The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-27
TERsE TELEGRAms.
Street car men in Cincinnati are
talking OF a strike.

| The Democratic National Committee
| mas made its headquarters at Chicago.
Steel rails are now selling at S33 and
| $40 per ton. Last week they sold at $50
and S32.
| Ex-President Cleveland will deliver n
course of lectures at Princeton during
the present term.
Samuel Smith, aged IA. Of Plttsburg,
| was dragged to death by COW which
! he was leading.
The Tenth Pennsylvania regiment
| VIII participate in the Dewey celebra-
ton at New York
Capt. Bob Evans will keep open the
course during the Columbia Shamrock
| Sacht race next month.
Coolic laborers are working as
| slaves in Hawaii. The state depart
ment has been asked TO interfere.
! Highwaymen Monday got $4,000 from
| Guadalupe Nasquez an aged Mexican
woman living near the City of Mexico.
Heavy machinery caused the bottom
to drop out of the steamer Koun Maru
| lost.
The Swifts of Chicago have purchased
100000 acres of land in Oklahoma. up
on which 100000 cattle are now graz
| ing.
Virginia Tyler Hudson, daughter of
a wealthy Chicago contractor, is en-
gagged to marry q Millionaire Brahmn
| of India.
| on account Of the pardon of Capt.
| Drefus Indignation meetings which
were to be held in his behalf have been
| called off.
A fall of rock has restored Niagara
| falls to its original horse shoe shape.
| For long time the falls has been 'V"
shape.
Bud Hall, when sentenced at Will
| hanson, w. Va, TO 90 years for killing
John Mcneil, merely smiled and said:
rs that all?"
Six passengers were killed and five
injured in collision on the Denver &c
Rio Grande railroad near Florence,
Col, last Sunday.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse has
| reached Cherbourg from New York in
days II hours and So minutes, beat
ing previous records.
As the outcome Of quarrel over the
ownership of farm, Cassius Wilson
Killed his brother, Laverne, at Dunkirk
n. Y, few days ago.
Gen. Bates has returned from a trip
among the southern islands of the
| Philippines and reports a majority of
| the natives friendly.
Fire destroyed the Mcclure hotel at
! Dallas, Tex, last Monday. Mrs. Nc
CURE. who was trying to recover $1,000,
was burned to death.
Unknown parties dynamited an
| electric car at Cleveland last Satur-
day. As in previous instances, the
| perpetrators are unknown.
Visitors report that Havana is rapid
| ly assuming an American appearance.
| The streets are clean. the people order
| ~ ana the sewerage system almost per-
| feet
Julia Morrison shot her manager on
| the stage of Chattanooga, Tenn.
| theater few days ago. The manager
| had said she was but an amateur ac-
| tress.
John Rotter boarding at Gallagher's
| hotel, Braddock, Pa, who choSed to
| death by a piece of steak which stuck
in his throat at supper-time Wednes-
day night.
In n successful test of the sub-ma-
| rine boat Holland a few days ago a
| remarkably quick dive under water
was made. A mile was run under watre
in ten minutes.
The body of Della, the 12-year-old
daughter of f. w. Scoville, was found
at Lawtide, near Dillamook, Ore, in
! the Hehelam river with a stone tied
around her neck.
| The q. A. r. as an organization will
| not take part in the Dewey parade at
New York. They wanted to head the
parade, but the committee in charge
would not permit this.
Martin Markemardt attempted to
save his dog and was run down by a
| railroad train at Chicago. On recover
ing consciousness in the hospital his
| first inquiry was concerning the dog.
Fire Friday did $275,OOO damage to
| buildings in the stock yards district at
Chicago. There were 1,400 horses in
the stables at the time the fire broke
| out. but none of them were injured.
Philippine insurgents ditched a
railroad train last Saturday, and killed
two American soldiers. The re-
els left six dead on the field near An
geles.
| The United States steamer Hooker
which has been on the rocks off Cor
regidor Island has been fioated. The
| Spanish steamer Espana which had
| gone to the assistance of the Hooker
| Is now on the rocks.
Mrs. Abigail Connors of Fishklll
Landing, n. Y. jumped from a rapidly
| moving train Wednesday and escaped
unhurt. The train had passed her sta
ton before she realized 1t; without
more ado she jumped off.
| 1t is understood at Washington that
| General Wesley Il. Merritt will succeed
| General Otis in command in the Philip
| pines the latter having irPitated Secre-
| tary OF War Root by vague answers to
| queries as to conditions there.
Americans at Honduras, Guatemala,
Nicaragua and Salvador have petit
toned the state department for the
removal of Godfrey Hunter, the Am
erican minister. Charges of corrup-
tion and incompetency are preferred.
Jerry Simpson said at Wichita, Kas.,
n few days ago, that John Browns
soul was marching with Aguinaldo.
and that he himself would rather
march with the Filipinos than with
Otis. The audience drove him off the
| stage.
John w. Ecoff, of Allegheny, promi-
nent electrician of Western Pennsyl-
Vania, was horribly mangled by his
blouse being caught in the shafting at
| the II. j. Heinz q Co. pickle works a
few days ago. He died at the Allegheny
General hospital.
Absalom Kesler, his hired man, AL
bert Gross, and Anna Dolman, his
| hOusekeeDer, were murdered near