The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-02-08
TERsE TELEGRAMS.
New York's pay roll amounts to $780,
600 900 q year.

sir Francis Glare Ford, recently
British ambassador at Rome, is dead.
Andrew Carnegie is building n ST.
100000 residence on Fifth Avenue, New
York
Joseph Letter has formed milk
trust at Chicago. Capital stock, $780,
600 600.
A ten per cent. increase has been
promised lshpenning, Mich, miners
by March /.
There are said TO be 532 cases of
leprosy in the United states. 10 of
which are i'm Chicago.
Ernest Haywood, formerly of Upper
Sandusky. o., killed his wife In Chi
cago and then attempted suicide.
The oxford hotel at st. Louis, was
partially burned last Thursday and 80
guests We're rescued by fremen.
The keel of the new Maine will be
laid at Cramps ship yard on Febru-
ary 10, the anniversary of the explos-
ion.
The remains of Gen. Garcia were
last week transferred from Washing
ton to cuba on board the gunboat
Nashville.
Two soap trusts are now being form
ed. one at Chicago with O0,OO00 600
capital and the other at Boston with
S2Y 900, 600.
A combination of car building COM
panies has been proposed. But the
Pullman company refuses to enter the
compact
The Eighth Thirteenth and Four
teenth Pennsylvania regiments Will be
mustered out Of the military service I'm
q few days.
While operating n saw at SorNer-
set, Pa, the coat tails OF Charles Ray
man caught in the saw and he was
ground to death.
Frank Bears, a former well-known
Pittsburger. was killed by n Guata-
malean sentinel some days ago at
Porta Cortez, Honduras.
A Chicago lawyer and city en-
ploye have been arrested for compile
| ity with burglars in robbing c. Schar-
| go, miser, of $4,000.
William Miller, not IL years old, was
hanged at lie Grange, KY, last week
for numbering Mrs. Gertrude Leet, a
farmers wife, last September.
Anthony Burgle, a convict In the
| San Francisco Jail poured coal oil over
himself and then ignited his clothing.
| He was burned to death.
The Legislature of Colorado adopted
a joint resolution recommending other
| States to give q trial to the woman
J suffrage system of Colorado.
| Colvile Y. Ingate, American vice
| consul at Patras, Greece, died of hy-
| drophobia. He was bitten two monts
ago, and refused treatment.
After shooting his sweetheart, Lau-
| ra Regan, George Kepplinger of Mar
ion, Ind, attempted suicide last Thurs
| day. But the ball glanced and he was
| arrested.
The grand jury of Cook county, ILL.,,
reported that an organized system of
| jury bribing has been used In Chicago
in the interests of the traction COM
| panies.
Herman Kapff, a 15-year-old boy.
| committed suicide in the Homewood
cemetery Pittsburg. by taking sui
| phate of morphine He left a pathetic
| note.
| The Chicago Federation of Labor Is
boycotting the Record" and News"
| The papers however are being sustain
I'd by the other Chicago dailies and in
dications are that they will win.
| About 56 Toronto cadets, the first
| armed foreign soldiers to enter United
| States territory In a long time, crossed
the border at Port Huron, Mich, a
! few days ago, en- route to Florida.
Miss Nellie Maxwell of Williams
port, Pa. was married to Albert Franz
at Elmira, N. Y, last Wednesday by
telephone. The bride wanted to be
original. The marriage is legal.
The wife and daughter OF j. Il. Yost
| Thursday started from Buffalo, Wyo.,
to their ranch few miles distant, in
| the face of a blizzard and lost their
way and were frozen to death when
| found.
Seven convicts awaiting transfer to
the penitentiary at Wichita, Kan,
barred doors and escaped. Among
them was Ed Stewart, sentenced to so
years for murder
Admiral Sampson appeared In the
visitors gallery of the New York
stock exchange Wednesday. He was
greeted with loud cheers, but simply
bowed his Acknowledgements. Hand
shaking followed
Gov. Roosevelt of New York admits
| that large deficiencies have been dis
covered in some of the state depart
ments. No charge of dishonesty is
made but 1t is evident that there has
been much extravaganza.
An Englishman named Fleming and
| Evangelist Pan We're murdered by
| Cinnamon at Chong on Chang last
week. The Chinese government offers
| $50, 900 to the relatives of the muir
dered men to quiet the affair.
In pursuance of his general order
for n reduction OF municipal salaries
| muyOT quincy VI cut SiOU
his own salary OF $4,000. Firemen will
be cut. but not police. To save $780,
900 he will reduce 5000 out of 10000
employees.
After killing his brother, Michael
| Thomas Malone gave himself up at
Chicago. He said that Mike was al
ways drunk and abusive and SO he
finished him with a razor. This opin-
ion is seconded by the neighbors OF the
Malone family.
At the annual meeting of the Dia-
mond Match Company held at Chica-
go. the old management was reelected
| Profits for the year amounted to 81
1881 There was paid in dividends
81, 100000. Earnings In 1897 were equal
to 11.59 per cent
Hugo Wolfert would not give up his
seat for a lady In a New York street
car few days ago and DIR. Wiides
called him hog. Wolfert thereupor
struck the doctor and the latter drew
revolver shooting Wolfert, whose
condition Is serious.
Mynah. a wonderful bird OF the ori.
ent, which spoke five different lang
uages and initiated all manner OF mus.