The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-05-17
THRSE TELEGRAMS.

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Europe to interfere in their behalf with
the people of the United states.
| Samuel II. and Joseph NJ. Jeffrey,
| twin brothers celebrated their S0th
birthday Thursday at Syracuse, N. Y.
| Gen. Manning Force, commandant of
| the Ohio state soldiers and sailors
home at Sandusky died last Tuesday.
| a break on the Erie canal at Spenc-
| er Park, N. y, submerged several
| farms, and win delay navigation ten
| days.
| The Rough Riders have decided TO
hold their first annual reunion in New
Mexico June "a Albuquerque wants
| them.
The letter carriers association wants
| Gov. Roosevelt to attend its rational
| convention. which meets at Scranton,
| Pa, September 4 to Z.
A long wooden bridge at West sup
| crior. Wis. fell last Tuesday while
| EeaNy train was crossing. Engineer
| Thomas Quinn was killed.
John Binse. aged 23 years. and his
wife, Henrietta, aged 2l years, were
| asphyNlated at Philadelphia by illum-
mating gas as they slept.
| The Presbyterian church and twelve
houses were blown down by cyclone
| at Coldwater Kan, and Joseph
|
In a dispute over a ball game, John
McLaren struck William Schwarzkolf
with bat at Pttsburg last Wednes-
| day. The boy died a few hours after.
Mrs. Kate Ferris, widow of the in
ventor Of the Ferris wheel, died in
New York of an injury sustained by
| falling from a street car in an cpileptic
| fit.
During the performance of the Buff
| falo Bill show at Cincinnati the roof
| of old Turner hall went down with 90
| people on it, three being dangerously
| injured.
Near Dalton, Ga, DR.. Bagwell, his
three children and a negro servant,
burned to death in their home, pre-
sumably from the explosion of a night
| lamp.
The Twyford Vehicle Company has
| been organized with a capital of $1,0OO,-
| 600 to manufacture in Pittsburg an
| automobile invented by Robert II. Twy-
| ford
A machine made chain trust with
| capital of $6000,000 is to be formed.
Jones e. Laughlins. of Pittsburg, are
| mentioned among the firms to be in
| Guided.
| Katie Three, little girl was killed
| by an electric car at Pittsburg last
| Sunday. The motorman was with diff
| ficulty rescued from the excited crowd
| by the police.
Lieut.. Col. James T.. Barnett of the
| Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers now at
| Manila writes that his life was saved
| by a testament which broke the force
of "A Mauser bullet.
Hetty Green, Americas richest wom-
an says that she gives one tenth of her
| income to the poor. She disapproves of
| Andrew Carnegie's statement that 1t
| Is disgrace to die rich.
| At Point Iona, near San Diego, Cal,
| the United Brotherhood, headed by
| Mrs. Tngley, is erecting school for
| the purpose of educating Cubans in
methods of self-support.
Rev. Edward Morgan. late assistant
| rector of the Church cf the Good Sam
arltan, San Francisco, is reported to
have been made millionaire by the
| death of an 9unt in New York.
William Boggs. the defaulting teller
| of the Dover, Del, national bank, was
| sentenced in the United States district
court 70 five years in the Trenton, N.
j., penitentiary, and fine of $6,5Oo
| Bertha Beilstein, who murdered her
mother at Allegheny, Pa, last October
| and then made a futile attempt at
suicide was found guiltless by a jury
| last Saturday by reason of insanity.
A reward of $1,000 has been offered
| for the return of the 2-year-old son
| of Mrs S. Laurie of Sharon. Pa, who
mysteriously disappeared october "a,
| 1898, alive, or 5000 If dead body is
| found
Irwin Van Biliant was arrested at
Reading. Pa, a few days ago for steal
ing tombstones from the lot OF Henry
| Murray. Murray had bought the
| tombstones but had failed to pay for
| them.
Peter Hegelman won the 12-nour go
as-you- please foot race at Grand Cen
| tral Palace, New York, covering 4O7
miles. Barnes, the Pittsburg old SOL
| dier, finished sixth with 352 miles, 10
| laps.
Congressman Hartman, OF Mon
| tana said that the West Is still over
| whelmingly in favor of free silver, the
denomination of w. ]. Bryan, and that
| it is opposed to Imperialism, contrary
| to reports
| The San Francisco Examiner reports
| gold discoveries richer than the Klon-
| dixie near Point Nome, in Alaska, on
| the Snake river. Miners are said to
| declare it Is only six feet to bed rock
| and pay dust from the surface.
Major General Joe Wheeler was not
| invited by General Walker to partici-
| pate in the Confederate veterans pa
| rade at Charleston, s. c., and now
| there is much Indignation being shown
| by the generals friends.
| The Ward line steamer Havana,
which reached New York yesterday,
after the record voyage of two days
and twenty hours. brought 1886 regu-
| lar army soldiers. Gems. Hasbrouck,
Butler, Pearson and Ernst were on
| board.
The United Confederate Veterans
| held their annual reunion at Charles
ton, S. c., last Thursday. The conven-
ton approved President McKinley's
utterances, made some time ago, in
regard to the United States sharing
| in the care of the Confederate dead.
| Another diamond robbery has been
reported to the police of New York.
| Frederick Norton, a wealthy English
man, lost jewels valued at $4,000. They
were stolen from his room in a West
| Thirty fifth street boarding house. A
seamstress who has disappeared Is
| suspected.
| The New York Times advocates the
raising of a fund of not less than $780,
900 for Dewey, half of 1t to erect him
residence at a place to be selected by
| him. the other half to be for his per-
sonal use. 1t suggests the president.
| secretary of the terasury and secre-