The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-03-01
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Rumor says that Charles Hoyt. the
and physically.
The cruiser Yosemite will sail from
the Norfolk navy yard in a few days
with go men for Dcwey's fleet.
Robert ]. Burdette the humorist,
is soon to wed Mrs. p. C. Baker, a
wealthy widow of Pasadena, Cal.
Robert Wilson, aged II, was cut in
two by n crane at the Schoen Steel
works, Allegheny Pa, last Monday.
The New York senate has passed a
bill making II a misdemeanor to use
the national flag for advertising pur-
poses.
one of the passengers as the leader OF
the bandits in the late Leeds train
robbery in Missouri.
Gov. Thomas of Colorado urges the
legislature to pass laws preventing
the contamination of the contem-
plated smelter combine.
Colonel Conger, formerly Of Akron,
o., and for years n member of the Re-
publican National committee, died at
Des Moines, Ia, aged 81.
j. Pierpont Morgan, the New York
Capitalist, will bear the expense of in
stalling electric lights In st. Paul's
State Senator Vernon H. Burke and
Judge Dellenbaugh were found guilty
at Cleveland of having extorted $4,000
from Jane Doe" in the Manning di-
vorce case.
John D. Rockefeller Jr., % years of
age. Is now occupying his first position
of trust. A few days ago he was elect
ed director on the Delaware, Lacka-
wana Railroad.
Rev. Henry Robert Davis. of Olivet,
Mich, who had been settling the es-
| tate of his father, was found dead In
his bedroom Tuesday, heart disease
being the supposed cause.
Thirteen Cherokee Indians have
| bound themselves by oath, under pen
| atty of death, not to marry outside the
| Cherokee race. The movement is
spreading among the redskins.
Arbuckle Bros. Tuesday reduced
their price for granuated sugar l-l6
of cent per pound. This Is the lowest
price that has been made by any in
terest since the sugar war began.
George F. Baer. president of the
| Reading, Pa, Iron Company, has or
| dered a voluntary advance of its 1900
employees beginning March 1. The
amount has not yet been determined.
Mrs. Clara Wachter, of Lewiston,
Md. is in Jail at Frederick charged by
| her husband with smothering their
son and concealing his remains in a
| trunk. She was once in an insane
| asylum.
Because she was afraid to return to
| the home of her parents from whom
she had taken SIS, Mary Kiesel, of
| Pittsburg, last Thursday committed
suicide by drinking half pint of car
| bollc acid.
A young woman of Ligonier. Pa, was
| exhibiting jeweled revolver to her
| friend Harry Carpenter a few days
| ago. AS usual the pistol was discharged
| and the young man is now carrying a
bullet in his body.
President Seth Low, of Columbia
| College, New York, said in a speech at
| Philadelphia on the occasion of WASH
| ington's birthday that the war de-
| partment during the recent strife
lacked genius and efficiency"
The expert at work on Havana fin
ances will report to Gen. Ludlow that
| the city is able to carry a debt of $685.
100000. The present debt is S12.500, 000
| The margin will provide a sufficient
sum for a sewering and paving sys-
| TEN.
Attorney General Monnett, of Ohio,
| filed suits to Gust the Pennsylvania
and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton railroads. from the State. He
their franchises by forming a pool.
To bid farewell to Ambassador Jos.
| ii. Choate a larga majority of the
| members of the bar association gath
cred at their clubhouse at New York
| Tuesday night Mr.. Choate was greet
ed with applause. About 1000 men
shook hands with him in an hour.
A formula to reclaim the millions of
tons of coal dust hitherto deemed little
| for han 20 loa Il 4
by a Chicagoan. The atoms of bitumen
| and anthracite are to be packed to-
gether in miniature bricks. A factory
has already been constructed to do it.
Erwin Convey and his wife quarrel
ed over breakfast being late, at Guth-
rie, Ok. Mrs. Covey struck her hus-
band with a wrench and Covey fired
both charges of n shotgun into his
wifes body, killing her instantly. He
allowed the body to lie where 1t fell
and worked about the place until ar
rested.
The Isabella Gold Mining company
of Colorado Springs has again opened
| bonanza ore, this time in the Buena
Vista shaft at the tenth level. Reports
of assays showing $4,000 a ton are
freely circulated. Both in it's charac-
ter and extent the new body eclipses
the December and January strikes in
the companys mines.
| Mayor Quincy OF Boston proposes
that the city shall build a municipal
crematory in which to incinerate
paupers. criminals. and others whose
burial devolves unpon the city. The
idea is to do away altogether with the
potters' field. 1t is asserted that the
city could cremate bodies at a cost of
81 each. while 1t costs SO to dig a grave.
General Nelson A. Miles has filed ex-
ceptions to the commissioners report
of the sale of the property of the Wer-
ner Printing Company of Akron, o.
He had a claim against the company
for SOS, 900, which the commissioners
refused to allow. 1t published the
generals book, and he alleges that the
work was not done according to con-
tract.
"It has been difficult year. We are
landed on a new field. The Stars and
Stripes are planted tonight in a place
where they never have been before on
Washington's birthday. They never
have been taken down from where they
had been planted but once before, and
they never will he again" Thus spoke
Secretary of War, Alger. at Detroit q
few nights ago.
Thirty Spaniards arrived in New
York Monday on the Cunard liner Um-
/ l.in Of l.h