The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-07-26
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of England.
About $500 clothing workers struck
In New York Monday.
Andrew Carnegie will build a $50, 900
library at Steubenville, y.
Frederick Bolton was killed In a troll
ley accident at Bradford, Pa, last Sun
day.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler has accepted
the presidency of the University OF
California.
Pittsburg capitalists are about to
erect n bridge and structural steel plant
| near Sharon.
American banking methods are be-
coming very popular with Havana
merchants.
The war department has chartered
me steamer Siam to carry 300 cavalry
horses to Manila.
Rose Coghlan. the actress. filed a pc
tltion In bankruptcy. Liabilities, $2G,-
SJ6; assets, nominal.
Fireman Thomas Jones was killed
py the derailing OF his engine at Lenz-
perg' ILL.,, last Wednesday.
The Democratic national committee
wishes TO raise $2,0000 900 for the cam
paign fund by popular subscription.
Frank Embree, a negro. was whipped
Tor half an hour before he was hanged
by n mob at Mexico, Mo-, n few days
ego.
There is a scarcity Of labor in the
coke district of Pennsylvania, and the
output Is so enormous that the railroads
can not handle IL.
There are a great number of unde-
nVered letters at Manila for American
volunteers They are not addressed to
the company and regiment of the sold
iers.
Daniel Callahan, Andrew Ploasky,
John Josl<y and an unknown German
were killed by the cave-in of 1000 tons
OF clay in the bank of the Buckeye
Sewer Company at Akron, o.
The body of a dead Filipino was found
in the coffin at San Francisco Supposed
to contain the body OF Private Francis
Dekelman, Company L, First California
who was killed in the Philippines.
Miss Diana Anderson committed sui
eide on an express train between
chatham. N. Y. and Pittsfeld, Mass,
last Wednesday. Ill-health is given as
the reason. Carbollc acid was used.
Jach Cassell. balloonist, struck on
the steeple OF the Calvary Methodist
Episcopal church of Allegheny. Pa, a
few days ago while making a descent
In his parachute. He reached the ground
in safety.
The Spanish workmen employed on
the fortifications at Gibraltar have
struck. A close watch is being kept
over the strikers who are not allowed
to come into the city for fear of seri-
Gus riotlng.
The Epworth league convention at
indianapolis passed resolutions saying
the election of Congressman Roberts by
Utah was an insult to Christendom and
calling on Congress to refuse him a
seat.
President schwab, of the Carnegie
Fnf,N nfnNr
$1,000 by New York artist a few Gays
ago. The artist had agreed to paint
portraits of Schwab's family, but dis
appeared.
Mrs. Mary Love Lawless died at
Lexington, Ky. Sunday in the send year
of her age. She was a sweetheart of
Abraham Lincoln and n reigning belle
of her day. Her maiden name was Jop-
lin and her home was at Mount Vernon,
Ky.
Commander Todd. of the gunboat
Wilmington, recommended that the
governments of South American states
take control OF the rubber forests for
fear the operations of the Indians may
kill the trees off and cause a serious
shortage.
George Sorner. blacksmith OF Ge-
neva. N. Y, captured an eel 13 feet
long in Seneca lake Monday. The mons
ter is believed to be the sea serpent
which has been reported from Seneca
lake from time to time for the past
IL years.
William Blaine. fireman on the
Pittsburg & Western railroad, was i'm
paled on board which swung near the
cab as his train was passing Elfinwild
station, near Pittsburg. Trainmen got
saw and cut the plinter off, but the
injured man died.
William A. s. Graham, ex-school
agent, clerk and secretary of the board
of education OF Chicago Is a self-con-
fessed defaulter in the sum of s34, 800
He has left the city. but In a letter
states that he Is willing to turn his
property over to the authorities. The
value of the property represents $4,000.
Eight thousand excursionists were
in st. Joseph, Mich, last Sunday, 900
from Chicago, 1900 from Racine, Wis,
and over 5000 on the different railways,
The rush at County Clerk Needham's
residence by Chicago matrimonial par-
ties was the biggest of the season. At
one time four weddings We're on, and
one of these was a double wedding.
There were In all 23 marriage licenses
issued. and all to Chicago parties.
The adjutant general of Kansas has
issued statement intimating that the
government is holding back the deliv-
cry of letters written by volunteers of
the Twentieth Kansas regiment, which
has performed such gallant service in
the Philippines, In order to suppress
knowledge of an alarming unhealthy
of the postofiice department at WASH
ington deny the charge