tracks at
Pittsburg last Wednesday. Because Of
the fog the engineer OF rapid train did
not see her and she was killed and hor-
ribly mangled.
An international shooting match, to
be held annually between England and
America for a cup offered by Thomas
X. Dewar, has been arranged, and the
first shoot will be held next June be-
tween teams OF the Queens Westmn-
sters and the Sixteenth Pennsylvania
volunteers, General Willis Hulings hav-
ing accepted the challenge for the lat
ter.
The National export exposition,
which was opened here September I'd
closed Saturday, and the managers re-
port that the affair has been success
ful. About 100000 people have visit
ed it. The total current expenses ex-
ceeded SII5,ooo The cost OF the prepa-
ration OF the ground and the erection
OF the building approximated ST. ,ooo,-
600. Another exposition may be held
next autumn.
A new serum which, it is claimed,
will show the presence OF tuberculosis
long before it would be possible by the
microscope, the X-ray or other meth
DDS now in use, has been invented by
Dr. Jenkins, of Chicago. He claims the
use OF the serum enables compe-
tent physicians to detect the presence
of the disease in its earliest stages and
in time to effect cure by good santa
ton and plenty of outdoor exercise.
An attempt was made the other night
to wreck the Northwestern eastbound
Colorado special at State Center, II
miles east OF Marshaltown, Ia, but it
was frustrated by the watchfulness OF a
tower operator, who observed two men
placing ties on the track, and tagged the
train. The ties were removed and the
train proceeded without any damage
being done.
A train OF ID refrigerator cars, CON
tanning salt pork, intended for the
British army in South Africa, was
wrecked Sunday near Kenilworth, ILL.,,
on the Milwaukee division of the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad. The cars
were completely demolished, but it is
believed the greater part OF the pork
can be saved. Hints were passed among
the crowd OF trainmen and spectators
to the effect that the journal had been
tampered with at Milwaukee. by over
jealous Boer sympathizers, but these
were secuted by the officials OF the road
Fish Combine Proposed
The biggest event in the history of the
fresh fish industry will occur in the
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