The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-03-22
TERSE TELEGRAMS.


Governor Pingree, of Michigan, is
heading a movement for new party.
Joseph Letter has failed again. He
was endeavoring to form dairy
trust in Chicago.
The lamp chimney factories In the
Indiana gas belt closed down indef-
nitely on Saturday.
John q. Milburn was elected presi-
dent of the Pan-American exposition,
to be held at Buffalo.
John Sherman is very Ill on board
the steamer Paris which Is now cruis-
ing in southern waters.
John Shess David Euyder and
Peter Wink were killed In boiler
explosion at Altoona. Pa. last Friday.
Numerous attempts have been
made at New Orleans during the past
few days to burn Catholic Institutions.
Two troops of cavalry have been
ordered to the Yosemite park TO pro-
tect II from timber thieves and sheep
herders.
Engineer Frederick Witham and
Fireman Edward Gray were killed by
the dtching of n train near Auburn,
Cal.
The California legislature has ad--
journed without electing United
White.
Five thousand men employed by the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail-
way had their wages increased last
Monday.
William II. Schwalbe, n well-known
citizen of Brooklyn, died at 7:13 a. m.
on March 10. lie was a member or the
Thirteen Club.
Leech Lake Indians In Minnesota
I HtsN t...P. Il. so l.
posed upon by the government are
preparing to make trouble.
Fireman Van Landingham and
Brakeman L. A. Graham were killed
by n freight wreck on the Norfolk and
Western railroad at Ada, Va.
The finance committee of PittsburG
councils discussed and practically de-
cided upon a new bond issue of $1,000
900, bringing the debt of the city up to
the limit.
Four locomotives were destroyed In
collision in Valparaiso, Chill, the
other day. One passenger was Killed
| and n dozen wounded. The damage
is placed at s250000.
The Allan liner, Castilian. is a total
wreck off Halifax, N. S. Eight hum
dred head of cattle on board the
stranded ship perished. All of the
| passengers escaped.
The famous mad stone, which has
| been I'm the Fred family of Leesburg.
| Va. for 1870 years, was sold last We'd
nesday for 500. This stone is said to
| have never failed to cure.
Unless measures are taken to feed
! the deer in Yellowstone Park thou
| sands of them will die. Because OF
| the deep snow they are unable TO Sc
cure their own food.
atat ttx,ag
| will soon go on a cruise to examine
the proposed Panama and Nicaragua
canal routes. They will be guests of
the Panama Canal Company.
| Suits aggregating s1,500,O00 have
been brought by the state of New
York against Armour & Co., of Chi
cago. The packing house Is accused
of selling oleomargarine as butter.
A gigantic telephone company,
capitalized at about $50 900, Is under
| the process of formation, and Is to
cover Plttsburg and Allegheny, West
ern Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
towns.
Robert Lewis was hanged at At
lanta. Ga, Wednesday for the murder
! of Charles Haynes. Lewis built the
| gallows upon which he was executed
while employed by the county two
years ago.
| The three -masted schooner James
w. Bigelow from Jacksonville for Pro-
vidence, II. l., has been given up for
lost, as she Is over two months out.
| Capt. Graham was in charge. She
carried a crew of eight men.
| 1t was said in Chicago that the MAX
| ers of bar iron in seven States have
combined to. form one great corpora
| ton. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,
Illinois, Minnesota. Missouri and Ala
bama are said to be included.
Sixty thousand textile workers in
New England may be affected by a
new machine which will be placed upon
the market shortly. The American
Warp Drawing Machine Company has
been Incorporated in Maine with a
capital stock of S3,000,000.
The United States transport Thorn
as, formerly the Minnowaska, sailed
from Havana Monday morning for the
United States with 202 volunteers. The
Ward liner Havana, specially char
tered for this purpose, will sail with
the Second Louisiana Volunteers.
In the hearing of the case of At
torney General Monnett, OF Ohio
against the Standard Oil Company, nj
Now York, J. ID. Arshbold, of the
Standard, and Attorney Fiagg. Mon
nctts G.s slant, became involved in q
l
Mrs. Henry II. Moeser, of Pittsburg
the other day told her 10 year old
daughter to call her father to dinner
When the child came to the fathers
room she found him hanging from q
beam. The suicide was very poor and
had been in ill-health for a long time
The coroner's jury at Hot Springs
Ark. rendered a verdict against Sher-
III Williams, Deputy Sheriffs Coffee
Williams, Edward Spears and William
Watt in connection with the riot OF
Thursday in which six men were
killed, and they were committed tc
jail.
The murderer of Mrs. Anthony
Stiegler of Mount Lookout, near Gin,
cinnati. whose dead body was found II
her home last Friday, has been founf
in Albert Luken, a boy Of 16. livinf
with his widowed mother in Clifton
Luken was arrested and made full
confession. giving his motive as rob
berry. He got about $40.
Many Lives Were Lost.
A calculation based on the most re
cent statement made by Lloyds, tn,