The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-02-15
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| Senator Quay's trial for alleged con-
spiracy has been postponed until Feb
| ruary "a.
| A ten per cent increase has been
promised Ishpenning. Mich, miners
| by March l.
For second time this year New
York City is suffering from an epldem-
ic of the grip.
There was an earthquake with pro-
nounced vibrations at Maysvllle, KY,
Thursday morning.
Mrs. Maria, wife of Col. Ethan Allen.
grandson of the revolutionary hero OF
that name, died In the Metropolitan
| Opera House Wednesday night.
Right Rev. John williams. DID.
Ii. D., ranking bishop of the Episeo-
pal church I'm America, died at Mid
dletown, Conn, last Tuesday.
Thirty-six thousand employees of the
| American Steel and Wire Company
are to receive an increase In wages
ranging from to 10 per cent by
| March 1.
a bill has been introduced in Illinois
| legislature making prize-iighting
misdemeanor, but allowing sparring
exhibitions before domestic athletic
clubs.
Temple Emanuel congregation, New
| York, has extended call to DR.. Emil
| O.. Hirsch of Chicago. at n $4,000
salary, to succeed DR.. Gottheil, re-
signed.
Dennis Boon, farm hand blew
clgaret smoke into his employers face
and was shot. Planter Copeland, the
employer. was acquitted by the jury at
Mormon, Ga, last Wednesday.
Frederick VIII and his wife Amanda
are charged at Pittsburg with having
beaten an old soldier named Gabriel
Kelly and then taking his pension
money. The soldier died last Wednes-
day.
on being told that n rich oil strike
had been made on his farm, John
Woods, of Scio, fell dead. John Cole
man OF the same place also expired
when told that he had benefited by the
oil boom.
Frozen In huge block of ice in the
lake, the body of Mrs. Kate Cusack
was found by the police of Chicago
Tuesday night The body was chopped
out. Mrs. Cusack disappeared from her
home last Saturday.
c. w Moore and james f.. Hughes
of the defunct Blue Grass Blade of
Lexington, KY, was found guilty in
the United States court at Cincinnati
of misusing the mails In the publica-
tion of that journal.
Capt. Dolos Hayden and c. Brown Of
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day. They had been out on the lake
for two days in a small boat and had
become so benumbed by cold that they
could not help themselves.
Clarence Williams, of Owensville.
Ind, was frozen to death on Thursday.
He was intoxicated when he went to
bed In his hotel Some time In the
night he fell out of the bed and was
found dead I'm the morning.
| k,Jrau. rarpauia tho al "a
steel manufacturer, has offered At
lanta, Ga, 100000 for a free public
, library on condition that the city fur
nishes n site and maintain the library
at a cost of not less than $1,000 year.
The will of Wilford Woodruff, the
late president of the Mormon church,
was filed for probate Friday at Salt
Lake City. The estate is valued at
s20, 451, and is divided among his three
wives, twenty children and one grand
child.
Mrs. L. u. Letter of New York
mother of Lady Curzon, and her two
, daughters Saturday sailed for Europe
on the Lucania. They are bound for
Calcutta, where she who was Mary
Letter now receives honor as the wife
, of the Viceroy of India.
John Basgell of Bridgeport, Conn.
put his head in furnace Wednesday
night in order to light cigaret which
he held between his lips. A volume OF
flame burst into his face. With a cry
of pain he plunged his head In a pail
: of cold water and died a few moments
later.
| The body of an unknown woman was
found Friday morning frozen in the
ice in pond at Westwood n suburb OF
) Cincinnati, and IL had to be cut out
} with an axe. The body had evidently
, been In the ice several days. 1t rs be.
lieved the woman was murdered and
t her body thrown there.
: Mrs. Rachel Munro. school teacher
of Brooklyn, N. Y, died of apoplexy
on Tuesday last at her home. and until
Friday, when a friend of the woman
called at the house, 1t was not known
that she was dead. Mrs. Munro's g.
year-od boy was alone with his deaC
, mother for three days. The child was
starved and nearly frozen.
John II. Bass. the artist and cor
( respondent of Harper's Weekly, who
I was shot in the arm during the recen
fighting near Manila, is about 80 years
5 of age. He is graduate of the 81
B, class of Harvard college and served al
, war correspondent for the Daily New!
> of London. during the Turkish-Greel
2 war.
The steamship Venus. which lef
? | Port Said on December 80 for Boston
= with cargo of sugar, put into New
1OTK SATURDAY morning, SNORT Oh cpui
: She ran out of coal on February ant
was obliged to burn eight tons o
sugar for fuel.
l Dispatches from Porter county. Ind.
say that very severe earthquake
shocks were felt throughout that coun
ty yesterday. Several buildings wer,
damaged in Chesterton. small villag,
near Valparaiso. Fissures in the eartl
two or three inches wide ran in all di
2 streets.
The reservoir of the Big Dippe
!, gravel mine, near Colfax, Cal, burs
Wednesday night The water rushed
down the narrow canyon sweeping
everything In its path. Joseph Ferbe
and five Chinese were drowned. Al
, iron beam weighing almost ton wa
= picked up by the torrent and carried
!, fully quarter of a mile. The propert.
, loss was about $4,000.
e A shocking discovery was made a
$ Pendleton, n. Y, when the body o
James Rigley was exhumed on Thurs
day, for the purpose of an autopsy
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