The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-04-26
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AZ Notre Dame, Ind, Thursday Prof.
Green telcgrnphcd mile ant hair
without wires.
James Farrell. aged 10. of Pittsburg.
had both legs taken Off by an electric
ear last Sunday.
Two Warren Opa) bulldogs are said
TO have killed $50 fowls before venge-
nnce overlook them
Emil Eypstra killed his 5-ycar-old
son with n butcher knife at chicago
last Thursday. He IL insane.
The Pennsylvania Legislature ad-
jOurned last Thursday without clccting
senator to succeed Matt Quay.
Edmond Rostand. author OF "Cyrano
de Bergcrac" has become mentally
deranged. following prolonged insom-
MIA.
Tho Toledo CO) city committee on
railroads viii report, II is believed, IN
favor OF n street line to be built by the
city.
Southerners are ngitated because
Bryan banqucted with negroes at the
jefferson celebration In New YORK last
Saturday.
The Oliver Mining Company Cnrne-
glc) purchased all the property OF the
| Lake Superior Iron Company In the
ore region.
Two villages In the province OF Rio
| in. Argentine republic. have been de-
stroyed by earthquake. Many persons
were killed.
Rev. Benson Hogan was sentenced
| To prison for three years at Fl worth,
| Tex, last Tuesday. lie admitted how
| ing five wives.
| Twelve men were drowned and 10
are stlll missing from the steamer Gen
eral whitney. which sunk Off the
| Florida coast.
Rudyard Kipling sued q. +. Put
| nnms Sons and four other hrms or
publishers for $4,000 for alleged In
frlngement of copyrights.
At Fergus Falls, MINI, Duffy Rlor-
son and Martin Dahl have died from
drinking ginger ale, which they hnd
| Favored with lemon extract.
| Dynamite was used last Tuesday to
| open the vaults of the savings bank at
| Haydenville, Mass. The burglars were
| frightened away before they secured
any money
| The entire National Guard. of Ohio,
has been wiped out. new military
organization will take the place of the
| disbanded one which was very neglect
ful In obeying orders.
| An international copper combine,
with n capital of over si00. 900, was
| said To have been formed. S6O,OOO,-
900 chain trust anda $I,5OOOOO safe
company We're also organized.
The steamship Glenogle collided with
the city of Kingston off Browns Point
near Tacoma, Wash. last Sunday. The
| city of Kingston was cut In two but
| all Of her passengers were rescued.
The Senatorial contest In Florida
ended Thursday with the first Joint
ballot of the Legislature. Taliaferro
received 80 votes. Pasco 30 and Call O,
81 votes being required for an election
The mutilated body of Miss Adelaide
| Tucker. an aged and wealthy woman
who lived alone on Lookout mountain,
Tenn, was found in her residence. 1t
is supposed tramps committed the muir
| der.
Five thousand Cherokee Indians,
| dissatisfied with conditions In the res
ervation In Oklahoma, left for Mexico
To establish union reservation on n
| large tract near Guadalajara. They
have Si25,00O.
An association has just been formed
Mt Troy, N. Y, having In view the
establishing of cemetery to be used
exclusively for pet animals and birds.
The association Is known as the Dell
| wood national cemetery.
Prof Jerome ]. Green continued his
experiments in wireless telegraphy In
Chicago Sunday with success. He sent
signals from the life saving station to
moving tug on the lake for a dis
tance of a mile and half.
The recent demonstration upon the
part of the German societies of Chi
cago, in condemnation of any at
tempt to cause trouble between the
United States and Germany. has been
hailed with great satisfaction by the
newspapers I'm Berlin.
The British steamer Manukee had
some queer experiences on her trip
from Turkey to New York where she
arrived last Thursday. She passed
through n snaw and dust storm and
encountered several gigantic water
spouts.
| The Sherbourne school, boarding
institution for boys, located in the sub
urban town of San Rafael. near San
Francisco. was burned Sunday. There
were a number of daring rescues but
Charles Armstrong, the 6-year-old son
of an army officer now In Manila,
rushed into the burning building and
was lost
An order for as locomotives from the
government of India has been received
at Philadelphia, the order covering
various sizes. including many especial
ly adapted to mining districts. The
Baldwin locomotive works has Just
finished the flrst locomotive of the 80
recently ordered by the Midland rail-
way of England.
The board of trustees of Carnegie IL
brary, at Plttsburg, have received a
communication from Andrew Carnegie
offering $l.750.000, to be used in erect
ing the much-needed addition to the
library building. The offer was dis
cussed accepted, and the building
committee was directed to prepare fin-
ished plans for consideration by the
trustees.
Three Orphans Burned.