The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-03-08
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n year.
one thousand granite cutters are
striking at Quincy, Mass.
Gold smeltcrs have formed n trust.
A capital of s46,O00,000 is represented.
A Berlin professor claims to have
discovered serum for the cure OF
pneumonia.
The mother of former Vice Presi-
| dent Stevenson died at Peoria, ILL.,, last
Sunday, aged 80.
Nearly $780, 900 worth of property
was destroyed at Holyoke, Mass, last
| Wednesday night.
Rudyard Kipling the famous author
| who has been very i'll in New York
| city, is recovering.
President Mckinley Is contemplate
ing n trip through the south as soon
| as congress adjourns.
The battleship oregon. accompanied
| by the collier Iris. sailed from Honolu-
lu for Manila February 90.
case of small pox has been discov-
| cred at Cleveland in an apartment
| house containing 400 boarders.
The Covington GNy) postofiice was
| robbed Wednesday night of stamps
and money amounting to $4,000.
| The railroads about Leadville, Col,
| are showed I'm 20 feet high, and dyna-
mite win be used to clear the tracks.
William Warren Morrison, aged IL,
| employed in n Boston printing othcc,
| has fallen heir to an estate of s2O,OJO'-
600.
Sir Edward Sasson, Conservative,
was elected to Parliament at Hythe.
| England to succeed General Edwards,
Conservative.
! While ringing the church bell at
| Chiltonville, Mass, last Sunday, VIM.
HoAie. the sexton, was struck by light
ming and killed.
Jennie Merritt and Clara Myers,
both aged 81, are dead In Philadelphia
| from burns received by pouring gaso-
| line on a tardy fire.
Samuel Phillips and Geo. Hastings
| have been indicted at New York for
| defrauding publishers out of 100000
| worth of advertising.
All the saloons of st. Louis We're
| closed by the police last Sunday ac-
cording TO law. Saloons in the suburbs
did n great business.
Cincinnati and other cities along the
| Ohio river are expecting and making
preparations for n flood. The Ohio
river is rapidly rising.
William N. Coffey, a divinity student
of Des Moines, Ia, was sentenced to
the penitentiary for 2lh years for
stealing 5000 from a widow.
A New York syndicate has purchas-
ed the principal Havana cigar factor
| les. The capital stock of the organi-
cation amounts to $20000,0O0.
Joseph Choate, United States am
bassador to Great Britain, arrived in
London last Thursday. He received
quite an ovation at Southampton.
Higher wages have been granted to
more than 10000 men in the eastern
states during the past few days. The
| ANTn ne
Twelve children were dropped from
the upper stories of a burning tene-
ment at New York last Wednesday.
and were safely caught by policemen.
The president has approved the
Washington public library bill appro-
priating $25O.000 to buy a site for the
library to be donated by Andrew Car
negie.
The customs receipts for February
were 6,92l 000, the largest received
by the treasury since 1898. In Febru-
airy of that year they reached $685.
900.
Physicians cannot save the life of
George White, of New York. He was
scratched a few days ago by a play
full kitten and blood poisoning has set
in.
The Illinois legislature has passed a
bill appropriating $4,000 for statue
| y.
statue is to be placed in the National
capitol.
Blzzards continue in Colorado. 1t
is impossible to bury the dead. No
coal can be had and many families
about Leadville are living on bread
and water.
Major General Hutton, of the Cana
dian militia, said an army of 100000
men was needed, intimating that there
might be trouble with the United
States some day.
The barb-wire fence charged with
electricity has been placed about the
pest house at Newport News, Va. The
board of health has had difficulty in
restraining patients.
The German editors of Chicago have
called a convention to declare the
sentiments of the German-Americans
on English efforts to embroil the Unit
ed States and Germany.
Judge Seaman, in the United States
circuit court at Chicago has decided in
the case OF Shirley T. High that the in
heritance tax imposed under the war
revenue act is constitutional.
Anna Schultz, the woman who mas
queraded as a man and committed a
series of burglaries at Chicago. con-
fesscd that she was taught to rob by
Eddie Stuart, noted thief.
Statistic just published show that the
number OF Germans who emigrated
from the fatherland last year was H.
173. This Is the lowest number in
years and there has been a special de-
crease in emigration to the United
States. In the emigration of skilled
mechanics, however, there has been an
increase OF per cent.
Charles II. Winslow, newspaper
man of New York, who came to Den
Yer three months ago, suffering with
consumption, was found frozen ia
death in the old city cemetery last
Wednesday. He had removed every
particle OF clothing and laid down in
the snow to await the end. He leaves
wife and family at Syracuse, N. Y