The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-06-28
TERSE TILEGRAMS.

II is believed in Washington that
Gen. Miles will replace Gen. Otis In the
Philippines.
Fire at Laurel Del, Saturday de-
valued at s15O,000.
Cuban fishermen found 5000 in the
wreck of the Spanish cruiser, the Ad-
| miral Oquendo.
DR.. Alvah Doty of New York has dis
| covered serum for the prevention of
yellow fever.
New York financier proposes to
purchase Ireland from Great Britain
for 100000, 900.
"A company has been organized TO
construct steel WORKS at Monterey,
| Tex, to cost $10,0O000O.
John Young. a farmer, of near Hope,
md, threw club and killed his son,
VINO was beating a horse.
The American Distillng Company
mas been effected. The trust includes
| 600 00O
The United States cruiser, Olympia.
with Admiral Dewey, arrived at CO.
day.
Mrs. Harvey ]. Ramsey murdered
her husband by cutting his throat as
ne lay In bed at the Garden hotel, New
York.
Admiral schley is to be the guest of
chester, Pa, on July 4. and has con-
sented to make an address to the citi-
| zens
| President Mckinley and party reach
ed Adams. Mass. Wednesday evening
10 De guests OF w. Il. Plunkett for
| few days.
Judge Simonton, at Harrisburg. Pa,
uecided the army canteen at Camp
meade can not be run without a license
ana IL VIII be suppressed.
The exports for last week OF gold
| We're s6,322,922 and of silver, S766, sos.
The imports for the week of gold were
Sol,olS, and of silver. s121, 500
flre on Saturday in the malt rooom
OF the Malcolm Brewing Company,
Brooklyn, N. Y, destroyed n large
quantity of barley. Loss, $4,000.
Frederick Riker and Charles Acker-
man were run down by a train on
Greenwood Lake railroad at a grade
crossing at Wayne. n. ]. Riker was
Killed and Ackerman fatally injured.
The National Music Teachers asso-
citation, in session at Cincinnati.
| adopted a resolution recommending
Frank Van Der Stucken as the Ameri-
can composer for the Paris exposition.
AT Winsted Conn, one man was
| Fatally hurt and another seriously in
yureu IN pad wreck on the New York,
| New Haven & Hartford road Friday
t1fteen cars We're demolished in the
crash.
T. ID. Tanner. for many years Jour-
nal clerk Of the great council of the
Improved Order of Red Men, was ar
rested at Easton, Pa, charged with
embezzling $l,100 from the lodge of
that place.
At Danbury. Conn. James Rasmus-
sen aged a. his son John, aged 6. and
| Rudolph Johnson. aged 45 were
drowned while boating on East Lake
reservoir Thursday evening. The boat
capsized.
The corners jury | the case of L. S.
Putnam, wellknown farmer who died
In his barn al Hillsdale Mich. under
| mysterious circumstances about three
| weeks ago brought In verdict charg-
ing his wife with his murder.
Mrs. Laura Il. Ratcllff of Phila-
| delphia, the only Philadelphia woman
detective, Will shortly leave for Europe
to hunt for two sons and other heirs of
Germantown man who died recently
leaving an estate of S2.0O0.000.
| Chicago is said to have a jury-brlb-
| ing syndicate, the members of which
Will shortly be exposed. They are en-
| ployed by a number of large corpora
tions which have many damage cases
to defend in the course OF a year.
James Green, wanted at Seattle,
Wash, for the murder of a cabman,
and at Walla Walla, WASH, for bun
koing farmer out of $4,000, was ar
rested at Harrisburg, Pa, while in
| quiring for letter at the postoffice.
Ex-Tax Collector George l.. Griswold,
| of Norwich, Conn.,, was arrested Satur-
| day night. charged with embezzling
$l2, 200 of the city funds. 1t Is alleged
his shortage will amount 10 $4,000, and
that he lost the money in speculation.
A dispatch to the impartial from
| Manila says Baron Du Marias, a
| Frenchman, who went to the rebel
camp to intervene in behalf of the
| Spanish prisoners In the hands of the
| Filipinos, has been treacherously mur-
| dered.
| Major George II. Sands, Sixth infan-
| Thursday saved from drowning in
the surf at Atlantic City his daughter,
| Margaret Sands, and sister-in-law.
| Katherine Pearson. daughter of GEN
A. l.. Pearson, a wellknown lawyer OF
| Pittsburg.
| The transport Cleveland arrived at
| San Francisco Saturday from Manila,
having been Al days en- route.
| DR.. w. o. Thompson. Miami Univer-
| sity, Saturday signified his intention to
| resign the presidency OF Miami Univer-
| sity, and accept the call of the Ohio
state University to become its presi-
dent, his resignation to take effect July
| /.
Thomas A. Henderson, a wealthy
contractor, committed suicide at his
home at Levels. Hampshire county,
| West Virginia. He was found by one
OF his children suspended from a tree
In field with a rope about his neck.
He was go years old.
| Elizabeth Borigranux, a nurse, at
New York, by mistake administered
carbolic acid instead of soothing syrup
to the 9-days-old son of Albert Ram
Friday morning. The child died al
most instantly and its mother Is in a
serious condition as the result of the
| shock.
John D. Rockefeller has commenced
foreclosure suit at Seattle, Wash,
to recover $1,500,O0O from the Everett
| Land company, which was advanced
on the security of the entire Everett
town site, water works, electric
railroad. etc. The property is worth
about 100000
At the railroad depot In Washing
| ton, N. c., Thursday young man. j.
f. Woodward, solicitor of produce for
G.. Nj. Snyder & Co.. New York city,